by - June 12, 2019 7:35 pm
Wally Bailey, who has worked under six Fort Smith city administrators, is retiring as the city’s director of planning to pursue an opportunity that will not be as “all consuming.”…
by - June 4, 2019 7:42 pm
Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) Executive Director Courtney Pledger at first believed airing a controversial episode of the cartoon series “Arthur” would present a lesson in tolerance. But the AETN…
by - May 27, 2019 8:59 pm
Coordinating through various means of communication and communicating how best to coordinate people, resources, information, and needs was the focus of two meetings of more than 50 Fort Smith area…
by - May 27, 2019 6:09 pm
Current flows on the Arkansas River will result in closure of the Interstate 540 bridge between Van Buren and Fort Smith and the U.S. 64 (Midland) bridge between Van Buren…
by - May 24, 2019 4:42 pm
The port of Fort Smith is underwater. Port operations in Van Buren are either underwater or will be by Sunday (May 26). The port of Little Rock is likely to…
by - May 24, 2019 3:07 pm
Robert Peiser, one of the architects of the financial turnaround of Van Buren-based USA Truck, has died, the company announced Friday (May 24). He was 70. Peiser joined the USA…
by - May 15, 2019 5:43 pm
Brian Kim has been hired as president of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE), a move geared to allow CEO Kyle Parker time to focus on “big picture projects”…
by - May 14, 2019 4:47 pm
Rebranding and repurposing of the Sound Room in downtown Fort Smith, a property once owned by the late Bill Neumeier, is underway. Investors in the project, which will become the…
by - May 13, 2019 10:51 am
Dalton Person will tell you he’s an attorney, but he’s also worked as a political consultant and a used car salesman. “I’ve held the three least trusted professions in America,”…
by - May 12, 2019 7:06 pm
Sebastian County is one of six counties selected from more than 3,000 U.S. counties as part of a Walton Family Foundation-funded project to study food insecurity. The Fort Smith Board…
by - May 9, 2019 4:50 pm
Editor’s note: This essay was first posted May 10, 2009. Happy Mother’s Day! A lot has changed in Mom’s world. The world in 1949, the year of her birth, was…
by - May 8, 2019 6:08 pm
Jason Green, vice president of human resources at ABB in Fort Smith and a community leader of the voter approved Fort Smith Public Schools millage plan, is set to receive…
by - May 7, 2019 4:27 pm
The Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce has hired 5 Star Productions and Paris Marketing & Public Relations to develop and market a video touting the military infrastructure at Fort…
by - April 25, 2019 5:13 pm
Job numbers saw slight gains in February, with the jobless rate at 4.4%, unchanged from January and below the 4.6% in February 2018. The recent report also shows an estimated…
by - April 24, 2019 4:32 pm
Continued growth in Arkansas’ aerospace and defense industry needs a “national priority” like that set by President John Kennedy when he challenged the nation to go to the Moon, Gov….
by - April 23, 2019 7:20 pm
A GoFundMe campaign to raise $2 million has been established to pay for production of “guest experiences” at the U.S. Marshals Museum and help close the gap on $15.3 million…
by - April 22, 2019 4:34 pm
The lineup for this year’s Peacemaker’s Festival seemed impressive, but ticket sales are the final arbiter. And the public has spoken. Most VIP tickets sold out within a few hours,…
by - April 18, 2019 5:23 pm
The trend of slow population growth continues in the Fort Smith metro, with the population rising just 0.1% to 282,318, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Fort Smith…
by - April 16, 2019 10:30 am
Dr. Terisa Riley has been recommended as the next University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Chancellor. If the recommendation is accepted by the University of Arkansas System Board, she will…
by - April 15, 2019 5:02 pm
The growing popularity of “signing days” that connect high school and higher ed students with business and industry has made its way to Fort Smith with an event set for…
