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The year in Washington

2009 was crazy, and it wasn’t even an election year.

Profiles with Clay: Lea Taylor

The Fort Smith native has a simple message for those wanting to lead: Go do something!

Christmas Honors finishes first year with successful collection effort

Volunteers brave brutally cold temps to pick up, clean and package 12,000 wreaths from the Fort Smith National Cemetery.

Front and center

Arguably, the most effectively outspoken chairman of the Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors in recent history was Emon Mahony Jr., who once unapologetically alleged during a speech…

Sparks, Jobs losses/gains top stories of 2009

Maybe it’s just best to forget about 2009. There were bright spots — movement on the Marshals Museum, announcement of new companies/jobs, the Christmas Honors project and most of us…

5 Fort Smith directors comment on 2009, 2010

The City Wire recently asked the seven members of the Fort Smith Board of Directors the following questions. What projects/issues did the board tackle well in 2009? What projects/issues did…

International Trade Commission ruling favors Mitsubishi

The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled in favor of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in a complaint filed by General Electric against Mitsubishi. The GE complaint was first filed Feb. 7,…

Mac Computer Club Meeting

If you like Mac computers, iPods, iPhones, or are just curious about all things Apple, come and sit in on our club meeting as our guest. This month we’ll be…

UAFS one of four to earn CHEA award

The Council for Higher Education Accreditation has awarded the 2010 CHEA Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, one of…

2010 chamber agenda includes raising job recruitment funds

That Baldor Electric Co. Chairman and CEO John McFarland would agree to serve a year as the volunteer chairman of the board for the Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce…

$21.7 million UAFS student housing work at midpoint

story and photos submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith The new student housing construction project in process at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is at…

Quality water, leadership focus of recent 360 meeting

story and photos by Linda Kaufenberg Seeking quality water and quality leadership was the focus of Thursday’s (Jan. 7) 360 Leadership Series held at Hardscrabble Country Club in Fort Smith….

Phoenix Expo to be area’s largest event, convention space

The owners of FSM Redevelopment Partners are betting that an almost $4 million investment in portions of the old Phoenix Village Mall to transform it into a more than 80,000-square-foot…

Adam & Eats: The ‘New Peter’ takes us to George’s

This is the first and last time we refer to Adam as being the “New Peter.” From now on he’s just Adam. Enjoy.

IC School 40th Annual Spaghetti Dinner

40th Annual IC School Spaghetti Dinner on Feb 21, 2010 from 4-7pm. Cost is $10/adult and $5/child Kids 2 and under are free. Dine In IC Galvin Parrish Hall or…

2009 Fort Smith enplanements drop 9.8%

Not since 1986 have so few people flown out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport. Enplanements in 2009 at the airport totaled 78,432, down 9.8% from the 87,030 enplanements in…

Frugal cities

Coupons.com says folks in Atlanta and Tampa most frugal.

Regional bankruptcies and incorporations

Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….

Girl Scouts name local Women of Distinction

Zena Featherston-Marshall, Louise Turner and Tracy Winchell have been named the 2010 Women of Distinction in the Fort Smith region by the Arkansas Girl Scouts organization. Formal recognition for the…

UAFS air rifle teams receives grant

The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith was one of 16 colleges and universities in 10 states to receive grants from the National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. Roy Hill, coach…