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Hi Neighbors!

Hope everyone is safe from the tornado that just passed through town. Some of you wrote in saying you did not get last weeks edition, looks like there was a problem with the email delivery service, been looking into that problem, should be fixed by next week.

What we are covering today

• Tornado through Fort Smith

• Summer in full action

• Starting a new classifieds section

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📅 THIS WEEK IN FORT SMITH

Events

🎭 Fort Smith Food Truck Festival | Sat, June 21st | 10am-7pm | Details

🎭 Old Fort Days Rodeo | May 26th - May 31st | Link to Tickets | Details

I need to find more events around town, I would love any recommendation on sources to help find more events, been hitting a wall on it lately

💡 FORT SMITH FACT OF THE WEEK

DID you know? Fort Smith, Arkansas, was established in 1817 as a U.S. military post on the banks of the Arkansas River. It was named after General Thomas Adams Smith, who never actually visited the city that bears his name

CLASSIFIEDS

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📰 FORT SMITH NEWS YOU CAN USE

Top Fort Smith Public Schools communication person resigns

Fort Smith schools lost their second communications chief in 18 months when Allan Marshall resigned after five months, disrupting the new superintendent's community engagement plans.

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Fort Smith bans new smoke shops within 500 feet of schools and daycares

As the title says, glad this is happening around town, i think the density of smoke shops popping up around town is a little too much.

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PICKLEBALL!!!!! - 8 new courts on Ben Geren

8 new courts opened at Ben Geren park off Zero street, excited to check these out this weekend.

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The tornado damaged some building in Fort Chaffee

National Weather Service confirmed an EF1 tornado with 110 mph winds damaged 40 Fort Chaffee buildings Monday, traveling 21.4 miles across Sebastian County with no injuries reported.

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