Kenneth Heard

While Thomas Baldridge was interviewed for an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission video recently about the conservational benefits of burning underbrush on his land, a wild turkey gobbled off-camera. Baldridge stopped mid-filming and smiled. “That’s distracting,” he said. The outtake…

When it comes to following a favorite professional football team, I’m a stranger in a strange land. I live in Arkansas – a hotbed of support for the Dallas Cowboys, but because of a single play that happened nearly half…

It took a major leap of faith for Larry Billing to leave the West Coast, where he taught high school, and open a coffee store in northeast Arkansas in 2004. But, Billing, who had no business experience starting out, has…

As one of the owners of the T&S Sawmill in Clarendon, Arkansas, John Taylor has experienced the deaths of family members, two fires that destroyed the mill, rising gasoline prices, White River flooding that decimated acres of timber and of…

On A Roll: Southland Casino Expansion Raises the Stakes for Arkansas Tourism   Local officials are betting a $320 million expansion project at the Southland Casino in West Memphis will continue generating huge tax benefits and attract more businesses. The…

A stand of white oak trees, the work ethic of the area’s residents and the care shown by Independence County leaders lured a barrel manufacturer to build a stave-making plant west of Batesville. The Independent Stave Company will begin production…

The Last Word: X+y =…28?   Whenever the classmates in our 10th grade math class would complain to the teacher about learning math formulas, Mr. Wiles always had the same response. It was 1976, and he’d reply that someday, we’d…

It became a habit early on when Cowper Chadbourn and his wife, Debbie Doss, first canoed and floated the state’s rivers more than three decades ago. They’d see trash left at some of the access points, which led the pair…

Larry Wilson began his banking career pushing a broom. The regular janitor at what was then First Jacksonville Bank had to have surgery in the mid-1960s. The owner of the bank, Larry’s father, Kenneth Pat Wilson, recruited his son, who…

Dan Waymack and his team can say more in 30 seconds than most people can say in a day. Waymack, the owner of Little Rock video production company Waymack and Crew, has been shooting catchy television advertisements for dozens of…