Fort Smith

IC School 40th Annual Spaghetti Dinner

40th Annual IC School Spaghetti Dinner on Feb 21, 2010 from 4-7pm. Cost is $10/adult and $5/child Kids 2 and under are free. Dine In IC Galvin Parrish Hall or…

2009 Fort Smith enplanements drop 9.8%

Not since 1986 have so few people flown out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport. Enplanements in 2009 at the airport totaled 78,432, down 9.8% from the 87,030 enplanements in…

Frugal cities

Coupons.com says folks in Atlanta and Tampa most frugal.

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….

Girl Scouts name local Women of Distinction

Zena Featherston-Marshall, Louise Turner and Tracy Winchell have been named the 2010 Women of Distinction in the Fort Smith region by the Arkansas Girl Scouts organization. Formal recognition for the…

UAFS air rifle teams receives grant

The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith was one of 16 colleges and universities in 10 states to receive grants from the National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. Roy Hill, coach…

‘It’s Complicated’ is banal and disconnected, but in a funny way

Peter says the acting of Streep and Baldwin save the movie from being typical Hollywood tripe.

Westphal family increases donation to Marshals Museum

The Westphal family has donated another 2.36 acres to the U.S. Marshals Museum, boosting the family’s total land donation to almost 6 acres of prime riverfront property. News of the…

Official call made for Christmas Honors support

The Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce issued the following press release Wednesday (Jan. 6) providing information about the Christmas Honors project. The release includes a call for volunteers to…

Bad credit

Fitch reports that credit card delinquencies hit a new record.

Arkansas Best officials not focused on YRC troubles

While the bankruptcy of national trucking giant YRC would boost the fortunes of Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best Corp., officials with the Fort Smith trucking company aren’t pinning their hopes on…

Realtor talks ups, downs of Alma-area housing market

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Blake Rogers, owner of Jim White Realty in Alma, was happy to talk about the effects of the lackluster economy on house sales. He just…

Fort Smith Junior Chamber “Jaycees”

703 Rogers Ave, Fort Smith, AR Community Service Group Meeting for ages 21 to 41

Fort Smith Junior Chamber “Jaycees”

703 Rogers Ave, Fort Smith, AR Community Service Group Meeting for ages 21 to 41

Fort Smith Town Club closes 3 weeks earlier than planned

The Fort Smith Town Club closed its doors Tuesday (Jan. 6), more than three weeks before the original closing date of Jan. 31. Town Club board member Phil White said…

Trouble with China?

A global consulting group is concerned about U.S.-China relations.

Fort Smith metro jobless rate remains high in November

Those Mitsubishi and Oxane jobs can’t get here fast enough. Fort Smith’s metro unemployment rate in November was 7.7%, a slight improvement over the 7.8% in October. Unfortunately, the October…

Arkansas tax collections continue decline

A declining tax revenue problem that caused Gov. Mike Beebe to cut the fiscal 2010 state budget by $100 million continues. Arkansas tax collections between July and December are $2.577…

Arkansas has several groups able to help entrepreneurs, small business owners

Stockman says the state’s “tool kit” of organizations is able to support growing or medium-sized businesses.

Arkansas debt owed to Feds balloons to $222.6 million

Arkansas’ unemployment insurance tab as of Dec. 31 with Uncle Sam was $222.61 million, lower than an early October projection of $223.8 million at year’s end. But the tab could…