STAFF PHOTO BEN GOFF Springdale’s Gavin Schmidt, left, hands off the baton to fourth-leg runner Malcolm Neal in the 4x100m relay Thursday during Bentonville’s 9th Annual Tiger Relays track meet at the Tiger Track and Soccer Facility in Bentonville.
STAFF PHOTO BEN GOFF Volunteers Gene Cagle, from right, and his sons Jessie Cagle and Gene Cagle II, attach the tail to a Siberian woolly mammoth skeleton Tuesday while installing the new acquisition at the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville. The roughly 12,000-year-old skeleton will help the museum interpret the history of native people in the Americas dating back to the paleo period when humans hunted mammoths.
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U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, third from right, her daughters Malia, right, and Sasha, second from right, is greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and his wife Peng Liyuan, left, at the Diaoyutai State guest house in Beijing, China Friday, March 21, 2014. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama met with excited students who were building robots and tried her hand at Chinese calligraphy Friday during a tour of a Beijing high school.
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FILE-This June 17, 1955 file photo shows Jack Fleck, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, warming up before a playoff with Ben Hogan for the National Open title. The Olympic Club gained a reputation as the "graveyard of champions" for the major champions who finish second. And the 1955 U.S. Open is best known for how unheralded Fleck took down Ben Hogan in one of golf's great upsets. (AP Photo/File)
FILE PHOTO — The Scottsdale Center in Rogers was expanded in 2012 at Walnut and Promenade Boulevard. Developers say the pace of commercial is picking up in the region with location still the biggest draw.
FILE PHOTO — A construction worker passes an opening in the windows on the west side of an addition to Vol Walker Hall on the University of Arkansas campus last year. The university completed 107 capital improvement projects at an estimated total cost of $265 million from 2008 through 2013, said spokesman Steve Voorhies.
FILE PHOTO — Fayetteville High School students navigate between the construction areas on campus last fall. Jeff Koenig of Fayetteville, a backer of the expansion project, said the expansion was a major help to the economy.
FILE PHOTO — Construction crews place glass windows on the south side of the new building under construction on the Fayetteville High School campus in January. The $93 million high school expansion was one of many public works projects that eased the building slowdown form the recession.
FILE PHOTO — New homes line Caprington Street in the Kerelaw Castle Subdivision in Bentonville last November. Bentonville had the biggest growth in home sales last year among the area’s larger cities with a 21 percent increase, according to MountData.
FILE PHOTO — Workers construct a house in the Kerelaw Castle Subdivision in Bentonville last November.Paul Bynum, owner and principal broker of real estate data firm MountData, said in his annual home sales report for 2013 that the area’s low unemployment rate and growing population, along with low interest rates, will help the real estate market.
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FILE PHOTO Walmart associates step off a bus June 3, 2010, at the square in Bentonville while touring attractions. With the opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, tourists to Bentonville’s downtown have increased.
FILE PHOTO JASON IVESTER Walmart employees from China exit their buss outside the Walmart Visitors Center June 4 in downtown Bentonville.
STAFF PHOTO SPENCER TIREY This panoramic photo taken from the roof of the Embassy Suites Hotel near Interstate 540 in Rogers. The photo was taken Thursday showing how the Pinnacle Hills retail area has developed. The photo shows the John Q. Hammons Center, Mercy Hospital and Pinnacle Hills Promenade.
STAFF PHOTO SPENCER TIREY This panoramic photo was taken from the roof of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Rogers on Nov. 2, 2004. The photo shows the Pinnacle Hills retail area of Rogers in the early stages of its development.