Northwest Arkansas

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Classic Stone Inc.

Owner: John Herzik Address: 352 N. West Ave., Fayetteville, 72701 Phone: 501-571-2234 or pager 501-444-3132 Hours: By appointment only Start-up date: August 1998 Classic Stone Inc. provides architectural products to…

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TE scales back changes philosophy

Thompson Earnhart & Associates, the Fayetteville advertising agency, has downsized and changed its philosophy. Mike Thompson, CEO and president, says the agency is steering away from a concentration on media…

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Webster University opens in Fayetteville

Webster University, a private, non-profit liberal arts college based in St. Louis, opened a Fayetteville campus in January. The school, at 3444 N. College Ave., is in a building that…

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Baldor sweetens Westark gift

Westark College in Fort Smith celebrated the Feb. 8 ground breaking for a new technology center with another gift from Baldor Electric Co. and its top three executives — a…

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Fuzzy’s Restaurant

1313 N. Garland Ave. Fayetteville Parking is scarce. The menus are tattered. The food is not the haute cuisine that’s over priced and over sold in other parts of town….

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American Freighways Corp.

Tom Garrison, president and chief operating officer of American Freightways Corp., will become chief executive officer of the Harrison-based less-than-truckload company July 1. His brother, Will, who currently serves as…

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JBU educates future builders

Two key positions on a large construction project are that of the job superintendent and the project manager. Both positions require vast knowledge of construction as well as management skills…

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Holt-Krock controversy ends

The acrimony between Fort Smith’s Holt-Krock Clinic and PhyCor Inc. ended Jan. 26 with the announcement that Sparks Regional Medical Center is buying the clinic. Most of Holt-Krock’s 84 physicians…