May 2022

Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry did not lie under oath in a deposition, he told the city council at its regular meeting on Monday, April 25. “Recently I was, been accused of lying,” Berry said at the end of a tense two-hour meeting at the Auditorium.

Kelly Swofford is almost a fixture in Carroll County education. During a career that has spanned parts of five decades, he’s been everything from a teacher to an administrator, working with and mentoring several generations of the county’s youngest residents, primarily in Green Forest and Berryville.

Berryville Elementary School principal Kelly Swofford and several students check out new playground equipment at the school in 2015. After several years at Berryville, Swofford, 57, will move on to Eureka Springs in the fall, where he will return to the classroom as a fifth grade math and science teacher. David Bell / Carroll County News

Robert Kennedy, the candidate for Carroll County sheriff who was arrested last week on multiple felony charges, was released from jail Sunday night after posting bond. Kennedy was released from the Carroll County Detention Center in Berryville around 8 p.m.