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Fayetteville Bank Sells Convenience Store

The Village Market convenience store at 2103 S. Powell Ave. in Springdale was sold June 30. The Bank of Arkansas sold the store to Woodridge Estates Mobile Home Park LLC…

Haynes Sells Lot in Pinnacle Pointe

A 5-acre vacant lot at the corner of U.S. Highway 71 and Champions Drive was sold June 26 for $475,000. Collins and Cynthia Haynes of Rogers sold the land to…

Church Plans Exspansion

The Bella Vista Church of Christ at 8889 W. McNeely Road is making plans to expand its facilities. The church received a $400,000 mortgage June 15 from the Bank of…

Nibbles Building Mortgaged, Company Plans Expansion

The building that houses Nibbles Food Emporium and Nibbles Gourmet Catering was mortgaged June 19 for $325,900. AICDI Inc. of Fayetteville received the loan from Community Bank of Fayetteville. The…

Harmon Place Apartments sold

Harmon Place Apartments at 65 S. Duncan Ave. in Fayetteville were sold June 29 for $930,000. Mark and Carie Pryor bought the apartments from Linda B. Moore. The purchase was…

Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market Coming to East Fayetteville in 1999

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to build one of its “Neighborhood Market” stores in Fayetteville. Plans for the 40,000-SF stores in Bentonville, Springdale and Sherwood have already been reported by the…

Walgreens Planning Three Area Stores

Walgreens, America’s largest and fastest-growing retail pharmacy chain, is coming into Northwest Arkansas with plans for stores in Springdale and Rogers, and the company is still scouting for a location…

Rogers Has Myriad of Local Businesses

More than 2,100 businesses have a city license to operate in Rogers. Most of those businesses are classified by the city as service industries, other than professional. The city has…

Rogers Ifrastructure Catching Up With Growth

Since the population boom that hit Northwest Arkansas in 1994 and 1995 has slowed down, Rogers has a chance to improve its infrastructure to keep up with the growth of…

Rogers Packaging Business Keeps Up With Technology

Family owned Stribling Packaging has expanded, improved as brothers-in-law joined business A box may look like a simple thing to the average consumer, but the folks at Stribling Packaging know…

J.B. Hunt Earnings Up; AMCA Ranks Legislators

Things continue to improve for J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell. The company reported a 767 percent increase in earnings for the second quarter of this year, which ended…

Retrieve the Hounds

Michael Baker, the owner of Houndstooth Clothing Co. of Fayetteville, has pulled his T-shirt and casual clothing line from about 50 J.C. Penney stores across the country. Baker says he…

Gentlemen Prefer Beer

The Southern Gentleman, a cigar and gift shop on the downtown Fayetteville square, closed in early August. Tiny Tim’s Pizza, which is located in the same building, has leased the…

Leaning Tower of Peace?

Architects considered installing the new J. William Fulbright Memorial Peace Fountain at the University of Arkansas under cover of darkness. The reason? They were afraid the blistering August sun might…

Hogs? headquarters

The former headquarters building of Hudson Foods Inc. in Rogers is now being used by Tyson Foods Inc. to house the poultry giant’s pork division and animal foods ingredient group….

Ooops!

Remember that whisper in the last issue about the top executives at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell selling a lot of stock since the first of the year….

Selman Retires

Cleta Selman, who served for the past 25 years as an administrative employee of Tyson Foods Inc., retired July 15. Selman started with the company in 1973 as executive secretary…

Workforce Development Helps Managers, Workers Advance

Nearly 10 percent of the workers at Rogers Tool Works Inc. are studying — on their own time — management techniques. About half of the 75 students are supervisors or…

Wal-Mart Stock Price Soars 70 Percent in Six Months

Analyst says retailer is returning to ‘days of old’ with consistently high same-store sales Stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has skyrocketed, more than doubling in the past year, up more…

Keep It Country Antiques

Owners: Joe and Brenda Velten Address: 15746 Prairie View Road, Prairie Grove 72753 Phone: 846-3565 Hours: No specific hours; customers may stop in at any time. Start-Up Date: May 1…

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