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Please note this is a previously published column that I have been asked by many to make available again. Here is the original.

The public is invited to a community summit beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, at The Auditorium to meet Katherine Andrews, Arkansas’ director of outdoor recreation. Andrews leads a new state office dedicated to growing economic development through outdoor recreation. Andrews had previously served since 2016 with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission as a project manager and later the director of small business and entrepreneurship development. The Outdoor Recreation Office is part of the Arkansas Parks, Heritage and Tourism Department and has a 10-person advisory board appointed by the governor.

Suellyn Fry is the first recipient of the Carroll County Quorum Court’s Person of the Year award. The quorum court approved a resolution at its regular monthly meeting on Sept.

Lacey Ekberg, former executive director of the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission, was served Monday morning in South Carolina as a defendant in a lawsuit against several current and former city officials in connection with the CAPC.

The family of the late Christopher Alvard will mark a grim anniversary in February 2023, but they’ll have to wait at least a little longer for the men accused of his murder to be tried in court. Carroll County Judge Scott Jackson on Monday set trial dates of Feb.

Another Carroll County resident has died from complications associated with COVID-19, bringing the pandemic death toll for the county to 116. The new death – the first in 21 days — was listed in a report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health on Sept.

Kylee Hevrdejs, Eureka Springs’ director of planning and community development and historic preservation officer, has submitted her resignation. “Sadly, that is true,” Hevrdejs wrote in a Sept.

The Eureka Springs School Board approved its 2022-2023 operating budget during its regular meeting on Sept. 12, and superintendent Bryan Pruitt said it was a group effort.

A presentation from a real estate broker about possibly building 80 to 100 “affordable housing” units in Eureka Springs has received a favorable response from the city’s planning commission. David Buttecali, a Eureka Springs resident who owns Andora Real Estate LLC in Texas and Arkansas, asked for initial feedback for a project on East Mountain Drive during the planning commission’s Sept.