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Matinee meetings of the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission are no more. With little discussion, the CAPC voted 4-0 at its March 22 meeting at The Aud to return to a 6 p.m.

Plans for the expansion of Eureka Springs Hospital are well underway. At the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission’s regular monthly meeting on March 20 at The Aud, chair Kent Turner, gave an update, including the recent completion of the “35 percent design.” “We are in a position now where we can present in detail to planning, to HDC, to the city council and to financiers a vision of what the hospital — well, it’s more than a vision, it’s actually a very-detailed description of what the hospital renovation will indeed look like,” Turner said.

Long meetings aren’t a hallmark of the Berryville City Council, but last week’s regular meeting was especially brief. Meeting at City Hall on Tuesday, March 21, the council concluded its business in approximately two minutes and 36 seconds.

The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center is located at 202 W. Madison Ave.

Three-day weekends will be the new norm for students and staff in the Green Forest School District starting next school year. The Green Forest school board voted 5-1 at its regular meeting Monday, March 13, to move to a four-day school week starting in the 2023-24 school year.

Berryville School District Superintendent Owen Powell recently updated the district’s board of directors on the LEARNS Act signed into law by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.