( Andy Shupe)
A sign marking Nolan Richardson Drive hangs Friday, April 16. 2021, on a utility pole over Razorback Road following an unveiling ceremony for the newly renamed street on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. The Fayetteville City Council voted last month to rename what was known as Leroy Pond Drive to Nolan Richardson Drive, in honor of the national championship-winning former head menÕs basketball coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks. In turn, what was known as Government Avenue leading to Fayetteville National Cemetery will be renamed Lt. Col. Leroy Pond Avenue, in honor of the World War II veteran awarded with the Purple Heart, Silver Star and other awards, who was wounded in Germany and died in 1945.