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Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson last week ordered Bank OZK, headquartered in Little Rock, to remit more than $400,000 to the registry of the county circuit clerk. The funds, totaling $433,987.10, were collected from Carroll County taxpayers in 2018 and 2019 through an $18 annual fee imposed by the Ozark Mountain Solid Waste District for each real estate parcel in six counties in northern Arkansas.

Plans for a new judicial building for the Eastern District of Carroll County are moving forward. On Friday, May 26, the Carroll County Quorum Court’s Eastern District Judicial Building Steering Committee met with an architect and general contractor to discuss preliminary plans for a judicial building to be located near the Carroll County Law Enforcement Complex on Hailey Road in Berryville.

Ladies from newborn to 22 years and up are invited to sign up for the Miss Royal Scoop Pageant to be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 8, at the Berryville Community Center.

Local residents continued to express their strong opposition to the installation of wind turbines outside Green Forest at the Carroll County Quorum Court’s regular meeting on Tuesday, May 16, even as county officials insisted they have no authority to stop or even delay the project.

A Missouri man was killed in a two-vehicle accident on Thursday, May 18, in Eureka Springs. Dennis Gacus, 46, of Carl Junction, Mo., was riding a 2023 KTM motorcycle southbound on Arkansas Highway 23 at 3:45 p.m.