Doughboy defaced
The Doughboy in Basin Park was disfigured Wednesday night, with damage to the hat, forehead, nose and chin. Mayor Butch Berry said there is...
County property and properties to be spruced up
The quorum court had a routine agenda at Monday night’s meeting, but Justice of the Peace John Howerton closed the meeting by announcing his...
HDC sticks to guidelines and amps up approvals
The Historic District Commission considered a long list of applications on Sept. 15, some that required extensive discussion. Facing that agenda, Chair Dee Bright...
Undue influence mulled over by Planning
The Planning Commission still has two vacancies, but at the Sept. 14 meeting new commission member Joe Hill gave the commission some breathing room...
Jury trial scheduled stemming from high-speed chase in 2019
A jury trial was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Sept. 22 at the Western District Courthouse in Eureka Springs in a case charging...
County Covid deaths up while active cases decline
In April, 39 Covid deaths in the county had been reported by the Arkansas Department of Health, and cases in June stayed at about...
Author busy summer and winter
Mariellen Griffith moved to Holiday Island in 2011 after a career as a professor in counseling, school psychology and marital and family therapy in...
Strain of healthcare workers a strain on others
The United States has been suffering a nursing shortage since 2012, a shortage that began as baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) started...
Where do we go from here?
A great deal has appeared recently in our media about climate change and its destructive consequences; rising sea levels, bigger and more frequent storms...
Nursery gives birth to Monarchs
What can you do to help an endangered species? For Mark Hughes and his partner, Steve Beacham, it is by adopting Monarch butterfly eggs...