A world champion BBQ team will be crowned in Bentonville, mental health discussed in Fayetteville and sports all over the place this week.
Ozarks At Large
Legislators are dealing with insurance rates for public school employees and residents of Harrison are dealing with a controversial billboard.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, we visit an area high school to learn how one teacher is teaching entrepreneurship. Plus, sturdy and comfortable outdoor furniture made in Prairie Grove. And, a hidden treasure at the 80-year-old Devil's Den State Park.
From a book sale in Eureka Springs to a Comeback to College Fair in Springdale, we have this list of happenings in our listening area.
Arkansas high school students graduating in 2014 and beyond are required to take an economics course. One local school is using hands-on learning methods to teach the value of small business.
As a November reduction in SNAP benefits approaches, the River Valley Regional Food Bank is getting ready for an increase in demand for their services.
Arkansas two U.S. Senators sound off about the end of the partial federal government shutdown. Governor Mike Beebe calls a special session of the Arkansas Legislature in order to solve the crisis facing the state's teachers' insurance system. And the Sebastian County Library System begins looking to the future as a needs assessment is conducted.
The fifth annual Eureka Springs' Voices from the Silent City Cemetery Tour, which portrays Depression-era Eureka, is set for Friday and Saturday evenings, October 18th and19th, as well as October 25th and 26th. Jacqueline Froelich provides a preview. For tickets call 479-253-9417.
It's been a bordello, a restaurant and now a visitors center...and it's one of our favorite spaces in the region. We spent an afternoon at Miss Laura's in downtown Fort Smith,
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we head out on the campaign trail with GOP gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Plus, an update on SWEPCO's plan to construct a major new transmission line across the region.
For the fourth consecutive year the city will be the site for a district convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Organizers are preparing for about 43-hundred attendees the weekends of June 29th and July 6th and another 38-hundred people the weekend of July 20th.
“Summer” by Vivaldi
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about a variety of things that can be done today.
This morning, Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor discussed his opposition to the “Farm Bill” with Kyle Kellams.
“Summertime” by Louis Armstrong
The annual University of Arkansas Literacy Symposium is staging a reader’s theatre on the life of American author and humorist, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. The performance is based on newly released double CD “Mark Twain: Words and Music” jammed with noted actors and musicians, conceptualized and created by Cindy Lovell director of the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center tells us about the last few performances that will mark the end of the 2012 Artosphere Festival.