Desert Wars

Long skirts fly loose in the scorpion night.
Bloody bag of a moon slides down the tower.
The scree of the banshee follows her flight.
She runs pell mell from the moon’s crazed light.
She loses safekeeping in their stench of power.
Long skirts fly loose in the scorpion night.
The heat of pursuit confounds her in fright.
She pelts her down [...]

Op Ed: Thoughts about the Two Years I Have Served on Council

By Rae Hahn
To the Citizens of Eureka Springs,
I have many thoughts concerning the two years I have served on the Eureka Springs City Council. Some of the phrases that run through my mind are: absolute power corrupts absolutely; when told to jump, some respond with “how high!” and to paraphrase, those who don’t [...]

Mayor Makes Remarkable Recovery

Our readers will be familiar with the fact that the last Council meeting of the year– and for this round of elected officials, the last meeting– was called off.

Get Well Soon

How sad! Just at the very time Planning Commission appointments are to be made, poisonous herbicides to be discussed, and any number of other matters of unfinished business dealt with, the Lack-of-Decency virus has struck the Council.

Where art thou, o! thief of the holiday season?

The Eureka Springs Police Department says it no longer has the videotape of the theft of the baby Jesus from Basin Park. Detective Morris Pate says it’s because “the internet crashed.”

VA on Baby Nabbing

ES Folk just reached Virginia Voiers, the baby-Jesus nabber of national repute.
She is going to be on TV this evening, December 5, 2008, either the 5 or the 6 o’clock news on KY3. Interviewer Linda Russell said she didn’t know which time, although it would probably be at 6.
With her usual liveliness, Voiers said, “I [...]

Baby Jesus Nabbed Again

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed, baby Jesus has been liberated again this year from its Basin Park mooring in a Eureka Springs nativity scene that has become a target of holiday pranks from many Christmases past.
The most noteworthy nab came from 70-year old Virginia Voiers who was tempted by her granddaughter to continue the tradition. She made national TV.
As [...]

Carroll County This Week

CARROLL COUNTY THIS WEEK

FROM THE DESK OF
E. RICHARD WILLIAMS
CARROLL COUNTY JUDGE
DECEMBER 2, 2008

Playmate of the Month

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Doggie Shop Volunteer Needed Thursday, Dec. 4

From Tracellen at the Doggie Shop:
I am looking for someone to sit at the Carroll County Fairgrounds on Thursday, December 4. There is a Garage Sale Extravaganza Thurs to Sat and the lady that is sponsoring it has given us a spot for free. I am needing someone to go to shelter pick [...]