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Arkansas Razorbacks basketball legend Sidney Moncrief will be the keynote speaker at the Greater Berryville Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2022 awards banquet, to be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Berryville Community Center.

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The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center is located at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Lunch is served at noon each weekday. The suggested donation for ages 60 and up is $4. There is a $6 charge for those under 60 and all carryout meals. Breakfast is served Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Menus are subject to change.

The Carroll County Community Foundation Board of Directors presented Giving Tree Grants to 10 local nonprofits on Thursday, Oct. 13. Giving Tree is Arkansas Community Foundation’s signature program that supports a broad range of causes across our county and state – everything from critical issues to art and education.

Palace Hotel & Bath House and the Eureka Springs Historical Museum are presenting a new exhibit featuring the “Eureka Springs LEGO Palace.” The LEGO Palace is the work of local artist Larry Jones and is based on the iconic Eureka Springs landmark, Palace Hotel & Bath House. Originally constructed in 1901, the Palace has operated as a hotel and spa for more than a century and is the last of the original Eureka Springs bath houses still in operation today.

Members of the Berryville High School and Middle School bands got what band directors Doug and Tonya Blevins called “the chance of a lifetime” last week to perform with world-class musicians in front of hundreds of people. The Dallas Brass, in the middle of a tour of Arkansas schools that also included stops in Rogers and Springdale, made the side trip to Berryville after the group’s leader, director Michael Levine, contacted Blevins.

The former Entergy building in Berryville apparently will soon be government property, but it won’t belong to Carroll County. Instead, the city of Berryville intends to purchase the building to house its police department.

Carroll County News Carroll County News managing editor Scott Loftis and associate editor Robert Cox won a total of five awards in the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s 2022 Better Newspaper Contest, including first place for Loftis in Freedom of Information reporting. The awards were presented Saturday, Oct.

Carroll County News Monday, Oct. 17, is the deadline for Carroll County residents to pay personal property and real estate taxes.