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Send Scott Foushee and Rusty Pendergraft, members of the board of directors at Today’s Power Inc. in North Little Rock
Scott Foushee of Newport and Rusty Pendergraft of Texarkana have joined the board of directors Today’s Power Inc. of North Little Rock, a renewable energy company specializing in small utility scale solar power plants.
Today’s Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock, has built solar arrays for most of the state’s 17 electric distribution cooperatives. The additions to its 10-member board followed the retirement of Wayne Whitaker from Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative and the completion of a term by Wayne Beadles, a director at Woodruff Electric. He had been on the board since 2015, the year
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Arkansas Mayor Sues Pot Co. Harvest Over Moved Grow
Law360 (April 7, 2021, 7:28 PM EDT) The mayor of Newport, Arkansas, is suing multistate cannabis company Harvest on behalf of the town s residents after Harvest accepted hundreds of thousands in incentives to open a cultivation facility in Newport and then moved it to another county.
Mayor David Stewart, the Newport Economic Development Commission and the Northeast Arkansas Charitable Foundation are part of a group suing Harvest Health & Recreation in state court after Harvest sold its cultivation license following regulatory trouble and the buyer announced plans to move the whole facility to a new town.
Lawsuit filed over license and sale of Newport medical marijuana cultivation facility
Lawsuit filed over license and sale of Newport medical marijuana cultivation facility By Region 8 Newsdesk | April 6, 2021 at 9:43 PM CDT - Updated April 6 at 11:22 PM
NEWPORT, Ark. (KAIT) - The city of Newport filed a lawsuit in Jackson County Circuit Court on Monday, April 5 with 11 different counts, including breach of contract after the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission approved the sale of Natural State Wellness Enterprises, LLC to Good Day Farm, LLC back on Nov. 10, 2020.
The sale transferred the cultivation facility from Newport to Pine Bluff.
The city of Newport, the Newport Economic Development Commission, the Northeast Arkansas Charitable Foundation, and the Newport-Jackson County Industrial Development Bond Board are seeking over $5 million in damages “without notice” about the sale and transfer.
The Newport Economic Development Commission and ASU-Newport are partnering with the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) to bring a regional Information Technology training center to downtown Newport.
The training center will feature apprenticeship training programs for a wide range of Arkansas companies in the areas of Computer Coding and Software Development, Data Analysis, and Cyber Security. Apprentices who enter the program will be paid by their host company to gain the necessary training for a permanent IT position and there will be no cost to the apprentice for the training.
âThe Arkansas Center for Data Sciences has so many resources and partnerships that they bring to the table,â stated Jon Chadwell, Director of Economic Development in Newport. âWe are very fortunate to be part of a great team like this one.â The center will bring cutting edge IT training to northeast Arkansas, allowing local residents to gain the skills to obtain high paying jobs.