The Peak Innovation Center is scheduled to open in August. Author: Talk Business & Politics Updated: 12:53 PM CDT May 25, 2021
FORT SMITH, Ark. Fort Smith’s ABB, NEMA Motors Division, announced Monday (May 24) it will make a $1 million investment in the Peak Innovation Center, a regional career and technology center in Fort Smith.
Fort Smith Public Schools’ Peak Innovation Center, scheduled to open in August, will be a regional career and technology center with a focus on innovative instructional strategies within the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) disciplines.
Fort Smith voters in May 2018 approved a school millage increase, the first in 31 years, raising the millage rate in Fort Smith from 36.5 mills to 42 mills. The new rate was estimated to raise $120.822 million, $35 million of which will go toward district-wide safety improvements. The millage plan included a new $13.724 million career and technology center,
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Long before Bill Clinton, another future president called Arkansas home
Long before Bill Clinton, another future president called Arkansas home
February 4, 20214:09 pm President-to-be Zachary Taylor did not love Arkansas. And Arkansas did not love him back. Library of Congress
If you know Barboursville, Virginia, native Zachary Taylor’s name at all, you likely know him from reciting presidents’ names in middle school, or from his prominent role in the Mexican-American War. But Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, also had a brief but tumultuous tenure in Arkansas, commanding the military at Fort Smith from 1841 to 1843. He bristled with locals over construction of the fort, which Taylor considered far too big and expensive.