ESI Staff
Tree cut, new garage, and bathhouse get thumbs up
A request to cut 100 trees for a single-family residence seemed excessive until members of the Planning Commission meeting as the Board of Zoning...
HDC OKs garage construction
Even though the Historic District Commission meeting scheduled for July 1 had been cancelled, the agenda for the July 15 meeting included only one...
Hospital continues improvements
The July 20 regular meeting of the Hospital Commission held updates from CEO Tiffany Means on the hospital’s efforts to fix financial reporting, revenue...
Jet fuel at CC airport: Room to maneuver small jets increased
The Carroll County Airport will soon have an upgrade that will attract more small jets to the facility. A hangar tenant received approval months...
Dinner for Six
Becky Strainer Epp is a visual artist, jewelry maker and recent guest curator at Brews who lives in Eureka Springs with her husband, Erik.
How...
American Insights
Words Worth Remembering: A son of this great country
The speech was substantial, not ceremonial. Speaking from the Vatican on the evening of July 3—the...
The Coffee Table
Dog walking, dental hygiene, and Doctor Who?
I recently went to the dentist—for a cleaning. I’d never met the hygienist before, so I explained to her...
From the Back Porch
Books
Whenever I hear anyone speak of a “slow computer” or that “this printer takes forever” I visualize robed monks sitting before their desks with...
The Dirt on Nicky
Names of things
Did you ever wake up at 2:30 a.m. and wonder, “Wait a minute! Why do we call it a snapdragon?” Me neither,...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
July 29: In 1786, the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, the Pittsburgh Gazette, was published; in 1920, the first transcontinental airmail flight took...