Cotter News

Here's a look at local Independence Day weekend closings. Mountain Home City Hall, city government offices, including the police department office, and the Baxter County Courthouse and government offices, including the administrative office of the sheriff's department, will be closed on Friday.

The following deeds, representing transactions of real property, were filed with the Baxter County Clerk's office June 18-24, 2009.

We have had no rain and unseasonably hot weather . Most of the lakes on the White river system have fallen.

North Central Arkansas Speedway was back in action Friday after a rain out last week.

Paragould jumped out to a 4-0 lead on just one hit in the third inning and took it from there, dispatching Mountain Home Hopper Environmental Services 9-6 Tuesday in American Legion Zone 2 play at Cooper Park.

Take a look back in history through back issues ofThe Baxter Bulletin: 100 years ago June 25, 1909 A special promotional issue of The Baxter Bulletinprofiled the towns, resources and industries of the area.

Last year during the holidays, Don Drake helped out at a food bank and went home resolved to do more to address the hunger issue in his community.

A lightning strike is 'almost certainly' the cause of a fire at 1 a.m. Wednesday at White River Inn at 924 County Road 174 near Cotter, said Cotter Fire Chief Jim Whittington.

Today is the last day to purchase tickets for the annual Wisconsin Club picnic set for noon June 13 at Big Spring Park pavilion in Cotter.

The Mountain Home City Council will interview candidates in public to fill the position of city clerk that was vacated by the resignation of former clerk Karen Collins May 28.

Hubert and Janet Pickett of Mountain Home and Calvin and Becky Cotter of Gepp announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their children, Amanda Pickett and Brett Cotter.

The Mountain Home City Council will discuss how to conduct interviews and hire to fill the vacant position of city clerk during a meeting tonight at 6. Mayor David Osmon said the council interviewed candidates for the office in open public session last November after the resignation of former clerk Cindy Wynn.

Take a look back in history through back issues ofThe Baxter Bulletin: 100 years ago June 4, 1909 The present suits which are being pressed against the White River Road at Cotter by the assistant prosecuting attorney of this county are very unpopular with Cotter businessmen, who regard them as a menace to the business interests of the town.

The reconstruction of ditches and other places that carry water through the city of Cotter will get a professional landscape engineer's review, the Cotter City Council agreed Thursday.

Recently a couple of my neighbors, Mike Wilhelm and Scott Berringer, were up for the weekend from Memphis.

Two people were injured in a Monday crash on U.S. Highway 62. About 1 p.m., a vehicle driven by Shannah Cotter, 17, of Mountain Home was eastbound on the highway near Cardinal Drive when she failed to stop for traffic, according to a Mountain Home police crash report.

Teen girls from the local alternative school and high schools in Gainesville, Mo., Mountain Home, Norfork, Cotter, Flippin and Yellville spent Thursday morning on the Arkansas State University Mountain Home campus experiencing college as guests of the Schliemann Center for Women's Health Education.

Baxter County 4-H'ers recently were recognized for outstanding project work for the past year at the 4-H Awards Banquet.

Scholarships totaling $5,300 were awarded at the Mountain Home Business and Professional Women's May meeting in Mountain Home.

A fire at 1904 Baxter County Road 5 destroyed the home of Marianne Seiter Friday evening.