by - October 18, 2022 4:55 pm
New nursing home being built in south Fort Smith
A new $20-million, skilled nursing facility is in the works for U.S. 71 South in Fort Smith. A building permit was issued Oct. 5 for the nursing home that will…
Author: Tina Alvey Dale
by - October 18, 2022 4:42 pm
Fort Smith CBID assessment plan could be approved Nov. 1
The Central Business Improvement District (CBID) Commission passed a resolution Tuesday (Oct. 18) that should be the last thing it needs completed before a petition for an assessment on CBID…
by - October 16, 2022 1:30 pm
Planned street, drainage work revisions sought by Fort Smith Board of Directors
The Fort Smith Board of Directors wants the city’s engineering department to rethink how its plans for street and drainage work. The request followed the department’s presentation of its five-year…
by - October 13, 2022 6:23 pm
Officials break ground on the next section of I-49
State and local officials gathered Thursday (Oct. 13) in Barling to break ground on a “tremendous, transformative” project many thought they “would never see in their lifetime” and celebrate the…
by - October 11, 2022 8:26 pm
Fort Smith Board gets first look at new logo, seal, branding proposals
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Oct. 11) received their first look at a proposed new logo and seal for the city. The city hired Fort Smith-based RightMind…
by - October 11, 2022 5:55 pm
ACHE hires diversity director to support recruitment, retention
In order to better recruit and retain students, faculty and staff, Arkansas College of Health Education has hired Dr. Christopher Smith as the college’s first director of diversity, equity and…
by - October 10, 2022 4:38 pm
Levitt music series to continue in downtown Fort Smith
A $90,000 grant from the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation will allow a free outdoor music series to continue for another three years by the Arkansas River in downtown Fort…
by - October 6, 2022 5:13 pm
U.S. Marshals Museum on track to open in summer 2023
The contractor and design team have met and surveyed the exhibit space at the U.S. Marshals Museum, and work on preparing the space for all the museum experiences will begin…
by - October 5, 2022 3:58 pm
Gean elected chair of Sebastian County Election Commission
Cara Gean, who continues to refuse to explain her vote against a voting site at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, is the new chair of the Sebastian County…
by - October 4, 2022 7:11 pm
New Owens Corning plant in Fort Smith could open in late 2023
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Oct. 4) approved two ordinances regarding $138 million in Industrial Revenue Bonds related to the new Owens Corning facility under construction. The…
by - October 3, 2022 5:12 pm
Van Buren, Greenwood building permit values see big gains in September
Building activity in Fort Smith dipped in September, but activity in Greenwood and Van Buren kept the metro area above where it was last year. The year-to-date permit value in…
by - September 27, 2022 4:26 pm
Ruling: Fort Smith does not have to reinstall flag display
Though the city of Fort Smith must keep flags and brass plaques that were formerly part of the Flags over Fort Smith display in the Riverfront Park, the display does…
by - September 26, 2022 7:27 pm
Fort Smith School Board approves doing ‘limited’ business with school board member
The Fort Smith Public Schools Board of Education on Monday (Sept. 26) approved an ethics disclosure resolution regarding board member Matt Blaylock and the use of his heating and air…
by - September 22, 2022 4:28 pm
Fort Smith sales tax revenue up almost 13% through August
Fort Smith’s sales tax revenue remained high last month with revenues up more than 11% from August 2021, according to the city’s August sales tax report. The city’s portion of…
by - September 21, 2022 1:12 pm
Fort Smith Board approves limited observation of consent decree talks, employee bonuses
The Fort Smith Board of Directors approved a resolution Tuesday (Sept. 20) requiring the mayor and one board member to observe all future consent decree negotiations between the city and…
by - September 20, 2022 3:50 pm
Prosecutor: No criminal charges against Fort Smith city administrator over historical monument controversy
Sebastian County Prosecutor Daniel Shue said Tuesday (Sept. 20) he would not file criminal charges against Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken regarding the Flags over Fort Smith Historical Monument….
by - September 18, 2022 11:41 am
District: Fort Smith school employees in a school board member’s radio ad not a conflict
The Fort Smith Public School administration and its attorney see no conflict of interest in a radio advertisement that includes school employees promoting a business owned by a school board…
by - September 15, 2022 5:14 pm
FCRA donates land to Sebastian County for park and learning fields
The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) Board of Directors have approved a plan to transfer a small park near the Sebastian County soccer fields to Sebastian County for use as…
by - September 14, 2022 3:19 pm
Fort Smith loses appeal on consent decree relief request
An 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means the city of Fort Smith will have to repair all grade 4 and 5 lines in the city’s sewer system, which could…
by - September 12, 2022 5:37 pm
Sebastian County Republicans ‘looking for names’ to fill election commission vacancy
Sebastian County Election Commission Chairman Jason Vineyard was removed from the election commission Monday (Sept. 12) following notice from the Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office that his voter registration should…