Limited options

BY BRETT BENNETT Northwest Arkansas Times

The Fayetteville School District Board of Education will not attempt to re-approach University of Arkansas officials about the possibility of selling the high school to help finance construction of a new site elsewhere. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Sewer plant deemed ‘work of art’ at opening

BY MARSHA L. MELNICHAK Northwest Arkansas Times

It took 40 miles of pipes on 3 acres, 32,000 yards of poured concrete and a lot of relationship building, not to mention $63 million, to transform cow pasture and weeds into Fayetteville’s new West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Unnamed donor reopens Lincoln Head Start site

BY BRETT BENNETT Northwest Arkansas Times

An anonymous donor has stepped forward to provide $100,000 to continue operating the Lincoln Head Start pre-school for 2008-09. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Canceled ORT route re-emerges as perceived demand changes

BY TRISH HOLLENBECK Northwest Arkansas Times

Ozark Regional Transit is playing the same tune again, reinstating a bus route that ran and was discontinued about three years ago. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Absent aldermen see no need to celebrate ‘overbudget’ project

BY MARSHA L. MELNICHAK Northwest Arkansas Times

Only one of Fayetteville’s eight City Council members attended the grand opening of the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant Thursday, although all their names are on the engraved plaque by the office doors. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Sensible Fayetteville collects 900 more signatures

BY KATE WARD Northwest Arkansas Times

Sensible Fayetteville will submit its second round of signatures today in hopes of giving local voters the choice on election day to make adult marijuana possession the lowest priority for police. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Arrest warrant issued in UA drive-by shooting incident

BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

An arrest warrant has been issued for the suspected driver and shooter in a drive-by shooting at a University of Arkansas fraternity house last year involving three suspects. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Government Channel for government only

BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times

The city’s Government Channel will only air programming specific to government activity. - Friday, August 29, 2008

No new judge for cancer lawsuits

BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

A judge will not appoint another judge to preside over lawsuits filed by Prairie Grove area residents alleging poultry producers used chicken feed that led to cancer-causing litter. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Second stabbing suspect arrested

BY KATE WARD Northwest Arkansas Times

Fayetteville police arrested a second suspect Thursday linked to a Wednesday morning stabbing outside a local apartment complex. - Friday, August 29, 2008

Looking ahead : School board hopefuls discuss high school future, other issues

BY BRETT BENNETT Northwest Arkansas Times

A question about their thoughts on the future of Fayetteville High School was one asked of candidates in the Fayetteville Board of Education’s atlarge Position 1 race at a forum held Wednesday evening at City Hall. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Cortes gets 10 years for helping burn teacher’s car

BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

A 19-year-old Fayetteville man will serve a 10-year prison sentence for helping his friend torch a Lincoln school teacher’s car. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

City searches for answer on biosolids

BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times

The city is still looking into an alternative, long-term solution for its biosolid disposal, but Dave Jurgens, Fayetteville’s water and wastewater director, said that progress has been made on the city’s short-term solution. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Clothesline Fair to feature handcrafted items, entertainment

BY TRISH HOLLENBECK Northwest Arkansas Times

Part of Jennifer Pease’s job is to ensure handmade wares are featured at the arts and crafts show during the Clothesline Fair in Prairie Grove. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Sales tax revenue on the rise in Fayetteville

BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times

The Sam’s Club relocation and the new streamline sales tax could be the reason Fayetteville is seeing an upturn in sales tax collection and neighboring city Springdale continues to see a drop. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Mark Your Calendar

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Corrections & Clarifications

In the story “Sudden ‘biosludge’ contract change leaves Fayetteville scrambling” in the Wednesday edition of the Northwest Arkansas Times, the name and location of the landfill company that cut off biosludge deliveries was incorrectly identified. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Adams, Bittle and Blackwell latest school Hall of Honor inductees for Fayetteville

BY BRETT BENNETT Northwest Arkansas Times

An insurance agent, a former principal and a longtime professor will be the most recent inductees into the Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Board hearing assessment appeals until Sept. 30

BY TRISH HOLLENBECK Northwest Arkansas Times

Fewer people are seeking relief on property assessments this year, but more developers are asking for help because of a downturn in the housing market. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Attempted murder charges against woman dismissed

BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

A Fayetteville woman accused of trying to kill her boyfriend by setting his apartment complex on fire won’t go to prison after pleading guilty to lesser charges Wednesday. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Two face criminal charges for breaking into Head Start

BY KATE WARD Northwest Arkansas Times

Two Fayetteville residents face criminal charges for allegedly breaking into a local Head Start building Monday, as well as a number of other locations during the last month. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Alleged attacker stabs, asks accuser if he has ‘death wish’

BY KATE WARD Northwest Arkansas Times

A Fayetteville man was taken into police custody early Wednesday after allegedly stabbing another man in the stomach. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Deputies seize another meth lab

Northwest Arkansas Times

Washington County sheriff ’s deputies seized their second methamphetamine lab of the week on Tuesday. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

New pavilions coming to Gulley, Finger parks

BY MARSHA L. MELNICHAK Northwest Arkansas Times

New pavilions should grace the grounds of Gulley Park and Charles J. Finger Park in Fayetteville by the end of the year. - Thursday, August 28, 2008

Smith outlines remedies to mend Greenland’s woes

BY BRETT BENNETT Northwest Arkansas Times

GREENLAND — The local school district has a chance of finishing the 2008-09 school year in the black, but the community needs to continue to raise funds to ensure it remains financially viable through 2009-10, Superintendent Roland Smith said Tuesday. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hidden hazard : Council to tour damage behind Center Street closure

BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times

The Fayetteville City Council has a damp field trip on Thursday. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Sudden ‘biosludge’ contract change leaves Fayetteville scrambling

BY DUSTIN TRACY Northwest Arkansas Times

Fayetteville has tons of “biosludge” and no costeffective place to put them. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Rural Friendship Day brings city folk to rural areas

BY TRISH HOLLENBECK Northwest Arkansas Times

Lauren Cheevers groomed her awarding-winning Red Angus heifer as she explained the finer points of preparing an animal to show. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008

UA student is sixth candidate to file for Fayetteville mayor

BY SCOTT F. DAVIS Northwest Arkansas Times

A 19-year-old University of Arkansas sophomore filed for mayor of Fayetteville on Tuesday, the last day to file for municipal offices in Washington County for the Nov. 4 election. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Mark Your Calendar

27 August WEDNESDAY 2008 Public Meetings Technical Plat Review, 9 a.m., City Administration Building, Room 326, 113 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville. - Wednesday, August 27, 2008