Salesville News

BRIARCLIFF - Two Briarcliff residents, a city council member and member of the city's planning and zoning commission, have applied for the position of mayor.

By midmorning Monday, Arkansas' new lottery had produced a $500 winner in Baxter County from a scratch-off ticket sold at Benny's Country Store, 6227 State Hwy.

Karrol Fowlkes of Salem seeks election to the District 82 seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives as a Democrat.

U.S. Army Cpl. Daniel W. Johnson - a soldier in the Quartermaster Corps on the Philippine island of Corregidor when Lt.

At the Salesville City Council meeting Monday night, Mayor Tim Mayfield said final engineering plans for the sewer project are slowly progressing toward final approval through the various agencies involved.

A two-car accident at 10:48 a.m. Tuesday at state Highway 5 and Dyer Street injured Mary C. Blinka, 55, of Mountain Home.

District court for Baxter County was held June 29 and July 2, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

Salesville City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall. Items on the agenda include: May, June, and six-month financial reports by the recorder/treasurer May and June call-out reports from the fire department Mayor's report; street department report; May, June building permit reports Building Inspector presenting new business: ...

The National Transportation Safety Board blames the pilot for a deadly helicopter crash near the Norfork Dam in northern Arkansas on July 15, 2008.

The Baxter County Sheriff's office says Eugene Perry, 79, of Tracy Ferry drowned today in the North Fork River near Salesville.

BATESVILLE - Anthony Levi Rogocki of Norfork recently graduated from Lyon College with a Bachelor of Arts degee in pyschology.

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until 9:30 a.m. for Baxter, Marion, southern Boone, western Fulton, northern Newton and northern Searcy counties, according to the National Weather Service.

The Baxter County Sheriff's Office has returned stolen property to several victims in theft incidents that occurred at Quarry and Tracy Ferry marinas.

Salesville will receive a $2.3 million federal grant to build a sewer system and was one of five projects chosen throughout the state to receive immediate funding.

Acting on a tip, Sheriff's Investigators this afternoon went to a home on State Highway 177 in Salesville where they found and recovered a large quantity of stolen property.

Two benefit events have been scheduled to help raise funds for 2-year-old Eli Lane, who is awaiting a bone marrow transplant.

A Salesville man was severely burned Thursday while burning a brush pile. Forrest Bynum was in fair condition Tuesday at St.

RUSSELLVILLE - Amy Lynn Murphy of Mountain Home has been selected as one of 28 representatives from Arkansas Tech University in the 2009 edition of "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." Murphy was named to the dean's list in each of her semesters at Arkansas Tech.