by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
More than 600 participants are expected to take up bowling this year for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Arkansas and do some corporate team building in the process.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
After shuffling through at least three administrative directors in five years, the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra has turned over its management to the Walton Arts Center.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
A $2.8 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation to the Walton Arts Center this month may be the biggest grant to an arts organization specifically earmarked for programming.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
The Shewmaker Center for Workforce Technologies at NorthWest Arkansas Community College is expected to be complete July 1.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Robert Young III, president and CEO of Arkansas Best Corp., recently told a group of University of Arkansas students that no sign of a potential uptick in the economy has materialized yet in the trucking industry.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Arkansas collected less in corporate income taxes in 2002 than in any year since 1993, and 2003 isn?t expected to be much better.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
The American Heart Association is urging businesses to purchase an Automated External Defibrillator and train their staffs to operate the user-friendly lifesaving device.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Three thousand volunteers are expected to stomp all over heart disease on March 29 at the ?Who Will You Walk For?? Sixth Annual Heart Walk and 5-K Run which begins at the University of Arkansas? Bud Walton Arena.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
?Musical Chairs? may be the official dance of Benton County. Pay and perks are so competitive for professionals in the local retail, logistics and meat vendor community that headhunters barely allow the music to stop.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Instead of relying on Miss Cleo to determine how an employee will perform, some companies are now turning to another form of soothsaying: pre-employment assessment tests.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Turning up the heat on an employee could land an employer in a cold courtroom. Even though Arkansas is an employment-at-will state, where employers need no reason to fire employees, giving a worker the ?Siberian treatment? can be costly.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Melissa Shook, division director of OfficeTeam?s Memphis branch and a Prairie Grove native, cites the book ?Job Hunting For Dummies? when asked about the ?dos and don?ts? of r?sum? writing.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
About 9 percent of chief information officers nationwide plan to expand their information technology departments during the second quarter.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Mold Solutions and Finders Keepers are open for business in northwest Arkansas.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Donna Russell and Bruce Bradshaw have been negotiating with Ron Bumpass to least the historic Old Post Office building in the middle of the downtown Fayetteville square.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
The only thing keeping The Sale Barn Cafe from being rated even higher is that it?s only open two days a week.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Arkansas Securities Commissioner Michael Johnson has filed a motion to intervene in a controversial lawsuit involving Golf Entertainment Inc. of Springdale and an organization called Genesis Trust.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale is among four meat packing companies that the U.S. Department Agriculture wants to audit.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. was in March named among the ?Training Top 100,? as determined each year by Training magazine.
by - March 17, 2003 12:00 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of Bentonville expects same-store sales percentage growth to be in the low-single digits for March and in the high single-digits in April.
