After successfully hosting its first Sparks in the Parks fireworks display this month, Texarkana, Ark., officials have announced the city plans to put on the show indefinitely.

“We plan to do it every year, and hope the event becomes routine and gets better and better each year,” said City Manager Harold Boldt.

For nearly a decade the Fourth of July celebration was held on the Texas side and sponsored through a tax established to generate tourism. The purpose of the hotel/motel tax is to draw people to Texarkana overnight, and officials decided Sparks in the Park didn’t...