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The NEA Women in Business Class of 2022

We are pleased to introduce to you the 2022 class of Northeast Arkansas Women in Business award winners. This is our fourth year producing this award for the region, and…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Crystal Booth

Crystal King Booth Founder/esthetician Fizz Facial Bar Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s degree of fine arts, University of Kentucky; esthetics certification, Summit Salon Academy What was your dream job and why?…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Laura Miller

Laura Miller Director Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at Arkansas State University Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s degree in business administration, University of Missouri; master’s degree in business administration,…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Crystal Johnson

Crystal Johnson CEO Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce Residence Batesville Education Bachelor’s degree, Harding University; master’s degree, University of Central Arkansas What has been the most fulfilling moment of your…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Amanda Deel

Amanda Deel Associate dean, academic affairs assistant professor, family medicine New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s degree in biology,…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Lexanne Horton

Lexanne Horton Vice president/controller Ritter Communications Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s degree in business administration-accounting, University of Memphis; master’s degree in business administration, Union University What was your dream job and…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Brenda Million

Brenda Forrest Million Vice president Women’s and Children’s Services St. Bernards Medical Center Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s degree in nursing, Arkansas State University; master’s degree in health care administration, Kennedy-Western…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Teresa Roche

Teresa Roche Private banking advisor Arvest Bank Residence Jonesboro What was your dream job and why? Union Planters Bank Memphis. I loved the people I worked with and enjoyed my…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Sandy Starnes

Sandy Starnes Senior vice president/marketing director Citizens Bank Residence Batesville Education Bachelor’s degree in business from Arkansas State University; graduate of Barrett School of Banking What was your dream job…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Cathy Tedder

Cathy K. Tedder CEO/Owner Eleven Point Fragrance Merchants/Scentations located in Walnut Ridge Residence Pocahontas Education Bachelor’s degree in marketing and business, Arkansas State University What was your dream job and…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Lenore Trammell

Lenore Trammell Chief administrative officer/chief compliance officer and general counsel Big River Steel Residence Osceola Education Bachelor’s degree, Howard University; juris doctorate, Wayne State University What was your dream job…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Christy Valentine

Christy Valentine Manager of academic partnerships Hytrol Conveyor Company Residence Jonesboro Education Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration-marketing, Arkansas State University What has been the most fulfilling moment of…

2022 NEA Women in Business: Debra West

Debra West Chancellor Arkansas State University Mid-South Residence West Memphis Education Associate’s degree in general studies, East Arkansas Community College; bachelor’s degree in physical science, University of Memphis; master’s degree…

Sen. Ingram says Medicaid expansion staved off hospital crisis, new factors causing concern

Sen. Keith Ingram, D-West Memphis, noted that a near decade of help from the state’s Medicaid expansion program has stabilized Arkansas’ health care system, but now a new set of…

Sales tax collections in Jonesboro surge by double-digits in August

Although sales and use tax collections in Jonesboro and Craighead County had maintained a steady record pace in recent months, those collections had slowed when compared to earlier in the…

Women’s Foundation of Arkansas selects 3 with NEA ties for Byrd internship program

The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas (WFA) has announced its 2022 participants in the Tjuana Byrd Internship Program. Three of the 25 internship participants are Arkansas State University current or former…

Pat Boone discusses Elvis, kissing Barbara Eden

Actor and singer Pat Boone had a serious problem. He’d been in several movies and had refused to kiss his leading ladies. At first, he told one director he couldn’t…

Farmers have decisions to make of crop residue use once harvest is over

A severe drought this summer has left at least half of Arkansas’ pasturelands in poor or very poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This will likely lead…

Weichert Real Estate Affiliates franchises The Property Shoppe in Batesville

Weichert Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. has franchised The Property Shoppe real estate company in Batesville. The Property Shoppe, becomes the eighth Weichert franchised office in the state of Arkansas and…

U.S. cotton farmers projected to harvest fewest acres since Reconstruction due to drought

If the newest harvest projections hold, U.S. farmers will harvest the least number of cotton acres in over 150 years. A crippling drought across many parts of the South and…

Pilot training school to scale at Drake Field

Connections: Northwest Arkansas leaders to participate in UCA program

Fort Smith Metro News Briefs: Charter school progress, and ‘Serious Fiber’ in downtown Fort Smith

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