ESI Staff
Blame game dominates council meeting
Despite only two agenda items, one of which was dropped, city council managed an hour-long meeting that became heated.
The topic of discussion was the...
Phillips and Writer in runoff for County Judge
Of 14,707 registered voters in Carroll County, 5,109 ballots were cast in the May 24 primary, 34.74 percent of registered voters. These results are...
HDC OKs porch enclosure
With the addition of new commissioner Peter Graham, the Historic District Commission had a full panel of seven for the first time in months....
Newspaper building going to the dogs
The former Carroll County Newspaper property on Berryville’s 62 Spur is again home to a print business – but this time it’s pawprints, not...
Covid trickling up and getting trickier
Friday, May 20, there was a large and happy crowd out to experience the first White Street Art Walk after two years of the...
$100 bills not worth $100 are floating around
Some merchants in Eureka Springs have recently reported getting burned by accepting counterfeit $100 bills. Equity Bank confirmed some of their customers have reported...
Constables on Patrol
May 16
12:23 p.m. – A hallucinating male walked into ESPD. EMS was notified and took care of him.
12:53 p.m. – A disturbance at a...
The Coffee Table
Silence Hurts
Days after the Buffalo massacre, my phone flashed the following quote from CNN: ‘“White supremacy is a poison. It’s a poison… running through our body...
Primroses grow where we know they can’t
Editor,
In an increasingly chaotic world, we have to take every opportunity to appreciate the wonders around us. This time of year brings just that...
Lichen or not
Editor,
There are two sides to issues and actions.
The May 4, 2022 issue of the ES Independent had a notice on page 4, “Polishing headstones...