Fort Smith

It’s important to avoid burn out

Stockman says a business owner unable to step back and relax may jeopardize the future of the business.

Smart meters coming to Fort Smith

The national push to implement “smart” technology to the electric power grid and meters on buildings is expected to arrive in the Fort Smith area by the spring/summer of 2012….

Manufacturing, medicine boost construction activity

Manufacturing and medicine are playing a key role in what may prove to be a huge increase in the 2011 value of construction permitted in Fort Smith. For the first…

Embrace Your Geek Day

Celebrate "Embrace Your Geek Day" at the Mulberry Public Library. Best dressed "geeks" will win a prize! Dress up or down, the wilder the better! Prizes for two age groups: 6-12…

Scrapbooking

Bring your 4th of July and/or summertime fun pictures to the Alma Public Library and scrapbook your free two page patriotic layout. Need to bring own adhesive, all other materials…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Government support

Is free enterprise killing innovation?

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…