Chef De’Mon Strickland is no novice when it comes to cooking. As executive room chef at Legends Sports Bar at Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff, he runs the kitchen, handling everything from food prep and ordering to scheduling and…
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Southern Bancorp’s Little Rock 12th Street Team Arkansas is known as a state that knows how to do business. Whether the subject is Fortune 500 mainstays or hometown businesses that fuel local economies, Arkansas is pro-business. In this month’s issue,…
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Delta Dawn: Native Son’s Vision Would See Arkansas City Rise Again
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterIn the mid-1920s, a man whose name appears lost to posterity decided to travel from St. Louis to New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River. By walking the Mississippi, that is, courtesy of custom-made pontoons attached to his feet.…
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New Distillery Bringing Life Out of the Dirt
by Dwain Hebdaby Dwain HebdaEverything you need to know about the origins of East Arkansas’s newest distillery is summed up in the name: Delta Dirt. In two simple words, the moniker tells a story – past present and future of a family-run enterprise, generations…
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Trump Administration Announces Assistance for Helena and McCrory
by Caleb Talleyby Caleb TalleyCities to Receive Support for Community Revitalization through Local Food Enterprises In support of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined other federal partners in announcing assistance to…
by Chintan Desai, candidate for Arkansas’ First Congressional District Eight years ago, I started the most important job of my life as a fifth-grade social studies teacher in Helena, Arkansas. I met students with big dreams of becoming the first…