Mark Pryor never dreamed of holding public office, which is a strange thing to hear from the mouth of a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, former state attorney general and former two-term member of the United States …
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Rocket Fuel: Booming Business for Defense Contractors Refocusing Attention on Camden
by Mark Carterby Mark CarterLockheed Martin’s Camden Operations facility encompasses almost 2 million square feet of manufacturing and support-function floor space on more than 2,000 acres of land. (Photos provided) Defense contractors typically don’t work to attract media attention, but the spotlight found …
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Four Arkansas Projects Receive Over $26M in Water, Wastewater Funding
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Commission approved $26,463,899 for four water and wastewater projects throughout the state on Jan. 19. White River Regional Irrigation District, located between Lonoke and Brinkley in Prairie County, received a $26,084,076 loan from …
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Scenic Hill Solar Building Four Solar Plants to Power Ouachita County Organizations
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleFour solar power plants are in the works in the Camden area. Ouachita County, the City of Camden, Ouachita County Medical Center and Camden Water Utilities have formed a public-private partnership to build four solar power plants., with Scenic Hill …
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Bringing the Past to Life: Planting the Seed for a New Lafayette School Community Center
In the early 1920s, the people of Ouachita County knew that Julius Rosenwald would help them if and only if they showed initiative in the community. Rosenwald was a Jewish philanthropist from Illinois who wanted to make a difference for …