ESI Staff
Citizens question rehab housing augmentation
Eureka Springs City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, July 13 where Aldermen Terry McClung and Rachael Moyer were absent with notice, and...
First graders on a roll with state testing
Meetings of the Eureka Springs School Board take on a different quality during the summer. The three principals do not make their usual monthly...
Why trout numbers are down, what it means for anglers, and how we’re adapting
For generations, the Beaver Tailwaters below Beaver Dam have earned a reputation as one of the finest trout fisheries in Arkansas. Every year, anglers...
ER gets a thumbs up
On April 12, I injured my hand and wrist rather badly, and my wife piled me into the car to seek medical attention. We thought...
Yes, every vote counts
With one abstaining the vote on the “trial” Drinking in Public resolution passed with Mayor Butch Berry voting for it to break the tie...
Sylvia Lyn Flanagan October 31, 1966 – June 1, 2026
Sylvia Lyn Flanagan was born Oct. 31, 1966, in San Diego, Calif., and left this earth on June 1, 2026, in Eureka Springs, Ark....
Dinner for Six
Dominic Fabis is a long-term resident and massage therapist who has been making people feel better for the past
30 years at the Eureka...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Argentina has implied evidence of really, really early humans – cut marks on animal bones indicate butchering by using stone tools (a human activity)...
From the Back Porch
Friday evening late in September or early October. I finished up at school, stopped at Turner’s farm market, drove ten miles further west before...
The Dirt on Nicky
Controversy brewing
Like all young gardeners, I learned to appreciate the difference between clayey or sandy/porous soil versus friable soil you’d be glad to take...