ESI Staff
Politics should be unusual
Editor,
I wrote this for the Independent back in 2012 right after the Sandy Hook massacre. Four years and countless mass shootings later, it does...
Switchback rumble
Editor,
We know the switchback curves of 62 West of town are deadly – recently there were two killed when a truck crossed the center...
Smoking lights up commission
Nicky Boyette - Parks Director Justin Huss pointed out at the June 21 meeting that Parks has a No Smoking policy for Basin Park...
School board, Foundation inching toward agreement
Nicky Boyette - Eureka Springs School Board and the Community Center Foundation moved closer to transferring possession of the old high school property to...
Trailing along with Parks
Nicky Boyette - Parks Chair Bill Featherstone announced there would be a town meeting about trails from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 30,...
Problems at the Point
Nicky Boyette - Director Justin Huss told Parks’ commissioners June 21 he has had visitors drive vehicles down a narrow pathway to a clearing...
Parks Director gets what he had coming
Nicky Boyette - Commission Chair Bill Featherstone said last Tuesday that Parks needs a formalized, written policy regarding vacations, holidays and sick leave that...
Council makes no move on Washington parking
Nicky Boyette - Fire Marshal Jimmy Kelley gave council his assessment of whether a section of Washington Street should be a No Parking zone...
Parks approves Huss’s plans for Leatherwood
Nicky Boyette - At the April 19 Parks Commission meeting, Director Justin Huss presented a list of items he said needed immediate attention at...
Council to fill vacancy July 25
Nicky Boyette - Mayor Butch Berry told city council June 27 that the procedure for filling a vacancy at the council table, such as...