by - December 16, 2008 7:57 pm
The Fort Smith area has three finalists named in the 2009 Henry Awards, Arkansas’ only program recognizing achievement in the state’s tourism industry. The Arkansas-Oklahoma State Fair is one of…
by - December 16, 2008 11:37 am
The Fort Smith board of directors plan a Jan. 10 board retreat to discuss past, present and future issues and events. No official time has been set, but previous retreats…
by - December 16, 2008 7:17 am
It’s unclear what impact the sale of Little Rock-based Alltel Corp. to Verizon will have on the estimated 50-60 Alltel jobs in the Fort Smith Area. Verizon Wireless is buying…
by - December 15, 2008 5:50 pm
Ivy Owen, director of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority, issued a “Year End Report” late Monday (Dec. 12) that highlighted the “FCRA and its successes this past year.” The FCRA…
by - December 15, 2008 4:57 pm
Repair work from hail and wind storms earlier this year continue to boost Fort Smith building permit numbers. For the first two weeks of December, the city has issued 179…
by - December 15, 2008 1:50 pm
Reports posted Monday — including for a brief time at The City Wire — that Fort Smith-based Baldor Electric Co., planned to cut 900 jobs by June 2009 are wrong,…
by - December 14, 2008 9:02 pm
Cargill Value Added Meats has found a plant in Nebraska in which to locate the operations it lost when its Booneville plant was destroyed by fire. More than 800 jobs…
by - December 12, 2008 4:35 pm
The City Wire economic review for the week of Dec. 8 – Dec. 12: • The Arkansas Realtors Association reported Thursday that November homes sales in Crawford and Sebastian counties…
by - December 12, 2008 3:50 pm
Foreclosure numbers from Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac show 116 foreclosure activities in the Fort Smith region in November 2008, a 45 percent increase from November 2007 and a 6.4 percent increase…
by - December 12, 2008 11:09 am
A bill filed recently by State Rep. Tracy Pennartz, D-Fort Smith, seeks to avoid the “turmoil” that resulted when former Fort Smith city director Velvet Medlock chose to live in…
by - December 12, 2008 10:42 am
Morril Harriman, a veteran of 16 years in the Arkansas Senate representing the Van Buren/Fort Smith area, said “communication, communication, communication” is vital for area business and civic leaders interested…
by - December 12, 2008 7:28 am
November passenger traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport fell 26.3 percent compared to November 2007. This follows a 20.5 percent decline in October traffic compared to the previous year….
by - December 11, 2008 10:01 am
Regional real estate sales for the first 10 months of the year show double-digit percentage declines in many cases of the number of homes sold and the total value of…
by - December 10, 2008 4:59 pm
Despite the recent layoffs at Whirlpool, Rheem, Trane, Riverside and other Fort Smith area manufacturers, the manufacturing sector remains an important part of the regional economy. The future of that…
by - December 10, 2008 4:05 pm
The City Wire has learned that Wakarusa, a large “music and camping festival," has relocated its venue from Lawrence, Kan., to Ozark for its June 2009 festival. The four-day festival…
by - December 10, 2008 2:53 pm
Sales tax collections in the Fort Smith region (Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties) indicate that consumer spending remained strong in the January-September 2008 period. The only decline in the…
by - December 10, 2008 10:35 am
The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department submitted Wednesday (Dec. 10) a $1.1 billion project list for consideration as Congress prepares to push an infrastructure stimulus plan. Of that, $116 million…
by - December 10, 2008 7:58 am
Average and median prices of new and existing homes in the Fort Smith/Van Buren markets dropped 3.6 percent and rose 0.5 percent, respectively, between Aug. 4 and Dec. 8. The…
by - December 10, 2008 7:43 am
News from around the state is reminiscent of the phrase, “One step forward, two steps back.” The step forward is news from North Little Rock Mayor Pat Hays that the…
by - December 9, 2008 4:20 pm
Officials with the city of Fort Smith are interested in purchasing an electronic means of mass communication that would effectively reach citizens in emergencies or other important events. Fort Smith…
