Fort Smith

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat at Central Mall from 5pm to 7pm. Start at Center Court and pick up your bag and a sweet treat, then follow the line around the mall…

Pros and cons of medical marijuana debated

“Doctors are already telling their patients to break the law, and that doesn’t sound like America to me. It sounds like a broken system.” With those words, Ryan Denham made…

UAFS Robotics Mall Day

Check out the UAFS Robotics students showing off their creations in Center Court from 10am – 4pm.

America’s Cover Miss & Cover Boy Pageant

Registration 12pm; Pageant 1pm For more information go to www.arcovermiss.com

Vintage Sports & Memorabilia Show

Vendors show a variety of merchandise in the Center Court area during regular mall hours. Thursday – Sunday.

Vintage Sports & Memorabilia Show

Vendors show a variety of merchandise in the Center Court area during regular mall hours. Thursday – Sunday.

Pair makes powerful team for Paint the Park Pink

FORT SMITH — Best friends Patricia Brown and Vonda Gardner suffer no shortage of courage, spunk or perseverance. With Brown battling breast cancer for the second time in her life — and…

HP says job cuts plan will reach 29,000

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest personal-computer maker, expanded the total job cuts under its reorganization plan announced in May to 29,000, more than it had originally disclosed.] The cuts, exceeding…

Life skills effort pushed by Fort Smith Junior League

A young man wakes up and realizes he’s late for day one of his first job. While many adults — perhaps even his boss — would be shaking their heads…

The City Wire launches mobile browser theme

The City Wire has launched its new mobile theme format for use by the growing number of people around the world who get their news on mobile devices. The new…

ARCF awarded $9.6 million in grants during FY 2012

Arkansas Community Foundation (ARCF) announced Monday (Sept. 10) that $9.6 million in grants were awarded to Arkansas nonprofits to support charitable projects between July 2011 and June 2012. The fiscal year…

That terrible day

The many memorials this week were as painfully sobering as they were respectfully appropriate. It has been one year since that day. What fell from the sky one year ago…

Five-year law concerns bankers dealing real estate

Lots at Beaver lake, high-end condos just off Dickson, storage buildings on Joyce Ave., a strip center in Prairie Grove and a slew of lots scattered from Gravette to Goshen…

Tusk to Tail: ‘Gating before the disaster

With David Rice missing and Dale Cullins last seen incoherently weeping amidst the rubbish on a War Memorial golf course green, I reluctantly agreed to share some thoughts and impressions…

Wesley United Methodist Church Halloween Carnival

The Wesley United Methodist Church Halloween Carnival is a safe and fun way to enjoy Halloween. There will be games, prizes, food, door prizes, a haunted maze, and tons of…

Pondering the political aftermath

On a recent Thursday night in Charlotte, N.C., President Barack Obama told an adoring Democratic National Convention that the nation’s problems can be solved with “common effort, shared responsibility,” and…

Passion pursuit

I wonder what the word count would be if you took all the negative and discouraging words spoken in, about, and around the Republican and Democratic National Conventions the past…

Butterfly release is beautiful remembrance

“Like a butterfly, ovarian cancer whispers . . . so listen.” — Arkansas Ovarian Cancer Coalition FORT SMITH — The fourth annual Butterfly Release was held Saturday (Sept. 8) in…

ATU-Ozark enrollment tops 2,000

For the eighth consecutive year, Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus set an enrollment record. And, for the first time in its history, Arkansas Tech-Ozark has a fall enrollment of more than…

Cooper Clinic CEO talks about ‘tension’ with Mercy

Cooper Clinic CEO Doug Babb shed light on the organization’s shifting relationships with Sparks Regional Medical Center and Mercy Hospital at the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce First Friday…