Ozarks At Large
The Arkansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial will be dedicated tomorrow in Little Rock.
New standardized public education testing will be tried in Arkansas public schools under the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, one million students across 18 states, including Arkansas, will participate in the “Next Generation Assessment” field tests.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire says the 188th Fighter Wing has recieved approval to spend to $12.5 million to build a facility that could help the unit become an ISR Center of Excellence.The university system's board voted yesterday to start offering online courses. And, the state departments of health and education partner on educating schools about the dangers of heat-related illnesses.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: a walk around the trails at Lake Fayetteville will take you past acres of charred land. We learn about the benefits of prescribed burns such as these. Plus not one, but two area towns are in the running to take over the March Madness bracket of the Greatest Southern Town. And, we climb a tree to visit the serene world of a children's treehouse, and get ready for Spring Break with options for movie lovers.
Trading on the popularity of the NCAA Tournament, the magazine Garden and Gun has its own bracket. This one pits southern towns against each other.
Wings, and other films, will be shown at area libraries during next week's Spring Break Vacation. Becca has a full list.
We go off into our own world with Josh Hart, a carpenter and owner of Natural State Treehouses, who builds play structures for people of all ages.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a report on the approved usage of E-Notarization in Arkansas. And we speak to an editor, a reporter, and a journalism instructor about the future of newspapers and journalism.
The efforts to help area residents with some college credit finish their degree continue next week at the Jones Center in Springdale.
The fifth annual Eureka Springs' Voices from the Silent City Cemetery Tour, which portrays Depression-era Eureka, is set for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 18th and19th, as well as October 25th and 26th. Jacqueline Froelich provides a preview. For tickets call 479-253-9417.
Becca tells us about an effort in Springdale to encourage high school students to find their niche.
Here are the ten clips included in our montage salute to 1,000 in honor of our 1,000th edition of Ozarks at Large since it became a daily show in August, 2010.
Dwight Yoakam with the right amount of twang in A Thousand Miles From Nowhere.
A small bit from a 1972 commercial for Pfeiffer's Thousand Island salad dressing.
Bobby Vee sings that The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.
The trailer for James Cagney's portrayal of Lon Chaney...the Man of a Thousand Faces.
A mellow classic...If by Bread.
Genevieve Bujold as the doomed Anne Boleyn in Anne of A Thousand Days.
The song A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton.
The Proclaimers sing 500 Miles...but the lyric continues, "...500 more..." adding up to 1000, right?
Jason Robards yells at his neighbors in the Academy Award-winning film A Thousand Clowns.
Wilson Pickett's Land of a Thousand Dances.
Apologies to: Arabian Knights (just one too many), anything with millennium in the title, the artist Sala and the 43rd-most populated city in California. Maybe next time.
Legislators are dealing with insurance rates for public school employees and residents of Harrison are dealing with a controversial billboard.
"Soul Sacrifice" by Santana
