ESI Staff
City retail and food sales up
Eureka Springs City Council held a budget review workshop, followed by a regular meeting on Monday, June 8. During the budget meeting, Finance Director...
Roundtable on PED tabled
Alderman Susane Gruning opened the discussion of a 90-day trial period for the proposed Social District, nee Permanent Entertainment District, at the June 8...
Students test well; truancy dropping
Results have come back for third-grade students taking standardized Atlas tests, and Eureka Springs students outscored most other schools in the 17-member educational co-op....
Hospital services up, finances still a hurdle
The Hospital Commission’s Monday, June 15 meeting was mostly an update of ongoings at the hospital. CEO Tiffany Means covered the new Survival Flight...
When a dream became a plan that became an attraction
In 1967, Gerald L.K. Smith wrote a book, The Miracles on the Mountains, a 76-page work focusing on building the Christ of the Ozarks...
Entertainment requires deeper thought
This push led by the Chamber of Commerce to create a permanent entertainment district has gone too far and is getting in the way...
The fertility of art
Since Brews changed hands and the community Prince, John Rankine, left I’ve not been drawn to Brews Cafe and Coffee Bar. However, one recent...
Healing dwells here
It seems some people have forgotten or perhaps they never knew. Perhaps they never realized that the land upon which we stand, this land...
We did this, we chose this… who are ‘we’?
Happy 250th Birthday, We the People! How do you like your country now?
Taking stock of what the society our Constitution gave birth to has...
Dinner for Six
How did you arrive in Eureka Springs?
Sight unseen. I’d never set foot in Arkansas. A friend mentioned Eureka Springs might be a good...