Hope

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission recently announced Hope as the latest city to complete the state’s Competitive Communities Initiative process. State officials, including Secretary of Commerce Hugh McDonald and AEDC Executive Director Clint O’Neal, joined the community to celebrate the …

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, alongside the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), has announced the distribution of $10 million in funding to 13 Arkansas communities through the Arkansas Site Development Program. The grants aim to enhance industrial site readiness across the …

Pictured above: Hope’s Klipsch Auditorium (Photos by Jamison Mosley) The entire second floor of Hope’s magnificent City Hall is taken up by a 400-seat auditorium that looks like it fell right off the silver screen. Walking into the auditorium for …

The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana has recently announced that applications are now open for admissions to the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Program at its Hope campus.  This is an 11-month long, full-time selective admissions program to prepare students for the …

Hope Baking Company is investing more than $37 million to expand its food manufacturing facility in Hope. Over the next two years, the expansion is expected to create 266 new jobs. “Hope Baking Company is excited to be reinvigorating the …

The Union Pacific Community Ties Giving Program awarded the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, or ASPSF, a $7,000 Grant to create the 2023 Union Pacific Scholarship Project.  During the 2023 spring semester, the project will fund scholarships and wraparound services …

The Hope Policy Institute reports that finds there is a 26.3 percent gap between Black and white homeownership in Arkansas — higher than the gap during the 2008 housing crisis. The report found that COVID-19 exacerbated the disparate impacts of …

Dansons US is opening a 335,000 square-foot barbecue wood pellet mill and distribution center in Hope, which is expected to be the largest such facility in the United States. Sitting on 143 acres, the facility will feature three pelleters with …

by Curtis Lanning  Sitting along Interstate 30 between Texarkana and Arkadelphia is the manufacturing town of Hope. The birthplace of former President Bill Clinton and former Gov. Mike Huckabee has a population of just under 10,000. With an unemployment rate …

Gov. Asa Hutchinson and officials with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) on Monday launched the Competitive Communities Initiative, an evaluation process that aims to ensure all communities in the state are fully prepared to successfully compete for jobs and …