The Huntsville High School Family and Consumer Sciences and Huntsville Middle School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America students were in Denver, Colo., last week for the National Leadership Conference.

The Huntsville High School golf teams began practice earlier this week for the 2023 season. Coach Justin Harris said team members will practice Monday through Thursday from 9-11 a.m. at Oak Ridge Golf Course.

The Huntsville Eagles football team returned to the practice field on Monday, following a three-week break from activities, including two weeks during the state’s “dead period,” during which coaches and athletes could not have contact.

The second Kalley Grace Gariss Memorial Scholarship fundraiser is set for Friday at the Combs Store Campground.

Noted bicyclist Scotti Lechuga of Bentonville met with local officials last week about an event in 2024 that is expected to have an overnight stop in Madison County.

Two positions that have been in the spotlight lately were discussed, and somewhat resolved, during Monday’s regular Huntsville School Board meeting. 

The Huntsville Water and Sewer Commission met in special session last Friday at Huntsville City Hall and gave the go-ahead for engineers to proceed with a plan for improvements at the wastewater treatment plant with a spending ceiling of $34 million. 

The Huntsville City Council on Monday quickly went through reports, approved a resolution for School Resource Officers for the Huntsville School District, and heard a report from Mayor Travis Dotson on what the community desired for property the city recently purchased from the county. 

The Huntsville City Council on Monday approved a two-year intra-agency agreement with the Huntsville School District to provide two School Resource Officers, after last month’s announcement by Madison County Sheriff Ronnie Boyd that his agency would no longer be providing SROs due to a lack of manpower.

LouJean Easterling Parker was born May 8, 1936, in Huntsville, Ark. She was the youngest of nine children, born to Hosea and Ivy Reynolds Easterling. 

A few weeks ago we received a letter about an alternative sentencing facility opened in the county three weeks ago.

I covered a trial last week in which an Elkins man was convicted of raping his adopted daughter.

The Huntsville Lady Eagles will begin summer volleyball practice on Monday, following the state’s “dead period,” when coaches and athletes could have no communication and the athletes could not use school facilities.

Audrey Willingham, athletic trainer for the Huntsville School District, was told two weeks ago that Northwest Health had decided to drop its program providing trainers.

Huntsville Eagles football coach Eric Henderson said he’s using the state’s “dead period” to get his housing situation finalized and preparing for when players return on July 10.

Foye Kay Johnson, 79, of Pettigrew, passed away Thursday, June 29, 2023, at his home. 

“Wash” William Laughter of Huntsville, Ark., passed away July 2, 2023, at the age of 76. 

Sharon Kay Boothe, born July 12, 1954, in Tulsa, Okla., died Monday, June 12, 2023, in Huntsville, Ark.

Students and adults alike last Wednesday spent part of the day cleaning around Huntsville High School. Teacher/coach Greg McCone, at right, drags a limb. Several bags of mulch, donated by Jack C. …

The Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation is pleased to announce that it has donated a kiosk to the Madison County Circuit Court. This kiosk will help court users in Madison County more easily navigate the court system.