Mulberry News

Three years ago, the enormously popular Olea Applegate Arts and Crafts Festival made the move from Bentonville to Mulberry Mountain, more than 100 miles away.

Diane Cheshier just wanted to learn how to kayak. Fast forward seven years. The kayak has flipped, and the one-time neophyte is immersed in leading the organization that helped give her those paddling skills the River Valley Chapter of the Arkansas Canoe Club.

Aaron Currier, from Ozark, was driving through Mulberry early Wednesday morning.

Monday, August 10, 2009 News Briefs Story date: Aug. 9, 2009 RHS band extravaganza The Russellville High School Band's annual Band Extravaganza begins at 6 p.m. Aug.

Russellville man acts heroically amid fiery traffic accident Story date: July 26, 2009 By Michael Ford crime@couriernews.com A 67-year-old Russellville man performed an act his son described as heroic Tuesday morning after witnessing a traffic accident that left a 77-year-old Clarksville man trapped inside a burning vehicle.

News Briefs Story date: June 26, 2009 DART to meet July 7 The DART Committee met June 18 to plan the Great Arkansas Clean-up/National Public Lands Day.

Arkansas Valley Electric workers are busy today trying to get one of their substations back on-line. Many residents in Crawford County were temporarily without electricity overnight after an explosion and fire at that substation.

Law enforcement agencies described the level of criminal activity as "routine" at the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival that drew up to 15,000 people to Mulberry Mountain.

FIRE FIGHTERS ARE AT THE SCENE OF AN EXPLOSION AT A POWER SUBSTATION NORTHEAST OF ALMA.

Noon, Mulberry Mountain, Ozark. $59-$159. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 people are expected to climb Mulberry Mountain this weekend for the biggest music and camping festival Arkansas has seen in recent memory.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS Thousands of people are expected to arrive this week for the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival on Mulberry Mountain.

A crowd of Mulberry residents gathered and jeered at David Sweet when police arrested him April 30 in connection with the attempted abduction of a female medical clinic employee, a deputy's arrest report said.

Firefighters on Tuesday morning contained a large fire that destroyed a convenience store three miles north of Mulberry on Highway 215 in Crawford County.

A manhunt is currently underway after a hostage situation at a River Valley medical clinic.

A Mulberry man arrested on kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges had served 20 years in a Georgia prison for sex crimes against minors.

Police in northwest Arkansas are searching for a registered sex offender accused of attempting to kidnap a woman from a Mulberry medical clinic.