August 2022

Carroll County News Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry will face three challengers in the Nov. 8 general election — including a former mayor and a former city contractor involved in a lawsuit in which Berry is a defendant.

Robert Kennedy, a former candidate for Carroll County sheriff, was arraigned last week in Carroll County Circuit Court on a felony charge of terroristic threatening stemming from his arrest on April 25.

Eureka Springs City Council member Nick Roberts will remain on the City Advertising and Promotion Commission after a motion to replace him on the CAPC failed to gain approval at an Aug. 8 council meeting.

The 2022 Carroll County Fair officially kicks off with the annual rodeo Friday, Aug. 19, with activities continuing through Saturday, Aug.

A man accused of vandalizing the “Doughboy Statue” in Eureka Springs’ Basin Spring Park in September 2021 has been acquitted on criminal charges on the basis of mental disease or defect. Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson issued the judgment Wednesday, Aug.

For the first time in a month, seven days passed without the reported additional death of a Carroll County resident from complications related to COVID-19. A report issued Friday, Aug.

— Eureka Springs School District superintendent Bryan Pruitt With only a week remaining before the first day of school, the Eureka Springs School Board didn’t have much business on the agenda for its regular meeting Aug. 8, but board members still got a few things accomplished.