Prairie Grove News

Volunteer firefighters in Washington County do more than put out fires. They also respond to car accidents, medical calls and tactical rescues, all while holding down separate fulltime jobs to support their families.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Ralph Prince, interim director of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District, shows the area where electronics are collected Friday at the district transfer station in Prairie Grove.

A Prairie Grove man was killed Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding into Fayetteville on Huntsville Road crossed the center lane and hit a vehicle head on.

Fourteen-year-old Don Furst of Fayetteville puts the finishing touches on an oil painting as he sits on the porch of a dogtrot cabin at Prairie Grove Battlefield Park in June 1968.

Members of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District Executive Committee gave their stamp of approval Tuesday to a job description for the next director of the organization.

Last year, the Fayetteville Board of Education adopted a restrictive approach to transfers, rejecting most requests from students to attend schools in other districts.

District court costs in the county are going up after July 1 - from $5 to $12.50 per charge.

Aren't we blessed to have those happy days to remember? Lest I forget to mention it, I wish to apologize for my mistake in reporting about Norma Watson's sister, Virginia Risley of Prairie Grove, Ark.

Class dismissed Story date: June 2, 2009 By Michael Ford crime@couriernews.com With the recent conclusion of her 35th year in the classroom, Sally Ramey is retiring from Russellville Middle School where she has practiced a profession she describes as a blessing and attributes with making her the woman she is today.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Bill Shaffer with American Legion Post 146 in Prairie Grove salutes as Fran Blakeley covers her heart Saturday during the playing of taps after the presentation of the Farmington Veterans Memorial at the Farmington Senior Center.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times Jaimus Ready, 6, left, cuts out slips of papers with soldiers' names on them under the supervision of his grandfather, Paul Ready, Tuesday at their home on the outskirts of Prairie Grove.

Farmington will be the first school district to end the 2009-2010 school year, as its last day of school will be Friday.

Jacob Skiermanski talks Wednesday about a project that he completed on the Holocaust with fellow eighth graders Matt Saley and Drew Witt during a showcase of the students' work on the world changing event at Prairie Grove Junior High School in Crystal Lake.

From its origins after the Civil War to today's ongoing war against terrorism, Memorial Day remains a day for us all to pause and pay honor to those who have shed their blood for freedom.

Jurors ruled in favor of poultry companies that were sued over litter produced by chickens that were fed Roxarsone, an arsenic-laced feed additive.

A Washington County jury sides with a trio of poultry companies in a Prairie Grove cancer lawsuit.

A Prairie Grove woman was taken into police custody Friday night on a felony charge of robbery.

Twelve National Merit Scholars will enter the freshman class at Harding University in fall 2009, bringing the total number of scholars on campus to more than 50.

One-day-old Daniel McCormick is the apple of both his grandmother's and his mother's eye in this 1952 photo taken at Elizabeth Hospital in Prairie Grove.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan embraces Paula Marinoni, founder of Crosswalk Safety Awareness Day, in the crosswalk at Martin Luther King Jr.