
Ozarks At Large



While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.

The designation for a stretch of highway in Arkansas is changing to Interstate 49.
Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.

The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, May 12, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, an Arkansas judge overturns the states's ban on same-sex marriage, so what's next?
The second annual Orchid Show and Sale hosted by the Orchid Society of the Ozarks will return to the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks this weekend.
“Orchid” by Ken Elkinson
According to Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, we’ll not run out of options for things to do this weekend.
Arkansas Senator John Boozman disappointed about tabled contraception measure; the 2012 political line-up in Arkansas set; and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
The University of Arkansas Concert, Wind and Campus Bands are set to perform next week at Walton Arts Center. Ozarks at Large’s Kyle Kellams spoke with W. Dale Warren, the director of concert bands at the U of A, about the upcoming performances.
The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute will host its first film forum “Adventures in the Art of Filmmaking” next week on its campus atop Petit Jean Mountain.
More information is available at www.livethelegacy.org.
“Kimberley” by Clinic