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Housing and homelessness top a variety of issues at Fayetteville’s Ward 1 special election candidate forum
Housing prices and homelessness predominated among a variety of issues addressed in a candidate forum in Fayetteville’s Ward 1 City Council special election. Read More
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Little Rock Air Force base exchange employee receives ‘Outstanding associate’ award by Department of Defense
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A long-time employee at the Little Rock Air Force base exchange has received an award from the Department of Defense. Petra Eick has been named the Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s Outstanding Associate with a Disability for 2023. She is a 10-year employee of the exchange. “I was so stunned…
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K. T. Oslin, Randy Goodrum, Wood Newton to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from Arkansas Country Music Awards
“The three individuals being honored in 2024 are a fine mix of deserving Arkansans,” said country music journalist and historian Charles Haymes in a press release. “From a game-changing female vocalist to two very accomplished songwriters, this is another wonderful class of very deserving recipients.” Read More
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Award named for late former editor Oakley
The Arkansas Newspaper Foundation has announced an endowed award will be named in honor of the late Meredith Oakley, a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Associate Editor and “Voices” page editor. Read More
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Ward 3 councilman to seek reelection
Glen Brown Sr., Ward 3 Pine Bluff City Council member, announced his candidacy for reelection in 2024. Read More
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We Are The 22 receives Difference Makers Award
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A nonprofit in Arkansas is working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to reduce the number of suicides by veterans across the state. Military veteran Mikel Brooks founded We Are The 22 in 2017 after hitting a low point in his life. Brooks was injured in Iraq during his…
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Walmart Puts $9B Toward 2-Year Store Remodeling Effort
Walmart Inc. is rolling out a half-billion dollars worth of upgrades to many of its discount stores this week, part of a two-year, $9 billion program to improve its Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets. Read More
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Pope County judge sends letter of support for Cherokee Nation Businesses to be awarded casino license
Pope County Judge Ben Cross said Monday he has sent an updated letter of support for Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation Businesses to be awarded the Pope County casino license by the Arkansas Racing Commission. Read More
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ENTERTAINMENT: Hot Springs poet chosen for Don Munro award
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