
Ozarks At Large

From new ways to find out what's going on, to new ways of getting around it, Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis brings us those stories and more in this morning's Week in Review.



We finish our week-long series about summer camps with a preview of Camp Invention at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Fort Smith. For more information about any Camp Invention in the area, click here.

Congressman Tim Griffin has some questions for the top IRS official who resigned earlier this week. A festival of short films comes to Eureka Springs next month. Arkansas drivers can expect lower gas prices this month. The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts has plans for increasing the amount of college credit with which students graduate. And the region four headquarters of the Arkansas Highway Transportation Department makes the move from Fort Smith to Barling.


We continue our series of profiling summer camps with an overview of drama-themed camps. Several summer camps around the area are geared toward children bitten by the acting bug. Some of the more popular camps are held by Trike Theatre
Some other drama summer camps in the area:
- Summer Camp Explozion at UAFS
- Many camps by Arts Live Theatre
- Summer Academy for Young Actors at TheatreSquared
A conversation with Susan Szenasy, the editor-in-chief at Metropolis Magazine, about the future of design and architecture.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, November 18, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with the author of "On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind." Plus, a report on recent changes for Kendrick Fincher Hydration for Life.
Jacob Kaufman from KUAR provides a recap of the state legislature's recently concluded special session.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is stepping up enforcement this weekend on the state's lakes and rivers in an effort to decrease incidents of boating while intoxicated. Plus, the Rogers Fire Department embraces new technology with a smartphone app that informs people in public of nearby incidents of cardiac arrest.
Earthquakes in Oklahoma have dramatically increased since last autumn, likely linked to gas and oil development the U.S. Geological Survey says. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, larger quakes there could shake western Arkansas. We hear from both the director of the Oklahoma Geological Survey in Norman and an Arkansas seismologist.
The Legislature began discussing the items on the special session agenda yesterday in Little Rock.
The Beaver Watershed Alliance has been working on assessing ways to improve water quality of the West Fork of the White River. As part of the project, the group is holding public meetings to engage residents and landowners alike.