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Hospital Commission fires Alliance
Breaking News
In a special Hospital Commission meeting held at Center Stage on Tuesday night, commissioners unanimously voted to end ESH’s management agreement with Alliance....
Hangar leases bolstering airport
With one new hangar almost completed and another about to begin construction, the Carroll County Airport Commission received promising news about the airport’s future.
The...
Approvals carry the HDC meeting
The Historic District Commission returned to meeting twice a month, and commissioners handled a light agenda on Sept. 16.
Teodoro Herrera received unanimous approval for...
Parks aiming to move forward
The Sept. 15 regular Parks meeting began with adjustments to agenda items with a placeholder for potential action from the Sept. 14 workshop getting...
JPs making meetings as easy as safeguards allow
The quorum court held its September meeting at the Road Department garage Monday night, selecting that location because the space allowed the justices of...
Noting procedures adapt to pandemic concerns
Carroll County Clerk Connie Doss spoke last week about the upcoming 2020 election and said processes now taking place are to ensure a safe...
DON'T MISS....
Hey! It’s Fall!
One day after the… equinox? That’s right though I’ll admit I had to Google it. I don’t know what it is about Fall but...
A toast to questioning the CAPC
I think it is tradition for locals to ask the CAPC what in the world they are thinking? It makes little sense, in my...
One World
Think of the whole world as interdependent and of the entire seven billion human beings as one community.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
On...
Another Opinion
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the latest explosion in this strange Year 4 of Our Trump. Reading fond obituaries...
Public dialogue on HDC needed
Editor,
I’m an outsider. A recent property owner in Eureka Springs and one who fell in love with the quirkiness and uniqueness of this historic...
Preservation is protection
Editor,
I moved to Eureka Springs after discovering its charms: Victorian era buildings and houses, narrow winding streets lined with miles of rock retaining walls,...
Questions for Parks
Editor,
Thanks to all of you at the Independent newspaper for all of your timely and complete coverage of our important local news without fear...
Columns
ISawArkansas
National treasures are as enchanting and novel as Route 66, moon rocks, the Grand Canyon, Tabor Opera House and The Delta Queen. A national...
The Nature of Eureka
Milksickness Madness
The Autumnal Equinox has just passed. Summer wildflowers are beginning to fade. It is also a time, codified in American history, that the...
The Dirt on Nicky
I planted four kinds of beets in my garden this weekend. Somebody grew those seeds somewhere, and it wasn’t me. I also planted two...
ISawArkansas
Turmoil catapults us into harmony, whether we’re acting as an individual or a nation. Really, when we’re disillusioned or confused, isn’t improvement the next...
