by - August 10, 2023 7:05 pm
The Fort Kids Children’s Museum in Fort Smith kicked off its capital campaign Thursday (Aug. 10) with a $15,000 donation from Fort Smith Mayor George McGill. The proceeds were raised…
by - August 9, 2023 2:28 pm
The City of Fort Smith repaired 182 leaks in the second quarter of the year, bringing the total number of leaks down to 426 throughout the city. However, that is…
by - August 8, 2023 8:50 pm
Sebastian County voters on Tuesday (Aug. 8) approved by a wide margin another 10-year run for the county’s 1% sales tax. The tax, which generated almost $34 million in 2022,…
by - August 8, 2023 12:05 pm
The City of Fort Smith has improved livestreaming the Board of Directors meetings. Beginning with the Aug. 15 regular board meeting, meetings will be livestreamed through the city’s newly launched…
by - August 7, 2023 5:38 pm
Because of construction delays at Ballman Elementary School in Fort Smith, Ballman students will begin the school year at Fairview Elementary School when they return to the classroom Aug. 14….
by - August 7, 2023 11:39 am
Visitors came by the thousands to see the U.S. Marshals Museum on the riverfront in Fort Smith during its inaugural month. Hannah Green, marketing coordinator, said the museum saw about…
by - August 4, 2023 9:50 am
Tracey Geren, president and CEO of Fort Smith-based Weldon, Williams and Lick (WWL), will retire in 2024 after 38 years with the company. Ron Wilson has been named company president…
by - August 3, 2023 10:59 am
Construction slowed in the Fort Smith metro area in July but year-to-date numbers are still much higher than those in 2022. Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren combined for $26.564…
by - August 2, 2023 6:52 pm
The Fort Smith International Film Festival has taken a step up, growing from a festival into a film market thanks to a partnership with Porter + Craig Film and Media…
by - August 2, 2023 9:02 am
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Aug. 1) approved an ordinance that amends the fowl ordinance adopted July 11 that will allow property owners of large tracts of…
by - August 1, 2023 3:05 pm
HanesBrands has confirmed it is closing its hosiery production plant in Clarksville at the end of September. The move shutters a plant that once employed at least 570 in the…
by - August 1, 2023 1:58 pm
Haas Hall Academy will open the newest high school Aug. 10 on the fourth floor of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) Research Institute Health and Wellness Center in…
by - August 1, 2023 10:12 am
Rogers-based Beaty Capital Group (BCG), which owns TempleLive in downtown Fort Smith, has obtained an $8.1 million construction loan for a second phase of renovation of the more than 100-year-old…
by - July 31, 2023 4:58 pm
Fort Smith-based ArcBest and its subsidiary ABF Freight have a “meaningful” chance of turning the failure of Yellow into bottom-line green, according to investor notes from Stephens Inc. issued Monday…
by - July 31, 2023 12:09 pm
The $3.515 million sale of an office building used by the Social Security Administration was the top June property deal in Sebastian County, according to information provided by the office…
by - July 28, 2023 10:12 am
Fewer orders and smaller shipments were primarily responsible for a 60.5% decline in second quarter net income at Fort Smith-based ArcBest, the company reported Friday (July 28). Revenue in the…
by - July 27, 2023 6:16 pm
Broken air conditioning led the Sebastian County Election Commission to move a second voting center to a new location for the Aug. 8 special election on the county-wide sales tax….
by - July 27, 2023 5:49 pm
If the stars line up in the next few months amid the gravity of “woke” politics, the ongoing effort to create a foreign military pilot training center in Fort Smith…
by - July 26, 2023 6:59 pm
The search for a new director of the Fort Smith Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is moving forward. Eight people applied for the CVB executive director position, a job left…
by - July 24, 2023 5:24 pm
Fort Smith sales tax revenues in June, while higher than collections last year, did not show the significant increase from last year’s revenues the city has seen in months prior….
