Exxon Mobil Corp. contributes $125,000 to the Arkansas Community Foundation to assist with long-term disaster recovery efforts in Central Arkansas. Two state legislators call for another financial impact analysis for the state's Private Option program, and postal workers across the state will collect food items Saturday for one of the larger food drives in the state.
Ozarks At Large

Historical author Velda Brotherton discusses foods she remembers eating and some she still cooks from growing up in the Boston Mountains prior to her taking part in an event this Saturday at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Many events this month head outdoors including this picnic benefitting SpayArkansas. Dogs are welcome.
According to a new report, the funding disparity between traditional school districts and charter schools has increased more than 54 percent in 8 years.
University of Arkansas officials yesterday unveiled a new chamber in the Human Performance Laboratory will allow researchers to have a temperature and humidity-controlled atmosphere in which to study physiological effects that heat has on the human body.
President Obama was in Central Arkansas yesterday, visiting victims of the recent storms and tornadoes that ravaged the area. Meanwhile, state legislators heard testimony from state finance officials regarding fiscal forecasts for the next few years.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation from this year's Mozart in the Museum with the classical music trio Time For Three. Plus, 47 miles a day: that's how far, on average, a female hiker hiked to make it through the Appalachian Trail in fewer than 50 days. Hiker and author Jennifer Pharr Davis stops by the studio, and we get some tips on how to get into running.
A new invention may revolutionize how poultry litter is spread on Ozark's pastures as fertilizer. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, the device may quell embattled interests that have sought to limit poultry waste land application because it pollutes area streams and lakes.
Two area photographers recently visited a modern ghost town, Picher, just west of the Arkansas border. To view photos from the visit go to www.hudsonphotos.blogspot.com and www.facebook.com/novostudio.
For a decade the residents of the fictional town of DuPont have been delighting audiences in northwest Arkansas. This year's Christmas in DuPont will be the last for some time.
Donny and Marie, Christmas seals and more in our history capsule for December 9.
Plenty of holiday music, plays and more ahead.
"Jingle Bells" by the Claudia Burson Trio