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Thinking that the device used to record a recent special meeting had been turned off after adjourning, members of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission continued to meet and discuss commission business, including calling a newly hired sexton “two-faced” and a recently terminated employee a “narcissist.”

Carroll County Newspapers, publisher of the Carroll County News, filed an official complaint with Carroll County prosecuting attorney Tony Rogers about a recent meeting of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Eureka Springs company that argued it was improperly denied a license to operate a medical marijuana dispensary. Carroll County Holdings Inc., doing business as Eureka Green, filed suit in June 2020 against the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division and the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission.

An attorney representing a group of plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit in connection with the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission filed a second amended complaint last week, listing a litany of new allegations and adding the commission’s former executive director as a defendant.

A special prosecutor last week charged Robert Kennedy, a former candidate for Carroll County sheriff, with a single felony count of terroristic threatening stemming from his arrest on April 25. Kennedy was arrested after an altercation with his brother, a deputy sheriff, at their mother’s home on Carroll County Road 107 west of Eureka Springs.

Maria Ellis, a mathematics and robotics teacher at Eureka Springs Middle School has been awarded a classroom grant by the Arkansas State Teachers Association. The $500 classroom grant will be applied toward the purchase of three Sphero BOLT coding robots for her students.

Several local students have been elected to city and state offices as part of the 81st annual session of Arkansas Boys State at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, where students build a mock government structure, including16 mock cities each with their own city council, vice mayor and mayor.

For Dean Lee, last year’s Ice Cream Social was a bit of a trial by fire. The 2020 event had been canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.