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The 26th annual Agriculture Appreciation Days will be held Friday and Saturday, Sept. 9-10, in Green Forest.

An off-duty Eureka Springs city employee was killed in a one-vehicle accident last week at Lake Leatherwood City Park. Mark Current, a shuttle driver and park attendant for the Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Department, was killed in the accident on Wednesday, Aug.

No new deaths related to COVID-19 pandemic were reported in Carroll County since Aug. 26, but the number of active cases saw a nearly 13 percent increase according to reports issued by the Arkansas Department of Health on Friday, Sept. 2.

“Building a Movement for Arkansas’ Kids,” was the theme of a roundtable discussion presented Tuesday, Aug. 30, by the Carroll County Community Foundation and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families at the Carroll Electric Community Room in Berryville.

A severe storm late last month left a local elderly veteran with a sizable tree partially resting on top of his house. A concerned neighbor asked for assistance in clearing the fallen tree.

Editor’s Note: Emails quoted in this report have not been edited for grammar, punctuation or spelling. The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission last held a regular meeting with a quorum June 22, a little more than a week before the terms of commissioners Carol Wright and James DeVito expired June 30.

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Former Green Forest mayor Charlie Reece, who is seeking a return to that office in the November general election, said he received “some bad tax advice” that led to federal tax liens totaling more than $20,000.

The first-degree murder trial of Jason Helm — one of three Carroll County men accused in the 2018 slaying of Christopher Alvard at his home near Eureka Sp r i n g s — was abruptly delayed last week in Carroll County Circuit Court.

Seven Carroll County residents have died of complications related to COVID-19 in during August, bringing the local death toll attributed to the novel coronavirus to 115, according to a Aug. 26 report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health.