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Tech with Tom: Get a Web site

If you are in business and don’t have a Web site, your days in business are numbered.

Fayetteville Shale boosting Southwestern Energy earns

Southwestern Energy invested a whopping $319 million in the Fayetteville Shale during the first quarter of 2010, propelling the Houston-based natural gas driller back into the black despite dismal natural…

Hurst returns to Van Buren to help with city planning

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Meet Joe Hurst. He’s Van Buren’s new city planner. Or he soon will be. He’s made a verbal agreement with Mayor Bob Freeman and is…

The City Wire Special report: The bipolar world

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of stories on mental illness issues. Throughout 2010 The City Wire will attempt to post at least one story a month…

Questions remain with Malone, Altes contribution reports

Questions remain with a campaign finance report filed by Rep. Stephanie Malone, R-Fort Smith, and the campaign reports of Sen. Denny Altes, R-Fort Smith, present a similar question about contribution…

Operation Medicine Cabinet

Operation Medicine Cabinet is sponsored by the Fort Smith Police Department and will be held in the parking lot of Arvest Bank located at 5000 Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith,…

Adam & Eats: Pizza Parlour

The pizza and salad bar score well, but Adam’s science joke is hard to stomach.

Whirlpool hourly job count up to 1,930; shift cuts may be delayed

Maybe the recent gains in the manufacturing sector are courtesy of employment gains at Whirlpool’s Fort Smith plant. Whirlpool spokeswoman Jill Saletta confirmed that the refrigerator production plant has 1,930…

Tax credit program could support Marshals Museum

The Fort Smith Housing Authority is preparing to establish itself as a Community Development Entity to bring the development potential of New Markets Tax Credits to the region. New Markets…

Book Signing with Pauline Triplett Beckman – “In My Mind’s Eye”

Pauline Triplett Beckman will hold a book signing in the lobby of the Fort Smith Museum of History, 320 Rogers Avenue, on Saturday, May 22, 2010, 2:00-4:00 pm. "In My Mind’s…

The Fort in Flight: Bud Mars and the City’s Aviation History

In celebration of the centennial of the Fort Smith Museum of History, the museum’s latest exhibit will open in the Boyd Gallery on May 21, 2010, the one…

Obama nominates Holmes for federal judgeship (Updated)

President Barack Obama has nominated Fort Smith attorney P.K. Holmes III to be the next U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. Holmes was recommended in early December…

Another good report for the national trucking industry

March continued a four-month positive trend in the American Trucking Associations’ Index which points to recovery in a bellwether sector for the national economy. The ATA report for March shows…

Census Bureau trying to hire 1,300 area temp workers

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] With an 8.3% the unemployment rate in the Fort Smith metro area, you’d think it would be easy to fill open positions, but that’s not…

King Opera House to premiere ‘Silent Storytellers’

story and photo by Marla Cantrell [email protected] The King Opera House was built on the same Van Buren street where Albert Pike downed mint juleps with city founder John Drennen,…

Happy quarter

Bank of the Ozarks sees big earnings increase.

The Losers is a loser

Peter says the movie is more junk from Hollywood’s special stash of comic-book inspired movies.

‘Numa’ makes official UAFS debut

info for this story submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith What began more than a year ago as an idea of University of Arkansas at Fort Smith…

Baldor income down; report beats Wall Street estimates

Baldor Electric Co. reported declines in first quarter revenue and net income, but the report was better than what Wall Street was expecting. The Fort Smith-based global manufacturing and distribution…

Sparks hospital filling out top management staff

Sparks Health System CEO Melody Trimble has now filled all but one of the hospital’s top management positions with the hiring of Sue Conley as the chief operations officer. Conley…