Carroll County News

More than $114,000 in grant monies have been awarded to Carroll County entities by the the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage.

Studies show that there is a high rate of illiteracy inCarroll County. Shelly McCall, director of education and the Carroll County Center of North Arkansas Community College, wants to change that.

The following people were booked into the Carroll CountyDetention Center June 26 through June 30: David Roy Allen, 23, of Huntsville was booked in on a probation warrant.

The Berryville City Council has appointed an acting mayor to serve in place of Mayor Tim McKinney, who is serving a jail sentence on drunk driving and marijuana charges.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times A loader pushes piles of garbage into a hauler Friday at the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District transfer station in Prairie Grove.

Berryville Mayor Tim McKinney is headed to jail. McKinney pleaded guilty Friday morning to driving while intoxicated, second offense.

Sharon Sloan, who lives within spitting distance of the Kings River Bridge--where Woodstock meets Livestock, some wag suggested--dropped off a box of books the other day and considerably complicated my life as a bookseller.

Ginger Shiras of the Harrison Daily Times reports that Tom McKinney, the mayor of Berryville, will spend 39 days in the county jail on a previous suspended sentence from an earlier DWI/marijuana infraction .

New signage is up at the Carroll County Courthouse in Berryville. State prison trustys Simon Steele and Logan Kirk, also known as Capt.

A two-vehicle head-on collision Monday afternoon east of Berryville claimed the lives of two local residents, 60 year-old Betty Webb and 45 year-old Raphael Mabry, both of Berryville.

Back on the beat in Berryville and points beyond is Ralph Gordon, a returning investigator who departed for a time to explore Boone County adventures.

The Eureka Springs Naturals won the Rookie League championship for Carroll County on June 8 in Berryville.

I want to thank everyone in the community who helped me go to the National Youth Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 31.

Something a lot wider than the Kings River divides Carroll County but nobody can really get a handle on what that something is, although Michael Burton's "Night Rider's Lament" sort'a works: "Why do you ride for your money / Why do you rope for short pay / You ain't getting nowhere / and you're losing your share / You must've gone crazy out there." ...

The head-on accident occurred Monday evening on Onyx Cave Road east of Eureka Springs as the two vehicles were negotiating a sharp curve.

Anita Hudson and Kenny Underdown are trying to save what remains of Possum Trot.

These and other stories can be read in our new online e-edition or in our print edition for May 26, 2009.

Carroll County Community Foundation board members posed for a picture along with grant recipients.

More than 100 persons opposed to Carroll Electric Cooperative's plans to spray herbicides along its rights of way showed up for the board of directors meeting in Berryville Thursday morning.

Communities are often proud of their food shelves, and individuals and small foundations often feel good about making contributions to them.