Meet the Candidates

There will be a candidates’ forum this Tuesday night, April 29, beginning at 6:30. It will be at the Carroll County Electric Coop.
Seats to be filled include those for County Judge, County Sheriff, County Clerk, State Representative, and Circuit Judge. If opposed, candidates have six minutes to speak; three minutes if unopposed.

FEMA Coming to Town

FEMA is setting up a Disaster Recovery Center for victims of recent flooding in Carroll County, AR. They will be in Eureka Springs, AR, April 30, and May 1st and 2nd, 9-6, at the Best Western Inn at the top of Planer Hill in Eureka.

Hold Those Horses!

Panic is not the way to go. There’s no need to immediately enact an increase in water/sewer rates as recently proposed by the Eureka Springs’ administration. The sky is not falling in. We have time to look at things. This Mayor is noted for saying this and that has to be done now, right away. [...]

Improv Fun

We’d been learning about improv from Ken Rundell, and didn’t think much of anything more ’til we came upon an evening with Ken, Bill Ott, and Annunziata Scarpino improv-ing for us at Briarwood Lodge. They are part of a group that meets every week to learn and do improv comedy.
This night the three were a [...]

White River System Lakes Update

Headnote:
It really concerns me that residents are moving back into their homes and making repairs as soon as they can. I know we can’t tell the residents what to do, however, since we are still in the early stages of our rainy season (April-June), we need to keep telling our residents that additional releases from [...]

CAPC Director Confirms His Opposition to ES Appearing on Daily Show

Because of erroneous information being bruited about regarding CAPC Executive Director Jim Williams’ position on Eureka Springs’ appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, we phoned Williams at 9:02 am, and read back to him our statement of his position.
Williams affirmed his opposition to the appearance, noting only that he said “I” instead [...]

Invitation from The Daily Show with John Stewart

Mayor Dani Wilson
City of Eureka Springs, AK [sic]
April 16, 2008
Dear Mayor Wilson,
I am following up on the phone call we had this afternoon in regard to the proposed Daily Show shoot in Eureka Springs. We are producing a story that originated from a video by the American Family Association purporting to show a secret gay [...]

Call in for Equal Pay

Support Equal Pay by calling your Senators at 1-866-338-1015 on April 21, 22, and 23. The Supreme Court has gutted the act. For more information:

CAPC’s Williams Says “No” to Comedy Show

We asked CAPC Executive Director Jim Williams what he thought about the invitation from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart asking the Mayor to be a guest along with a few local residents. Williams said, “We probably should decline.”

Fishing at Black Bass Lake

We just couldn’t keep it a secret. There’s good fishing at Black Bass Lake. We ran into husband and wife, John and Marcia Tillan, along with Marcia’s brother Lee Toal. I used worms for blue gill when I was little. These folks used crickets. I say, “Go crickets!”