Tontitown News

A lawyer for the Washington Water Authority said a settlement offer he recently made to the attorney for the Tontitown Water and Sewer Commission has been declined.

Attorneys for Tontitown's mayor, Joe Edgmon, have filed a motion to dismiss an amended suit against him.

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.

Photograph courtesy of the Rogers Historical Museum In 1915, railroad tracks could still be seen in the grass, in the foreground, near the Mutual Aid Building at the corner of Second and Poplar streets in Rogers.

Bentonville and Tontitown will be the only cities initially served by Northwest Arkansas' first regional sewer plant, and it's likely to be a good while before others join in using the $68 million project.

Highway 412 is about to undergo some major improvements, to fix all the bumps and cracks.

The City Council has deemed paving Javello Road a major priority, and residents got to weigh in on the topic Thursday.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe will break ground on the Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility for the Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority's state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant at 10 a.m. today.

"So big, this little place" was the response given by Father Pietro Bandini, who had worked with Italian immigrants in New York and on Ellis Island and later helped carve out the rural community of Tontitown.

Justice of the Peace Rex Bailey of Springdale on Thursday night pulled an ordinance he had sponsored for Washington County to withdraw from its interlocal law enforcement agreement with Tontitown.

Milestone Construction of Springdale came in with the lowest bid for the interior renovation of the Historic Washington County Courthouse during a bid opening Thursday.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times The Washington County Sheriff's Office has an interlocal agreement with the city of Tontitown to provide police service.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JASON IVESTER Troop Train Veterans and their families board an Arkansas & Missouri Railroad train Monday morning at the Springdale depot for the 7th annual Troop Train.

A Tontitown couple who get water from the city want to join a lawsuit over water service territories between the city's utility and Washington Water Authority.

Seventeen-year-old Chris Newbold of Alma enjoyed the adrenaline rush he got trying to ride a bull last week at the Lincoln Riding Club Rodeo Arena.

The man found burned in the trunk of his car earlier this week was from Puerto Rico and had moved to Northwest Arkansas to work for a poultry company, the Benton County sheriff's office said Friday.

Consultant for the Tontitown Water and Sewer Commission and ratepayer of the Washington Water Authority Mick Wagner showed up Wednesday morning to offer public comment and ask questions at the Rural Development Authority Board meeting.

Benton County investigators are seeking clues to what happened to an unidentified body found burned inside the trunk of a car in a rural area west of Tontitown.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times Tontitown residents watch as a parade makes its way around Harry Sbanotto Park during a celebration of the 100th year of the town's founding Sunday in Tontitown.

Suzie Abshire was a prisoner for 30 years. However, her prison was not one made up of bars or cement walls.