Eureka Springs Independent

Eight years ago, it seemed like an impossible mission but determined individuals with a lot of friends found a way to give the city of Berryville a new library with all the space it...

Mike Maloney’s City Advertising and Promotion Commission Director’s report gave a positive outlook of CAPC marketing efforts during their March 26 regular meeting. Maloney covered that for the first quarter, marketing efforts have been...

After two years of almost continuous debate at the quorum court, justices of the peace unanimously passed a moratorium on commercial wind and solar projects. The ordinance passed at the March 18 quorum court...

The Eureka Springs City Council meeting on March 24 and went straight into public comments, with some citizens/former Eureka Springs Hospital employees turned over their three minutes of comment time to Heather Wilson, who...

The Carroll County Airport Commission met on March 21, with some major projects coming with the approaching warmer weather. The airport has re-acquired part of a large, leased property at the west end of the...

The Historic District Commission has periodically explored ways to educate property owners about the proper procedure for making changes to the exterior of a structure. The HDC frequently handles belated applications for work already...

A series of tree-cut applications took up almost half of a lengthy meeting of the Planning Commission on March 11. Sitting as the Board of Zoning Adjustment, commissioners approved five applications to remove trees. In...

Mayor Butch Berry sent notifications to Eureka Springs City Council on March 13 that he vetoed a unanimous vote by council that, “The City Council give the hospital commission two weeks to make changes...

Members of the local Indivisible Group are taking action every day to protest illegal and unconstitutional actions of Donald Trump and billionaire adviser, Elon Musk, who has fired workers at federal agencies that regulate...

While working at the Eureka Springs Hospital, I noticed that we were billing for breathing treatments and other respiratory services that can only be billed if completed by a respiratory therapist (RT). I brought...

Eureka Springs City Council meeting on Monday, March 10, was full of ebbs and flows, but certainly a stone or two was dislodged and some movement took place. Public comments came and went with...

Eureka Springs City Council voted unanimously Monday evening to give the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission two weeks to remove hospital interim CEO and HR Director Jodi Edmondson and Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Asbury, or...

Dear Members of Eureka Springs City Council, I write to you with a deep sense of urgency regarding the critical situation at our local hospital. The facts are deeply troubling: questions surrounding the CFO’s (Cynthia...

School Supt. Bryan Pruitt acknowledged positive Eureka Springs test scores, but reminded school board members that testing “is not the most important thing we do here.” At the March 10 board meeting, Pruitt said...

The Historic District Commission had missed a scheduled meeting on Feb. 19, but the commissioners still faced a light agenda at the March 5 meeting. At 33 Ridgeway Ave., applicant Daniel Ledbetter asked to add...

The City Advertising and Promotion Commission heard nine applications for marketing support with one denied and one modified before approval, at the Feb. 26 meeting. Sharon Lawlor was present to represent the Western Carroll County...

Former County Judge Richard Williams resides on Carroll Road 905, in the immediate vicinity of a wind turbine farm being developed by Scout Clean Energy. He has been a consistent critic of the project....

Another ordinance targeting a wind turbine project south of Green Forest appeared on the agenda for the quorum court meeting on Feb. 25. Although sponsors pulled the ordinance at the outset of the meeting,...

The Planning Commission had been scheduled to meet Feb. 11, but that meeting was postponed until Feb. 25 because of weather. Much of last week’s meeting focused on a property at 8 Washington St., owned...

Music is a big part of Eureka Springs life from the annual Music in the Park events, shows at the Auditorium brought to us by LittleWing Productions and others, festivals both in and outside...

The Ozark Chinquapin species was nearly wiped out by blight that started in the 1930s, depriving the Ozarks of a drought-resistant hardwood. Most chinquapins produce few seeds, and last Friday, six blight-resistant seeds donated...

The monthly meeting of the Carroll County Airport Commission was delayed a week because of snow and ice, and those weather issues arose during the meeting. The commission had hired a local contractor for snow...

Eureka Springs City Council’s meeting opened on Monday, Feb. 24 with a State of the City address from Mayor Butch Berry. Berry began, voicing his thoughts on how fortunate the city was to have...

The Eureka Springs Hospital Commission stated in January that once the ESH got through a Medicare audit, it would consider a proposal from Dr. John House of House Health and Life Sciences, Inc., to...

Two alternative realities were present in Eureka Springs on President’s Day Feb. 17. At the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission meeting, commissioners were praising administrators interim CEO Jodi Edmondson and Chief Financial Officer Cynthia Asbury....

Bradley Tate-Green, BA, BS, Ed.D, said there is an urgent need to end workplace bullying. “First of all, let’s define the enemy,” Tate-Green said. “For the sake of simplicity, a workplace bully is basically anyone...

The majority of Eureka Springs City Council’s Feb. 10 meeting was spent voting on a new member with nearly 30 minutes spent in executive session and then moving to ranked choice voting to elect...

The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education has placed an additional emphasis on making tutoring programs available to students in need. At a Feb. 10 meeting, members of the Eureka Springs School Board...

The Eureka Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is inviting the public to attend a special Feb. 23 service at the church at 17 Elk St. to hear from Khalid Ahmadzai, a native Afghan who has worked in...

The Historic District Commission met Feb. 5, and the three applications on the agenda received approval with few objections. LeRoy and Sally Gorrell’s application to replace and extend a deck at 68 Wall St. was...

Leah Fouste is 18 and has already achieved a great deal both academically and in art. Originally from Little Rock, she moved up with her parents, Shira and Shawn Fouste, in 2019 when they...