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.
A new apartment complex in Fayetteville is the first to be LEED certified in the state.
For more information: www.ecomodernflats.com
The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks celebrates year-round, including when the weather turns colder.
The script closely follows Dickens, but the presentation embraces the 21st century in the University of Arkansas production of A Christmas Carol at Walton Arts Center this weekend.
Music: "Bouree" by Jethro Tull (from the Jethro Tull Christmas Album!)
Bette Midler, Antarctica and more in our history capsule for December 1.
Becca's Wednesday visit includes options for the weekend.
Music: "Hillbillies From Outer Space" by The Vaughn Brothers
