From Carroll County News

They almost got it right.

In the article I am quoted as saying that I've recently been trying to find a comet, and it leads the readers to believe that I'm trying to see it from within city limits, which I'm not. Coleman Observatory is a fairly dark location with a little less than 12 outdoor lights within a square-mile area. When I spoke with the paper's reporter last week, I mentioned that I couldn't see the comet because of MOONLIGHT which acts like light pollution to degrade from some of the dimmer things that amateurs try to see, like that comet.

I'm glad to see that they ran a story about this issue, and it's not all that misleading to have misquoted me as they did. I can live with that, because the story strikes at the real issue at hand.....we all need to point our lighting fixtures at the ground, and not up into the sky!

Bob

At least they ran the article, and it was on the Front Page of the print edition with photo. It helps raise awareness of a problem that many have never given much thought about.

The newspaper Lovely County Citizen in Eureka Springs has run articles mentioning the shielded lighting law. I've also been told that the editor of the Citizen is pro-dark sky lighting.
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Excellent! The more on our side the better. I feel that if there's any one single town in Arkansas might have a really feasible chance of adopting some type of meaningful light pollution reduction law, Eureka Springs just might be that town.

Please keep all of us informed on these things as they proceed.

Bob

Nice article, and I think the point gets across. It's hard living near the big shopping center in Van Buren, it ruins almost all of the northern sky and part of the eastern sky.

I personally don't know why they have all the lights shinning in the sky, I don't see how that is good security. The only thing that will help us is a blackout and I don't want that.