William Bridgforth News Today

Past and present holders of government offices, once renowned college athletes, judges and attorneys, physicians, faith leaders, restaurateurs, media giants, craftsmen and business tycoons are among the Arkansans who died in 2023.

Past and present holders of government offices, once renowned college athletes, judges and attorneys, physicians, faith leaders, restaurateurs, media giants, craftsmen and business tycoons are among the Arkansans who died in 2023.

City officials are still ecstatic about the Pine Bluff City Councils approval last week to take approximately $3 million in sales tax money from the Urban Renewal Agency and put it toward a new Marriott Courtyard Hotel in place of the Plaza Hotel next to the Pine Bluff Convention Center.

Let the countdown begin, as the Civic Auditorium Complex commissioners anticipate the future of the Pine Bluff Convention Center hotel.

The Pine Bluff Civic Auditorium Complex Commission approved a resolution to be sent to the full council concerning the convention center hotel development project on Tuesday during their regularly scheduled commission meeting.