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UA Fort Smith Junior High Band Camp

Junior High Band Camp — Runs daily June 6-10, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Breedlove. Cost is $150 and includes a daily lunch buffet in the Lions…

Community leaders recognized at LFS event

About 120 attend Leadership Fort Smith graduation and community awards banquet.

Marshals Museum receives $1 million pledge

A $1 million pledge to the U.S. Marshals Museum puts the documented pledges around the $8.3 million mark. The $1 million pledge is from a source in the Fort Smith…

No surprises at Wal-Mart shareholder meeting

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] While Wal-Mart’s profits and international businesses accelerate, investors, shareholders and top…

UAFS students dig in Peru

story submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Students enrolled in the Maymester course Inca Civilization at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith visited ancient Inca sites…

Regional bankruptcies and incorporations

Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….

Art Museum features ‘Women to Watch’ exhibition

The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum presents July 1 to Sept. 15 the 2011 Arkansas Women to Watch statewide traveling exhibition. Viewing days and hours are Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m. to…

Jazz gets June moving

Supporters of the Bonneville House Association gather to raise money and celebrate Jazz in June.

‘The City Wire Scene’ launches a new networking event

Assurance Realty and BBR members partnered to host and coordinate the after-hours gathering.

Anger, tension grows in 1% tax issue

story by Michael Tilley [email protected] The animosity between sides in the debate over the 1% prepared food tax in Fort Smith grows with each new wrinkle. It recently hit a…

Adam & Eats: Pat’s Place

This new restaurant brings to the area straightforward, simple, southern food.

Accounting pessimism

Number crunchers are less optimistic about the economy.

Revenue report: Fuel prices slow consumer spending

Arkansas’ May revenue report suggests higher fuel prices are slowing consumer spending, which in turn pushed sales tax collections below the forecast. Overall, state tax collections for the 11 months…

Fracking fluid disclosures on file

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] "What’s in the water?" That was the impetus for a consensus…

With trees removed, UAFS library expansion moves forward

story by Aric Mitchell [email protected] Planning delays are to blame for the brief pause in the Boreham Library expansion, and not concerns over the loblolly pine tree removal project, which…

Big Screen Peter: The Hangover II

It’s an unapologetic continuance of the first bit of “brilliant” nonsense, and it still works in delivering laughs and a good movie.

Flowers to retire as Arkansas highway director

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] After 43 years of roadside service, Arkansas’ highway director is driving…

Foreclosed home sales in area down in early 2011

There were 62 foreclosed homes sold in the Fort Smith region during the first quarter of 2011, down from the 72 in same quarter of 2010, and with the average…

Fishing, swimming and the quiet side of Mulberry

story by Connie Las-Schneider If your idea of fun is spending four days partying with a huge crowd high on music and mayhem, Wakarusa Music Festival is for you. For…

Fort Smith jobless rate drops below 8%

The Fort Smith metro jobless rate fell to an estimated 7.7% in April, with the estimated number of unemployed falling below 11,000 for the first time in five months. According…