Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Ozarks At Large
Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.
Today's week in review looks back at the school-related news we've aired over the past seven days.
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a partial list of events for the MLK Holiday.
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, as the state prepares for a busy election year, one county makes changes to its polling sites. Plus, a physical fitness event this weekend celebrates two very different causes, and we visit with a founder of the Soweto Gospel Choir, which is performing tonight at Walton Arts Center.
Becca says that much is in store for Rogers Little Theater's Season 29.
Our ten clips saluting sailors and sailing:
1. The theme to Popeye the Sailor Man.
2. Bob Denver and Alan Hale hatch a scheme on Gilligan's Island.
3. Christopher Cross creates the all-time yacht rock song with Sailing.
4. Gregory Peck, as Captain Ahab, ponders his life with Starbuck in Moby Dick.
5. Sloop John B by the Beach Boys.
6. Hercules ignores the orders of Jason in the 1963 version of Jason and the Argonauts. (later, the GREATEST MOVIE SCENE EVER with the sword-weilding skeletons).
7. Jimmy Buffett is Aa Son of a Son of a Sailor.
8. Russell Crowe catches up to a ship in Master and Commander.
9. Bogart and Hepburn on The African Queen.
10. Lyle Lovett sings If I Had a Boat.
Apologies to: Horatio Hornblower, Sinbad (the sailor, not the comic) and Errol Flynn. Maybe next time.
at end of show: "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
‘The Orchard” by Fire on Fire
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will move a Frank Lloyd Wright house to northwest Arkansas.
A stage is transformed to an ice rink this week in Fayetteville.
