Bob Martorana accepted the symbolic key to the door of the Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa on Tuesday during a morning ceremony in front of the steps leading to the historic hotel.

Martorana has been appointed the sixth general manager in the 100 years since the state’s largest hotel was established.

He stood for photographs as the key was presented to him by Morin M. Scott Jr., president of Southwest Hotels of Little Rock and Franz Viertbauer of Hot Springs who has been a manager with Southwest Hotels for the past 12 years and is retiring. The European style transfer of t...

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