Fort Smith

Philpot’s BottomLineTips: Business succession

The hand off of a business is emotionally important and vital to the financial success of the owner or owners.

BHP exec discusses Fayetteville Shale

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Earlier this year Australia-based BHP Billiton’s acquired Chesapeake Energy’s and Petrohawk’s…

Quarterly, annual income down for Tyson Foods

An $82 million loss in the chicken segment pulled fourth-quarter earnings for Tyson Food down to $95 million, well below the $208 million earned during the 2010 period. For the…

Generous deductions

It’s important to follow IRS rules in the “giving” season.

Frankly speaking

Riff Raff, by Michael Tilley [email protected] There has been a lot to witness, consider and attempt to understand in recent months. We’ve had Whirlpool announce they are shutting down and…

Razorback football player dies

story submitted by the University of Arkansas Public Relations office A University of Arkansas student-athlete, Garrett Uekman, was found unconscious and unresponsive in his room in the Northwest Quad residence…

Columbus’ ships end stay in Fort Smith

Hundreds of area school children experience a living history lesson on the most accurate caravel reproductions ever built.

Soup Sunday

Soup Sunday is 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Feb. 26, 2012 at Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale. Sample soups, breads and desserts from more than 30 local restaurants. Cost…

The cuisine of Crystal Bridges

Editor’s note: This is the fourth story about the opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. The City Wire will in the next few weeks post several…

‘Pasture Poultry’ farm study funded

story submitted by the University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Center for Food Safety is participating in a grant project that will determine the food…

Car money

Quarterly income is up for America’s Car-Mart.

Proposed pay raises would lower city fund balance

story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] While cuts took center stage at Thursday night’s second of three budget meetings for 2012, the Fort Smith Board of Directors is leaning toward pay…

Income, expenses up for Chaffee Trust

story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) may have been on a two-month hiatus from regularly scheduled meetings, but they were back with a vengeance Thursday…

Holiday Market opens with a preview party

This fundraiser helps support the Junior League’s community projects, which are Done in a Day, Literacy Committee, Kids in the Kitchen, Girl’s Education and Mentoring, and Children’s Emergency Shelter.

Adam & Eats: Molly’s Eggrolls & Smoothies

It is a relatively new venture and they are still working out a few kinks, but for the most part the place rocks.

Area foreclosure activity down in October

Foreclosures during October in the Fort Smith region were down more than 35%, similar to the national figures, according to a monthly report from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac. The number of…

Fort Smith Department of Sanitation seeks service feedback

The Fort Smith Department of Sanitation (DOS) seeks feedback from citizens who have recently been converted from manual trash collection to the automated refuse collection service. The automated service was…

Alma joins holiday trail of lights

Alma joins more than 60 communities around Arkansas this holiday season as a participant in the Arkansas Trail of Holiday Lights, notes a report from the Arkansas Department of Parks…

Study ranks Arkansas’ corporate tax competitiveness

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] A new study prepared by Ernst & Young for the Arkansas…

Wingfoot expands U.S. footprint

Fort Smith-based Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems has opened two new Wingfoot Truck Care Centers in Joplin, Mo., and Greenwood, La. With these openings, there are now 40 Wingfoot Truck Care…