(Photos provided by Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) Arkansas is becoming more and more known as a place to visit, this year being named one of the best places to go in North America by Condé Nast Traveler. …
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Achieve Community Alliance’s Voices of Achieve Event Set for April 21
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffAchieve Community Alliance, formerly United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas, will host its Voices of Achieve fundraising event on Tuesday, April 21, at the Robinson Center in downtown Little Rock. The nonprofit works to create opportunities for individuals with disabilities to …
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Miss Arkansas, Miss Arkansas Teen Contestants Learn CPR
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe 88 Miss Arkansas and Miss Arkansas’ Teen contestants participated in a CPR training Sunday and Monday at the Robinson Center in Little Rock. They were taught hands-only CPR through a training called CPR Experience, led by American Heart Association-Central …
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Platinum Makes Perfect — Platinum Drywall Raises the Bar
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffEvery company strives to be the gold standard of its industry — to be the example of service, customer satisfaction and quality that peers and newcomers alike seek to emulate. Anthony Brooks, a veteran and the second of three generations …
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Finalists Compete for First-ever Arkansas Asian-Owned Business Award
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses (AAAB) will host the seventh annual “East Meets West” Lunar New Year Luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Robinson Center’s William Grant Still Ballroom, 426 W. Markham St., in Little Rock. The event, …
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Clintons to Speak for 20th Anniversary of Presidential Center
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffFormer President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak at events on Dec. 6 and Dec. 7 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. “A Conversation with President Bill Clinton …
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AFP-Arkansas to Launch Inaugural Festival of Philanthropy
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Arkansas Chapter has announced the launch of its inaugural Festival of Philanthropy. This new event, set for Nov. 7 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center and DoubleTree Hotel, will combine the 42nd annual National Philanthropy …
Downtown Little Rock is set to adopt a bold new vision for the city, one revolving around better transit, a denser downtown population and connectivity via expanded greenspaces. Those are the headliner points put forth by the long-awaited draft Downtown …
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ASO Places Final Beam on New $11.75M Music Center
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffOn Tuesday, Jan. 30, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO) hoisted the final structural beams for its $11.75 million Stella Boyle Smith Music Center in Little Rock’s East Village. Scheduled to open this fall, the state-of-the-art, 20,000-square-foot music center will be the first …
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Hillary Clinton to Speak in Little Rock This Month
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Clinton Foundation will be holding its next installment of the Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series on Friday, Sept. 29 in Little Rock, this time featuring former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Professor Robert D. Putnam, and filmmakers Pete …