A variety of businesses are announcing news or expanded operations in Helena-West Helena, which can use the shot in the arm. A couple of the companies will be leasing land on the former Cedar Chemicals site, a pollution problem that the state now owns in trust. Details from a local/state news release announcing 87 jobs:

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