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Times Reporter Gathers No Moss

After 21 years, Rusty Garrett is leaving the Northwest Arkansas Times. Garrett, who most recently served as business editor, is leaving the Fayetteville newspaper at the end of May for…

KFSM Installs Two Skycams

KFSM, Channel 5 has installed two Skycam cameras to constantly monitor weather in Fayetteville and Fort Smith. The station began using the cameras April 21, the anniversary of the tornado…

Bryan Hendricks, an Arkansas native and former Northwest Arkansas writer, has written a book about the state’s hiking trails. Published by Out There Press of Asheville, N.C., Hendricks’ book includes…

SEC Universities Benefited From Moving Games to Campus

Southeastern Conference schools long held on to their decrepit, metropolitan football stadiums like Emily Grierson clinging to her husband’s corpse in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” In the story,…

Obi-Wal-Mart Kenobi

Hype over the latest Star Wars movie has propelled some other businesses, including Wal-Mart Stores, to the stars. Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co. reports that Wal-Mart’s toy sales skyrocketed 150…

Neither Rain, Sleet, Nor. . .

Tornado warnings and a deluge of rain on May 4 were not enough to keep the city of Fayetteville’s parking enforcement officers from writing tickets on the downtown square. We…

No Papparazi, Please

We recently asked Chancellor John White’s secretary if we could take a photograph of Razorback Stadium from the chancellor’s office window. We were told “No.” Not because the chancellor was…

Four Score. . .

So just how does that $4 million gift to John Brown University from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation rank as far as size? Turns out it’s tied for first…

Women’s Clinic Planned

A Northwest Arkansas limited liability company is purchasing about 40 acres in Johnson (Washington County) with plans to build a specialized Women’s Health facility. Interstate 540/Greathouse Springs Road Investors LLC…

Bullish on Beverly

It’s difficult to judge the reliability of postings on the Yahoo message boards for publicly held companies, but one recent missive got our attention. From a web site billed as…

Episcopal Diocese Refinances Church

Larry E. Maze, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas, signed for a $1.5 million refinancing of St. Thomas Episcopal Church at 2898 48th St. in Springdale. The loan, which…

Mathias Building at Skyler Center

Mathias Shopping Centers Inc. of Fayetteville received a $1.2 million construction mortgage April 2 for its new Skyler Center on West Sunset Avenue in Springdale. Sam Mathias signed the note….

Same Tune Gets Different Mortgage

Tune Construction Co. received a $1.1 million mortgage March 18 from Arkansas National Bank for work on its property at 2900 North College Ave. It was signed for by Danny…

Procter & Gamble Makes Old Building New

Procter & Gamble is expanding its office space in Fayetteville by renovating its old office building on Millsap Road. The holding company, 755 Millsap Road LLC, remodeled Procter & Gamble’s…

Brentwood Redoes Apartments Mortgage

Brentwood Apartments LLP at 600 N. 12th Place in Rogers is undergoing a $628,500 refinancing through McIlroy Bank & Trust of Fayetteville. Three partners, led by Jim Lindsey of Fayetteville,…

Doctor Realizes Dream with Chapel

Dr. Brian Abernathy is building a home and a non-denominational chapel on 17.5 acres in Fayetteville’s Holiday Hills Sub Division. He received a $600,000 mortgage April 6 from McIlroy Bank…

Gaddy Buys Rural Acreage

Gaddy Investment Co. of Fayetteville spent $551,400 March 11 to purchase 10 acres in east rural Washington County. Involved in the purchase were Charles E. and Mary Lou Warren and…

Crandall Builds New Apartments

A 20-unit apartment complex is being built at 911 Hughes St. near the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. The facility will consist of one- and two-bedroom apartments ranging from…

Commercial Center Comes to Bentonville

The Shearin-Hathaway Group closed a $520,000 deal between Airport Road Commercial Center Inc. and North Pro LLC. The commercial center company, led by Ron Buckman and Bob Harlow, bought an…

C& B Expands Heritage Village

C&B Land and Cattle has started construction on the first eight of 43 homes in Phase II of its Heritage Village on Arkansas Highway 16 west of Fayetteville. The company…

Parrot Island Waterpark control decision pushed to study session review

Rebkah Guiltner named COO at FNBC

A-State researcher receives $605,140 grant for zoo animal research

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation selects Cory Anderson as new CEO