The Huntsville City Council on Monday authorized Mayor Travis Dotson to pursue a line of credit in the amount of $580,000 to purchase two pieces of property from Charles Coger and Lois Jean Coger totaling $350,000, of which Dotson said the city will be reimbursed $200,000 by the Huntsville Airport Commission.
Madison County residents awoke to a very late White Christmas Friday morning, as a promised wet snow event occurred in the early morning hours, blanketing city streets and county roads. City of …
Local residents have the potential to earn a grant or interest-free loan to repair or replace their rural septic tank, as long as they meet specific criteria.
Cases that were resolved in Madison County Circuit Court in December.
The City of Huntsville will contend with a surprising new fact of life entering 2024: a 26-percent increase in population since the 2020 Census, bumping the number of residents within the city limits from 2,879 to 3,663.
The original contract date for the Mount Olive Water Association expansion in south Madison County is technically delayed according to the contract, but the progress is reasonable considering the project’s size, according to the project manager.
An increase of $10,000 to Huntsville’s city park fund reflects the addition of a new park to the city’s responsibilities as well as the parks commission’s desire to make improvements to the softball field and related facilities at Mitchusson Park in 2024.
A Missouri woman was arrested on numerous charges Saturday afternoon in Madison County after a chase on Highway 412 that sometimes reached upward of 65 miles per hour.
A Fayetteville man led a Madison County Sheriff’s deputy as well as the Arkansas State Police on a high-speed chase from Highway 23 North in Madison County through Eureka Springs into Berryville Saturday night.
Madison County Sheriff Ronnie Boyd, left, and Madison County Judge Larry Garrett meet Tuesday morning in front of the blueprints for the new Madison County Sheriff’s Office and Jail which is located on 19.22 acres behind the Arkansas Department of Transportation off of Highway 412B East.
A former chicken grower for Cooks Venture in Carroll County said thousands of his chickens are eating each other after going more than a week with little or no feed.
The Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) Selection Committee of the Huntsville Water Utility will interview two applicants for the CMAR position on Jan. 11. The CMAR will oversee the $32.6 million expansion of the city’s wastewater treatment facility, which is expected to begin in late 2024.
Ground will be broken for the new Madison County Sheriff’s Office and Detention Center on Jan. 2, though two packages for the facility have been rebid after none were submitted for the first round of bidding on the project.
The Madison County Sheriff’s Office dropped its School Resource Officer program while the City of Huntsville reinstated it. The Crooked Rooster was approved to sell mixed drinks, and changes were floated for land on the Buffalo River. These were some of the stories The Madison County Record covered in 2023.
When the weather outside gets frightful … the Huntsville School District and the Jasper School District will not use what are commonly known as Alternative Methods of Instructions (AMI) days in place of a traditional snow day or in-person instruction.
The prospect of increasing tourism at Withrow Springs State Park and in Huntsville is on the radar of the Natural State Advisory Council, a group appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in January 2023 and tasked with growing the state’s outdoor economy.
A local murder suspect had his trial continued last week, according to paper work filed in the Madison County Circuit Court.
The selection committee for the Huntsville Water and Sewer Commission expects next month to choose a construction manager for the $32.6 million expansion of the city’s wastewater treatment facility. The committee met last week to discuss proposals submitted by two Arkansas-based companies seeking the designation of Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) for the project.
The St. Paul Town Council received two pieces of good news during the council’s monthly meeting on Dec. 12.
The Natural State Advisory Council set a bold agenda for transforming four state parks, hoping Petit Jean State Park becomes a “national climbing destination,” Delta Heritage Trail State Park becomes a “trail town” with a “significant gravel event,” Pinnacle Mountain State Park becomes a destination for a “running, hiking and biking trail along the shoreline” and Queen Wilhelmina State Park becomes a home to a gateway trail concept.