Regions

Sales Taxes Top 11 Percent

Fayetteville?s sales taxes are second highest in the state.

Alligator Ray?s Oyster Bar A 4-star Experience (Business Lunch)

Alligator Ray’s offers great food in a comfortable atmosphere.

Poultry Farms Bring Home Bacon

A Mena real estate agent creates a niche business by selling and brokering poultry farm deals in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.

Angus Queen Makes Jac?s Purebred King

Behind every successful cattleman, there?s a good heifer. At Jac?s Ranch in Bentonville, her name is Toreby Queen B903.

Firm Ups Byproduct Yield

All sorts of offbeat byproducts are hiding under Tyson Foods’ skins.

Farmers Co-ops Still Serve Cities

A one-time fixture on Arkansas ?Main Streets,? Farmers Cooperatives are now only in five Northwest Arkansas cities: Bentonville, Siloam Springs, Gentry, Van Buren and Fayetteville.

Okie Phosphorus Battle Tabled for the Moment

Arkansas officials agree that even the 10-year time frame to meet Oklahoma?s proposed phosphorus index is impossible.

Post Winery Has Five-Fold Production Increase Since ?80s

Production at the Post Familie Vineyards & Winery in Altus has increased by five fold since the 1980s to about 500,000 gallons in 2003.

Springdale Sale Barn Thrives

There are several competitors within a 140-mile radius, but the Springdale Sale Barn has still become the largest weekly livestock sale in Arkansas.

Lindsey Green Adds to Bentonville Project (Real Deals)

Wohlford & Co. of Bentonville recently bought a building permit valued at $2 million to construct a 25,200-SF office building at 1803 Phyllis St. in the Lakeside Center II subdivision in Bentonville.

Pinnacle Plans Luxury Apartments

Luxury apartments planned for The Pinnacle Group?s Shops at Market Street development in Rogers have come to light.

CFO Donates $125K Yacht to Local Group

Terry Johnson, CFO of VeriSource in Rogers has donated a 1989 Chris Craft yacht to Rebuilding Together of Northwest Arkansas.

New Computer Learning Center On the Horizon

Tom and JoAnn Dapp, owners of New Horizons Computer Learning Center in Springfield, Mo., plan to open a second facility in the J.B. Hunt Parkway Tower at Pinnacle Hills.

Not-So-Real TV Includes Bogus Dairy Job

So much for reality TV, as “Simple Life” producers turn down a winery for a bogus milk-bottling operation.

Creekside Pays $9.7 Million for Raw Acreage

CT Northwest LLC sold 90.6 acres to Creekside Development LLC on Jan. 30, 2004 for $9.7 million.

Tyson To Take Old Store for Office

It looks like rennovations are underway on the 73,000-SF former Kmart building located at 2231 W. 6th Street in Fayetteville.

Security Makes it a Flat Tuesday

We hear several bar owners along Fayetteville?s Dickson Street have been grumbling that sales were down on Mardi Gras day, compared with Fat Tuesday in 2003.

Funds Ranked No. 1

BOK Investment Advisers Inc. recently saw its American Performance Short Term Income Fund ranked No. 1 out of 93 in Lipper Analytical Service?s Short Term Investment Grade Debt Funds category.

WorkMatters Brings in Big Motivators

A veritable Who?s Who of motivational speakers won?t be living ?in a van, down by the river? on April 30.

Morning News Still Absent on Story (Outtakes Opinion)

The Morning News is igrnoring a story, but its readers deserved to be informed.

LR Fed official praises Warsh start amid economic uncertainty

Beechwood Hospitality starts operating Fayetteville hotel

Crystal Bridges names 3 to executive leadership jobs

Lawrence Healthcare hires Anthony Knighton as president