January 8: Choate discusses first days of Mayoral term by Tia Lyons El Dorado Mayor Paul Choate, only a week into his first term, spoke with the News-Times as City Hall was being touched up and painted. The new mayor detailed his plans for the rest of the year and spoke about things that were already underway as 2023 began.
A vigil was held for Ieshia Jackson, an El Dorado woman missing since 2020, on Friday afternoon in the parking lot of Perry s Funeral Home in El Dorado.