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City Receives Grant to Help Cleanup Unsightly Properties

Dilapidated building and structures may soon be a thing of the past in Arkadelphia, thanks to a grant from Southern Bancorp. Arkadelphia’s Board of Directors is expected to discuss a list of properties in need of attention during its meeting Thursday night.

The need to grow: Citizens offer solutions to move Print Page

This is the last of a three-part series on the strengths, needs and solutions regarding the growth of Arkadelphia and Clark County. This report was compiled. researched and written by students in the Advanced Reporting class at Ouachita Baptist University.

As far as solutions to the needs of the Arkadelphia area concerning growth, a survey revealed widespread interest in creating more jobs and industrial growth, developing and maintaining a…

What is needed for Arkadelphia to grow?

Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series on the strengths and needs of the Arkadelphia area researched and written
by students in the Advanced Reporting class at Ouachita Baptist University. The third part of the series will identify the suggested
solutions to the needs and how these solutions can be carried out.

First strategic planning session is held

A “workable and visionary plan” is what’s needed for Arkadelphia and Clark County to grow, said Dr. Charles Dunn, president of Henderson State University.

Survey, interviews serve as basis for in-depth report

That’s how the entrance signs to the city have read for more than 30 years. Why doesn’t Arkadelphia grow? That was the question I posed to students as a class project this spring for the Advanced Reporting class.

Nonprofits Plant Seeds of Change in Delta City

In a town revered for its blues music but pitied for its economic blight, nonprofits work to change the tune one business at a time.

On the banks of the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas’ Phillips County lies Helena — technically Helena-West Helena after the cities’ merger in January — a rural town about a half-century removed from its economic high-water mark.

Looking to buck trend

Large banks across the country are selling or closing branches in small communities, but in Arkansas rural branches are flourishing.