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The Clinton Presidential Center shut its doors again Monday, after reopening to the public July 1 from 15 months of pandemic-forced closure. The center's restaurant, 42 bar and table, will remain open but will return to requiring reservations, and will now also require proof of vaccination from patrons before they can enter.
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The White Water Tavern will reopen Aug. 6 with a full entertainment lineup and, for the first time in 15 years, a working kitchen. (Democrat-Gazette file photo/Cary Jenkins)
New owners Travis Hill and Natalee Miller are set to reopen Little Rock s venerable
White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh St. at Thayer Street, at 4 p.m. Aug. 6 with a full live entertainment lineup and, for the first time in a decade and a half, an actual working kitchen that will be open and serving the same hours the club will be open: 4 p.m.-midnight Tuesday-Thursday, 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, 4 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and 4-9 p.m. Sunday. ( For the past 15 years we pretty much outsourced that, Hill says.)
Little Rock board paves way for Chick-Fil-A on Broadway FRANK SCOTT JR. (file photo) Brian Chilson
The
Little Rock Board of Directors voted Tuesday to grant
Chick-Fil-A a franchise over city right of way along Seventh Street and Broadway streets. The property includes an alley in the middle of the block, for what is to be primarily a drive-through business on property that once included a McDonald’s and a strip of older commercial buildings on Seventh.
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City Director Kathy Webb, who attends church at nearby First Methodist Church, spoke against the ordinance. She said she lived near the Chick-Fil-A on Markham and noted the frequent traffic problems there. She worried about how the traffic flow at the downtown location might impact the church’s Child Development Center.