Highfill News

A family is trying to figure out what to do next, after a flue fire damaged their home in the Logan community between Siloam Springs and Tontitown.

Allie Plantery hugs her grandmother, Mary Cordes, as Plantery and her family arrive Monday at Little Rock National, Adams Field, from Chicago for a Thanksgiving visit.

The regional wastewater treatment plant project, seen Friday in Highfill, remains under construction with plans to come online next year.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the Jonesboro Airport and Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport at Highfill will get federal stimulus money to carry out projects.

Jason Ivester Scott Van Laningham, executive director of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, dons Mickey Mouse ears Tuesday after a news conference to announce Allegiant Airlines is adding two weekly flights to Orlando, Fla., beginning Nov.

Mayor Chris Holland requested that the Town Council, at its July 16 meeting, revisit its ordinance regarding trailer houses within city limits in conjunction with its ordinances on subdivisions to make it possible for a potential buyer to purchase property in the town and place a trailer house on it.

The Benton County Fire Protection Association met Monday night to discuss the possibility of forming an independent fire board.

Though the town of Highfill has a farmers' market at the corner of Arkansas highways 12 and 264, one local couple has chosen to sell their produce a little farther west of the intersection - from their front yard - to take advantage of the shade.

An international discount grocer has plans to build a store in Siloam Springs. ALDI Inc., based in Batavia, Ill., has found property on which to build a grocery store here, said Mark Bersted, vice president of ALDI's Olathe, Kan., division.

A Bentonville woman was killed Monday morning in a single-car crash on Arkansas Highway 12 between Highfill and Springtown.

A Bentonville woman was killed Monday morning in a single-car crash on Arkansas Highway 12 between Highfill and Springtown.

The beauty of numbers is columnists can twist them to make them sound as good or bad as they wanna.

A new part-time officer will be hired by the Gentry Police Department, though he's not new to the department.

The new airport here will provide another travel option for people living as far away as Fayetteville, airport officials claim.

For about an hour Friday afternoon, Mother Nature hammered the county with straight-line winds that ripped down power lines and tree limbs, lightning that lit up the darkened skies and torrents of rain that flooded some streets.

Douglas Grant/The Weekly Vista Norvil Lance, outgoing commander of the Marshal S. Sayner American Legion Post 341, places a wreath during a Memorial Day service held at Riordan Hall May 25.

Colcord Tuesday Night Alcoholics Anonymous group holds open meetings every Tuesday at 7 p.m. Use the east door of Colcord First Baptist Church.

Jim McKenzie, a pilot with Tyson Aviation, is working to set up a program to give area World War II veterans a trip to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial honors the 16 million who served and the 400,000 servicemen and women who died during the war.

Since 1995, the RDA, comprised completely of local volunteers, has developed, designed and built two water-supply systems on Beaver Lake, a system in Highfill and a fourth in Hiwasse, and even with the progress that has been made, there is still more work to be done, said Cassie Elliott, a member of the RDA.

The Rogers FFA chapter recognized many of its members May 14 at Lake Atalanta's Clarke Pavilion in Rogers.