by - July 9, 2001 12:00 am
Regions Keeps it All in the Family
Morgan Keegan in Rogers will soon be roomies with one of its new corporate brothers.
Tag: Whispers
by - July 9, 2001 12:00 am
eBay Sells Cave Interest
It?s amazing what you can find on eBay, the world?s largest online auction site. We recently saw where you could buy a 5 percent interest in Wonderland Cave near Bella Vista.
by - July 9, 2001 12:00 am
Costner Tyson?s Top Chick-A-Tee
For a three-day weekend at least, Rob Costner was once again the dominant rooster at Tyson Foods Inc., even if it was confined to the golfing goings-on at Springdale Country Club.
by - July 9, 2001 12:00 am
Wireless Cricket Heading for Northwest Arkansas
Cricket Communications, the wireless phone subsidiary of publicly traded Leap Wireless International Inc., plans to add Northwest Arkansas to its service areas sometime this quarter.
by - July 9, 2001 12:00 am
The Trotline Restrings in Centerton
The Trotline restaurant has left Rogers and will try catching more business in the small town of Centerton.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
UA Poses a Taxing Dilemma
The UA is looking into purchasing the 154-unit College Park Apartments on Mt. Comfort Road, just a block off Garland Avenue near the Garland and North Street intersection.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
UA Creating College Park Dorms?
If GMH Associates has its way, the University of Arkansas could be eliminating local businesses from competing for the right to own or manage a local apartment complex.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
Preliminary Redistricting Seems Acceptable
Some preliminary boundaries have been drawn for this summer?s reshaping of the state?s legislative districts.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
Author Questions How Brass Eagle Flies
A Web page writer wonders how paintball-gun maker Brass Eagle survives as a public company.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
First National Bank of Springdale Proud of Bies
One of the four seats expected to be filled by the Bush Administration on the seven-member Federal Reserve Board has business ties to a Northwest Arkansas bank.
by - June 25, 2001 12:00 am
Wewers Leaves Community Bank for Summit
Chris Wewers, the president and chief financial officer of Community Bank, is leaving Northwest Arkansas for Arkadelphia, where he will be chief financial officer at Summit Bank.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
NCAA Sniffing Hogs
If some new questions raised by NCAA investigators can?t be answered satisfactorily, Houston Nutt?s Arkansas Razorbacks will have much more to worry about this fall than who their starting quarterback will be.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
Wal-Martians Orbiting UA
We hear a group of Wal-Mart employees couldn?t get a meeting room in the University of Arkansas? Kimpel Hall during this year?s shareholders meeting week because they group trashed the room and stopped up toilets in the building last year.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
Dave ?Stokes? Kids
Dave Stokes, the former managing editor of Fayetteville?s Northwest Arkansas Times, was arrested June 5 by Rogers police on charges of harassment and terroristic threatening.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
From CEO to Baseball Star
We noticed a Rawlings baseball autographed by David Glass, former CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., listed for sale on e-Bay.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
House Speakers Visit UA
All three first-term speakers of Houses of Representatives in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri will be speaking at the University of Arkansas July 6.
by - June 11, 2001 12:00 am
Private Fort Smith Plant Closing
Label Art Inc.?s Fort Smith plant, home to 14 full-time employees in the 25,000-SF facility, will be closing its doors for good Aug. 3.
by - May 28, 2001 12:00 am
Springdale Scorched by Burnside
The name Elliott Burnside has crept up in association with a Springdale business once again, and once again it?s was associated with bad news.
by - May 28, 2001 12:00 am
Phillips and Taylor Eye Partnership
Taylor Displays Inc. has been in quite a bind financially, but owner Greg Taylor is looking into forming a partnership with one of Springdale?s most respected businessmen, Phil Phillips.
by - May 28, 2001 12:00 am
Oil Company Funnels Support into Bentonville
Attention Wal-Mart automotive shoppers, Pennzoil-Quaker State, the publicly traded Houston, Texas, oil giant, has consolidated its support teams from California, Cleveland, New York and Houston in Bentonville.