ESI Staff
Berryville alderman – will he run again?
With the deadline approaching to file for local offices, Berryville’s longest-serving alderman has another decision to make.
Joel Gibson’s service on the city council began...
Cemetery getting new life
The historic Eureka Springs Cemetery on US 62 is surprisingly lively. In addition to visitors who want to pay respects to ancestors and loved...
Veteran Readjustment Counseling offered locally
Military veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety and other mental health problems now have one less thing to worry about. Instead...
Asleep at the Wheel gonna wake us up
Mid-winter doldrums will disappear in a couple of weeks as western swing legends Asleep at the Wheel roll into town for a show at...
Eureka Springs a perfect incubator for sublime children’s musical
Valerie Hubbard Damon wrote and illustrated Willo Mancifoot and the Mugga Killa Whomps in the early 1980s. In the story, set in a buggy...
Paving paradise
Gerry Fonseca made a poster to protest removal of about 15 large pines trees at the corner of Onyx Cave Rd. and US 62...
Nuclear Winter
The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records. – POTUS, January 28,...
Independent Guestatorial: 2001 – A Lying Odyssey
Most of us knew well before the release of Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury that the president was “like a child,” a “moron,”...
The Pursuit of Happiness
There’s been some excited Whoop-dee-doo about the unfurling of a Confederate battle flag at a public school gathering in Green Forest last week. I...
Constables on Patrol
January 22
1:04 p.m. – Parent asked for a welfare check on the daughter. Constable found the daughter doing well.
10:56 p.m. – Staff at a...