Clark County voters approved a 0.5-cent sales and use tax for economic development Tuesday. As of 9:15 p.m., complete but unofficial results were 1,755 ballots cast in favor of the measure and 804 votes cast against.

Two years of planning and dreaming brought John King before the Advertising and Planning Commission Tuesday in hopes of netting the needed funding for the courthouse Square Park on Cherry St.

Other cities in Arkansas will have to “measure up” to Arkadelphia if they want to be the next Entrepreneurial Community of the Year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rual Business Cooperative Programs closed a $750,000 loan with Southern Financial Partners (SFP) on Aug.8.

More than 90 percent of the persons asked to participate in leading the Clark County Strategic Planning process have accepted, Dr.
Wesley Kluck said Tuesday during a meeting of the committee.

The Arkadelphia Area Chamber of Commerce, Clark County Industrial Council and Small Business Development Center at Henderson State University are teaming up to bring back “Business After Hours.”

Helena-West Helena code enforcement officers Terrance Oliver and T.L. Green along with members of the H-WHPD were occupied Tuesday and Wednesday confiscating cars that have been sitting in yards all over the city.

Congratulations to Delta Southern Bank in Ruleville and Drew! The community development financial institution was recently awarded an “outstanding” rating on its Community Reinvestment Act Audit by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Very few banks receive the “outstanding” raiting.

In the last of a three-part series in support of the half-cent economic development sales tax to be voted on tomorrow, Clark County Judge Ron Daniell joins Dr. Lewis Shepherd and Bill Wright in discussing reasons why this measure must be passed.

The Pine Bluff Commercial named Angela Austin, program manager of Southern Good Faith Fund’s Business Development Center, one of “Thirty Under 30” in their Sunday April 29, 2007 edition.