by - April 17, 2012 3:45 pm
Richard Boone, the associate administrator for Sparks Health System, has been promoted to chief financial officer for Sparks. Sparks is owned by Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates. Boone has been…
by - April 17, 2012 11:45 am
Teri Hawkins has worked with the likes of Lee Iacocca, Bill Gates and Liz Claiborne. Why in the world would she be interested in local entrepreneurs looking to grow their…
by - April 17, 2012 10:41 am
On the first floor of Mercy Tower in Fort Smith, just past the elevators and a slight turn to the left, there is a simple door cut into the wall….
by - April 17, 2012 10:08 am
The greens have greened earlier and golfers are hitting it hard. A mild winter and unseasonably warm spring have sent vegetation skyward and people outside to enjoy the weather. Golf…
by - April 17, 2012 9:45 am
FAYETTEVILLE — The City of Fayetteville’s Transportation Division will begin making restorative repairs to the roadway surface on a section of Joyce Boulevard between Vantage Drive and Old Missouri Road from…
by - April 17, 2012 7:21 am
The Van Buren City Council selected July 10, 2012, as the date of the special election, during which the city’s voters will determine whether to move forward on a 1%…
by - April 16, 2012 10:58 pm
FORT SMITH — Nearly a dozen people worked for several hours creating early 1900s period hats during the Hats of the Titanic workshop held Sunday (April 15) at Clayton House. The…
by - April 16, 2012 8:22 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — The Arkansas Music Pavilion’s winged white tent looks the same, though the location has changed. And there’s nothing at all ordinary about the lineup for the AMP’s 2012…
by - April 16, 2012 7:38 pm
Seven years ago, then-Walmart CEO Lee Scott laid out an ambitious agenda for the world’s largest retailer to improve its sustainability efforts globally. It took nearly two years to formulate…
by - April 16, 2012 7:23 pm
The residential real estate market in Northwest Arkansas continues to show marked improvement with home sales rising 11.41% in March from the prior year. Agents in Benton and Washington counties…
by - April 16, 2012 7:16 pm
Beautiful spring weather and record low interest rates haven’t proven a huge boost to home sales in the Fort Smith metro area during the first quarter of 2012. Home sales…
by - April 16, 2012 7:06 pm
Arkansas Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, and Sebastian County Board of Election Commissioners Chairman Lee Webb are asking the Fort Smith Board of Directors to remove Riverfront Drive from consideration…
by - April 16, 2012 12:42 pm
FORT SMITH — In a society replete with cause-of-the-month events and celebrations, perhaps none makes more of an impact than April as National Volunteer Month. The United Way of Fort…
by - April 16, 2012 12:15 pm
It’s been an incredible ride for entrepreneurs John James M.D., and partner Terry Turpin, who started and sold five companies between them before their 35th birthdays. So it should come…
by - April 15, 2012 10:31 pm
FORT SMITH — The Heritage Festival started out with a bang. The festivities began shortly after 10 a.m. (Saturday) with the very popular lawbreakers and peace-maker’s gun fights. These skits…
by - April 15, 2012 10:24 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — It was a homecoming of sorts for former U.S. President Bill Clinton Sunday (April 15) as he returned to Fayetteville paying homage to his longtime friends and mentors…
by - April 15, 2012 7:33 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Last night (April 14) at Walton Arts Center, the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas under the baton of Paul Haas offered Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor as an…
by - April 15, 2012 6:31 pm
Ready, shoot, aim. That’s been for the past several years the modus operandi of the Fort Smith Board of Directors — and that’s giving them credit on the “Ready” portion….
by - April 15, 2012 6:14 pm
As a disclaimer, I promise this column will not provide opinion on whether Bobby Petrino should have held onto his job as the University of Arkansas head football coach. That…
by - April 15, 2012 4:23 pm
FORT SMITH — It's unfortunate that the world doesn't work like International Festival which was held Saturday (April 14) at the Stubblefield Center on the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith campus. Thirty-six…
