What exactly is being built near Green Forest?

Outside the city limits of Green Forest, Arkansas, a proposed poultry litter-to-biogas plant has prompted an important discussion about how this type of development...

Excellence takes sincere and intelligent effort

I would like to praise Eureka Springs Hospital for their outstanding emergency abilities in a critical situation. On Saturday, April 26, at approximately 9 p.m.,...

What a 1 percent tax can do

When I first became mayor, I knew I was inheriting many responsibilities. One of them stood above the rest. Our aging water and sewer...

Simple way to be counted

The Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) has received a Request for Exemption for the Triple Oak Power facility in Crittenden County, Arkansas. The quorum court...

Why trout numbers are down, what it means for anglers, and how we’re adapting

For generations, the Beaver Tailwaters below Beaver Dam have earned a reputation as one of the finest trout fisheries in Arkansas. Every year, anglers...

ER gets a thumbs up

On April 12, I injured my hand and wrist rather badly, and my wife piled me into the car to seek medical attention. We thought...

Yes, every vote counts

With one abstaining the vote on the “trial” Drinking in Public resolution passed with Mayor Butch Berry voting for it to break the tie...

Entertainment requires deeper thought

This push led by the Chamber of Commerce to create a permanent entertainment district has gone too far and is getting in the way...

The fertility of art

Since Brews changed hands and the community Prince, John Rankine, left I’ve not been drawn to Brews Cafe and Coffee Bar. However, one recent...

Healing dwells here

  It seems some people have forgotten or perhaps they never knew. Perhaps they never realized that the land upon which we stand, this land...