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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.

Thanks to the generosity of several individuals and businesses, 21 local students will be able to participate in summer band camps. Jim Swiggart with the Carroll County Community Orchestra recently announced that, because of the financial support from the community, students will receive scholarships to attend summer camps at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

The 36th annual Berryville Ice Cream Social on the newly renovated downtown square in Berryville drew quite the crowd, as visitors were treated to numerous… Login to continue reading Login…

Carroll County’s six vote centers will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Diversity is the name of the game for brothers Kevin and Kenyon Hostetler of K&K Farms. “We don’t want to put all of our eggs in one basket,” said Kevin.

The number of active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County last week rose at the rate of approximately one per day, with 42 reported by the Arkansas Department of Health on Friday. Statewide, the number of active cases rose 19 percent in five days, rising to 5,880 on Friday.

Potholes were a topic of discussion during the regular meeting of the Berryville City Council on Tuesday, June 7. Prompted by council member Jason Williams, the initial discussion centered on what Williams described as “a pretty big pothole on Elm Street.” Mayor Tim McKinney said the city was aware of the issue.

The Green Forest School board met for a special business meeting on June 2 and used the opportunity to deal with a number of personnel matters as well as approve the purchase of new cafeteria tables. Before meeting in an executive session, the board approved the purchase of 40 new tables for approximately $75,000 from Palmer Hamilton LLC, a furniture manufacturer based in Elkhorn, Wis., in addition to hearing the first read on a number of newly received policies.

Thinking that the device used to record a recent special meeting had been turned off after adjourning, members of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission continued to meet and discuss commission business, including calling a newly hired sexton “two-faced” and a recently terminated employee a “narcissist.”

Carroll County Newspapers, publisher of the Carroll County News, filed an official complaint with Carroll County prosecuting attorney Tony Rogers about a recent meeting of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission.