Seven-year-old Aspen Brown, of Paragould visited Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro on Sept. 1 and left with a 2.95-carat golden brown diamond. Brown’s find is the second-largest registered by a park guest this year, topped only by a…
The Historic Washington Foundation (HWF) will sell at auction a number of items currently stored in the town’s Livery Stable. Even though the items are stored at Washington, the auction will take place in the Art Barn at Hope’s Fair…
The Texarkana Regional Airport board unanimously approved an agreement with the Yates Foundation to name the new Airport Terminal the “Jim E. Yates Terminal.” This agreement will now go before both cities for final approval. Jim Earl Yates is known…
The Texarkana Regional Airport (“TXK”) has hired a new Airport Development Manager, Mr. Glen Barentine. Mr. Barentine officially started work on February 13th, 2023. Mr. Barentine has over 34 years of experience in the aviation industry, serving in the U.S.…
Earlier this fall, Seth and Jessica Erickson, of Chatfield, MN, embarked on an 11-state road trip for their tenth anniversary. They had known about Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park for years and planned a special stop at America’s only…
The Texarkana Regional Airport (“TXK”) will hold its Triennial full-scale airport emergency exercise on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at 11:00 AM. The exercise is required once every three years by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) for commercial service airports. The…
TEXARKANA, AR, SEPTEMBER 22, 2022 – The Texarkana Regional Airport (“TXK”) is pleased to announce it was awarded “2022 Arkansas Airport Of The Year” from the Arkansas Airport Operators Association (“AAOA”); a first for TXK. The award was presented on…
The Texarkana Regional Airport Authority (“Authority”) invites sealed written proposals from experienced and qualified proposers to finance, design, build-out, operate, and manage high-quality and viable concessions in the public and sterile areas of the future passenger terminal at the Texarkana…
The Texarkana Regional Airport continues to see increased operations and high passenger volumes in advance of Memorial Day weekend and summer. With United Airlines now operating non-stop flights to Houston from the Texarkana Regional Airport, those flying for business, a…
