Avoca News

Pea Ridge High School Alumni Day will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 11.

Wayne Edward Allen, 46, was arrested Monday for theft of property, a class B felony.

As a part of the "Consume, Conserve and Connect" campaign, the Beaver Water District posted a quiz about the area's water supply on the district's Web site, then invited people to answer a few questions about water.

The Benton County Water District's office in Avoca reported money missing to the Benton County Sheriff's Office on Thursday.

The Avoca Farmer's Market is held at the "depot" pavilion and is open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday.

Photographs courtesy of Shannon Stanford James A survivor of the Brightwater tornado, Shannon Stanford James shared with the Museum photographs taken by her mother, Susie Short Stanford, images that graphically showed the destruction the storm left in its wake.

Observed the last Monday in May each year, Memorial Day is filled with different meanings for different people.

Margaret Goodart's father worked as a mail carrier in Springdale, and when he went away to serve in World War II, her mother was his substitute on his route.

Photograph submitted The Beaver Lake Fire Department's 2009 pumper truck is equipped with a 1,250-gallon pump, automatic tire chains, the latest in foam systems and a 1,000-gallon water tank.

At a town-hall-style meeting held in the NEBCO Community Room, more than 70 residents of northeastern Benton County gathered to hear from the VAS Ambulance Service Board of Directors, all hoping to hear the board's plans on where to take the ambulance service, especially since the NEBCO fire station has offered to help run the troubled service.

Options for ambulance service in the northeast area of Benton County are multiplying.

The Northeast Benton County Volunteer Fire Department is willing to run the region's ambulance service, according to the fire chief.

The 20,000 residents in the northeast section of Benton County were without local ambulance service as of Tuesday afternoon.

Early Thursday morning, a 79-year-old man, with a tracking device on his wrist, wandered out of his home on Smith Ridge Road near Avoca wearing only his pajamas in 28-degree weather.

A settlement was reached in a foreclosure lawsuit against the developers of a proposed Beaver Lake condominium project.