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Birch Tree Communities has named Director of Nursing and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Teneal Hill as its Practitioner of the Year. Hill, a Benton resident who began her career with the organization 26 years ago as a paraprofessional, was honored for her decades of dedicated mental health service. Read more below. Hill was recognized at the […]
Parkway Drug officially opened its doors Monday, establishing a new independent pharmaceutical option along the Bryant Parkway corridor. The 3,600-square-foot facility, located at 4707 Bryant Parkway, Alexander, was constructed to provide prescription services and patient consultations to residents in Bryant and surrounding Saline County. Read more below. The new pharmacy sits on a two-acre […]
About this time in 2024, the owners of West Side Pharmacy announced they would build an additional location, to have two in Benton, Arkansas. Now it’s two years later and the partners are announcing they have acquired the South Street location of AllCare Pharmacy – formerly Finley Pharmacy. Read more below. “We are honored to […]
The Arkansas Health Care Association will host a grand opening celebration for the newly constructed Willow Ridge Nursing and Rehab facility in Benton on Thursday, July 2. The event will welcome the community to the new center and feature appearances by several state officials. The celebration will take place from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. […]
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University (NYITCOM at A-State) honored Shane Broadway with the inaugural Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., Higher Ground Award during last Friday’s Commencement and Hooding Ceremony. Read more below. Broadway is the vice president for university relations for the Arkansas State University System and the […]
The Bryant Development and Review Committee will meet to consider a range of properties, including fireworks stands, an orthodontist and several subdivisions. The meeting begins at at 9 a.m. Thursday, May 28, 2026, at the Bishop Park Administration Building conference room. Read more below. AGENDA: Bryant Development and Review Committee Meeting Boswell Municipal Complex – […]
A Mabelvale man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison for distributing counterfeit pills containing fentanyl that resulted in a fatal overdose, federal officials announced. Johnny Lee Underwood, 27, was ordered to serve 240 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller. Because there […]
A Saline County mother and daughter were convicted of felony drug and death charges on Thursday, September 11, 2025 in Federal court, according to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office. Read more below. CONVICTION On Wednesday, a federal jury convicted two Hensley, Arkansas residents of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl that caused a death. […]
An Arkansas woman accessed a nursing home patient’s banking information to steal money and pay for her own personal debts. On July 3, 2025, Brooke Ruth Cotton, age 46, of Lonoke pleaded guilty to one charge of abuse of adults (exploitation), a Class C felony. She was given five years’ probation concurrently, and ordered to […]
There are two events coming up in Saline County, Arkansas that will allow individuals to get free medical and dental work. Read more below. The Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) has program that offers services like dental cleanings and extractions. They will have a physician on site. Here are the times and places for the […]
