During a tour last week, guests were given a preview of what the completed museum will look like.
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On this edition of Ozarks, preserving stream sides in Northwest Arkansas and a preview of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra. Plus, a look at if e-books really better for the environment.
While fewer trees may be cut as physical books turn into digital ones, Ozarks at Large's Energy Corps correspondent Christina Thomas reports that the effect of e-books on the environment may not be as beneficial as you might imagine.
Dr. John Perry of Stanford University and University of California, Riverside, spoke at the University of Arkansas earlier this week.
Ozark Poets and Writers Collective meet at Nightbird Books, UA Fort Smith Chorale Ensembles performances at the Fort Smith Convention Center and The Whigs at George's.
On this edition of Ozarks, heavy rains and thunderstorms keep much of Arkansas soaked and ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas) loses $3 million in funds allocation. Springdale School District looks at renewable energy to cut costs, local company develops software to improve exercise efficiency and a photography symposium awaits Eureka Springs.
On this edition of Ozarks, horses teach elementary school students to read and Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra wraps up its 2010-2011 season. Washington County officials look into implementing a county-wide emergency mass alert system and Arkansas State Hospital is charged with patient abuse. Also on today's show, poet Matthew Henriksen's conversation about his book Ordinary Sun.
Poet Matthew Henriksen visits KUAF's Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about his book Ordinary Sun.
Washington County officials have been looking into implementing a county-wide emergency mass notification system. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, it has to be the perfect fit.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a University of Arkansas student helps initiate a campus-wide composting project and Roby Brock takes a final look at the 88th General Assembly. The screening of a documentary on Newton County farmers concerned about the use of herbicides and staging of Shakespeare's Othello will take place in the U of A campus this week, and Wayne Bell talks about the discontinuation of All My Children and One Life to Live.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
The Ozarks Genealogical Society's annual conference is scheduled for Sept. 13-14 in Springfield, Missouri, and the featured speaker is D. Joshua Taylor (http://www.djoshuataylor.com).
The first event outside of Eureka Springs for the Creative Energy Project will bring yarn, and plenty of it, to Bentonville.
Link: For more about Yarnology or the Creative Energy Project, www.creativeenergyproject.com
Officials with hunger relief organizations in Arkansas express concern over recent efforts to remove SNAP funding from the federal Farm Bill. Central Arkansas leaders request information from ExxonMobil regarding a stretch of pipeline in the Lake Maumelle Watershed. The Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees discuss the new Common Core curriculum, set to take effect when schools start in about a month. And the Fayetteville Public Library board of directors moves forward with an offer to purchase the former City Hospital property.
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In the first of our series on the deployment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas, Cynthia Crone, the state’s insurance department deputy commissioner, explains the fundamentals, including getting an early look at Arkansas’s insurance exchange, now referred to as marketplace.
Early next month the organization called the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. Inc. will hold its annual convention in Rogers. We talked to John Bircher, National Spokesman for the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Link: To learn more about the Military Order of the Purple Heart, visit www.purpleheart.org