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The Berryville City Council on May 3 voted to approve a resolution appropriating more than $1 million of the funds the city received under the American Rescue Plan to offset personnel expenses for the city’s police and fire department personnel.

This week’s Pet of the Week is Cowboy. Cowboy is a black-and-white mixed bundle of intelligence, love and energy. He is a young dog looking for a purpose and a family. Are you ready to give him both? Cowboy has been very quick to learn training prompts and enjoys bringing smiles to people’s faces. He would love a place to run around. You can meet Cowboy at the Good Shepherd Humane Adoption Center on Highway 62. The center is open every day from noon until 5 p.m. Submitted photo

Attention all Pre-K children and your parents: Berryville Library has created a new program just for you. In addition to the Thursday morning Pre-K Storytime hour, make plans to come play at the Berryville Library at 10 a.m.

Robert Kennedy, the candidate for Carroll County sheriff who was arrested last week on multiple felony charges, was released from jail Sunday night after posting bond. Kennedy was released from the Carroll County Detention Center in Berryville around 8 p.m.

Berryville Elementary School principal Kelly Swofford and several students check out new playground equipment at the school in 2015. After several years at Berryville, Swofford, 57, will move on to Eureka Springs in the fall, where he will return to the classroom as a fifth grade math and science teacher. David Bell / Carroll County News

Kelly Swofford is almost a fixture in Carroll County education. During a career that has spanned parts of five decades, he’s been everything from a teacher to an administrator, working with and mentoring several generations of the county’s youngest residents, primarily in Green Forest and Berryville.

Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry did not lie under oath in a deposition, he told the city council at its regular meeting on Monday, April 25. “Recently I was, been accused of lying,” Berry said at the end of a tense two-hour meeting at the Auditorium.