Just over a year remains until the skies over Hot Springs will darken, temperatures will drop and thousands of people will look to the skies to see the first total solar eclipse in the state in over 100 years.
The sixth annual Arkansas Cherry Blossom Festival, now in its third year as a statewide event, gets underway Sunday in Hot Springs and organizers expect the largest crowd yet, with all seven of its workshops already completely booked.
A $165,000 project to install new projectors in the meeting rooms at the Hot Springs Convention Center is aimed at improving the customer experience and raising the level of service provided to meetings and groups, Visit Hot Springs says.
Back in August 2017, Bill Solleder, the marketing director for Visit Hot Springs, mentioned the creation of what seemed at the time to be a tongue-in-cheek event on the VHS Facebook page.
With the First Ever 20th Annual World s Shortest St. Patrick s Day Parade approaching, Visit Hot Springs Director of Marketing Bill Solleder earlier this week presented a rundown of last year s marketing efforts and accomplishments and a sneak peak at this year s campaign.