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The Madison County Solid Waste Department budget projected increases for 2025 include adding a full-time employee and replacing a deteriorating portable building at the South County site at St. Paul.

Questions over approving the River Meadows Subdivision located in the floodplain at the intersection of State Highway 16 and State Highway 295 complicated a Nov. 26 County Planning Board meeting.

Amanda Born had no sooner been appointed as Madison County Treasurer by the quorum court than she had to deal with attempts to defraud the county of checks payable.

Safeguards prevented two separate checks issued recently by Madison County Treasurer Amanda Born from being cashed or deposited after they were stolen, whitewashed, and altered.

Huntsville was recently recognized as Community of the Year by the Arkansas Floodplain Management Association (AFMA) in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture — Natural Resources Division.

The battle to remove fluoride in public water systems within Arkansas is ongoing, and  may affect the Madison County Regional Water District, which has been accumulating unpaid fines.

ST. PAUL – The St. Paul Fire Department recently learned that it received two grants.

Concerns about pollution dumped into a tributary to Brush Creek in the Buckeye community prompted Christopher Bell to pick up the phone.

Madison County Judge Larry Garrett opened a Nov. 20 Budget Committee meeting saying that Sheriff Ronnie Boyd requested a $25,000 increase in his overtime budget from $70,000 to $95,000.

Nineteen applicants submitted their name to be the next superintendent for the Huntsville School District. The application period ended the first week of November. 

Huntsville water customers received notice on their December bills warning that if their lines were installed prior to 1989, they could contain lead, but the issue might have been exaggerated.

The family of U.S. Navy veteran Jonathon “Skipper” and Laura Speece are starting over after their residence was destroyed in a fire on Nov. 19.

The beauty of Christmas came to life with the Lighting of the Square on Friday.

One combat scene from Vietnam illustrates Grady Gardner’s disposition as a highly-decorated officer in the U.S. Marine Corps where he eventually attained the rank of major.

The Fitch Family Heritage Farm, established in 1854, was inducted by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward   into the Arkansas Century Farm Program on Nov. 7. …

The newly-appointed Madison County Planning Board held its second meeting on Friday, Nov. 15 to elect officers, set terms and prioritize issues it plans to address.

The Madison County Personnel Committee agreed to recommend implementing changes to the county’s social media policy as part of changes to the county’s procedures manual.

The Madison County Quorum Court documented its review of a legislative audit for 2023, addressing one of the issues raised in the audit during its Monday  meeting.

The Witter-Aurora, Japton, Bohannan Mountain and Huntsville fire departments fought a structure fire that consumed a home, spread to a car and secondary residential structure before it was contained Tuesday morning.

A Hindsville cattle operation ranks fifth state-wide in Angus registrations according to statistics released by the American Angus Association®.

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