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Future School of Fort Smith speed networking event doubles participants in...
The second annual speed networking event hosted by Future School of Fort Smith doubled in participation from local organizations and businesses for year two, and according to April Oden, the school’s...
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Fort Smith sales tax revenue down 3% in August report, franchise revenue down...
Sales tax revenue fell more than 3% in Fort Smith’s August report, with year-to-date revenue up 1% and 2.6% above the budget estimate. Franchise revenue could end the year 5% below budget, cutting into...
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Fort Smith School Board votes Susan McFerran as new Board president, affirms...
Fort Smith School Board member Susan McFerran was voted unanimously to the post of school board president on Monday (Oct. 23) four weeks after her predecessor, Dr. Deanie Mehl, bid farewell to the...
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Fort Smith artist at heart of award-winning film: ‘Tragedy goes with the most...
Fort Smith-based artist Ryan Starkey and filmmaker Phillip Person recently won first place at the ARTifact Forum & Gallery’s Short Film Competition held on Oct. 6 and 7 in Hawthorne, Calif. The...
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Fort Smith city boss: ‘If consent decree doesn’t change, we’ll need to...
Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken confirmed on Tuesday (Oct. 24) that without changes to the city’s estimated $480 million consent decree, water and sewer rates will continue to go up. “If the...
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Fort Smith eyes doubling downtown parking rates, business association opposes
Downtown Fort Smith parking meters could soon see a 100% increase after not being updated since 1985, but one organization disapproves of the move. At a recent Board of Directors meeting, a proposal...
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Downtown Fort Smith plan gets truck traffic setback
Efforts to reduce truck traffic on Garrison Avenue in downtown Fort Smith as part of the Propelling Downtown Forward strategic plan took a step back recently after the Arkansas Department of...
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Fort Smith Board appeals court ruling, approves $400,000 for skate-bike park
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Feb. 6) formally endorsed appealing Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen’s legal victory against the city for violations of the Arkansas Freedom of...
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Fort Smith Board approves $2.5 million for year one of water meter replacement
The Fort Smith Utilities Department will move forward with a two-year water meter replacement program following approval from the city’s Board of Directors on Tuesday night (Feb. 6). Approximately one...
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Blake Shelton surprises Fort Smith with ‘spur of the moment’ Smithworks Vodka...
Blake Shelton, country music singer and panelist on The Voice, has served another cause near and dear to his heart, which brought him and love interest Gwen Stefani to Fort Smith, Ark., on Thursday...
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Fort Smith 2017 sales tax revenue sets record at more than $42.4 million
Sales tax revenue for 2017 finished just ahead of 2016 with $42.408 million, culled from a 2% rate that includes 1% for Fort Smith’s streets program, 0.75% for bond issues, and 0.25% divided evenly...
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Crawford, Sebastian County home sales opens 2018 with 25% increase
The Fort Smith metro home sales market — Crawford, Sebastian counties — opened 2018 with positive numbers, topping $25.311 million in sales volume with 127 units moved compared to $20.171 million on...
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188th Wing announces new $14.2 million Razorback Operations Center
The ROC has broken ground. On Tuesday (Feb. 13), the 188th Wing of the Arkansas Air National Guard announced the Razorback Operation Center at a groundbreaking ceremony from Ebbing Air National Guard...
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Fort Smith Convention Center subsidy again questioned by city board
The Fort Smith Board of Directors are not ready for a consensus on cuts to Convention Center funding, but city directors at a recent study session did appear to agree the city’s General Fund is not the...
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Western Arkansas Planning and Development District sets April 2 deadline for...
Member cities of the Frontier Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) have until April 2 to turn in their signage submissions for a wayfinding program in the Fort Smith region. Western Arkansas...
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‘Heroic’ mom, police officer fired while recovering from stroke is reinstated
Lindsay Herring needed a break when she brought her appeal of termination before the Fort Smith Civil Service Commission on Monday (Feb. 19). In 2017, the new mom and six-year veteran of the Fort Smith...
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FBI agent addresses business group about cyber threats, protections
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Jason Frankenberger encouraged the use of two-factor authentication and stronger passwords along with better employee education programs in Tuesday’s...
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Fort Smith Board accepts American Ramp proposal to build downtown skate, bike...
The Fort Smith Board of Directors have cleared the final pathway for Riverfront Drive Skate and Bike Park at the original site of the United States Marshals Museum (USMM) in the downtown area. At a...
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New manufacturing pre-apprenticeship program to begin in Crawford County
The Crawford County Adult Education Center in Van Buren has announced a new industrial manufacturing technician pre-apprenticeship program authorized by the National Apprenticeship Training Foundation...
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Blevins accuses Sebastian County Judge of political ‘rape,’ announces bid for...
Ken Blevins says it’s time to “drain the Sebastian County swamp.” The former Circuit Clerk who left office under a cloud of scandal has filed to run for the office of Sebastian County Judge held by...
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