This Saturday night at Darlington, be sure to set your DVRs because our hometown 188th Fighter Wing will be performing the fly-over for Saturday night's Sprint Cup pre-race ceremonies!

Gotta LOVE those A-10s! 

Nope, this isn't a complaint post. It's an opportunity for citizens to actually PARTICIPATE in Fort Smith government. Learn more about how stuff works and make a difference in our community. 

All three City of Fort Smith Citizens Academies are accepting applications for the Spring 2008 series of classes. 

The Times Record's Jeff Arnold did a great job this weekend with the latest on the Bass Reeves Legacy Monument.

A larger-than-life monument is probably
fitting for a man whose legendary exploits made him maybe the most
feared lawman in the Indian Territory.

In the old days (less than 10 years ago), we called the internet the "world wide web."

Today, the online world is impacting our local economy in more ways than we realize. One very specific example is the empty shell of a movie rental business across from the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Rogers Avenue.

Why go all the way to a store to rent a DVD when you can buy your very own copy for $20 across the street?

Sometimes I wonder who owns some of the pieces of property on certain thoroughfares in Fort Smith.

The answers are at my fingertips -- and yours.

http://www.actdatascout.com/default.aspx?ci=35

Ever wonder who your city director is? What ward you're in? When your
trash pick-ups are scheduled? Where you vote? If your street is
classified as a "feeder" or a major arterial? How your property is
zoned? Or if that piece of property you're thinking about renting is in
the floodplain?

Answers to these questions and much more are located right here.

http://gis.fsark.com/maps.html

Did you know that many non-emergency services provided through the City of Fort Smith can be requested online?

Check it out.

www.mycityservices.net

www.fortsmithwifi.com is a great site for locating a wireless hotspot.

Grab a cup of coffe, a big mac, or just about anything, as you catch up on e-mail, post events online, or find the schedule for the flick you've been dying to see.

If you're a business and wifi is part of your business plan for getting customers in the door, and you'd like to have your business added to the map, e-mail the Fort Smith GIS gurus here 
gisinfo@fortsmithar.gov.

So what's this I hear about a Sony Wii floating around Fort Smith, looking for a give-a-way opportunity? I have an 80 gig ipod already...

;) 

My personal blog is www.tracyplaces.net.