Tag: Fort Smith area home sales

Area home sales see steep decline

The value of homes sold in the Fort Smith area is down almost $19 million in the first five months of 2011, continuing a trend in which 2010 marked the…

Movie Lounge on track for pre-Thanksgiving opening

The Movie Lounge website succinctly offers four basic promises. “Fine. Food. Film.” And that the opening is “Coming Soon,” with soon being sometime before Thanksgiving. “Our plans are well along…

Simmons cuts 223 jobs in Siloam Springs

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] Poultry processor Simmons Foods Inc. will cut 223 jobs at a…

Drama revisited

Editor’s note: This essay was first posted March 21, 2010. In light of the recent drama at Fort Smith Board of Director meetings, this re-posted essay serves to remind that…

Wasted toil

Don’t leave your business to an attorney.

21 years of blues on the riverfront

Marcia Ball headlined the Riverfront Blues Festival held in downtown Fort Smith.

Roller Girls roll for a cause

The roller derby event in Fort Smith helped raise funds for cancer research and support.

Crowds gather for the 15th annual International Butterfly Festival

The events in Paris and Mt. Magazine attracts families and bug and butterfly enthusiasts.

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….

Fort Smith, Van Buren officials may soon discuss water dispute

New water rate calculations and meetings between Fort Smith and Van Buren officials in mid-July may help resolve an almost 5-year water payment dispute between the two cities. The disputed…

ABB donates $1 million to UAFS Foundation

story info submitted by the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith A $1 million gift to the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Foundation from Baldor has been given in…

Economist: U.S. GDP growth ‘mediocre’

The U.S. GDP grew 1.9% in the first quarter of 2011, down from the 3.1% during the fourth quarter of 2010 and considerably lower than the 3.7% growth in the…

The Compass Report: May 2011 Numbers by the Wire

The May 2011 Numbers by the Wire report show improvements in area sales and hospitality tax collections, albeit at a slow pace thanks to the negative effect of higher fuel…

Adam & Eats: D’s Family Restaurant

The decor is somewhat shabby, but the place is keen to serve several delicious monstrosities.

Fort Smith 1% tax collection up 3.4% in May

The good news for the Fort Smith city budget is that the May sales tax collection report showed gains of the city’s 1% collections and the city’s portion of the…

Bailey joins Kistler Center

Emily Bailey, who interned at the Kistler Center in the fall of 2010, has been hired by the center. Bailey graduated in May from the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa with a…

Rheem to move 250 jobs to Mexico (Updated)

Editor’s note: Story updated with changes throughout. Rheem announced Thursday (June 23) the company will move 250 jobs from Fort Smith to an expanded manufacturing plant in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,…

Court decision may alter Fort Smith project plans

The Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Amendment 89 could provide the Fort Smith Board of Directors more options in addressing sewer system improvements, expansion of the city’s fire department…

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds interest rate amendment

story by Roby Brock and Michael Tilley [email protected] The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that a constitutional amendment dealing with state interest rates and special funding bonds…

Professor: Don’t turn off nuke plants

University research and U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Rogers, advise against a retreat from nuclear energy. Opposition or fear of nuclear energy began to wane in the past 10 years. New…