Stone County Courthouse News Today

The Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice came to Searcy late last week bearing gifts.

The county official deposited money in his personal bank account and new county bank accounts only he could access.

Community members gathered in Mountain View to honor Stone County Sheriff Deputy Smith after he was killed while in the line of duty.

Here’s what you need to know about garbage pickup and more in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties, as well as South Mississippi cities.

Its 4:54 p.m. on July 31, and Im standing outside the Arkansas Secretary of States office with a clipboard wondering what to do next. It has been a whirlwind of a day, preceded by a whirlwind of a weekend, collecting signatures for CAPES (Citizens for Arkansas Public Education and Students) to force a referendum on the LEARNS Act.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Ozark Folk Center State Park will celebrate its golden anniversary this weekend in lively fashion with old-time music and dance to mark the sustained success of this Arkansas cultural treasure.

The annual Arkansas Folk Festival, first held in 1963, returns to the tiny town of Mountain View this weekend. Musicians, fans of folk, bluegrass and country music and the merely curious are expected to again pack the area surrounding the Stone County Courthouse, all the streets leading to it and the nearby Ozark Folk Center State Park.

Dear Master of the Highways: Would you please contact your friends in our illustrious Arkansas Department of Transportation and ask them why they would spend millions of dollars to fix up U.S. 70 between Benton and Hot Springs and then close the rest area? Scads of people, many of them tourists, pass that way each day and, like myself, would like the opportunity for a bathroom stop or to enjoy a picnic. -- Murfreesboro

Dear Master of the Highways: Would you please contact your friends in our illustrious Arkansas Department of Transportation and ask them why they would spend millions of dollars to fix up U.S. 70 between Benton and Hot Springs and then close the rest area? Scads of people, many of them tourists, pass that way each day and, like myself, would like the opportunity for a bathroom stop or to enjoy a picnic. -- Murfreesboro