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The American Legion post in Green Forest recently held a cookout for local students who attended Boys State and Girls State this summer. Pictured from left to right are Glenda Jorgensen of the American Legion Auxiliary, Girls State participants Allie Snow and Bailey Parton and American Legion treasurer and chaplain Don McNeely. Green Forest students who attended Girls State but are not pictured are Thanda Wae and Jessica Ford. Also not pictured are Green Forest’s Boys State participants Alonzo Rangel, Juan Fernandez, Caleb Tuckey and Jesus Romero-Castile. Submitted photo

The shelves at the Flint Street Food Pantry in Eureka Springs are becoming quite bare and director Kathy Barnes is hoping the public can help fill them back up. “Prices have gone up and the numbers have gone up of people we are serving,” Barnes said.

Eureka Springs Hospital will host its next COVID-19 vaccine clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, July 29, at the Eureka Springs Hospital Clinic across the street from the hospital. Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will be available.

FAYETTEVILLE — In a world with shrinking freshwater resources for a growing human population, where do you find enough moisture to grow food? You might start by improving water use efficiency in the world’s number one livestock animal — chickens.

The Carroll County Senior Activity and Wellness Center is located at 202 W. Madison Ave. in Berryville. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. Lunch is served at noon each weekday. The suggested donation for ages 60 and up is $4. There is a $6 charge for those under 60 and all carryout meals. Breakfast is served Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Menus are subject to change.

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If Berryville Middle School teacher Dave Randall asks his students to write an essay next semester about what they did over the summer, it’s likely none of them will top Randall’s own story. Randall and another Carroll County man — Camden Boardman of Eureka Springs — helped save the life of a tanker truck driver after an accident July 1 on Highway 23 South near the Madison County line.

By Scott Loftis SLoftis@cherryroad.com Neal Scott Hagler, the Berryville man who was sentenced to six years in prison in November 2021 in connection with a 2018 accident that resulted in his girlfriend’s death, will have to remain behind bars for at least another year after the Arkansas Parole Board voted 5-0 last month to deny his request for parole. A July 1 memorandum from parole board chairman John Felts to the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ Grimes Unit near Newport — where Hagler is being held — says the board voted 5-0 to deny Hagler’s request for one year.

By Scott Loftis SLoftis@cherryroad.com A Holiday Island man accused of stabbing his father to death in November 2021 will undergo a court-ordered mental examination to determine whether he was insane at the time of the slaying. Gabriel Brotherton was arrested Nov.

Josh Durrill of Fleetwood Pyrotechnics in Salem, Mo., works on setting up fireworks atop Saunders Heights for Berryville’s annual Fire on the Mountain display on July 4. Photo courtesy of Dean Lee .