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Harmon Place Apartments sold

Harmon Place Apartments at 65 S. Duncan Ave. in Fayetteville were sold June 29 for $930,000. Mark and Carie Pryor bought the apartments from Linda B. Moore. The purchase was…

Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market Coming to East Fayetteville in 1999

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to build one of its “Neighborhood Market” stores in Fayetteville. Plans for the 40,000-SF stores in Bentonville, Springdale and Sherwood have already been reported by the…

Walgreens Planning Three Area Stores

Walgreens, America’s largest and fastest-growing retail pharmacy chain, is coming into Northwest Arkansas with plans for stores in Springdale and Rogers, and the company is still scouting for a location…

Rogers Has Myriad of Local Businesses

More than 2,100 businesses have a city license to operate in Rogers. Most of those businesses are classified by the city as service industries, other than professional. The city has…

Rogers Ifrastructure Catching Up With Growth

Since the population boom that hit Northwest Arkansas in 1994 and 1995 has slowed down, Rogers has a chance to improve its infrastructure to keep up with the growth of…

Rogers Packaging Business Keeps Up With Technology

Family owned Stribling Packaging has expanded, improved as brothers-in-law joined business A box may look like a simple thing to the average consumer, but the folks at Stribling Packaging know…

Southwest Entergy Stock Profile

Gas and oil production during the first quarter of 1998 was 9.9 billion cubic feet equivalent, even with the same period in 1997. Gas production was 8.7 Bcf for both…

J.B. Hunt Earnings Up; AMCA Ranks Legislators

Things continue to improve for J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell. The company reported a 767 percent increase in earnings for the second quarter of this year, which ended…

Retrieve the Hounds

Michael Baker, the owner of Houndstooth Clothing Co. of Fayetteville, has pulled his T-shirt and casual clothing line from about 50 J.C. Penney stores across the country. Baker says he…

Gentlemen Prefer Beer

The Southern Gentleman, a cigar and gift shop on the downtown Fayetteville square, closed in early August. Tiny Tim’s Pizza, which is located in the same building, has leased the…

Leaning Tower of Peace?

Architects considered installing the new J. William Fulbright Memorial Peace Fountain at the University of Arkansas under cover of darkness. The reason? They were afraid the blistering August sun might…

Hogs? headquarters

The former headquarters building of Hudson Foods Inc. in Rogers is now being used by Tyson Foods Inc. to house the poultry giant’s pork division and animal foods ingredient group….

Ooops!

Remember that whisper in the last issue about the top executives at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell selling a lot of stock since the first of the year….

Selman Retires

Cleta Selman, who served for the past 25 years as an administrative employee of Tyson Foods Inc., retired July 15. Selman started with the company in 1973 as executive secretary…

Workforce Development Helps Managers, Workers Advance

Nearly 10 percent of the workers at Rogers Tool Works Inc. are studying — on their own time — management techniques. About half of the 75 students are supervisors or…

Wal-Mart Stock Price Soars 70 Percent in Six Months

Analyst says retailer is returning to ‘days of old’ with consistently high same-store sales Stock in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has skyrocketed, more than doubling in the past year, up more…

Keep It Country Antiques

Owners: Joe and Brenda Velten Address: 15746 Prairie View Road, Prairie Grove 72753 Phone: 846-3565 Hours: No specific hours; customers may stop in at any time. Start-Up Date: May 1…

City Regulations

Here are city regulations for construction in commercial zones such as those 4 along U.S. Highway 71 Business and the U.S. Highway 71 expressway: FAYETTEVILLE Signs Along U.S. Highway 71…

Dillard?s Discovers Jewel Among Mercantile Stores Division

Arkansas retailer could implement profitable day spas into its new store construction plans Dillard’s Inc., in a holding pattern since May in its attempt to acquire Mercantile Stores Co., has…

ABC Suspends Eight Clubs

If you’re planning to go out for happy hour on Friday, Aug. 8, or for drinks the next night, you might want to check with your favorite watering hole first….

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

Dope Medicinal Wellness opens Fayetteville clinic