Two issues concerning the tension between infrastructure and the environment were front and center in the Texarkana area last year.

The proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir and a potential coal-fired power plant near Fulton and McNab, Ark., demanded lots of front-page ink in the local news in 2007.

Southwestern Electric Power Co. plans to build a 600-megawatt power plant in Hempstead County to meet future energy needs here and elsewhere in the company’s service territory.

But environmentalists and hunting groups have cried foul, citing what they see as harmfu...

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