Thursday, April 8, 2021
By Samantha Jones and Robert Coxcitizen.editor.eureka@gmail.com
Eureka Springs High School seniors Kyle Plott, left, and Cole Saab wear masks while studying on Friday, April 2. The Eureka Springs School District is continuing its mask policy through the end of the school year despite Gov. Asa Hutchinsons decision to lift the statewide mask mandate.
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced last week that he would be lifting the statewide mask mandate, explaining that while masks would no longer be mandatory, many entities, including businesses, government offices and schools would be able to make their own decisions.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Mia Evans
The members of the Abendschone Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently announced the winners of the annual Good Citizens Contest.
Abigail Thurman
The winners are Mia Evans of Eureka Springs High School, Abigail Thurman of Berryville High School and Mary Jo Lynn Smalley of Green Forest High School. Smalleys sister, Madison Smalley, was the DARs essay contest winner in 2019-20.
Mary Smalley
The students were selected by three independent judges based on dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. The theme for the contest was Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Eureka Springs High School art teacher Jessica Cummings shows off the schools new abstract, geometric, full-color spectrum paper collage installed in the auditorium with the help of building trade students and the maintenance department. The collage was completed after students worked on it for two years.
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Eureka Springs High School art teacher Jessica Cummings shows off the schools new art installation in the auditorium.
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Chloe Kirk
The Smithsonian Institution has awarded $500 to Mid-America Science Museum to support its work with a group of students from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA). The participating students include Eureka Springs High School senior Chloe Kirk.
The museum has been collaborating with Dr. Lindsey Waddell, a geoscience instructor at the school, for several months to develop a teen-designed and led project addressing an environmental issue of concern to them. On Jan. 26, the students presented their plan to Smithsonian officials to help combat the issue of invasive plants in Hot Springs National Park by cultivating a garden comprised of native flora to support and attract pollinating insects. The Smithsonian award to the museum will support the students action plan to design and install a native pollinator garden for the ASMSA campus. The teens have six months to executive their project and to send a short video ab