Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Carroll County Sheriff Jim Ross (left) and chief deputy Maj. Jerry Williams say the COVID-19 pandemic hasnt had much effect on their department, or on the number of calls for service in the county. Police departments in Berryville, Green Forest and Eureka Springs share similar stories, as do their year-end statistical reports.
Robert Cox / Carroll County News
Serving as a law enforcement officer comes with certain inherent risks. Most days, those risks are generally clear, but trying to provide the same service in the middle of a pandemic adds another element to the uncertain mix that officers face on a daily basis.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Twenty-two law enforcement officers from various agencies participated in The Merlin Foundations annual Shop With A Cop event on Saturday, Dec. 12, in Berryville.
Submitted photo
Saturday, Dec.12, was a day full of Christmas cheer for many of Carroll Countys youngest residents. Forty children from Eureka Springs, Berryville and Green Forest arrived at the Berryville Walmart to be greeted by a group of local police officers. Each child was paired with an officer and whisked away to pick out $100 in Christmas gifts.
Twenty-two officers from the Carroll County Sheriffs Office, Berryville Police Department, Eureka Springs Police Department, Green Forest Police Department and the Arkansas State Police participated in the annual Shop With A Cop event hosted by The Merlin Foundation.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Adrian Perez is thrilled to get a push downhill from Ricci Crow on Sunday afternoon during the first significant snow in Carroll County in several years. Several children and their parents spent the afternoon sledding on the steep hill behind the Berryville City Pool.
David Bell / Carroll County News
By Samantha Jones
Carroll County received up to 6 inches of snowfall on Sunday, Dec. 13, causing cars to go off the road from Green Forest to Eureka Springs West. According to local officials, all accidents were minor and no one was injured.
Mike Teague, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, reported Monday that Beaver received 5.5 inches of snow, Busch received 6 inches and Eureka Springs received 3.5 inches. Those are all the available reports, Teague said.
BERRYVILLE â The train isnât moving fast enough in getting away from East Main Street, town officials believe.
Berryville Town Council decided Tuesday night to send Norfolk Southern a letter, urging the railroad company to get a move on.
Town staff members recently compiled a list of 37 occasions since January 2019 when stopped locomotives blocked one of Berryvilleâs two railroad crossings. Most involved the East Main crossing and not the lesser-traveled Josephine Street crossing.
Roughly 40% of the incidents actually involved the East Main crossing being blocked by a train. The rest involved trains stopping near the crossing, keeping track sensors activated and causing the stop arms to stay down. The listed incidents resulted in traffic being blocked for a total of 28 hours and 57 minutes. The longest blockage, which happened overnight on Feb. 29 and March 1 of this year, lasted a little more than three hours.