ESI Staff
County bestows praises and raises
The final quorum court meeting of 2025, held on Dec. 16, featured a series of resolutions and some year-end ordinances. The meeting ended with...
The past is a present Part 1
Since 2015, fans of the Ozark Mountains Fun Guide have enjoyed the fruits of Rebecca Becker’s research into the remarkable lives of the young...
From the Back Porch
I’ve heard that timing is everything and sometimes I know exactly what that means.
In this morning’s mail a package that could only have been...
The Coffee Table
Give Snow a Chance
When I left Arkansas for the west coast of Michigan, where the snows are deep and winter storms are plentiful, some...
Hall Closets
The 2025 version of the Gregorian Calendar turned and burned its 12th and final page of daze last week under an eerily-warm-weathered sky in...
The Reel News
Pictured is Mary from Texarkana with this very nice rainbow trout, caught with Busch Mountain Fishing Guide Service.
Beaver Tailwaters:
Welcome to 2026! I hope you...
The Dirt on Nicky
How to plan
I threw away the old calendar. Good riddance! Time to plan the best garden year ever in the history of ever, so...
Esoteric Astrology as news for week January 7 – 13, 2026
Interior Moment in Time for Humanity
Winter and the New Year of 2026. It is a deep interior moment for humanity at this time....
Esoteric Astrology as news for 2026 – overview Esoteric Astrology as news – January...
New Year, 2026 – A Prayer for Peace on Earth, Goodwill to All
2026 begins with Capricorn Sun and a Gemini moon – the magical...
Donald Nelson Soderberg May 24, 1941 – Dec. 9, 2025
Donald Nelson Soderberg of Holiday Island, Ark., passed away peacefully on Dec. 9, 2025, at age 84. He is survived by his wife of...