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Kmart & Walmart in Price War?

Arch-rival retailers Kmart Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. denied on May 21 that they are enmeshed in a Viagra price war but admitted they were offering the impotence pill at…

Truck Company Mortgaged to Buy Out Partner?s Interest

Northwest Arkansas Truck & Equipment Inc. at 2675 W. Sunset Ave. in Springdale was mortgaged June 1 for $676,608. The mortgage was signed by Darrel James as president of the…

Buildings Inc. Refinances Loan

Buildings Inc. of Springdale received a $600,000 mortgage from Springdale Bank & Trust on May 27 to refinance the debt on the company’s truss shop at 235 S. 40th St….

Wal-Mart visitor?s Center Secures $410,000 Loan

Sam Walton’s first store in Bentonville, which now is a museum and visitors’ center, and an adjacent office building on the Bentonville square were mortgaged May 14 for $410,000. G…

National Home Center sells Rogers store, Eyes Contractors

Retail Trends, Developments National Home Centers Inc. of Springdale has agreed to sell its 200,000-SF Rogers store to Lowe’s Cos. Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The move effectively gets National…

St. Mary?s Hospital Leads State In Controlling Superbug Infection

St. Mary’s Hospital in Rogers is the first in Arkansas and one of the first in the nation to develop a program for fighting a new strain of bacteria that…

Students Work With NWS, Help Alert Areas in Danger

The first Emergency Manager’s Weather Information Network in the state of Arkansas was recently installed in Fayetteville. The system was purchased by the Amateur Radio Club of the University of…

Regional Doctors Help Medical Science

Medical history is being helped along by some cardiologists and their patients at Washington Regional Medical Center. Drs. James Cooper, David Churchill, Ted Fish and Harrison Butler are among the…

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is apparently hiring staffers for a zoned edition of the newspaper for Northwest Arkansas. Although officials at the paper didn’t return our telephone calls, the D-G has…

NAT LC Appeals

A lengthy appeal over ownership of the Northwest Arkansas Times of Fayetteville kept the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from aggressively pursuing its goals in Northwest Arkansas, D-G Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr….

New Flicks for Fayetteville

There’s a new multi-screen theater coming to Fayetteville. Details are sketchy but we were able to get a few. “It’s unbelievable,” says Kirk Elsass, the broker with Lindsey & Associates…

And a New Bank, Too

The fancy new multiplex theater isn’t the only development planned for that piece of property. Two acres of it will be used to bring another bank to the area. First…

And a New Bank, II

Speaking of banks, there’s another one headed for Fayetteville. Simmons First Bank of Northwest Arkansas is building a 3,100-SF facility valued at $1.6 million along Joyce Boulevard, near the new…

Ford Leaves

Former Razorback football head coach Danny Ford sold his home in Northwest Arkansas on May 1 and moved back to his ranch in South Carolina. Ford sold the home at…

Kettle Stirring in Rogers

Another new restaurant is coming to Northwest Arkansas. Two Little Rock businessmen are remodeling the former Pizza Hut building at 1900 W. Walnut St. in Rogers to accommodate a Kettle…

Freestanding Cancer Units Double Across the Nation

The number of freestanding radiation oncology centers more than doubled in the United States between 1986 and 1994, according to the American College of Radiology in Philadelphia. ASTRO, as the…

Value of New Commercial Construction Permits Fluctuate

The amount of commercial construction in the region varies widely from year to year but it typically represents a large percentage of the total construction activity. Figures compiled by the…

Nabholz, McClinton-Anchor Top List of Largest Contractors

Nabholz Construction Corp. tops the list of commercial contractors in the region with $48 million in revenue in 1997. Among the projects Nabholz completed last year were StaffMark’s new corporate…

Mary Maeestri’s Changes Menu, Marks 75th Birthday This Year

For the first time since the early 1980s, Daniel Maestri is redesigning the menu at Mary Maestri’s, one of Northwest Arkansas’ favorite restaurants for three-quarters of a century. The Italian…

Ozark Harvest Recycles Leftovers

Ozark Harvest, an organization that takes excess food from institutions and restaurants and delivers it to the needy, is looking for food donors in Washington and Benton counties. “We’ve got…

Oklahoma court ruling threatens poultry industry in Arkansas

GDP up 4.3% in the third quarter, consumer confidence declines

St. Bernards to expand Maternal Life360 HOME program into Greene County

Then and Now: Cooperative business model a good fit for Mitchell Johnson