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Daniel Koehler Joins Board of Southern Bancorp Inc.
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Feb. 12, 2013) – Daniel Koehler, president of Koehler Software, Inc., and former chief financial officer of Union National Bank of Little Rock, has joined the board of Southern Bancorp Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth...
Helena Start-Up Challenge To Award $40,000 to Two Entrepreneurs
HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark., Feb. 4, 2013 – The Helena Start-Up Challenge is a business plan competition, launching today, that will provide two entrepreneurs with the opportunity to make their business ideas into reality in Helena-West Helena. The first-place winner...
Free Tax Filing Assistance Available on Super Saturday
Individual Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Offered Feb. 9 to Residents With Incomes up to $51,000 LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Feb. 1, 2013) -- Income-eligible individuals and families in Helena-West Helena, Arkadelphia, El Dorado and Malvern in Arkansas and in Clarksdale, Drew,...
Community Development Officer Joins Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Little Rock, AR, Jan. 25, 2013 –Lauren Isbell has joined the staff of Southern Bancorp Community Partners in Mississippi County as community development officer. She will be responsible for supporting and promoting community development initiatives in the areas of...
Southern Bancorp, Inc. Names New CEO: Darrin L. Williams
Effective Feb. 1, 2013, Darrin L. Williams, a lawyer and current member of the Arkansas General Assembly, will be chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, Inc., a family of a community development bank (the fifth largest in the United States) and a nonprofit...
KaBOOM! Community Volunteers Come Together
Clarksdale has a new playground. Saturday, over 200 men, women and children worked through the occasional drizzle to move mulch, mix cement and build a playground from scratch at Martin Luther King Park. Two years after the initial announcement by the Delta Bridge...
Arkadelphia: Things Looking Up In Downtown Rebirth
On March 1, 1997, a tornado ripped through Arkadelphia, killing six people, injuring more than 100 others and destroying the downtown. As Arkadelphia’s residents restored their lives, they vowed to rebuild. “Although the struggle to bring the downtown area back from...
Council hears update on Civil War projects
Civil War Helena is up and moving as Cathy Cunningham confirmed Tuesday night at the city council session. Cunningham explained that there are currently two projects in the works including Battery C at the entrance of Yorkshire and Freedom Park, which is slated to be...
Museum advisor
Tom Fugate, collections manager for the Capital City Museum in Frankfort Ky. recently made a trip to Helena to advise the Helena Museum Board on museum management techniques. Mudpuppy and Waterdog recommended Fugate to the Helena Civil War Project, part of the Delta...
Arkadelphia Promise's First Class Has 70 Percent Retention Rate
The Arkadelphia Promise announced on Friday a college retention rate of 70 percent for its first class of Arkadelphia High School graduates, which exceeds both the state and national rates. The nonprofit organization said that 63 of 90 students from the original...