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Foundation Gives Its First Grant in Carroll County

The Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation awards its first grant in Carroll County.

NCAA Questions Hogs About Harrod

If some new questions raised by NCAA investigators can?t be answered satisfactorily, Houston Nutt?s Arkansas Razorbacks will have much more to worry about this fall than who their starting quarterback will be.

Campbell-Bell Renovation To Be Completed in July

Three developers are nearing completion of the renovation of the historic Campbell-Bell building on the downtown Fayetteville square.

Planning Makes Like-Kind Exchanges Work

Like-kind real estate exchanges are a legal shell game that can help property owners defer big bucks in tax liabilities.

Fayetteville Council Extends HMR Tax

The Fayetteville City Council passed an ordinance June 5 that extends the city?s 2 percent hotel/motel/restaurant (HMR) tax to convenience stores, carryout pizza businesses and grocery store delicatessens.

Village Epicureans Closes After Eight Years

The Village Epicureans, a restaurant specializing in vegetarian food, closed June 2 after eight years in business in Fayetteville.

O?Charley?s Plans Rogers Restaurant

O?Charley?s Inc. plans to open a 6,923-SF restaurant in Rogers? Scottsdale Center in the spring of 2002.

Powerhouse Begins Catering Operation

Powerhouse Seafood & Grill in Fayetteville recently began catering events.

Cool Water Offers Lunch Oasis

Cool Water in Fayetteville recently impressed our lunch party.

Co-mingling Expected to Grow ONSC Fund

Huntsville?s Ozark Natural Science Center on May 24 became the first nonprofit agency to have a co-mingled endowment with the Northwest Arkansas Community Foundation?s family of funds.

Northwest Arkansas MSA Shrinks Unemployment

In April, the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metropolitan statistical area continued to sport the lowest unemployment rate of metros in Arkansas.

Slashing on Dickson Appears to be Gang Related

Billy Arthur Jordan, 19, was arrested for allegedly slashing the throat of Charles Condra on May 10 at a pay phone outside the Campus Book Store on Fayetteville?s Dickson Street.

Fayetteville Jewelers Hit by Recent Robberies

Two jewelry stores in the Northwest Arkansas Mall were robbed at about 4 a.m. on May 27.

Hight-Jackson Scores Big Regional Contract

Hight-Jackson Associates of Rogers recently landed a $24 million account with the Pittsburg, Kan., school district for construction and renovation of the district?s schools through 2006.

Ozark Shopper Invites Businesses to Sell Online

Father-and-son team Garry and Kelly Prophet created Ozark Shopper to offer online classified ads to individuals and companies in Northwest Arkansas.

Fayetteville Designer Goes Digital with New Venture

For less than $4,000, a graphic designer opened a new business to create videos similar to those on television music channels.

Arkansas Portable Toilet Rentals

Proclaiming himself the ?Toilet Tycoon? of Northwest Arkansas, Larry Palmer recently opened a local division of Arkansas Portable Toilet Rentals.

Cox Line Up To Be Uniform For Area

Cox Communications is currently working on about 25 of Fayetteville?s 60 ?nodes? as part of the $25 million renovation of the city?s cable television system.

Douglas Suffers Second Stroke

Bob Douglas, 76, former managing editor of the Arkansas Gazette and chairman of the University of Arkansas? journalism department, suffered a stroke on May 27.

Big Stories: Mail Boxes Smashed, Pig Attacks

Recent local media stories made Northwest Arkansas seem like the boondocks.

Arkansas Economic Developers and Chamber Executives elects new leaders

Arkansas Children’s CEO describes $50M historic gift origins, goals

UAMS receives $3.18 million grant for REAL Deal program

State gets $209 million for rural health under OBBBA