🍻 Springdale-based beverage company Scarlet Letter has acquired Springdale-based hard cider company Black Apple. Black Apple closed its downtown taproom around the beginning of the year. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
📝 Fayetteville is taking applications through April 24 to fill 11 positions on five boards and committees: Animal Services Advisory Board, Environmental Action Committee, Food Commission, Historic District Commission and Walton Arts Center Council. (Fayetteville Flyer)
🎓 Data from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education shows enrollment among Black and Hispanic freshmen increased at Arkansas two-year and four-year colleges and universities since 2023, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that colleges could no longer consider race during the admissions process. (Arkansas Business)
🕵️♂️ A state and federal investigation to look for illegal voting by noncitizens in Arkansas appears to have resulted in two convictions. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
