The newly created Ray of Hope Foundation in Maumelle announced this week that the family of Brett Barham has been selected as the first recipients of the foundation, which hopes to raise money to support families such as the Barhams, who lost their husband, father and sole provider earlier this year.

All things considered, the College of DuPage is doing pretty well, President Robert L. Breuder told a group of area legislators over breakfast Friday morning. But financial challenges loom just over the horizon. “There’s an awful lot going on at the moment,” Breuder told the group in a conference room in the college’s Culinary and Hospitality Center. Breuder listed a series of accomplishments to ...

Gulf Coast playwright Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, known for her plays Gee's Bend and The Flag Maker of Market Street, has a new venture called The Chat and Chew Supper Club, which will have its debut in March at All Saints Episcopal Church in Mobile.