by - December 15, 2021 2:02 pm
As the arts and entertainment industry emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, it has changed and begun to recover. Audiences have returned to venues, and area executives expect to build on…
by - December 14, 2021 5:14 pm
For the better part of a decade, the city of Jonesboro and its home county, Craighead have consistently set yearly sales and use tax collections records. In 2021, the largest…
by - December 14, 2021 5:11 pm
The Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program collected 85,974 pounds of unwanted pesticides in 13 counties during 2021 collection events. Since 2005, the Agricultural Abandoned Pesticide Program has overseen the collection of…
by - December 14, 2021 3:54 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday (Dec. 14) announced a plan to address the lengthy services waiting list for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The controversial list was cited by…
by - December 14, 2021 1:06 pm
The Fort Smith Parks and Recreation Commission is planning to name the Riverfront Drive Sports Fields after Fort Smith artist John Bell, Jr., but is open to other suggestions for…
by - December 14, 2021 8:23 am
The manufacturing sector is expected to continue to grow in 2022, but the growth is expected to moderate in the second half of the year as it accelerates in the…
by - December 13, 2021 7:23 pm
The Fort Smith Public Schools Board of Education reviewed a draft for a policy for naming district facilities and mascots that would restrict the ability to name facilities for a…
by - December 13, 2021 6:02 pm
It is never more evident than during the Christmas season that Americans want what they want when they want it, often without any notion of how it gets there. Now,…
by - December 13, 2021 2:18 pm
Creating a healthy environment for chickens can be a daunting task, but certain conditions are proving more lucrative for poultry farmers. Researchers at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station continued decades…
by - December 13, 2021 2:13 pm
Southern Bancorp Community Partners has hired Anthony Young as its next president. Young succeeds Dr. Karama Neal, who in Spring of 2021 was appointed Administrator for Rural Business-Cooperative Services at…
by - December 13, 2021 10:01 am
After weathering the storm of COVID-19, independent bookstores are seeing a resurgence both locally and nationally. According to a Publishers Weekly article titled “Another Pandemic Surprise: A Mini Indie Bookstore…
by - December 12, 2021 3:26 pm
Lou McAlister, CEO of Little Rock-based Broadband Development Group, has been tasked by the Arkansas Legislature to help create a master plan for expanding broadband Internet across the state. Already,…
by - December 12, 2021 1:07 pm
Speaker of the House Matthew Shepherd, R-El Dorado, believes the tax cut package implemented in this past week’s special session builds on previous efforts to reform the state’s tax code,…
by - December 12, 2021 12:44 pm
Steven Fenves was an avid stamp collector. The Jewish boy, living in Yugoslavia during the 1930s, spent hours on his collection of stamps. When his country was invaded at the…
by - December 12, 2021 12:36 pm
Jonesboro Cycle and ATV LLC made the most significant residential and commercial property transfer in Craighead County, from Oct. 15 through Nov. 15, according to the Craighead County Assessor’s Office….
by - December 12, 2021 10:37 am
Doug Ramsey and Bernie Adcock, who put in a combined 61 years at Tyson Foods, have left the company to take executive positions at Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat is aggressively…
by - December 12, 2021 9:55 am
Selling products into retail chains like Walmart has its challenges. Still, two former aerospace and defense industry executives rolled up their sleeves and hung a shingle in downtown Rogers to…
by - December 12, 2021 9:52 am
Federally-insured commercial banks and savings intuitions saw net income rise by 35.9% to $69.5 billion in the third quarter, from the same period in 2020, according to a recent report…
by - December 10, 2021 5:41 pm
The Cobb/Lyerly/Owens Partnership in Lake City (Craighead Co.) is the 2021 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. The honor was announced Thursday (Dec. 9) at a luncheon in North Little…
by - December 10, 2021 3:58 pm
Springdale-based Tyson Foods is seeking an injunction against former executive Rex Holstein in Washington County Circuit Court after Holstein took a job at a rival poultry company. According to a…
