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A jury trial began Tuesday morning in Eureka Springs for the first of three defendants accused in the 2018 killing of a local man trial. Jason Hartley Helm is charged with first-degree murder and cruelty to animals in connection with the death of Chris Alvard, whose body was found in his home near Eureka Springs.

Eureka Springs City Council member Bill Ott will pay the city $1,000 to settle a lawsuit Ott filed in 2021. The city council approved the settlement agreement at its regular meeting Monday night.

After a week of no reported local deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Arkansas Department of Health reported three more Carroll County residents had died from complications related to the novel coronavirus, bringing the local death toll to 112.

Editor’s Note: Emails quoted in this report have not been edited for grammar, spelling or punctuation. Carroll County Judge Ronda Griffin vetoed an ordinance approved by the county’s quorum court that would have rescinded the position of major in the sheriff’s office.

An Arkansas Municipal League attorney filed a response last week on behalf of Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry and other city officials, asking a judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by a former city employee.

Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Director Scott Miskiel has announced he is stepping down at the end of the year to spend more time with family. Miskiel, who was first named interim director in October 2020, made the announcement at the Aug.

Leaves of three — leave them be! This is the time of the year to be on the lookout for poison ivy and poison oak. While these shrubs do not bother some people, many find they make summertime miserable.

Lovely County Citizen Eureka Springs Mayor Butch Berry will face not one but three challengers in the Nov. 8 general election — including a former mayor and a former city contractor involved in a lawsuit in which Berry is a defendant.

Aman accused of vandalizing the “Doughboy Statue” in Eureka Springs’ Basin Spring Park in September 2021 has been acquitted on criminal charges on the basis of mental disease or defect. Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson issued the judgment Wednesday, Aug.