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The City of Benton Streets and Drainage Committee will hold their regular meeting on TONIGHT at 5:00 PM. It will be held in Council Chambers in the Benton Municipal Complex. The agenda follows. The meeting will be held at the new Benton City Hall in Council Chambers. The address is 410 River Street. City of Benton Streets […]
UPDATE: DEC 3, 2025 The story reads like a Scooby Doo Mystery, with the bad guy getting caught by the end of the episode. Excitement built quickly in the community after someone reported to law enforcement that the large excavation equipment on the job site to construct the Southwest Trail… was dumped in a soupy […]
Read about Saline County Arkansas Trails and Trail News in the articles below. 🚲
Saline County officials announced Friday afternoon that the ribbon cutting ceremony for the long-awaited restoration of the historic Old River Bridge will take place on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Read more below. Located at the Saline River, the Old River Bridge first opened on July 15, 1891 and served travelers for decades […]
The City of Benton Streets and Drainage Committee will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, immediately following the Public Hearing at 5:00 PM. It will be held in Council Chambers in the Benton Municipal Complex. The agenda follows. The meeting will be held at the new Benton City Hall in Council Chambers. The […]
Saline County will host a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. to celebrate the start of construction on its first segment of the Southwest Trail. This is a 65-mile multi-use trail that will connect Hot Springs to Little Rock and pass through Garland, Saline, and Pulaski counties. Read more below… The […]
Benton Parks and Recreation received a grant for over 3/4 of a million dollars to create a campground and river access at the Cherry Demuth area. This will accompany the Benton Greenbelt Trail that is planned to be a connector to the Southwest Trail. Big news for outdoor recreation in Arkansas! More than $3.8 million […]
Things are happening fast for the Benton Mountain Bike Park. It opened in June. In September it was named Outdoor Facility of the Year by ARPA. Now in December, it has a new accolade. Read more below. Singletracks.com just announced that they put Benton Bike Park in the Top 7 Best New Mountain Bike Trails […]
The organization that wrote the grant to restore the Old River Bridge just won a big honor. The restored bridge will be a critical link in the proposed Southwest Trail, a multi-use trail from Little Rock to Hot Springs, providing the Saline River crossing for the trail while preserving an important piece of transportation history. […]
The Finance Committees is scheduled to meet Monday, July 8, 2024, in Council Chambers at the Benton Municipal Complex immediately following the Personnel, Health & Safety which begins at 5:00 p.m. City of Benton Finance Committee Monday, July 8, 2024 Council Chambers Immediately following Personnel, Health & Safety which begins at 5:00 p.m. […]
