We know Jenny Lind Road and the community of Jenny Lind were named after a Swedish opera singer. We're not exactly sure why. We do know that when she came to the US in 1850, there was excitement.Ozarks At Large
We know Jenny Lind Road and the community of Jenny Lind were named after a Swedish opera singer. We're not exactly sure why. We do know that when she came to the US in 1850, there was excitement.
Women make 90% of the purchasing decisions when it comes to food. Thanks to a program from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, they get to see where their food domes from. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas joins the group on a visit to a dairy farm.Tomorrow, students from three elementary schools in Fayetteville will sell produce on Dickson Street. Some of the fruits, vegetables and herbs were grown in their school gardens.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a quarter of a million residents are eligible to enroll in free private health insurance made possible by the new Arkansas Healthcare Independence Program. Arkansas is the only state to expand Medicaid coverage via this "private option."The city of Fayetteville ponders sharing the cost of adding a railroad crossing gate at Dickson Street in exchange for some needed easements for trails construction. The City of Bentonville aims to add more than a thousand trees to the landscape during October. And results from this year's Secchi Day at Beaver lake are helping officials with the Beaver Water District better understand the effects of drought and flood years on water quality.
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with two former Congressmen about the partial federal government shutdown. Plus, plans to develop a Northwest Arkansas Regional Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan are beginning to take shape.
A collection of area organizations have helped bring the 36-mile Razorback Regional Greenway closer to reality. But work is being done to try and connect some of the smaller cities of northwest Arkansas to the area's trail network.
Holiday Island is an upscale retirement community on Table Rock Lake in northern Carroll County. Late last year, state inspectors discovered that nearly three quarters of the piped water supply had gone missing. Jacqueline Froelich goes up there to take a look.
Two former Congressman, Jim Guy Tucker and Ed Bethune talk to Roby Brock about the partial federal government shutdown.The Arkansas Department of Health, Department of Education and local school districts are offering flu vaccinations to students this week. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality isn't immune from furloughs of some workers. Fayetteville aldermen will consider creating an energy improvement district, which would give incentives to property owners for making energy efficiency improvements to their property.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, February 10, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, four legislators from northwest Arkansas discuss the fiscal session that begins today in Little Rock. They’ll examine the chances the private option is or isn’t funded by the time lawmakers adjourn. We’ll also get a small preview of some of the musicians heading to Fayetteville this summer for the fifth edition of the Fayetteville Roots Festival.
Particia Adamsco-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, with her husband John forty years ago. The story of the founding of the NRDC...and what's happened since...makes up the bulk of the memoir "A Force of Nature" co-written by John and Patricia Adams with George Black.
Thanksgiving means many things...and almost all of them are included in the new cookbook "The Commonsense Kitchen" by Tom Hudgens. There is food, of course, but also essays about why we should be thankful for our food.
"Spreading Spirit" by Calvin Keys
Now that Thanksgiving is here, the holiday-themed events in the region are almost everywhere.
"King Humming Bird" by JJ Grey and Mofro
The publishing house McSweeney's is known for a roster of talented writers and for a passionate approach to the printed word. We talked with a co-publisher of the new volume, "The Art of McSweeney's."
Determining the perimeter of a parcel of land is the complex business of a land surveyor. Several dozen licensed surveyors operate around the four-county area. But Jacqueline Froelich set her sights on quite possibly the region's most rugged survey crew and follows them into the Ozarks outback.
