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Four remaining members of the Eureka Springs City Council will have the task of choosing two people to fill vacant seats at its regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, March 25.

Exciting things are happening at Opera in the Ozarks, and the Eureka Springs Opera Guild invites you to get in on the excitement. The Guild will hold its annual meeting at 3 p.m.

The Eureka Springs School District is adopting an alternative calendar next school year aimed at combating the wrath of Mother Nature. Instead of using a traditional 178-day calendar, the district will use a schedule based on 1,068 hours and will begin each school day 10 minutes early.

Eureka Springs Hospital will host a Town Hall meeting focused on the hospital’s new Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) designation at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the Eureka Springs Auditorium.

Eureka Springs police chief Billy Floyd has not received an update or a timeline on an Arkansas State Police investigation into an officer- involved shooting that left a local man dead, Floyd said Wednesday, March 13.

More than a year after a special prosecutor decided not to pursue charges that had been filed against three local men in connection with the murder of Christopher Alvard in 2018, another prosecutor told a Carroll County circuit judge on Monday, March 11, that no decision has been made regarding whether to refile those charges.

Eureka Springs is known in the region as a city that embraces diversity and inclusiveness. Now, it’s being recognized on a national stage.

Four applicants — David Riordan, Susane Gruning, Michael Welch and Marticia Hancock — will be voted on to fill the Ward 1, Position 2 seat formerly held by David Avanzino. For the Ward 2, Position 1 seat formerly held by Melissa Greene, Avanzino and Anna Smedley have applied.