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The number of active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County and across the state continue to climb, according to a report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health on Friday, July 15. On July 8, the ADH reported 112 active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County, the first time in months the number of active cases had topped 100.

Students in the Eureka Springs School District will once again have to pay for meals after a vote by the district board during its meeting on July 11. “Meals have been free the past couple of years,” said district superintendent Bryan Pruitt, “and now we’re going back.

The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission has taken the first step in repairing and refurbishing historic Basin Spring Park. At a July 12 special meeting, the commission approved a contract with McClelland Engineering for the initial surveying and analysis of the structural issues at the park.

An update on Omicron COVID-19 still includes my original recommendations. Be assured, I am vigilantly keeping up on the recently released COVID-19 information.

Former Eureka Springs fire marshal and assistant fire chief Jim Kelley retired earlier this year, criticizing what he described as the “Downfall of the Fire Department” in a letter to fire chief Nick Samac.

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.

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.

Employees at Tyson Foods will soon have access to expanded educational opportunities thanks to a new partnership between Tyson and social impact company Guild. The partnership — funded by a four-year, $60 million investment — will allow Tyson to expand its existing Upward Academy program to include access to more than 175 programs from some of the nation’s top universities and learning providers.

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.

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.