by - February 7, 2022 4:28 pm
UAFS Provost Hale to retire at end of fiscal year
The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith provost, one of four vice chancellors at the university, said Monday (Feb. 7) she will retire at the end of the 2022 fiscal…
Author: Tina Alvey Dale
by - February 3, 2022 4:53 pm
Fort Smith metro building permit values up 12% in January
The Fort Smith metro began 2022 on good footing as the new year began and kept that momentum through the first month of the year. The metro’s three largest cities had…
by - February 2, 2022 5:26 pm
Work begins on $3.2 million residential subdivision in Greenwood
Developers broke ground Tuesday (Feb. 1) on a new subdivision in Greenwood that will eventually bring 251 new homes to the third largest city in the Fort Smith metro area….
by - February 1, 2022 9:08 pm
Community learns more about pilot training center planned for Fort Smith
At the first of two scheduled virtual public scoping meetings concerning the Air Force’s proposal to put a permanent Foreign Military Sales Pilot Training Center at Ebbing Air National Guard…
by - February 1, 2022 3:30 pm
Summer opening planned for new Fort Smith dog park
Details of a collaborative effort by the city of Fort Smith, Sebastian County and the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Area (FCRA) plans for a new dog park slated to open this…
by - January 31, 2022 5:36 pm
Court upholds ruling against city of Fort Smith on flag removal
Sebastian County Circuit Judge Gunner Delay has once again ruled that the city of Fort Smith must get a waiver from the Arkansas Historic Commission about the removal of the…
by - January 27, 2022 4:46 pm
City of Fort Smith searching for IT, solid waste directors
Though Steve Dimmitt is serving as the interim director, the city of Fort Smith is looking for a new director of Information & Technology Systems (ITS). ITS Director Russell Gibson…
by - January 26, 2022 6:17 pm
Fort Smith Public School district hires another consultant for Peak project
With the contract with its project manager drawing to a close and substantial work still to be done on the Peak Innovation Center, Fort Smith Public Schools hired a second…
by - January 25, 2022 5:45 pm
Fort Smith sales tax up more than 15% in 2021 reporting year
Fort Smith had a good year in 2021 in sales tax revenues with totals coming in more than 15% higher than those in 2020. According to the December sales tax…
by - January 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Fort Smith superintendent: Mask mandate working, additional pay coming for full-time staff
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the Fort Smith Public Schools area, meaning a mask mandate will stay in place, at least for now. The mandate helped significantly reduce COVID…
by - January 20, 2022 9:03 pm
Fort Smith Board pushes need for sales tax extension at first public discussion
In the first of five scheduled sales tax information and discussion meetings held by Fort Smith City Directors Thursday night (Jan. 20) concerning a possible election to continue two sales…
by - January 20, 2022 6:25 pm
Future School acts to deliver meals during virtual instruction
COVID-19 may have caused the Future School of Fort Smith to take classes virtual starting Jan. 14, but students have not missed their breakfast and lunches. When child nutrition staff…
by - January 19, 2022 5:19 pm
Officials respond to big rise in COVID among Fort Smith city employees
Active cases of COVID-19 have been growing by the thousands daily across the state for the last two weeks. The high number of cases have led many to take extra…
by - January 18, 2022 7:41 pm
Fort Smith Directors approve John Bell Jr. Park, flood warning system
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Jan. 18) approved the purchase of an advanced flood warning system on North 66th Street, and gave the final nod to renaming…
by - January 14, 2022 4:24 pm
UAFS moves to virtual instruction until Jan. 24
With almost 13,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in Arkansas Thursday (Jan. 13) and 2,621 active cases in Sebastian County, the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (UAFS) has decided to…
by - January 13, 2022 6:01 pm
Court date set for U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO
U.S. Marshals Museum President and CEO Patrick Weeks has a court date set for Feb. 15. Weeks was arrested Dec. 21 on two felony charges of aggravated assault with a…
by - January 12, 2022 4:29 pm
Commission moves forward on naming new Fort Smith park after John Bell Jr.
The Fort Smith Parks and Recreation Commission voted at its January meeting Wednesday (Jan. 12) to send a recommendation to the Fort Smith Board of Directors to name the city’s…
by - January 12, 2022 3:27 pm
Fort Smith loses bid on legal fee relief in FOIA lawsuit
The city of Fort Smith might have prevailed in a lawsuit filed against them in December alleging Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) violations in regard to proposals related to 0.75%…
by - January 11, 2022 8:39 pm
Fort Smith officials working with county, FCRA on another dog park
The city of Fort Smith is working to replace a city dog park that was closed the first of December, and City Administrator Carl Geffken announced during a Fort Smith…
by - January 10, 2022 8:09 pm
Mask mandate returns to Fort Smith Public Schools
Fort Smith Public Schools voted Monday (Jan. 10) at a called board meeting to reinstate a mask mandate for 30 days or unless the district falls to 49 or less…