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A severe storm late last month left a local elderly veteran with a sizable tree partially resting on top of his house. A concerned neighbor asked for assistance in clearing the fallen tree.

Editor’s Note: Emails quoted in this report have not been edited for grammar, punctuation or spelling. The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission last held a regular meeting with a quorum June 22, a little more than a week before the terms of commissioners Carol Wright and James DeVito expired June 30.

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Former Green Forest mayor Charlie Reece, who is seeking a return to that office in the November general election, said he received “some bad tax advice” that led to federal tax liens totaling more than $20,000.

The first-degree murder trial of Jason Helm — one of three Carroll County men accused in the 2018 slaying of Christopher Alvard at his home near Eureka Sp r i n g s — was abruptly delayed last week in Carroll County Circuit Court.

Seven Carroll County residents have died of complications related to COVID-19 in during August, bringing the local death toll attributed to the novel coronavirus to 115, according to a Aug. 26 report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health.

Eureka Springs City Council member Bill Ott will pay the city $1,000 to settle a lawsuit Ott filed in 2021. The city council approved the settlement agreement at its regular meeting on Aug.

The Berryville School District board pushed its August meeting back a week because of the first day of school on Aug. 15.

The Berryville Library Building Fund has received $10,000 to preserve in pictures the tremendous effect placing more books in homes can have on the children of Carroll County. Images of Dolly Parton along with young Carroll County citizens reading books received from her Imagination Library program will be featured on the end of a shelving unit in the new library. With the shelving units standing eight feet high, this will be an almost life-sized tribute to the efforts of the Carroll County Youth Literacy Rotary Foundation that community members will view every time they are in the library for years to come.

An Arkansas Municipal League attorney has filed a response on behalf of Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry and other city officials, asking a judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by a former city employee.