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Historic Main Street Hardy Offers Haven for Shoppers
Below is a reprint of a story written back on September 17, 2004 – What can we do to improve more - Your comments are appreciated !!
By Craig Ogilvie, travel writer
Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism
HARDY — For over a century, this foothills town has welcomed visitors who enjoy the cool waters of Spring River, the beauty of the surrounding Ozarks and shopping in the unique little stores along Main Street.
Very little has changed, except travelers no longer arrive by train…and most prefer a modern motel, riverside resort, RV campsite or a cozy bed and breakfast. With a National Historic District that stretches three blocks along a Main Street filled with interesting shops and museums, Old Hardy Town is among the travel treasures of Arkansas.
Hardy joined the Main Street program in 1994, with Johnny Gray serving as the first local director. A good mix of business leaders, historians, crafters and educators joined the effort to secure the program for Hardy. Dr. Aubrey Thompson and Dale Maddox were among the prime movers ten years ago and remain active in the town’s direction today.
Helping local business
Main Street Hardy Online is here to help the local businesses in the Hardy community. If you have a business or provide a service within the Hardy area, please use our FREE Business Directory to list yourself. We also have a Billboard feature that is available for a nominal fee, so that you can advertise your business. Main Street Hardy-Online is ready, willing and able to assist in helping you to grow your business. Thanks to all who are seeing the value. We plan to offer free seminars to the local area business to work together to help promote our town and business.
Forums Added To Site
We here at Main Street Hardy Online are excited to offer to the community and web visitors a new online FORUM section. We all know everyone has something to say and many times debate. Well that’s what our forums are designed for. Now you can ask a question to the community and let others respond. You will also be able to respond to others. We only ask that at all times no profanity or what we determine to be “bashing” of others.
This forum is a excellent “forum” to finally be heard in the community. Additionally we hope visitors to our city will participate too with input and discussions about our great online community !!
Local Business Web Seminar
Great news for the local business owners in the Hardy Area, we will be offering a FREE seminar to not only introduce to the new Main Street Hardy Online website and how to take advantage of it.
Mark your calendar for NOV. 17 , 2009 (Tuesday) 5:15 pm
Location: Words Afterwords
Additionally if you are interested in your own website or would like to learn more about what a website could do for your business please attend.
Just let us know if you are planning on attending this Free seminar by Clicking Here to reserve a seat. Hope to see you there !
Polls added to site !
We are happy to add a new fun option to our new site, a POLL. Now we can get feedback from our visitor in regards to various issues and questions. Some good, some bad, all interesting. It can be found on the bottom left page of the website and in the future in various news post where you can vote on specific subjects on the site.
We listen to your feedback and do what we can to continue to make this new site a great and informative place online. Heck its only been 6 days since going live online and only 7 days since the site began development!
City Council Meeting Nov. 4, 2009
The possibility of Riverbend Park’s receiving city water and the potential of annexing the former Beach Club property into Hardy were the main topic of discussion at Hardy City Council’s regular monthly meeting Oct. 20.
The meeting was well attended, yet there wasn’t a quorum to vote, so discussion was held about agenda items.
Newsletter Added
When our new site Main Street Hardy Online went live we hit the streets ready to show the town we mean business. And by that we mean helping to do everything possible to promote and inform the local folks as well and most importantly tourist around the country about our town.
With that said, we are excited to add to our site a new FREE newsletter subscription service option. This will allow you to get included in our new newsletter that will be emailed out with events and news that is happening in our wonderful town of Hardy Arkansas.
Hardy River Flood Of 2009 Again !
The Spring River at Hardy was at 16.51 feet at 6:00am on Friday, about six feet lower than when it crested in 2008′s flood. At 14 feet, homes on piling along the riverbank have water under them and the River Bend Campground and other low lying areas are flooded. Downstream, the river will crest at 22.5 feet late Friday at Imboden.
Hardy park along the river
Gazebo in the park under water
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