by - August 13, 2019 10:57 am
Grain Management, a private equity firm investing in the global communications industry, together with E. Ritter and Company, has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Ritter Communications….
by - August 12, 2019 5:11 pm
The city of Jonesboro continues to rack up record-setting month after record-setting month in terms of sales and use tax collections, but the torrid growth has slowed. The city collected…
by - August 12, 2019 5:08 pm
Arkansas State University’s Enrollment Management division will take the lead in providing services to transfer students as well as management of the Registrar’s Office, Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management Dr….
by - August 11, 2019 9:34 pm
Arkansas’ weather-volatile planting season has been reflected in the recently released United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service acreage report, with the agency saying it would be collecting…
by - August 8, 2019 8:05 pm
The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, an A-State Heritage Site in Tyronza, has been accepted into the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a global association of museums, historical sites and…
by - August 7, 2019 6:35 pm
The Greenbrier Companies Inc., an international supplier of railcars and marine barges, announced Wednesday (Aug. 7) it’s investing about $16 million in the company’s Marmaduke facility to support future growth….
by - August 7, 2019 11:55 am
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $998,834 to launch a proactive program to prevent opioid and substance abuse in north central and northeast Arkansas, a region that has high…
by - August 6, 2019 6:52 pm
After a year of customer and expert research, E.C. Barton & Company is making a major change. The company that is 100% employee-owned and employs more than 700 people across…
by - August 5, 2019 2:01 pm
Poor, black sharecroppers in Phillips County had tolerated low wages and terrible work conditions since the end of the Civil War, but after World War I ended they’d had enough….
by - July 31, 2019 4:47 pm
A nine-member panel will be presented to the Jonesboro City Council for approval to serve as the City’s Oversight Integrity Council, as selected by Mayor Harold Perrin. The mayor will…
by - July 31, 2019 4:32 pm
The long-standing trade war with China seemingly has no end in sight and now Arkansas farmers are being advised to find new markets. They are also being told that the…
by - July 30, 2019 5:08 pm
Zekelman Industries, the parent company of Atlas Tube, announced Tuesday (July 30) in Blytheville it will build the world’s largest continuous ERW tube mill on property adjacent to its existing…
by - July 29, 2019 4:33 pm
Teens living in the 1950s learned to dip, dive and jive to the raucous, rockabilly sound. Now, one can come and learn all about the music from the region’s back…
by - July 28, 2019 6:19 pm
Armor Bank has entered the Jonesboro market by hiring Brock Fletcher as market president and Bryan Wagner as senior vice president of commercial lending and business development. Fletcher and Wagner…
by - July 25, 2019 3:54 pm
U.S. farmers have been devastated by erratic weather patterns and an ongoing trade war with China, one of the largest U.S. agriculture importers in the world. The federal government is…
by - July 24, 2019 9:08 pm
Seven startups have been selected to participate in the AgLaunch Bootcamp hosted this week in partnership with Arkansas State University and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture at the Delta Center…
by - July 23, 2019 7:42 pm
If voters pass a 1% sales tax to fund safety and quality of living projects, the grassroots organization that has been pushing for the hike has ideas about how to…
by - July 22, 2019 7:37 pm
Hurricane Barry could have wrought more havoc on Arkansas farmers with its heavy winds and rains, but the storm still caused a lot of damage and yields could be impacted…
by - July 22, 2019 3:12 pm
Team Jonesboro, a grassroots organization promoting a proposed sales tax hike in Jonesboro, will reveal its project recommendation list they plan to present to the Oversight Integrity Council on Tuesday…
by - July 18, 2019 4:39 pm
Longtime Arkansas State University faculty member Dr. Marika Kyriakos has been named director of Fowler Center and promoted to interim assistant dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Communications,…
