Two members of Carroll Electric Cooperative file a class-action complaint against the cooperative’s board of directors and management, auditions this weekend for a major motion picture to be filmed in Arkansas, Razorback football suffers a major blow and more – on this edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
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The Ozark Tracker Society is organizing a day-long workshop on weeds which can be used as food or medicine. Registration deadline is August 13.
For more information, call 479.267.0420 or log on to www.ozarktrackers.org.
Today, violinist Boujidara Kouzmanova and guitarist Virginia Luque perform together at 7 p.m. at Covenant Church in Fayetteville. In today’s conversation, Boujidara talks about how a balance between the intense sound of violin and the easy sound of guitar is achieved.
Admission to the concert is free. For more information, call 442.5267.
For a video of Boujidara playing a love song, click here.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, more than 400 Arkansas schools need improvement under “No Child Left Behind,” Michael Tilley on the latest from the River Valley and violinist Bojidara Kouzmanova visits KUAF. Also, we meet Melba the Mouth in our Route 66 series.Jodi Beznoska of the Walton Arts Center talks about Midtown Men who perform this weekend. The final concert in the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert series happens next week, followed by Fayetteville Roots Festival. And that’s not all.
The 113th Tontitown Grape Festival, the Taste of Crawford County and Randall Shreve in concert tonight.
Cargill recalls all ground turkey products produced at its Springdale, Arkansas plant; congressional gridlock over funding for the Federal Aviation Administration may cost some Arkansans their jobs and more – on this edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
The Arkansas Board of Apportionment approved maps for all 135 redrawn legislative districts on Friday. The new boundaries will force elections in all Senate and House Districts in 2012. Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net talks to political bloggers Jason Tolbert and Michael Cook.
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission voted yesterday to plug an underground injection well and declare a permanent moratorium on new ones in Faulkner County, plagued by small earthquakes. The Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower can be seen in northwest Arkansas this weekend. For more information, call (479) 789-5000. To download a star map, log on to www.skymaps.com.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, why more walk-in clinics might dot the landscape as the Affordable Care Act is rolled out. And the founder of Cherish the Women, Joanie Madden, talks about learning to play the Irish whistle and why she was impressed with her first-ever visit to Fayetteville. The band plays tonight at Walton Arts Center.
Friday afternoon, University of Arkansas Chancellor Dr. G. David Gearhart and Governor Mike Beebe dedicated the Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering building on Dickson Street on campus. Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar took a tour of the facility following the ceremony.
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and the Arkansas Press Association are hosting a free public seminar on the University of Arkansas campus tomorrow. To register info@arkansaspress.org or call (501) 374-1500.
The Latino professional organization ALPFA has joined hands with U of A’s Sam M. Walton College of Business to launch the ALPFA Institute.
“The Mistress Witch from McClure” by Sufjan Stevens
The Arkansas Tech Career Center in Ozark allows high-school students to prepare for the job market while earning college credit.
The documentary “Green Fire” screens today at the Fayetteville Public Library, auditions for “A Bad Year for Tomatoes” will be at Rogers Little Theatre, and a jazz concert will take place on the University of Arkansas campus. Tonight’s also the opening concert of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas’ inaugural season.
