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Envirotech Vehicles recently announced a partnership with Arkansas-based Olympus Construction to renovate the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at 1425 Ohlendorf Road in Osceola, Ark. The manufacturing facility is approximately 580,00- SF and the total cost of renovations is estimated to be…

Sunstar Insurance Group, LLC is merging with Evins Insurance Group of Jonesboro. The merger will be Sunstar’s ninth expansion in five years. Sunstar Insurance Group effectively blankets the state of Arkansas with a comprehensive insurance network comprised of industry veterans.…

Wallace W. Fowler Sr., one of Arkansas’ most influential business leaders, has died. Wallace passed away Wednesday, May 4, at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro, according to Emerson Funeral Home. He was 87. Wallace’s wife of 65 years, Jama, passed…

Atlas Tube recently opened its second steel mill in Blytheville. The new facility will be dedicated to producing Jumbo Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) as large as 28″ OD with walls up to 1″ thick. According to the company, the $150…

Envirotech Vehicles held an event Thursday in Osceola, Ark. to celebrate the first electric vehicles to undergo final assembly at its first U.S. manufacturing facility. Representatives of the electric vehicle company were joined by community and business leaders from across…

Michael Reinschmidt has been named the new director of the Arkansas State University Museum in Jonesboro, effective April 11. ASU Provost Alan Utter announced Reinschmidt’s appointment this week and said Reinschmidt was recommended by the search committee to succeed retiring Director…

Southern Airways Express, a Florida-based commuter airline company, is acquiring St. Louis-based airline Air Choice One, according to a recent Southern Airways press release. Air Choice One has provided flight services for Northeast Arkansas since 2012, and offers flights from…

Jonesboro Cycle & ATV recently purchased the former Jimco Lamp Manufacturing building in Bono, with plans to transform the over 100,000- SF into a “destination dealership” for the company. Jonesboro Cycle headquarters is currently located at 2800 Fair Park Blvd.…

Arkansas State Trooper Spencer Morris was named National Trooper of the Year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, State and Provincial Division during a March 25 award ceremony in Seattle, before an audience of law enforcement officers from…

Move-in and production has begun at the new Colson Caster factory in Jonesboro’s Craighead Technology Park, according to an update from Jonesboro Unlimited on Wednesday. The Colson facility is one of three new buildings currently under construction in the 1,500-acre…