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Active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County are still on the rise, with 37 reported by the Arkansas Department of Health on Monday. Statewide, the number of active cases rose to 4,936, a nearly 27-percent increase since May 31.

Maria Ellis, a mathematics and robotics teacher at Eureka Springs Middle School, has been awarded a classroom grant by the Arkansas State Teachers Association (ASTA). The $500 classroom grant will be applied toward the purchase of three Sphero BOLT coding robots for her students.

A little bit of curiosity is leading to some big things for the Good Shepherd Doggie Thrift Store in Berryville. The thrift store, one of two in Carroll County that helps fund Good Shepherd Animal Shelter, will be moving to a larger, more efficient facility by year’s end.

American Legion Post 9 of Eureka Springs held its annual Memorial Day ceremonies Monday, May 30, honoring the memory of America’s fallen military personnel. Army veteran Vince Eastwood, who served in Operation Desert Storm and is now a board member with Ozark Mountain Veterans, told those in attendance that Memorial Day is not a happy occasion.

Tourism financials continue to be on the rise in Eureka Springs. According to reports heard by the City Advertising and Promotion Commission at its May 25 regular meeting, financial and marketing numbers both show noteworthy increases.

Active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County are still on the rise, with 26 reported by the Arkansas Department of Health on Tuesday. Statewide, the number of active cases rose to 3,895, a nearly 21-percent increase since May 23.

On May 21, the Eureka Springs Abendschone Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution paid tribute at the Eureka Springs Cemetery to mark the graves of interred past chapter members. Patriotic American decorations and flags (with NSDAR logos) were placed next to the graves of the chapter’s founding leaders. There are 34 known members’ graves in Eureka Springs cemetery. Organizing members honored were Ruth Fuller Cross; Ruth’s mother, May Obenshain Fuller; Dorothy Fuller Mathews; and Beulah Pitts McBee (May’s niece). The gravesite of longstanding member Fanny Henderson Russ also was honored. Obenshain is said to be the “Americanized” version of the name Abendschone. GPS coordinates are recorded for each member’s gravesite so that the chapter can honor them at future events. This year the flags remained at the gravesites through Memorial Day. Pictured behind the members list are (from left to right) Sharon Lawlor, regent Terri Herman, Nancy Harris and Suzanne Williams. For more information about Abendschone Chapter, visit website http://www.abendschoneDAR.com. Submitted photo

Rachel Pittman was selected from 24 applications received from writers across the United States to receive the 2022 Moondancer Fellowship, the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has announced. The fellowship was open to poets, fiction writers, playwrights, essayists, columnists, memoirists, and screenwriters who expressed their love of nature and concern for the environment through their writing.