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Harlem Gospel Choir

Harlem Gospel Choir April 10, 2010 Van Buren Fine Arts Center 2001 Pointer Trail Van Buren The world-renouned Harlem Gospel Choir provides an exciting and inspirational finale for the 2009-2010…

Center For Arts & Education Presents Gary Morris In Concert

Center For Art and Education Presents Gary Morris in concert April 9 7 p.m. King Opera House 427 Main Street Van Buren Center For Art & Education Presents Gary Morris…

Blast From The Past

Blast From The Past With Tribute Artists April 3 7 p.m. King Opera House 427 Main Street Van Buren Blast From The Past with Tribute artists. For more information call…

Blast From The Past

Blast From The Past With Tribute Artists April 3 7 p.m. King Opera House 427 Main Street Van Buren Blast From The Past with Tribute artists. For more information…

Walmart gives $467 million to U.S. nonprofits

Walmart announced Thursday (April 1) its charitable giving in the U.S. totaled more than $467 million in cash and in-kind gifts in fiscal year ending 2010 — an $89 million…

Arkansas Best, Baldor, USA Truck see quarterly stock gains

The three publicly held companies based in the Fort Smith area saw their stock prices gain during the first quarter of 2010 — a trend not unlike that with most…

Arvest issues statement on student loan change

Bentonville-based Arvest Bank took the unusual step Wednesday (March 31) of notifying its customers, universities and the media that the federal government is soon to end the national banking industry’s…

Buzz kill execs

A majority of marketing execs frown on April Fools’ pranks.

Hot Tub Time Machine. Silly, right? Wrong.

Peter says the silliness is blended with good writing and solid acting to create “surprising depth.”

Wine & Roses sponsors prep for the big event

Sponsors party gives event supporters an opportunity to meet with organizers and artists.

The City Wire Special Report: A preacher crusades for a medical clinic

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

iPad, e-Reader disruption

A new survey attempts to gauge content distribution preferences.

UAFS International Festival 2010 features 32 countries

Attendance increases to 1,000, with international experience including native foods and native dances.

Baldor exec pay down, employee profit plan up

What a difference a year makes for the employees of Baldor Electric Co.’s profit sharing and savings plan — a plan that holds 3.578 million shares of company stock, or…

Williams promoted to Arvest branch manager

Brian Williams has been promoted to branch manager for Arvest Bank at the Rye Hill location in Fort Smith. Williams has been with Arvest for four years and was assistant…

Fort Smith board agrees to pursue homeless task force ideas (Correction)

Editor’s note: See correction below. The Fort Smith Board of Directors agreed to actively pursue recommendations to respond more collaboratively to the city’s homeless problems, with City Director Steve Tyler…

Arkansas Trucking Report profiles new Arkansas Best CEO

Editor’s note: Following is probably one of the best introductions — written from a lengthy interview — of Judy McReynolds, the relatively new president and CEO of Fort Smith-based Arkansas…

Nonprofit woes

2010 expected to be tough for nonprofit groups.

USA Truck, Baldor expect higher costs from new health care law

While the debate rages as to how much the newly signed federal health care law will cost the U.S. business community, at least two publicly held companies important to the…

Harris, Hunton push for District 87 House seat

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Republican Justin Harris will face Democrat Earl Hunton in the District 87 Arkansas State Representative race in November. Both call themselves conservatives. Hunton is pro-life…