by - July 11, 2019 5:01 pm
Enplanements up 4% out of Fort Smith in the first half of 2019
Traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport – up almost 5% in June – is on track to post a fourth year of consecutive gains after a sudden drop…
Author: Michael Tilley
by - July 1, 2019 4:24 pm
Terry appointed to Fort Smith District Court, Magness to run for Circuit Court post
The latest judicial news in the Fort Smith area has Fort Smith Public School Board member Greg Magness running for a Sebastian County Circuit Judge post, and banker and attorney…
by - June 27, 2019 4:51 pm
Fort Smith metro tourism officials hopeful for good 2019 despite record flooding
The Fort Smith-Van Buren tourism sector is off to a better start in 2019 following a flat 2018, with tourism officials optimistic that historic flooding in late May and early…
by - June 24, 2019 12:01 pm
School work, weather-damage repair could push building permit values to record level
Building activity in Fort Smith got off to a horrible start in 2019. But for good reasons – new school construction – and not so good reasons – tornado and…
by - June 20, 2019 3:14 pm
Arkansas Supreme Court says Fort Smith board emails did not violate FOIA
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled Fort Smith city directors did not violate the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when they used emails to discuss an issue. Thursday’s (June…
by - June 18, 2019 4:27 pm
CBID members to consider ‘Ambassador’ plan to address safety concerns
Members of the Central Business Improvement District Commission agreed Tuesday (June 18) to gather information on a possible “Ambassador” program to address a growing concern about the safety of those…
by - June 12, 2019 7:35 pm
Wally Bailey resigns as Fort Smith’s planning chief after more than 41 years
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
‘Tolerance’ loses to ‘asking for trouble’ in AETN decision to not air controversial Arthur episode
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
Fort Smith chamber working to coordinate flood response efforts
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
Historic flooding to close I-540 and Midland bridge, Fort Smith schools ‘suspend’ classes
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
Record flooding could close Arkansas River port operations for many months
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
USA Truck Board Chair Robert Peiser has died
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
ACHE hires president, CEO Parker to focus on ‘big picture’ work
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
Sound Room in downtown Fort Smith to become the ‘Majestic’
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
Fast 15: Dalton Person
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
Fort Smith Board to hear update on food insecurity event
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
Riff Raff: A fortunate, and still grateful, son
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
Green selected for 2019 Jack White Community Leadership Award
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
Video in the works to market training assets at Fort Chaffee
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
Fort Smith metro jobs up 0.97% in February report, jobless rate at 4.4%
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…