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The Mercy Hospital Berryville Auxiliary is now accepting applications for their 2023 annual scholarship program. The program will again provide two annual scholarships of $1,000 each to be awarded to deserving Carroll County graduating high school seniors seeking degrees or advanced training in a healthcare-related field. This includes all Carroll County schools and home schoolers.

The Carroll County Quorum Court, which has held most of its meetings at Southern Heights Baptist Church in Berryville since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, will be returning to to its traditional venue.

A Green Forest School District teacher “has been relieved of all contractual obligations,” district superintendent Matt Summers confirmed Monday. Social media posts last week alleged that the teacher had sent inappopriate messages to a student, but Summers declined to confirm those allegations or discuss further details of the situation.

The biggest item of business for the Berryville City Council’s first meeting of 2023 was a routine report by police chief Robert Bartos. At the council’s Jan.

When Mary Howze organized the first Ozark Mountain Music Festival 10 years ago, the focus was on local and regional musicians and bands. “We were fortunate that we were able to build from local artists when we first started,” Howze said.