Pictured above: Hope’s Klipsch Auditorium (Photos by Jamison Mosley) The entire second floor of Hope’s magnificent City Hall is taken up by a 400-seat auditorium that looks like it fell right off the silver screen. Walking into the auditorium for…
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UA Hope Campus Licensed Practical Nursing Program
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana has recently announced that applications are now open for admissions to the Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) Program at its Hope campus. This is an 11-month long, full-time selective admissions program to prepare students for the…
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Hope Baking Facility Plans $37M Expansion, 266 New Jobs
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffHope Baking Company is investing more than $37 million to expand its food manufacturing facility in Hope. Over the next two years, the expansion is expected to create 266 new jobs. “Hope Baking Company is excited to be reinvigorating the…
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ASPSF Receives $7,000 Grant From Union Pacific Railroad
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Union Pacific Community Ties Giving Program awarded the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, or ASPSF, a $7,000 Grant to create the 2023 Union Pacific Scholarship Project. During the 2023 spring semester, the project will fund scholarships and wraparound services…
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Report Finds Racial Gap in Arkansas Housing and Rental Markets
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffThe Hope Policy Institute reports that finds there is a 26.3 percent gap between Black and white homeownership in Arkansas — higher than the gap during the 2008 housing crisis. The report found that COVID-19 exacerbated the disparate impacts of…
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Dansons Opening Largest U.S. Wood Pellet Mill in Hope
by Tyler Haleby Tyler HaleDansons US is opening a 335,000 square-foot barbecue wood pellet mill and distribution center in Hope, which is expected to be the largest such facility in the United States. Sitting on 143 acres, the facility will feature three pelleters with…
by Curtis Lanning Sitting along Interstate 30 between Texarkana and Arkadelphia is the manufacturing town of Hope. The birthplace of former President Bill Clinton and former Gov. Mike Huckabee has a population of just under 10,000. With an unemployment rate…
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Hutchinson, AEDC unveil ‘Competitive Communities Initiative’
by News Releaseby News ReleaseGov. Asa Hutchinson and officials with the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC) on Monday launched the Competitive Communities Initiative, an evaluation process that aims to ensure all communities in the state are fully prepared to successfully compete for jobs and…
June/July 2016 Issue Two longtime Arkansas manufacturers are playing leading roles in enhancing the sound and picture experiences of movie theaters worldwide. Top photo: A Klipsch behind-the-screen system at Fix Brewhouse in Indianapolis. Photographs courtesy of Klipsch Group and Power…
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee kicked off his second presidential campaign on Tuesday, May 5, in his hometown of Hope. A seasoned and popular Baptist preacher, and political television and radio personality, Huckabee delivered a speech peppered with conservative crowd pleasers…