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It Musta Been a Slow News Week

Admittedly, it usually is between Christmas and New Year’s Day. But some of the stories we saw on local television news were a little far out there. KFSM-TV, Channel 5,…

A Case of Unfortunate Timing

The lead story in The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas’ Fayetteville section on Dec. 30 was published under this six-column headline: “Building a bridge to the future: Youth Bridge Emergency…

A Case of Misidentification

Anyone can make a mistake, but Arkansas’ only statewide paper should have known this guy: John McDonnell, the University of Arkansas track coach. McDonnell is the winningest track coach in…

Internet Providers Get to Points (of Presence)

Probably the best way to rank local Internet service providers would be by the amount of revenue they bring in. But until the companies start turning their financial statements over…

Bank of the Ozarks Inc.

Directors of Bank of the Ozarks Inc. have declared a dividend of 10 cents a share on the bank’s common stock. The dividend is payable Jan. 14 to shareholders of…

Refinancing ?IMPACs? Bentonville Courtyard

Bentonville’s Courtyard by Marriot hotel at 1001 McLain Road in Bentonville was part of a $365 million refinancing by IMPAC SPE #1, the managing member of IMPAC Hotels I LLC…

Shahs Refinance Ramada Loan

Dipen and Nahal Shah bought the Ramada Inn at 1209 N. Walton Blvd. in Bentonville Oct. 5 for $3 million. They received $2.3 million in financing from Arkansas National Bank…

Carlton Bates Distributor Re-does Springdale Note

Carlton Bates Co. of Little Rock, a electronic-component distributor, in September refinanced several properties, including its operation at 4413 North Thompson St. in Springdale. The 1.88-acre Lot 5 of the…

Carlson Cleans Up With Bond Financing

Mark Carlson’s C&C Sales Inc. of Siloam Springs, which does business as Clean Concepts, got $1.1 million in bond financing Sept. 1 through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. The loan…

Duplexes Bought by C&L Properties

C&L Properties LLC of Springdale, owned by Carl D. and Kimberly A. Ledbetter, recently bought five quadplexes on Linda Jo Place in Fayetteville. McIlroy Bank & Trust Co. supplied $478,000…

Appleby Office Opens in Fayetteville

A group of partners has nearly completed its 5,000-SF Appleby Business Center at 2928 McKee Circle just south of Fiesta Square in Fayetteville. Bank of Fayetteville provided the financing for…

Tyson Victory Streak Continues in Courts

Tyson Foods Inc. won round one of its legal superbout with ConAgra Inc. of Omaha, Neb. It’s the third in a recent series of court victories for the Springdale poultry…

The Pressure is On

Construction is under way in Springdale on an 8,400-SF building for Advanced Systems Technologies Inc., a division of Pratt & Whitney PSD. The facility will use NASA technology to remove…

No Chicken Feed

We’ve all heard about the trade secrets law suit between Tyson Foods and ConAgra, which began when four executives left the Springdale poultry producer to start work for ConAgra and…

Stock Dispute

A plan afoot by Proxy Monitor to disrupt Tyson Foods’ Jan. 14 annual shareholders meeting doesn’t sound like it will do much damage. The New York-based proxy voting adviser is…

Boss Hog Pep Talk

J. Frank Broyles is coming out of motivational speaking retirement. He will be one of eight featured speakers March 1 at Tony Robbins’ Results 2000 motivational seminar in Little Rock…

Wireless Expert Connects State

Elshabini helps build new technology research center at UA Aicha Elshabini hopes to help Arkansas share in the wealth — dollars, education and otherwise — of the exploding wireless technology…

Big Harry?s Music City

Drums and guitars, tuned for playing, pack the Big Harry?s Music City 2,000-SF showroom, and owner David Johnson said he wants customers to come into the store for a hands-on experience.

Wal-Mart Changes the Neighborhood

Since launching its first Neighborhood Market grocery store a year ago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has tweaked the concept until it has come up with a “blueprint” for rolling out the…