ESI Staff
Park focuses on renewing Leatherwood tax
“It’s starting to look like a heck of a campground out there,” Parks Director Justin Huss told Parks commissioners at the May 16 meeting...
Commissioner removal up to council
Because of recent action of the City Advertising and Promotion Commission voting to unseat a commissioner, Mayor Butch Berry said Monday he had learned...
Financial belt could loosen soon
Before Monday’s regular council meeting aldermen gathered for a budget workshop, and right away, Mayor Butch Berry gave credit to department heads for keeping...
No Smoking ordinance coming
Alderman Mickey Schneider suggested on May 22 that city council start again on the No Smoking ordinance where the conversation had begun, and that...
HDC goes all out on roofs and decks
The Historic District Commission issued five Certificates of Appropriateness at its May 17 meeting for these applications:
22 First – new roofing material
23...
Clinic opening at Holiday Island
Holiday Island has been without a healthcare provider since Mercy Clinic closed earlier this year, but Boston Mountain Rural Health Clinic is opening May...
Independent Guestatorial: Diamond Madness
“The greatest disasters we’ve witnessed rarely come from secret or hidden information. Disasters come from freely available information we are willfully blind to.” –...
The Pursuit of Happiness
A young filmmaker named Starla Larson intends to use material from a novel I wrote several years ago to make a movie taking place...
Constables on Patrol
May 15
9 a.m. – Passerby noticed an individual lying in a parking lot with his hat over face. He told the constable he was...
Airport hangars are full up
Carroll County Airport Manager Michael Pfeifer announced at the May 19 Airport Commission meeting, “Hangars are now one hundred percent full, and I field...