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Jane Sargent (right), head coach of the University of Arkasas-Fort Smith volleyball team, hands out free food to Dr. Lee E. Krehbiel, vice chancellor for enrollment management and student affairs and others Tuesday during a campus cookout as part of homecoming week inside the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center on the UAFS campus in Fort Smith. The university kicked off the week of homecoming activities, the theme for which is “Where Memories Roar,” with a prep rally Monday night. The festivities co…

Gunnar Williams (left) and other eighth-grade students from Lavaca Middle School practice using power drills at a station hosted by Nabholz Construction on Tuesday during the at the Peak Innovation Center in Fort Smith. The annual two-day event saw eighth-grade students from schools around the River Valley learn about career opportunities from dozens of area companies and organizations in a diversity of fields, including construction, engineering, manufacturing, health sciences and more. Visit r…

Construction workers install new art piece on the Ledger’s parking deck in Bentonville.

Actor and comedian duo Anthony Anderson and Cedric the Entertainer visited Springdale for a community barbecue that is part of filming for their new show Kings of BBQ on A&E.

The Northwest Food Bank announced its $25 million capital campaign: Food For Today. Hope For Tomorrow. Money for the campaign will help establish a new campus that will house a distribution facility and launch programs to increase annual distribution and improve access to fresh, healthy foods across its four-county service area.

Wednesday’s photo gallery includes photos of a clean-up at the Prairie Grove Battlefield, a nonprofit organization’s new space that distributes diapers to those in need and a bike rodeo at the Benton County fairgrounds.

Tuesday’s photo gallery includes photos of a grandmother playing with her grandson at Kessler Mountain park, a man washes his dog in a dog washing booth in Lapland and Judging of items entered into the Benton County Fair.

Friday’s photo gallery includes photos of chalking the soccer fields at Kessler Park, a fair at Bumpers College at the UA, and ice skating lessons at The Jones Center,

Tuesday’s photo gallery includes an elementary school field day in Fayetteville, exploring the bluffs at Tanyard Creek and work on Brightwaters’s greenhouse on it’s new hydroponics system.

Tuesday’s photo gallery includes photos of volunteers putting together sack lunches for people in need at a church in Fayetteville, the production of a 50th-anniversary video of the Buffalo River’s national designation and Rogers Historical Museum celebrating the 140th birthday of Rogers.