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The Eureka Springs Parks and Recreation Commission has recently been awarded a grant for a watershed assessment at Lake Leatherwood and discussed at its June 7 workshop $55,000 that will come from the commission as part of the matching grant.

Health benefits of eating fish Fishing can be a healthy way to socially distance. Beyond the soul touching of being integral to the present sense of Mother Nature, should you catch a fish with the intent of eating it that can be healthful.

The Eureka Springs Hospital Employee of the Month for May 2022 is laboratory tech Rudonya Chrisman. Rudonya comes from a family of healthcare workers and found her calling in the lab. She said her favorite thing about working at Eureka Springs Hospital is that everyone works as a team. In her free time, she likes to ride motorcycles. Submitted photo

Thinking that the device used to record a recent special meeting had been turned off after adjourning, members of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission continued to meet and discuss commission business, including calling a newly hired sexton “two-faced” and a recently terminated employee a “narcissist.”

Carroll County Newspapers, publisher of the Lovely County Citizen, filed an official complaint with Carroll County prosecuting attorney Tony Rogers about a recent meeting of the Eureka Springs Cemetery Commission.

An attorney representing a group of plaintiffs in a civil lawsuit in connection with the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission filed a second amended complaint last week, listing a litany of new allegations and adding the commission’s former executive director as a defendant.

Early voting will begin Tuesday, June 14, for the June 21 Republican preferential primary runoff election. Voters who chose a Republican or nonpartisan judicial ballot in the May 24 primary are eligible to vote in the Republican runoff, as are registered voters who did not vote in the primary.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Eureka Springs company that argued it was improperly denied a license to operate a medical marijuana dispensary. Carroll County Holdings Inc., doing business as Eureka Green, filed suit in June 2020 against the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division and the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission.

Active cases of COVID-19 in Carroll County are still on the rise, with 37 reported by the Arkansas Department of Health on Monday. Statewide, the number of active cases rose to 4,936, a nearly 27-percent increase since May 31.