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Darnell Hired as News Director

It’s official. As reported in the Dec. 27 “Whispers” column, Gary Darnell is now news director for KPOM/KFAA, Channels 24/51, which currently has offices in Fort Smith and Rogers. Darnell…

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Bigfoot High on Meth Madness

We didn’t think it was possible for anything to knock “meth madness” off the newscasts of KHBS/KHOG, Channels 40/29, but something finally did. Bigfoot. The station ran several news segments…

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Bentonville Vet Building Offices

Larry A. Rose, a full-time veterinarian and part-time commercial real estate developer, is developing 22 acres on Southeast Walton Boulevard in Bentonville. Rose and his wife, Angela J. Rose, got…

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A View for Everyone

Three years ago, Gary Hirshberg decided Northwest Arkansas had a fair sampling of elite neighborhoods. What the market needed, he says, was an upscale community for everyone. Hirshberg, the project…

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New Pitch Man

The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees isn’t the only state board that athletic director Frank Broyles has appeared in front of lately. We hear Broyles went before the Arkansas…

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From Bites to Bytes

The former home of Corky’s Ribs & BBQ at 637 E. Joyce Blvd. in Fay-etteville will soon house a Gateway Country store. Gateway Inc., the computer company founded in 1985,…

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Central Figure

In case you’re curious, we unburied some more details on Bentonville-based Arvest Bank Group Inc.’s entry into the Pulaski County market. In round numbers, the deal to buy Little Rock’s…

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Other Worlds

We noticed that Superior Federal Bank is opening a finance company in Roland, Okla., which is about seven miles west of Fort Smith but light-years away from Arkansas’ usury law….

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Egg-spansion

George’s Inc. is expanding its commercial egg operation on Russell Road in Siloam Springs. The $1.8 million expansion includes two laying houses that will operate a total of 400,000 hens…