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Ozarks At Large

Format: 2025-05-21
Proposed High Voltage Transmission Line Raises Ire and Questions
SWEPCO Protest in Eureka Springs, courtesy Doug StoweSouthwestern Electric Power Company plans to install a new 48-mile long 345-kV transmission line across northern Benton and Carroll Counties to prevent outages and improve service to the region, the company says. Thousands of affected residents, expected to crowd public comment hearings scheduled next week, will claim it’s destructive. But most remain in the dark about the project’s purpose.

To read the public comments submitted regarding SWEPCO's application to the Arkansas Public Service Commission, click here and select docket # 13-041-U.
Differing Opinions Agree Delaying Employer Mandate is Good
Both the state's Insurance Commissioner and Congressman Tim Griffin agree that the federal government's decision to delay implementation of the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act is good, though Griffin sees the delay as a political ploy. Hillary Clinton is honored today in Little Rock. And Governor Mike Beebe urges Arkansans is spreading awareness about preventing summer forest fires.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, some of our favorite music performances recorded at KUAF for the first half of 2013, including Smar T Jones, Yoonie Han, RJ Mischo, Little Chief, Carter Sampson, Claudia Burson, Jed Clampit and Shawn James.





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Thursday, July 4, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, a novel source to help us celebrate the Fourth…a British journalist explains how simply following a ten dollar bill around the middle of America for a month gave him insight into the country…and why he loved what he found. Then, it's a birthday party for the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market…it turns forty this week and we'll chat with the co-managers. Plus Robert Ginsburg gets us ready for the 15th annual KUAF Summer Jazz Series. It kicks off this month with Arkansas-born Bob Dorough. And Becca Martin Brown has some fireworks information for us as well.
Along the Same Lines as Fayetteville
What curiosity, a bit of free time and some maps can reveal about one town.
A Classic Jazz Show is New Again
A new addition to KUAF's late night schedule allows listeners to hear some classic jazz interviews from the past fifty years.
Mayflower Residents Concerned Over Effects From Oil Spill
Three months after an oil spill, some residents near Mayflower wonder if they should have been evacuated immediately after the spill.

For more, watch this video produced by our content partner KUAR in Little Rock.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a look at the current landscape of politics in Arkansas. Also, learning how to care for livestock participating in the Rodeo of the Ozarks.




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Blues from Eureka to Reykjavik
For the past two years the artistic director of the Reykjavik Blues Festival has also been in Eureka Springs for that town’s blues festival. During his most recent visit Halldor Bragason came to our studio.
Where does the Water Go?
The Hill Street water tower is where much of Siloam Springs's water supply is stored.Though the repainting the interior of a water tower is, relatively, routine, the exterior of the Hill Street water Tower in Siloam Springs has not been repainted since its construction in 1967. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas finds out more.




Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Thursday, December 12, 2013
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On this edition of Ozarks, what the future may hold for a Benton County landmark. Plus, musical advice from Grammy-winner Mark O'Connor.
Marooned...at Home!
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Wayne Bell on the albums he’d like to bring along to a deserted island. Music in the piece included “”Wanna Be Starting Something” by Michael Jackson and “Tired of Being Along” by Al Green.
Green and Growing
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Local musician Shannon Wurst stops by the studio to discuss her new children's music CD and to perform. For more information and to buy copies of the album, log on to www.shannonwurst.com.
ADH to Open Additional Clinic in NW Arkansas
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The Arkansas Department of Health is opening a satellite clinic later this summer in Springdale to serve migrant Marshallese and immigrant Hispanic residents.
A Woman’s March for Civil Rights
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Poet CD Wright talks about her friend Margaret McHugh, a white homemaker from rural Arkansas who left her town, husband, and seven children to join a small band of black activists on a march from West Memphis to Little Rock.
“My Sweet Potato” by Booker T. & the MGs
An Update from Arts Live Theater
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Mark Landon Smith on Arts Live Theater’s summer camp, award event and upcoming shows.