Author: George Jared

George Jared

A-State newspaper turns 100 years old

The city of Jonesboro had been battered by several pandemics and then came the Great War in 1917. Even as the war came to a close a year later, a…

Judge Gunner DeLay stumps for Arkansas Supreme Court seat in Jonesboro

Sebastian County Circuit Court Judge Gunner DeLay told members of the Craighead County GOP on Tuesday night (Nov. 23) that if he’s not elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court he’s…

Governor: COVID-19 cases up 900 since last week; Dec. 6 special session still tentative

Infection rates and deaths for COVID-19 are on the rise and state government officials are imploring unvaccinated citizens to get a vaccine. Gov. Asa Hutchinson said during a press conference…

Kenneth Flynn donates 600 marine specimens to Williams Baptist University

Paragould native Kenneth Flynn has spent more than 75 years of his life collecting seashells and other aquatic life from around the world. His collection, named the Flynn Collection, is…

First Community Bank opens major operations center at Batesville HQ

First Community Bank, the 10th largest in the state, opened its Batesville operations center beside the financial institution’s main bank Tuesday (Nov. 16). The three-story operations center is approximately 28,809…

Lyon college receives $600,000 in grants to promote telehealth, distance learning and women’s safety

Lyon College has received $600,000 in federal grants to expand telehealth, distance learning and to promote women’s safety both on campus and in the surrounding area. Lyon has been awarded…

Haag-Brown in early stages of developing multi-million dollar e-commerce park in Jonesboro

Haag-Brown Commercial Real Estate and Development is in the preliminary stages of developing an e-commerce park that will feature storage and distribution centers that could impact commerce throughout the region….

Riceland Foods nears $1 billion in sales; search for president and CEO continues

World War I had ended three years earlier and the public was dealing with the final throes of the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed millions around the world. Agriculture commodity…

Downtown Playhouse ramps up the fall with Tuesdays with Morrie

Downtown Playhouse co-founder Kelly Grooms was readying himself with the tasks that come with running a local live theater when in March of 2020 the pandemic began. At the time,…

Pediatric vaccine doses for COVID-19 available in Northeast Arkansas

Cases of COVID-19 have continued to decline in Northeast Arkansas, and now a new weapon has been deployed to push those numbers down even further. Children ages 5-11 can now…

New pathogen threatens soybean crops in Arkansas

A new pathogen that harms soybean crops was identified several years ago and research indicates it’s spreading geographically and causing more damage. Where it came from and why it impacts…

COVID-19 vaccination clinics slated in rural areas of the state

Only about half of Arkansans are vaccinated against COVID-19 and there are continuing efforts to offer vaccines in rural areas of the state that have low vaccination rates. The University…

Arkansas Century Farm program welcomes 32 new members

Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture inducted 32 additional Arkansas farms into the Arkansas Century Farm Program. The Arkansas Century Farm…

Talk Business & Politics recognizes NEA outstanding businesses

Editor’s note: In school, you get an “A” if you do an excellent job with the work you’re presented. You get an A+ if you exceed expectations and show you’re…

Camfil starts work on $37 million facility in Jonesboro

Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), manufacturer of industrial dust, fume and mist collection systems for industrial processes, broke ground on its $37 million manufacturing and office facility Thursday (Nov. 4)…

Arkansas soybean harvest coming to a rapid close

Arkansas’ soybean harvest is wrapping up and the expectations are for yields to be about average this year, Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board Chair Donald Morton told Talk Business & Politics….

Construction begins on Jackson County Extension Center

Construction of the long-awaited Jackson County Extension Center has finally started. The project will cost $1.4 million and is slated to be completed in late summer or early fall of…

Longtime agriculture scientist Dr. Noel Phil “Tug” Tugwell dies at the age of 88

Longtime entomologist Noel Phil “Tug”Tugwell died Oct. 20 in Fayetteville. He was 88. He served the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life…

Camfil Air to invest $37 million in new Jonesboro facility

Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), manufacturer of industrial dust, fume and mist collection systems for industrial processes, will hold a groundbreaking for its new manufacturing and office facility Thursday (Nov….

U.S. forest and agriculture land owned by foreign entities present host of policy issues

Gauging how much agricultural and forested lands in the U.S. are owned by foreign entities can be difficult to calculate, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture believes those lands are…

Arkansas Research Alliance adds 3 to academy

James Hendren steps down from Venture Center board

Group adds 2 leaders, to meet for Jan. 21 event

Fort Smith metro tourism job numbers up in November, overall job gain less than 1%