ESI Staff
HDC recaps preservation gathering
Members of the Historic District Commission discussed a recent preservation seminar and made plans for some upcoming educational efforts at the Oct. 1 HDC...
The Purple Flower turns breakdowns into breakthroughs
On Dec. 31, 2012, a young Berryville mother, Laura Aceves, lost her life trying to escape her abuser. She had moved as far away...
An appeal from the Purple Flower Team
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, October 2025, we’re asking our Carroll County community to help us raise $27,000 in 27 days so...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
She had prosopagnosia, an early childhood neurological condition that meant she didn’t recognize faces. She relied on voice, posture, clothing style, hair length, name...
From the Back Porch
Despite the invasions of beautiful cars and noisy motorcycles (they are after all toys and we are all happy with our toys), there’s a...
Hall Closets
In order to win the game, you must first not lose it. Chuck Noll
Head coaching NC2A football on the DI level in todaze arena...
The Coffee Table
City Wildlife
When I was preparing to move away from my rural Arkansas paradise, I had misgivings about giving up my elevated blind in the woods. Out...
American Insights
The Dilemma of Progress
It was an unusually warm day in the nation’s capital when on Thursday, December 13, 1923, Calvin Coolidge’s White House welcomed...
The Dirt on Nicky
Living with maypops
At first it was a bright green three-lobed leaf that emerged in the spring of last year. Whazzit? My phone told me...
The Reel News
Pictured are Jerry and Gail Capshaw from Texas, and Joy Kennedy from Eureka Springs, with these nice Striper caught with Xieng Chanthavong of Hooked...