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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.

For the first time in a month, seven days passed without the reported additional death of a Carroll County resident from complications related to COVID-19. A report issued Friday, Aug.

Students across Carroll County returned to school Monday, making for what school administrators called an “exciting time.” Eureka Springs superintendent Bryan Pruitt said he looks forward to starting “with a nice, clean slate.” At Eureka Springs, like many districts, increased campus security is at the top of the list when it comes to changes for the new school year. “School safety is one of the things that we’re really concerned about,” Pruitt said, adding that security was one of the things his staff focused on during their early start.

With only a week remaining before the first day of school, the Eureka Springs School Board didn’t have much business on the agenda for its regular meeting Aug. 8, but board members still got a few things accomplished.

Robert Kennedy, a former candidate for Carroll County sheriff, was arraigned last week in Carroll County Circuit Court on a felony charge of terroristic threatening stemming from his arrest on April 25.

A major renovation of the Eureka Springs Hospital cleared its first hurdle Monday night. At its regular meeting, the Eureka Springs Hospital Commission quickly and unanimously approved putting together a Request for Proposals for engineering work on hospital renovations — the first step in a process aimed at updating all areas of the building that has been open since 1929.

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Eureka Springs Rotary Club will host the annual Samaritan’s Feet Shoe Giveaway from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at the Eureka Springs High School Cafeteria, located at 2 Lake Lucerne Road in Eureka Springs.