Joe Ford, former chairman and CEO of Alltel Corp. and co-founder of Westrock Coffee Co., was honored for a lifetime of leadership in business and government at the 36th Arkansas Business of the Year Awards, and Conway Regional Health System was recognized as the Arkansas Business of the Year with more than 500 employees.  Arkansas…

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A total of 240 grants worth $537,209 have been awarded to kindergarten through 12th grade schools in 67 Arkansas counties as a result of wildlife fines collected by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.  Read More   ​ 

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BELLA VISTA — More rounds of golf were played on Bella Vista’s seven courses than ever before in 2023.  Read More   ​ 

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A 547,414-SF industrial complex in Jacksonville weighed in at $4.25 million. Affordable Building Products LLC of Chanute, Kansas, purchased the former Regal Ware project at 1100 N. Redmond Road from Redmond Road Associates LLC, led by Ken McRae. The deal is financed with a one-year loan of $3.4 million from Central Bank of Little Rock.…

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Robert Birch has been hired as economic development director of the city of Jacksonville. He previously was director of business development for the city of North Little Rock. Ryan Bolduc, an energy engineer at Cromwell Architects Engineers of Little Rock, has become a stockholder of the firm. Joining him are David Clement, structural engineer; Ron…

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JACKSONVILLE, Ark. – Officials with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Jacksonville hosted the 5th annual Ivory Tillman Black History Month Speech Competition commemorating the late Ivory Tillman Saturday. NAACP Jacksonville Second Vice President Theresa Cook said that the competition is a great way for scholars to delve deep into the rich…

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It was the mid 1990s, at a girls’ sleepover, when 10-year-old Jenee Keener began making predictions for her grand future.  Read More   ​ 

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A number of Cabot Panthers reached the podium with three earning individual state championships as they took home the Arkansas Wrestling State Championship in 6A for the second consecutive season with a winning team score of 135 points Saturday afternoon at the Jack Stephens Center in Little Rock.  Read More   ​ 

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Jacksonville police on Friday arrested a second woman facing charges in a Feb. 5 homicide, and she told investigators the shooting stemmed from the slain man touching her inappropriately, an arrest report states.  Read More   ​ 

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Progress is underway on the new Edwards Food Giant grocery store in the former Stein Mart building in North Little Rock’s Lakewood Village Shopping Park. Gary Proffitt, vice president of operations for the Arkansas-based grocery company’s GES Inc., said the target opening date for the new store is Wednesday, April 3. Rhett BrinkleyThe construction site…

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