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One Arkansas pizza stop has a painted school bus nearby, while another serves Memphis-style barbecue right beside its pies. A third bakes in a little Ozark mountain town. Some restaurants feel like part of the road trip itself. After hours of leaf peeping, a hot slice with a little personality can be especially appealing.
Mike Mills lives in a beautiful place. As founder of Buffalo Outdoor Center in Ponca, he welcomes nearly a million visitors annually to experience clear waters, sweeping bluffs and beautiful woodlands he calls home. In his free time, he often hikes the Lost Valley Trail, and he can be pretty certain of what he will find when he goes there.
A plan to widen a portion of Highway 65 in Van Buren County will move forward after the Arkansas Department of Transportation provided public notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed improvements that will go from Highway 254 in Dennard to Highway 10 in Botkinburg. The Federal Highway Administration has issued the FONSI, which means the project will not have a significant impact on the human or natural environment. This step clears the way for the next phase of project development…
The Ozark Mountain Music Festival returns to the historic mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, January 14–17, 2027, for four days of bluegrass, Americana, folk, and roots music. Presented by the Basin Park Hotel, the 13th annual festival brings together an eclectic collection of musicians for an intimate winter gathering in the heart of the Ozarks.
One record shop in Arkansas cleans its used records before they ever hit the bins. Another sits in a basement crammed with vinyl, CDs, and the occasional deep cut you never thought you’d see in person. That kind of variety makes record shopping interesting. One store doubles as an...
Students in the Arkansas Tech University Business Law class taught by Thomas Pennington observed Pope County Circuit Court proceedings overseen by Judge Jack Patterson II during a field trip on Monday, Nov. 9. Patterson visited with the ATU students at the conclusion of the docket and provided them with additional...
Scout Clean Energy has begun operating its 183 MW Nimbus Wind Farm in Carroll County, Arkansas. The $400 million facility, the state’s largest wind farm, comprises 30 turbines and is expected to generate enough electricity to power more than 40,000 homes annually. The project’s output is covered by a...
Today’s birthday girl is Martha Wilhelmine Bertha Schmdtke, who, according to a transcription of her German baptism record below, was born on November 12, 1867. Bertha’s later gravestone says she was born on that date in 1868. Her death certificate says she was born on January 17, 1866. I happen to think that she was born in 1867 because a church record also uses that date. Bertha was the daughter of Friedrich and Wilhelmina (Nehm) Schmidtke. When Bertha came to America aboard the ship, Dresden, in 1892, she was said to be 24 years old. Her passenger list says she was from Konigsberg and headed towards Illinois.
Artwork created by Russellville-based artist and printmaker Neal Harrington will be a featured design for the Walmart AMP’s collector tickets for the 2027 season. Harrington primarily works in relief printmaking in his visual art pieces. “The bold and graphic marks of the woodcut-relief technique reiterate the tension and energy of the figures,” Harrington says about his work.
Baxter Health is taking proposals for three new ambulances to expand its EMS fleet, the second purchase the health system has put out to bid this week under Arkansas’ Rural Health Transformation Program. The bid calls for three Type III units, the box-style ambulances built on a van chassis....
Two fires four days apart last week left a Eureka Springs home likely a total loss and damaged the Route 62 General Store. The Eureka Springs Fire Department responded to the store at 2080 E. Van Buren on Sunday, Nov. 1, then spent about 7½ hours battling a blaze at 1 Florence St. on Thursday, Nov. 5.
The Berryville Bobcats’ season is already a success. For the first time since 2006, the Bobcats are headed to the playoffs, ending a postseason drought surpassed by only Paragould among Arkansas high schools. Berryville comes to Stuttgart as the 4A-1’s No. 5 seed after finishing the regular season 5-5,...
Here's a number worth chewing on: fewer than 18% of franchise brands ever reach 100 units, and the average brand that gets there takes roughly a decade to do it. That's the context for what just happened in a small Arkansas town — and why it should register with anyone tracking the franchise side of the food and beverage industry.