Gilbert News

Hundreds of people in northern Arkansas have been without safe drinking water since Sunday.

Our state's tiny town of Gilbert and the not much bigger parish of Bride, off the British coast, come together in a tale of two cities that Charles Dickens never imagined.

Gilbert, Ark., and the parish of Bride, Isle of Man, are alike in obvious ways - each a small place with one church - and other ways not so apparent from a glance across the ocean, such as: GRAVY Arkansans like their gravy on biscuits.

GILBERT, Ark. -- Despite drought conditions, visitors to the Buffalo National River can still find enough water for paddling in the middle and lower portions.