Summit News

YELLVILLE - Yellville-Summit schools Superintendent Jack Dwyer is in a race with the clock to have a fiscal distress recovery plan ready for the Arkansas Board of Education's review not later than 4 p.m. Christmas Eve.

FLIPPIN - Three area teachers recently were honored for outstanding service in their schools.

GAMALIEL- A special meeting of the Gamaliel-101 Volunteer Fire Department board to open concrete bids for a substation has been set for noon today at the main Gamaliel fire station.

YELLVILLE - Tax millages for all Marion County towns, school districts, and county government were levied by the Marion County Quorum Court at its November meeting.

On Dec. 14, the Yellville-Summit School District will learn whether or not it is being officially listed by the Arkansas State Board of Education as being in fiscal distress.

YELLVILLE - "That's crazy. That's a beetle party!" That's what Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel's 'Dirty Jobs' series had to say on a promotional YouTube clip about Yellville grad Matt Connior's dirty job.

District court for Baxter County was held Oct. 26, 27 and 29, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

'We've conducted almost all the school clinics and are down to Mountain Home,' said Baxter County Health Unit Administrator Judy Cochran.

Two confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu have been reported in Mountain Home schools, according to Superintendent Charles Scriber - one in the kindergarten and one at Nelson-Wilks-Herron. There are no other confirmed cases in Twin Lakes Area schools, including Cotter, Flippin, Norfork and Yell-ville-Summit, but according to Ed Barham of the Arkansas ...

Nine years ago, Jimmy Lane asked a girl at the Turkey Trot street dance to dance with him.

Althea Abel, a senior volleyball player, is the Cotter High School Athlete of the Week.

The Cotter Lady Warriors dropped a three-set loss at the hands of the Yellville-Summit Lady Panthers Thursday night at Yellville.

YELLVILLE - Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers reported Tuesday that three Marion County men have been charged with felony drug crimes.

Pernell and Jackie Jennings of Flippin would like to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Leslie Jennings, to Justin Still, son of Wade and Melissa Still of Yellville.

YELLVILLE - Wet weather this week caused the owners of Johnson Rides & Concession Carnival to cancel its appearance at the Marion County fair this year, according to Fair Board President Sandy Evans, but the fair still promises "real old-fashioned fun," she said.

YELLVILLE - Jack Leatherman, superintendent of the Yell-ville-Summit School District, announced at Monday's school board meeting that he is resigning his position effective June 30, 2010.

The Flippin Lady Bobcats returned to action Tuesday evening and suffered a tough 3-2 setback at the hands of the Valley Springs Lady Tigers at Bobcat Country.

All children in the five Twin Lakes Area school districts - Cotter, Flippin, Mountain Home, Norfork and Yellville-Summit - will have the opportunity to receive a free flu shot at school this fall, beginning in mid-October, as part of Governor Mike Beebe's health initiative.

'They love the '60s,' said Flashbacks owner Tim Fitzmaurice of back-to-school shoppers this year.

Students in the area's five school districts will find new facilities of one kind or another when they return to school this fall.