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Small business loans examined

Stockman dissects a couple of handy loan packages offered by the Small Business Administration.

Logan, Yoder members of Arkansas Leadership class

Coby Logan, an attorney with the law firm of Daily & Woods, and Whitney Yoder, vice president of Operations and Program Development and Implementation for the Fort Smith Regional Chamber…

Brothers bring the Cottage back to downtown Van Buren

story and photo by Marla Cantrell [email protected] For generations, the Cottage Café in downtown Van Buren was the gathering place for diners who couldn’t get enough of the landmark restaurant’s…

Fort Smith air travel takes surprising October dip

Enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport took a surprising negative turn in October, but at least one area travel agent sees early signs of “slight” improvement. October enplanements at…

Retail fraud growing

U.S. retailers hit annually with $191 billion in fraud.

Beebe expands workforce services for jobless

With economic conditions continuing to keep unemployment levels high, Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday (Nov. 9) announced an expansion of programs to help the unemployed and underemployed. Arkansas’ unemployment rate…

Babysitter Training (Red Cross)

Babysitter Training has been newly revised by the Red Cross with input from our youth. The course is fun and fast-paced with hands-on activities, exciting video, role-plays, and lively discussions….

Let the shopping games begin!

Holiday shoppers get an early start with a weekend “Open House” in downtown Van Buren

Realtors will love this

The new and improved homebuyer tax credit is generous.

Remembering Raymond and the others

Editor’s note: This essay was first published in November 2002 when I was the business editor of the Times Record. A version of that essay can be found here.) This…

UAFS Lady Lions end first D-II season with conference wins

Editor’s note: Story by Jonathan Gipson, sports information director for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. DALLAS – After 11 successful seasons of competition at the junior college level,…

Strong second half sends Cornhuskers past UAFS Lions

Editor’s note: Story by Jonathan Gipson, sports information director for the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. LINCOLN, Neb. – University of Arkansas at Fort Smith men’s basketball coach…

New CEO and CFO named at Sparks hospital

Melody Trimble will be the new CEO of Sparks Regional Medical Center and its more than 2,000 employees beginning Dec. 1, according to a memo from a Health Management Associates…

Staff additions, changes made at Marshals Museum

Barbara Harvel is the new director of development for the U.S. Marshals Museum, with former Museum Project Director Sandi Sanders moving to support efforts related to the national and local…

360 Leadership group hears about champion principles

story and photo by Linda Kaufenberg Mike Thompson, author of “The Organizational Champion” and CEO of SVI, an organizational development company, spoke on the four core principles of being a…

Overall optimism

Most Americans remain optimistic, but less so than in the recent past.

Flu worries increase interest in alternative remedies

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Last week in Arkansas, 172,873 people stood in long lines, sat in stuffy cars or in stiff chairs at clinics across the state just to…

City of Fort Smith issues yard debris rules

The following statement was issued by Garry Cathcart, an administrative supervisor with the city of Fort Smith: Cooler temperatures bring spectacular bursts of fall foliage. When nature is finished with…

2010 Arkansas House proceedings to go live

TalkBusiness.net has reported that the management committee of the Arkansas House of Representatives has approved live Internet streaming of all House proceedings and committee meetings by the start of the…

Sparks officials bittersweet about deal to sell hospital

The first thing likely seen by a visitor to the administrative offices of Sparks Health System is a 1902 photograph of the simple 2-story Belle Pointe Hospital at N. 10th…