For those of you who have traveled Highway 67 in Arkansas for years, a major change is coming. The road will be converted to Interstate 57 and will eventually run from Chicago to North Little Rock. Over the past 60 years, $5 billion dollars has been spent on this project. The next section of the […]
By Deborah Horn White Hall city officials welcomed a new 87,000 sq. ft. Jefferson Regional Specialty Hospital in May, the latest of many recent groundbreakings, grand openings, and home starts. This is another concrete sign that the small city, with a population of almost 6,000 and once considered “just” a bedroom community of Pine Bluff, […]
Garver Director of Enterprise Solutions Jerry Holder, PE, has been named to the Executive Board of the Arkansas Good Roads Foundation, a position from which he’ll continue to support the advancement of infrastructure in the state where Garver was founded more than a century ago. Holder has spent almost four decades delivering infrastructure solutions across the […]
By Deborah Horn Ready or not, the eclipse is coming. One thing is for certain, the April 8 solar eclipse’s path of totality cuts a wide diagonal swath across the state, starting in the Southwest corner and exiting the state near the Northeast. It will be big and possibly create bigger traffic problems—described by one […]
The right side of this photo is the 100-year-old Humphries Ford Bridge in Hardy, Arkansas. Hundreds of cars a week have been passing over this aging structure only inches above the Spring River. When the heavy rains come and the river rises, local police and firefighters are often called to rescue drivers who ended up […]
Unified Voices in an Angry World By Joe Quinn, AGRF Executive Director On a September Tuesday afternoon in El Dorado, it still feels like summer as dozens of state and community leaders who have impacted infrastructure growth in Arkansas for decades gather to celebrate Madison Murphy. Murphy is a legendary business leader who in 2012 […]