
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.
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The Amazeum won't open until 2015, but Sam Dean, the director of the new science and learning museum, says that museum officials already have some idea of what the exhibits, and the building itself, will look like.
A snippet of music from last night’s live broadcast of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra.
The state's Department of Corrections has announced it will make changes to the state's parole system following calls by Governor Beebe and others to strengthen the supervision and control of parolees in the state. While new unemployment numbers show a decline in the state's business sector, other areas have experienced growth. Opposition is mounting against the White River's designation as a National Blueway. And non-profit organizations looking to Rogers to host baseball tournaments will soon have to pay more to play.
"Just One" by Blind Pilot
Northwest Arkansas is the second most popular destination in the U.S. for retirees to locate, and Mercy Northwest in Rogers recently dedicated its 7th floor as the "Mercy Senior Behavioral Health Program" in an attempt to provide specialized in-patient care for the older population.