Heber Springs News

Students from ASU-Beebea s Upward Bound program checked out the dragster brought by Team Thunder on campus last week.

The 23rd annual World Championship Cardboard Boat Race is being held July 25, 2009, at Sandy Beach in Heber Springs, Arkansas.

Twin City Bank of North Little Rock and Centennial Bank of Little Rock disappeared over the weekend as both subsidiary banks of Home BancShares Inc.

Oxane Materials Inc., which is based in Houston, will make proppant, a component in the hydraulic fluid used in wells such as those in the Fayetteville Shale natural gas formation in north-central Arkansas.

So many of the buildings are reminiscent of days gone by, leaving visitors and passersby with a feeling of going back several decades into downtown Heber Springsa heyday.

Oxendine wins state match play No. 6 Story date: June 21, 2009 Claims her ninth state title, AWGA player of year 6 times By Sean Ingram Sports Editor Julie Oxendine of Russellville had a feeling if she did what she needed to do last week, she would have a chance to win the Arkansas Womens Golf Association 85th annual State Match Play Championship ...

A man wanted for failing to report to his parole officer has been fatally shot by a prison guard as the man tried to flee from a contraband checkpoint at a prison unit in Jefferson County, according to a spokeswoman for the state Corrections Department.

There's been a bit of reporting lately about a new Dry County Coalition aimed at pressuring the legislature to roll back the law that has expanded private club permits at restaurants in dry counties and also aimed at pressuring the ABC not to approve the permits.

What happened in 1926 the year you were born , or was 1926 the year you graduated.

A McCrory teen has drowned while swimming at Greers Ferry Lake in Heber Springs on Monday afternoon.

For Ben Wilson, visiting the Normandy coast of France, where Americans took part in the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe 65 years ago, will be more than a history lesson.

Group says too many liquor permits approved Story date: May 29, 2009 By Michael Ford Reporter Though a Heber Springs-based group known as the Dry County Coalition is claiming the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is too liberal with its granting of liquor permits, records provided by the board show only two of the four permits applied for in ...

Beebe Retirement Center, Inc., a nursing home located in Beebe, is being featured in an advertisement this week in this newspaper along with two other nursing homes, Searcy Healthcare Center and Golden Age Retirement Center of Heber Springs.

The man behind the name Story date: May 26, 2009 Man for whom Baswell Hall named 87, still going strong By Cindi Nobles education@couriernews.com Col.

A group says the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has been too generous in granting alcohol permits in dry counties and against opposition from local officials.

One young man says he feels lucky to be alive after he slipped off a bluff in Heber Springs.

The majority of Arkansas' counties are in fact, dry. And the Dry County Coalition says in some communities, allowing alcohol, goes against the will of the people.

Jeffrey L. Lynch, formerly president and CEO of United Bank of Springdale, has joined Heber Springs State Bank as executive vice president and chief financial officer and plans to succeed his father as CEO in 2010.

Pistol packing and drug toting...that still doesn't slow down this criminal from running from the law.

And today, KARK has confirmed that another local dealer got one of those letters.