Tag: Fort Smith area home sales

United Way holds inaugural Youth Day of Caring

United Way of Fort Smith Area will host the area’s first Youth Day of Caring on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. Area high school and college students will volunteer at locations…

Beebe announces appointments to boards and commissions

Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday (Nov. 6) announced the following appointments to boards and commissions. Billy Bunn, Arkadelphia, reappointed to the Residential Building Contractors Committee. Appointment expires Oct. 1, 2015….

Agribusiness Weekly Update: Agri losses push meat prices up

Beef Beef packers were losing an average $84 per head processed on Tuesday (Nov. 6), diving $28 per head in the last week, according to Hedgers Edge. Arkansas cattle operators…

Drop in U.S. job openings shows uneven labor market

Job openings in the U.S. dropped to a five-month low in September, signaling uneven progress in the labor market may extend through year-end. The number of positions waiting to be…

J.B. Hunt, other truckers buoyed by U.S. retailers with fleets

Retailers and grocery stores are among companies increasingly using dedicated-fleet services as a shortage of drivers constrains U.S. trucking capacity while the economy heals. J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and…

Hindu population grows with supplier community

BENTONVILLE — Standing in line to see a blockbuster film is not that unusual in Northwest Arkansas but for a growing population of Hindu residents, it’s a special treat. For…

Jack Welch again sees something ‘wacky’ in jobs data

Jack Welch isn’t backing down. One day before the presidential election, the former General Electric Co. chief executive officer again suggested that government figures on employment are being manipulated for…

Obama works turnout as Romney seeks election-day wave

President Barack Obama beseeched core supporters and wayward backers to go to the polls, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney reached for an upset victory powered by anti-incumbent fervor on the…

All thanked up

In this month containing the Thanksgiving holiday, folks on Facebook have taken to listing something each day for which they are thankful. Of the few friends on my little page,…

New jobs on Fort Smith Board agenda

The Fort Smith Board of Directors will spend Election Night (Nov. 6) addressing city business for one of the final times under its current configuration. City directors will know who…

Wal-Mart: No Bella Vista stoplight, no deal

On Monday (Nov. 5) Bella Vista Mayor Frank Anderson said the traffic light at Oldham Drive and U.S. 71 was not relevant to the rezoning issue on the ballot. But…

The Rockfish Way: NWA hotbed for startups

In 2005, Kenny Tomlin gave life to an entrepreneurial idea when he created Rockfish Interactive. Seven years later, the small company has grown from a handful of employees to workforce…

Fort Smith, Fayetteville students move on in robotics event

A competition among young boosters of engineering, science and technology on Nov. 3 at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith paid off for Chaffin Junior High of Fort Smith…

Young survivors learn definition of cancer first-hand

Few words strike fear into the heart of a person like a doctor's dreaded diagnosis of cancer. That is, unless you are too young to fully comprehend its true meaning….

October building permits dip in Fort Smith area

Building permit values in Fort Smith, Greenwood and Van Buren, combined to total $12.789 million in October, a steep drop from September’s $22.822 million total and also short of the…

Dinnerware part of NWA art exhibits

Fayetteville University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center Louise Bourgeois Topiary: The Art of Improving Nature Nov. 7-Dec. 13, 2012 Internationally renowned artist Louise Bourgeois will be showing at the University…

Big Screen Peter: The House I Live In

With Arkansas set to vote on Issue 5 (medical marijuana) in just a few short days, there is nothing more appropriate to see as a moviegoer (or citizen) than The…

UA receives developer award from Fayetteville Chamber

The amount of campus construction at the University of Arkansas didn’t go unnoticed by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, which recently honored the university with the Albert M. Byrnes Developer…

UAFS ‘Dromnium’ play receives numerous awards

The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith theatre program received top awards and regional nominations from presenting "Dromnium" at the Arkansas State Festival of the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival…

Wal-Mart answers call to help Sandy victims

Wal-Mart and PepsiCo were seen as humanitarian leaders among Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey on Sunday (Nov. 4), as more than a dozen tractor trailer rigs…

Williamson Insurance sells to Inszone

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