Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Friday, December 20, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a company that began on the University of Arkansas campus is on a list of 2013's top technological inventors. Plus the founders of the Early Morning Bourbon Girls…Rebecca Champagne and Meredith Martin Moats…talk about the band's upcoming reunion show at Maxine's Tap Room and play a couple of songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio.
Arkansas has more than 160 freshwater lakes, most of them artificial, like Lake Sequoyah in southeast Fayetteville. But the 50-year old reservoir is shrinking due to excess upstream sedimentation. So the city has started to clean it out using innovative technology.
This week, the city of Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas are hosting a Sustainable Communities Summit. Starting tomorrow, the summit will feature information about alternative fuels and trails, among other things. We speak with the event's organizers.
Becca Martin Brown gives us the details on tonight’s musical optinons and an interesting way to spend lunch tomorrow.
Saturday the Fort Smith Symphony adds the Capitol Quartet, four saxophones, to the on-stage experience.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe looks for bi-partisan support in the state legislature for expanding Medicaid in the state, Tyson Foods announces an auditing program for its poultry and livestock producers and residents of Fayetteville will soon have another place to drop off their recyclables.