ESI Staff
Vultures – despised and admired
The Maryland Farm Bureau (MDFB) put out a press release earlier this year announcing that producer permits for the control of black vulture depredations...
Council nipping at parking district specifics
Forty-five minutes of council’s Monday, Dec. 12 meeting was spent discussing the parking district on Spring Street, with the second reading deferred until the...
School board rolling along on buses
The last 2022 meeting of the Eureka Springs School Board played to a small audience, with only an Independent reporter in attendance. The three...
HDC approves steps replacement and steps demolition
After eight years on the Historic District Commission, much of it spent as Chair, Steve Holifield attended his final meeting last week. He will...
Out with the old…
Volunteers and church members at A Cup of Love Ministry tore the place apart after church services there on Sunday morning, and everyone was...
A convenient education
Registration is open until January 9 for spring and summer semesters at North Arkansas Community College in Harrison, but there’s no need to travel...
The Coffee Table
The Search for Social Equilibrium
(Part 2)
While historically unflattering portrayals of Blacks in films insidiously instilled messages about people’s proper place based on race, American girls—at least...
Constables on Patrol
Dec. 5
6:39 p.m. – Caller said he was being harassed, and officer advised the two parties to stay away from each other and stop...
Atheists should celebrate the nativity, too
Editor,
Reacting to complaints, Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Barry recently canceled the traditional Nativity display
in Basin Springs Park. After a firestorm of protest in support of...
Traffic light not a dizzy idea
Editor,
Mr. Thomas P. Bergquist P.E.’s recent letter to the paper was interesting. He quoted the Federal Highway Administration subpositive facts concerning roundabouts.
As I...