Tracing the history of a neighborhood can be a difficult thing.

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Authentic German delicacies, timeless music and nonstop dancing will brighten spirits in Fort Smith next month.

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BEN COMBS The Democrat-Gazette’s Debra Hale-Shelton provided a little more insight this morning into past Grand Jury investigations into the University of Central Arkansas during the era of President Lu Hardin. The lead today was news of testimony months ago by a former employee of Combs and Co. State auditors long ago raised questions about possible [...]

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The most important piece of music and one of the most-skilled violinists in the world soon will thrill fans of the Fort Smith Symphony.

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The Fiesta Time event will include a car show and performances by Tecatitlan Mariachi Band on Saturday in Mena.

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Carl Albert State College will stage the fall musical, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” at 7 p.m. Oct. 6-7 and Oct. 10, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Hamilton Auditorium at CASC, near S

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The Cate Brothers will play blues, rock, soul and more at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 at Second Street Live, 101 N. Second St.

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The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith’s University Chorale, Women’s Chorus and Jazz Catz will perform their fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18 at the Arkansas Best Corporation Performing Arts Center

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John Lyon/Stephens Media WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY: And he is …. U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin Really. U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin did lament gridlock in Washington in an interview wiith Stephens Media. A Tea Party Republican who wants to ruin Medicare; continue tax breaks for millionaires and even give them more; deny disaster aid to storm victims [...]

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COMING SOON: Road cuts such as this in Chenal Valley will eventually be familiar site in intensely developed Maumelle watershed. I wrote on last night’s open line about how I dragged out of the county planning director the admission of the obvious — an 11th hour change in a proposed Lake Maumelle watershed land use plan [...]

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