Fort Smith

Tommy Terrific!

Magician Tommy Terrific is BACK this summer with "Passport Magic," a magic show featuring magic tricks from around the world! This event is free and part of our "One World, Many…

Indian Taco Dinner Fundraiser

Friends of the Cedarville Public Library will be hosting an Indian Taco Dinner fundraiser. The proceeds will go towards finishing the inside of the new Cedarville Public Library building. Dinner…

Summer Blingage

Tweens and Teens are invited to come to the Cedarville Public Library and make a fun summer bracelet or necklace. This event is free. Snacks will be served. For more…

Pilot Club provides money to Fountain of Youth

The Pilot Club of Fort Smith will match a grant of $2,368 from the Pilot International Foundation to support the Fountain of Youth Adult Day Center. A check in the…

Board to review large fire, police budget requests

A change in police pay policy and improvements to the city’s fire protection — two items to result in significant budget increases if approved — are on tap for discussion…

Rising fuel prices zap consumer confidence

If there was a glimmer of hope found in our the first quarter Arkansas Consumer Confidence Report, the second quarter survey may have dashed it. Rising gasoline prices and fear…

Paid media

Riff Raff, by Michael Tilley [email protected] We FOI’d ourselves this week about secret correspondence we’ve been having with the city of Fort Smith. After our attorneys argued with themselves as…

Summer Jam draws hundreds despite rain

The Juneteenth event raised money for Bass Reeves’ statue, Community Clearinghouse and the Children’s Emergency Shelter.

Religious convention packs Fort Smith hotels, restaurants

Thousands of people traveled to Fort Smith this weekend for the annual Jehovah’s Witnesses convention. The three day event kicked off Friday morning, according to this report from KFSM 5…

Learning Fields at Chaffee Crossing July 1st Saturday Event

During the summer on the 1st Saturday of the month, The Learning Fields at Chaffee Crossing opens its demonstration gardens to the public. July’s 1st Saturday will be July 2nd…

Paddock’s Picks: South to Alaska

The perfect gift for Father’s Day might be a book about a father who built a boat in Arkansas and piloted it to Alaska.

Trail, reflecting pool first part of ATU-Ozark capital campaign

A capital campaign will soon deliver several campus to the Arkansas Tech University—Ozark Campus, to include a $100,000 walking trail around the campus scheduled for completion in October. The one-half…

Sale to result in 225 jobs lost in Harrison

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Rhode Island-based United Natural Foods Inc. today (June 10) announced the…

Meadors: We have ‘moral high ground’ in 1% tax lawsuit

Not only does Fort Smith attorney Brian Meadors seek to force an election on Fort Smith’s 1% prepared food tax, he wants to teach the city a lesson with a…

2010 saw Arkansas jobless rates up across the board

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] While we’ve seen stability in the Arkansas unemployment rate, it has…

Adam & Eats: Gringo’s

The duck decor is odd for a tex-mex place, the service is odd and food leans more to good than great.

Blount receives Riggs Award; Van Buren achievements noted

Mary Jan Blount was honored with the 2011 Iverson Riggs Memorial Citizen of the Year Award in front of a crowd of at least 400 attending the 56th Annual Meeting…

USDA contract to boost area employment

Up to 15 new jobs could be the result of a new federal contract awarded to Van Buren-based Tankersley Foodservice. According to this report from KFSM 5 News, Tankersley Foodservice…

Democratic fundraiser sparks controversy

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, and Jason Tolbert wrote this report. Brock can be reached at [email protected] Sen. Larry Teague, D-Nashville, is busy gearing up…