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KNWA Today: upcoming “Garden Gate Tour”
The Washington County Master Gardeners are inviting Arkansans to attend their upcoming Garden Gate Tour. The $15 tour features a total of five stops, including four privately-owned gardens, and the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks.
Three years after damaging storm, Fort Smith's original library remains for sale
Correction: This story has been updated to correct the date that a fallen tree damaged the library. Three years after an oak tree toppled in a storm and hit it, the first library for the city of Fort Smith and then the headquarters of the local TV station remains for sale. The site...
Volunteers tidy up Cherokee neighborhood in Stilwell
STILWELL – With rakes, chainsaws and paintbrushes in hand, Cherokee Nation volunteers spent May 20 in Stilwell’s Alyene Hogner Heights neighborhood sprucing up the tribal community. Hogner Heights is one of the tribe’s 27 rental locations across the reservation. “We have about 1,000 rental units we provide...
Police: Man arrested on his way to carry out shooting at Central Mall in Fort Smith
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Police arrested a man on April 26 before he attempted to carry out a plan to kill two people at Central Mall in Fort Smith, investigators say. According to court documents, a 911 caller reported that Rodney Sheffield was on his way to Central Mall "with the intent to kill people."
Bond program approved for Mars Petcare expansion in Fort Smith
The Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (May 21) approved a bond program that allows Mars Petcare to expand its Fort Smith plant, which employs more than 600 people. The bonds allow the company to reduce its property tax payments by $9.1 million over the next 15 years. The...
FCRA chief rejects media attendance at dissolution meetings
An agreement by local governments allowing the media to attend a June 10 meeting about the dissolution of the Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority (FCRA) has been nixed by FCRA Executive Director Daniel Mann. The FCRA was formed in 1997 as a public trust to oversee redevelopment of 6,000 acres of...
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