Hospital spending more and offering more

Excitement was in the air at the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission meeting Monday night as commissioners accepted the long-awaited operating leadership role for the...

Involuntary exposure to radiation said to be a downside to 5G

Many people today couldn’t get along without their cell phone. An estimated 95 percent of adult Americans use one. But long-time controversies about potential...

Art attacked

On August 29, as near as anyone can tell, six trees at the North Main Music Park lost their crochet art covering. It’s a...

Group looks for a grip on tourism

A group of Eureka Springs business owners, managers, and local agencies joined last week to hold a one-hour virtual meeting discussing marketing ideas to...

School meal prices jump

Rising food costs affect everyone, and those increases will be reflected in higher prices for meals at school. At Monday night’s meeting, the Eureka Springs...

Hogs in the hills

Feral hogs are smart, excellent at procreating, and often large and scary. In spite of efforts around the area to counter their ever-expanding population,...

Parks touts improvements, outlines more

Parks Executive Director Sam Dudley reported on Feb. 20 that cabins one through four at Lake Leatherwood have been renovated. He said that new...

Council expedites sewage plant repairs

Eureka Springs Director of Public Works Simon Wiley informed city council on Monday that he had been alerted to a Consent Administrative Order by...

A pandemic past

My earliest memory of my father is at an oil-drilling rig somewhere near McAlester, Oklahoma. It was late 1954 and I was less than...

Heavy smoke hampers rescue at vet clinic fire

Eleven animals, six dogs and five cats, survived a fire at St. Francis Veterinary Clinic in Green Forest on Thursday night, Oct. 24. Unfortunately,...