Business booming at sweet potato facility
Though this is the first harvest season and the first year of operation for Arkansas Delta Yams, the management team is already making plans…
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FDIC, Southern Good Faith Fund Announce Statewide Partnership – Alliance to focus on expanding access to IDA program in Arkansas, other financial services
LITTLE ROCK - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Southern Good Faith Fund announced today a partnership to expand access to Individual Development Accounts…
Building Economies in the Delta and the Iron Range
Two of the most unlikely places in rural America to find economic success are the Iron Range of Minnesota and south Arkansas. But there…
State’s sweet-potato crop ‘yam good’ – New storage facility near Poplar Grove allows for increased yield
POPLAR GROVE — The new sweet-potato storage and distribution facility here will soon be identified with a sign for “Arkansas Delta Yams,” manager Cindy…
After school program to get funds from the feds
U.S. Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln have announced that $250,000 in federal funds for Save the Children, a juvenile delinquency prevention program for…
Local B&GC gets involved with “Impact 2012″
...They are encouraging young people to make a commitment to help reverse the negative trends affecting kids in communities throughout the nation, and to…
