News

The annual Samaritan’s Feet Shoe Giveaway presented by the Eureka Springs Rotary Club will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13, in the Eureka Springs High School cafeteria, located at 2 Lake Lucerne Road in Eureka Springs.

A “wind farm” planned for eastern Carroll County continued to be a topic of discussion at the county quorum court’s regular meeting on Tuesday, July 18. Protesters carrying signs expressing opposition to Scout Clean Energy’s planned “Nimbus Project” gathered outside the Eastern District Courthouse in Berryville before the meeting and several residents addressed the issue during public comments.

A Berryville man was sentenced to eight years in prison last week after pleading guilty to felony charges and admitting he arranged to meet a law enforcement officer, whom he believed was a teenage girl, for a sexual encounter.

Clear Spring School in Eureka Springs recently received a $2,490 grant from Cox and used the funds to improve its “Wild Science” programming. “It’s an outdoor education grant to help support our field sciences,” said Jessica FitzPatrick, head of school at Clear Spring.