Don't put those skates away yet. Bentonville's downtown skating rink is extending the time you can get on the ice.
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Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Ozarks, how research being conducted in Fayetteville may reduce retail theft. Plus Lauren Embree's jewelry attracts attention from around the country and the world. Plus examining the sky over Benton County and the year's top Arkansas political stories and more.Lauren Embree's jewelry is featured in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Whole Living and her new showroom opens tomorrow. A big week, you might say. For more information visit www.laurenembreejewelry.com.
We emerge from the holiday shopping season, some of us, literally spent. And for thieves? The crowds served as good distraction to accumulate treasure. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports new technologies being developed at the UofA's RFID Lab will someday foil the robbers--but good.
On this edition of Ozarks, we take a closer look at a small family-owned company that researches and develops computer devices for those are disabled. Also, a local police department is hosting it's annual Polar Bear Plunge to support Special Olympics. Plus, Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net reviews the top business developments of 2010, we prepare for the Sugar Bowl and more.Hanging out with a large purple dinosaur is one of Becca's entertainment picks for today.
This edition of Ozarks at Large includes an update on the tornado damage from the New Year's Eve storms. Plus, our monthly collaboration with the Pryor Center places the spotlight on rockabilly legend Dale Hawkins, the Militant Grammarian returns, the Fayetteville Animal Shelter has a record-breaking 2010 and more.
Jacqueline Froelich once again delves into the stacks of the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History and pulls out an interview with the late Arkansas "Rockabilly" musician Dale Hawkins. The digitally taped interviews was conducted at Hawk's Nest Recording Studio in North Little Rock, January 16th, 2008 by Bob Cochran.
More information is available at pryorcenter.uark.edu.
Wind continues to be a big business in Arkansas. Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net talks to one company president about the state's role in the wind energy industry.
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Remembering Some of the People We Lost in 2013
On this special edition of Ozarks we hear again some of the voices we lost during 2013, including Bill Harrison, Curley Miller, Ivan Denton and Dick Renko.
The Ozarks Genealogical Society's annual conference is scheduled for Sept. 13-14 in Springfield, Missouri, and the featured speaker is D. Joshua Taylor (http://www.djoshuataylor.com).
The first event outside of Eureka Springs for the Creative Energy Project will bring yarn, and plenty of it, to Bentonville.
Link: For more about Yarnology or the Creative Energy Project, www.creativeenergyproject.com
Officials with hunger relief organizations in Arkansas express concern over recent efforts to remove SNAP funding from the federal Farm Bill. Central Arkansas leaders request information from ExxonMobil regarding a stretch of pipeline in the Lake Maumelle Watershed. The Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees discuss the new Common Core curriculum, set to take effect when schools start in about a month. And the Fayetteville Public Library board of directors moves forward with an offer to purchase the former City Hospital property.
"Cut Me Loose" by T Model Ford
In the first of our series on the deployment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas, Cynthia Crone, the state’s insurance department deputy commissioner, explains the fundamentals, including getting an early look at Arkansas’s insurance exchange, now referred to as marketplace.
Early next month the organization called the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. Inc. will hold its annual convention in Rogers. We talked to John Bircher, National Spokesman for the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Link: To learn more about the Military Order of the Purple Heart, visit www.purpleheart.org
