Centerton

But over the last decade, more and more folks into the area.

Centerton has grown up.

That whole area around them has grown up.

We were talking with Coach yesterday.

Welcome back to the 479 Show.

Coming up in the 479, the week of Columbus Day, we'll find our local and county governments hard at work with Greenland and Huntsville among those city councils starting the week with Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, and Centerton among those taking up the mantle later on.

The Benton and Washington County Quorum Courts will continue their budget deliberations with the latter also holding its regular session.

The Springdale Board of Education also has its monthly get-together.

They're located at 56 Yukon Way and are open Monday through Friday from 6.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 to 1.

Crave Cookies opened their doors in Centerton to a big line last week.

They had some serious giveaways for the day, including a free cookie to the first 1000 people.

Thank you.

Someone also won free cookies for a year and somebody else took home a new iPad.

They're located at 1413 East Centerton Boulevard and are open Monday through Thursday, 1030 to 10, Friday and Saturday, 1030 to 11, and they are closed on Sunday.

The annual Frisco Inferno Barbecue Contest happened in downtown Rogers during Bikes, Blues, and Barbecue this past weekend.

The competition had sauce, chicken, pork, and people's choice categories.

We'll see what that means.

Centerton is getting a new cookie shop as Crave Cookies will be opening on Saturday.

They're located at 1413 East Centerton Boulevard, and they have a packed grand opening plan.

They'll be giving away 1,000 free cookies.

One lucky winner will win free cookies for a year.

We're coordinating with R DOT to progress toward completion on that one, and we currently estimate that cost at $13 million.

And then greenhouse road safety improvements, we're partnering with Centerton on this one.

We're at about 60% and we're still coordinating with RDoD and franchise utilities to move things out of the way.

Total estimated cost right now is $45 million for that one.

We're coordinating with RDoT regarding funding, and RDoT's working on some property acquisitions for that one.

That estimated cost right now is $68.4 million.

The Council would open the checkbook for several projects at the meeting, the largest being a $7.6 million contract with Crossland Heavy Contractors for its Town Branch Sewer Interceptor Project, while also approving work on drainage improvements in Southwest Nutmeg Road, the intersection of Southwest I and Southwest 41st Streets, and the Greenhouse Road improvements that would be shared with neighboring Centerton.

Negotiations would continue toward a possible merger between the region's Solid Waste District September 23rd Representatives from the Benton County and Boston Mountain Solid Waste Districts had been considering a combined governing body to serve the communities in Benton, Washington, and Madison counties, but Benton County officials expressed concerns that the composition of the board that required representation from three counties and the cities therein contained would leave it in the minority, but they were willing to pursue the potential merger further to determine the benefits of joining with their larger Boston Mountain counterparts.

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The Northwest Arkansas Emergency Preparedness Fair is tomorrow in Centerton.

Yesterday, Ozarks at Large's Jack Travis spoke with event organizer Matt Lindsey, who is senior pastor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lindsey says the event combines safety with fun.

When organizations like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints work closely with others throughout the community, great things happen, right? So we have thousands of individuals that have attended the Emergency Preparedness Fair over the last, call it, 18 years.

This is the third year we're covering it in the Centerton area.

We covered it in Bentonville before that.

And, you know, the spirit behind this is really just people coming to find information about how to keep them safe, secure and prepared for all kinds of emergency types of challenges that may come our way.

It's organized by the Meteor Guitar Gallery because they do their shows out of there now.

That's in Centerton.

Yeah, and tickets are $30 at the door, but you can call ahead.

Reserve a table? That's right.