Public records indicate Olivet International, a Walmart supplier, is tied to a property the state is investigating for ties to China.
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Northwest Arkansas 101: Heralded and undersung corners of the state’s most booming region
What was once a well-kept secret is now on everyone’s list of places to live. Corporate money and a steady stream of new residents has led to a rapid increase of new amenities and services, most of which were unimaginable just a decade ago. And increasingly, people are packing up their cars and paying Northwest Arkansas a visit to see what all the hype is about.
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Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman announces Bentonville show
If you don’t know Sarah Sherman — or Sarah Squirm, the much more fitting stage name she goes by — she’s a real oddball, the kind of comedian that SNL could easily chew up and spit out as something more sanitized, and yet she’s managed to remain wonderfully weird during her three-year tenure on the late-night show.
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4th annual FreshGrass Festival in Bentonville this weekend
The two-day plunge into all things roots and bluegrass has a few repeat names from 2023, but the lineup is mostly new, with the unblinking Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and the occasionally frenzied Trampled by Turtles leading the way as headliners.
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Arkansas school districts offer affordable teacher housing as recruitment tool
Bentonville isn’t the only spot in Arkansas where officials are thinking outside the box to create accessible housing for teachers.
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Shortsighted Bentonville City Council torpedos teacher housing
In February, the Bentonville City Council held a baffling vote shooting down an affordable housing project.
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FreshGrass Festival returns to Bentonville next weekend
The list of headliners promises a master class in how ideas around country and traditional music forms are being reconsidered and revived, with sets from Mavis Staples, Del McCoury, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Ferrell and more.
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Sinister and seductive new single from Bentonville’s Idle Valley
Over crisp drums, blown out chords and trippy feedback a la Deerhunter, singer Ben Welborn repeats a perfectly ambiguous and salacious piece of gossip: “I heard she bites now.”
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Moody Brews microbrewery headed to Pettaway Square business district
Moody Brews microbrewery coming to Pettaway Square business district in 2023.
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Bentonville’s Yeyo’s makes New York Times 2022 Restaurant List
Bentonville’s Yeyo’s El Alma de Mexico has landed on the New York Times 2022 Restaurant List, a compilation of 50 restaurants in America selected by food reporters, editors and critics from the New York Times as their favorites of 2022.