Two public meetings were held late yesterday in Jasper to address concerns about the large CAFO in Newton County. Picasolar took home several thousand dollars from an MIT competition earlier this week. Fort Smith has finished automating trash collection, but now the city's sanitation department is turning its eye to automating recyclable collection. And speaking of Fort Smith, Senator Mark Pryor demands answers from the U.S. Air Force regarding the future of the 188th Fighter Wing.
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Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers reminds us that the Washtington Elementary PTO will host the 10th annual Tour of Homes Saturday.
Wildlife recordist Joe Neal shares this audio postcard of sharing a lake with anglers and a flock of seagulls. Neal is coauthor of Arkansas Birds, published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir, is published by Half-Acre Press. Here is information about today’s montage dedicated to the number five:
- Beethoven’s Fifth as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
- George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game.
- The Vogues sing "Five O’clock World."
- How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing.
- School House Rock’s take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough.
- A scene from the British series MI-5.
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry."
- Jack Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces.
- Lou Bega’s dance hit "Mambo No. 5."
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0.
Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Comic Book Stores and Libraries around the region will be participating in National Free Comic Book Day. 52 special editions are available this year. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas visited a participating venue and has this report.Bucky Ball, a geometric, LED sculpture by artist Leo Villareal, is the first temporary outdoor installation for the museum. The work gets its name from Buckminster Fuller, an architect who designed geodesic domes. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas spoke with Villareal about this and other works.
Becca Martin Brown tells us about a nascent book club that will discuss old societies tomorrow night in Fort Smith.
Singer/songwriter John Legend spoke on the UA campus last night as part of the Distinguished Lecture series.
Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas gives us his weekly look back at business and politics news from the past seven days.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the 2014 Cancer Challenge aims to add to the $10 million raised with the event over the past 20 years. The three-day event this year encompasses a variety of locations and activities including golfing, running, trap-shooting and wrapping up with the more traditional gala. Plus, uncovering stories at Oak Cemetery, and if you're unsure of which stages to make it to during this weekend's Wakarusa Music Festival, Becca offers some suggestions.
Earlier this month, Kyle Kellams moderated a Countdown Conversation on “Tao: The Art of the Drum” at the Fayetteville Public Library. Here are some highlights. The show is tonight at Walton Arts Center.
Crowds at Fayetteville High School cheered for its athletes at its old gymnasium one last time last Friday. The building is set to be demolished next month.
February 26 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest student strike in University of Arkansas-Fayetteville campus history, which took place after several dozen prominent students were expelled for publishing a radical underground newspaper.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net reports on a grant the Arkansas Department of Workforce Services recently received to train more than 1,500 Arkansans to become nurses.
A collection of 26 folk-art dolls is currently on display in the second-floor gallery at the University of Arkansas Global Campus as part of the Black History Month celebrations. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has more.
“Polar Bear” by Queen
