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Huntsville Street Department Superintendent Scott Phillips said the city has been working to repair potholes in streets over the past week, mostly due to water line leaks.

The Second Annual Broadband County Road Show came to Huntsville last week for a meeting at the Arvest Annex Building.

A Huntsville couple plans to create after-school opportunities for kids and more activities for local families via Huntsville Summit, which will sponsor a concert at the AT and Georgia Mae Smith Activity on Saturday, April 6.

Blake Canion, a junior at Huntsville High School, in blue shirt, speaks to a judge at the Cruzin’ for Champions Car Show held Saturday, March 30 at the AT & Georgia Mae Smith Activity Center.

Huntsville’s 1-cent sales tax will expire on June 30, said Mayor Travis Dotson. “Everything that tax was intended to do has been accomplished,” he said.

Huntsville High School SkillsUSA held its Cruzin’ for Champions Auto Show on Saturday, March 30, at the AT & Georgia Mae Smith Activity Center.

After 45 years as the office manager for Madison County Rural Water — and with her retirement set for March 28 — Patti Cline said she’s sure she’ll eventually get around to shedding a tear.

The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Madison County Water Facilities Board was held on Tuesday, March 12, at  water office. 

The Huntsville Water Commission heard an update from Zane Lewis of McClelland Engineers, Inc., last week on the wastewater treatment plant expansion project and heard that an audit of the utility is underway.

After wearing “a lot of hats” in his career as a construction industry leader in the United States and Canada, Dennis Donahou, of Combs, former District Vice President of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters (UBC) Southern District, is enjoying his retirement.

Huntsville and Madison County residents no longer have to travel to Lowell for their driver examination testing. Troop L of the Arkansas State Police has opened a new testing site at the Carroll Electric Building in the Community Room at the east entrance.

City leaders attended a meeting at the Arvest Bank Annex Monday night to discuss the Huntsville Strategic Plan, a process that began on March 4 in answer to an online survey conducted by the City of Huntsville to find out areas citizens think need most improvement.

AT Smith of Hindsville was presented a Certificate of Continuous Membership by the American Legion on March 21 during Post 137’s regular meeting at the Masonic Lodge.

A new program being implemented in the Huntsville School District will give some students a “second chance” at staying in school after being expelled for drug and alcohol offenses. 

The budget and personnel committees of the Madison County Quorum Court met Monday to decide on a request made by Sheriff Ronnie Boyd at the court’s March 18 meeting to add one sergeant’s position and seven new corporal’s positions to his department.

The Madison County Quorum Court will refer a request from Sheriff Ronnie Boyd for a new sergeant and additional corporal positions to the personnel and budget committees as the request will add about $17,000 to the county’s budget.

Mike Smith doesn’t have to go very far or look very hard to remind himself of one of the best parts of his job as groundskeeper at Oakridge Country Club and Golf Course. His residence on the golf course overlooks one of the club’s nine holes. Beyond that is a sweeping view of northern Madison County. “It helps, on a bad day,” Smith laughed.

EUREKA SPRINGS — Eureka Springs Hospital officials including chief executive officer Angie Shaw hosted a town hall meeting Thursday, March 14, at The Auditorium to discuss the hospital’s recent designation change.

ST. PAUL — The  St. Paul Town Council approved two purchases for different aspects of its public safety operations during the council’s monthly meeting on March 12. 

Greg Wheeler, coordinator of the Madison County Department of Emergency Management, spoke to the Huntsville Kiwanis Club last week about the April 8 eclipse, which he said will put the county in 99 percent darkness.

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