ESI Staff
Spring demolition and construction at airport
The Carroll County Airport Commission met on March 21, with some major projects coming with the approaching warmer weather.
The airport has re-acquired part of...
Public outreach working for HDC
The Historic District Commission has periodically explored ways to educate property owners about the proper procedure for making changes to the exterior of a...
Controlled burn too close to home
Last Friday we were under a Red Flag-No Burn Ban, but on the way out of County Road 231, I noticed some burns...
American Insights
A Better America
On Sunday, April 4, 1954, Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at the pulpit of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and...
The Coffee Table
There’s Someplace Like Home
On yet another trip to Michigan, I find myself in an Air B&B that makes me cry. Not because it’s awful—quite the...
Land in our Hands
‘Heal the Waters’ is a timeless effort
Don Matt and Scott Thompson have been harmonizing together for more than 45 years. “We made our own...
The Dirt on Nicky
One thing, then another
In his book Gaia’s Garden, Toby Hemenway describes the typical sequence in which plants transform a cleared area into scrubby grasslands,...
Hall Closets
Two down – four to go
Despite a poor attempt by referees officiating without bias on Saturday afternoon in Rhode Island, the underdog Arkansas Razorbacks...
The Reel News
Pictured above are me (center), Robert Kennedy (left) and Sky Haack at the Best of NWA Gala, winning the Gold award for best Fishing...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Evan Kail owns a Minneapolis pawnshop. He’s 35, a social media influencer, has an interest in history, a bachelor’s degree in Japanese studies, and...