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Editor’s Note: Emails quoted in this report have not been edited for grammar, spelling or punctuation. Carroll County Judge Ronda Griffin vetoed an ordinance approved by the county’s quorum court that would have rescinded the position of major in the sheriff’s office.

An Arkansas Municipal League attorney filed a response last week 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.

Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Director Scott Miskiel has announced he is stepping down at the end of the year to spend more time with family. Miskiel, who was first named interim director in October 2020, made the announcement at the Aug.

Leaves of three — leave them be! This is the time of the year to be on the lookout for poison ivy and poison oak. While these shrubs do not bother some people, many find they make summertime miserable.

Lovely County Citizen Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry will face not one but three challengers in the Nov. 8 general election — including a former mayor and a former city contractor involved in a lawsuit in which Berry is a defendant.

Aman accused of vandalizing the “Doughboy Statue” in Eureka Springs’ Basin Spring Park in September 2021 has been acquitted on criminal charges on the basis of mental disease or defect. Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson issued the judgment Wednesday, Aug.

For the first time in a month, seven days passed without the reported additional death of a Carroll County resident from complications related to COVID-19. A report issued Friday, Aug.

Students across Carroll County returned to school Monday, making for what school administrators called an “exciting time.” Eureka Springs superintendent Bryan Pruitt said he looks forward to starting “with a nice, clean slate.” At Eureka Springs, like many districts, increased campus security is at the top of the list when it comes to changes for the new school year. “School safety is one of the things that we’re really concerned about,” Pruitt said, adding that security was one of the things his staff focused on during their early start.

With only a week remaining before the first day of school, the Eureka Springs School Board didn’t have much business on the agenda for its regular meeting Aug. 8, but board members still got a few things accomplished.

Robert Kennedy, a former candidate for Carroll County sheriff, was arraigned last week in Carroll County Circuit Court on a felony charge of terroristic threatening stemming from his arrest on April 25.