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The same day a familiar face was hired to lead the Eureka Springs City Adverting and Promotion Commission, a well-publicized member of the commission stepped down. At the CAPC’s regular meeting on Wednesday, April 26, finance director Scott Bardin, who has been interim tourism director the past three months, was unanimously picked to become the commission’s executive director.

Mark your calendar and don’t miss Celebration Choir of Carroll County’s Spring Concert “Singing in Glad Celebration” beginning at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the St. Elizabeth Parish Center on Passion Play Road in Eureka Springs.

The 14th Annual Carroll County Bible Reading Marathon will take place on Saturday, May 6. Simultaneous reading of the Bible will take place at 10-plus locations in every city around the county. Many churches will be set up for this eight-hour marathon.

EPARTMENT APRIL 11 ■ 9:16 a.m. — Officers responded to a local clinic regarding a patient with a stab wound.

The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is offering a new fellowship to a writer working on a short or long work of non-fiction focusing on how they (the writer or another) have managed, and continue to manage, their mental illness.