Farmers markets set 2013 openings
Eighty to 90 farmers markets are gearing up for the growing season, according to the University of Arkansas Agriculture Division’s Cooperative Extension Service.
Among locations and opening dates:
Little Rock’s River Market Farmer’s Market opens April 30 and operates Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7 a.m to 3 p.m.
through October.
North Little Rock’s Argenta Farmers Market at Main and Sixth streets, April 6, and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon through October.
Pine Bluff’s Saracen Landing Farmers Market, June 1, and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays through Oct. 5 from 6 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
In Fort Smith, the Downtown Farmers Market is open year-round Saturdays 7 a.m. to noon.
The Bentonville Farmers Market in downtown opens April 27, and operate Saturdays through Oct.
from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Fayetteville Farmers Market, which has two locations, will open April 6 and operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The market at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks also opens April 6 and will be open Saturdays from 7 a.m. to noon and Wednesdays from 4 to 7 p.m. Both locations close in late November.
- John Magsam31 reactors told to upgrade vents
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has taken the first step toward ordering U.S. nuclear-power plants to improve ventilation systems at 31 reactors with designs similar to those that melted down two years ago in Japan.
The order would require U.S. operators to upgrade vents to ensure they remain operable even during severe accidents, such as the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami.
The 31 reactors are the boiling-water type. Entergy Arkansas’ two reactors at Nuclear One at Russellville are the pressurizedwater type, according to the agency.
- Jack WeatherlyIndex falls, but 4 stocks hit highs
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, fell 1.11 to 270.64 Tuesday.
Shares of Acxiom closed at $19.78, up 1.44 percent; America’s Car-Mart hit $48.40; and Bank of the Ozarks closed up at $42.51. After hitting its trading high, Home Bancshares closed down slightly for the day at $36.65.
Volume for the index was 14.59 million shares, compared with average daily volume of 21.6 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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