Ahead on Ozarks: how technology may, again, change the world of retailing. Christina Thomas has a story with researchers at the University of Arkansas and their work regarding what’s called "sequential pricing." Plus the Red Barn Ramblers: a 19-member all-star band made up of musicians you've been listening to for a long time. They play for fun…and for fundraising. Plus the Beaver Watershed Alliance, Pack Rat, Youth Bridge, the Yvonne Richardson Community Center and girl scouts all team up to get more young people on area rivers. Yesterday, we attended the first how-to canoe clinic for participants.Ozarks At Large
Ahead on Ozarks: how technology may, again, change the world of retailing. Christina Thomas has a story with researchers at the University of Arkansas and their work regarding what’s called "sequential pricing." Plus the Red Barn Ramblers: a 19-member all-star band made up of musicians you've been listening to for a long time. They play for fun…and for fundraising. Plus the Beaver Watershed Alliance, Pack Rat, Youth Bridge, the Yvonne Richardson Community Center and girl scouts all team up to get more young people on area rivers. Yesterday, we attended the first how-to canoe clinic for participants.
The Red Barn Ramblers band is nearly twenty members strong and includes musicians from several area blues and rock groups. When they get together, they raise money for good causes.Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers gives a litany of entertainment options for Mothers' Day gifts.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently completed a study, concluding that the use of sequential pricing based on real-time knowledge of shopper preferences could increase retailer profits. Ozarks at Larges Christina Thomas spoke with Cary Deck and John Aloysius of the Walton College of Business.Two public meetings were held late yesterday in Jasper to address concerns about the large CAFO in Newton County. Picasolar took home several thousand dollars from an MIT competition earlier this week. Fort Smith has finished automating trash collection, but now the city's sanitation department is turning its eye to automating recyclable collection. And speaking of Fort Smith, Senator Mark Pryor demands answers from the U.S. Air Force regarding the future of the 188th Fighter Wing.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with Congressman Tim Griffin. Plus, the conclusion to our two-part oral history with 98-year-old Yell County resident Bud Rector.
Daniel Hintz from Downtown Bentonville explains why dogs will rule an upcoming farmers' market and why art will be all over the city in June.Ozarks at Large's Meredith Martin Moats recently sat in on a conversation with Bud Rector, who will turn 99 later this year and has lived almost all his life in Yell County. We conclude her two-part report on his recollections of an Arkansas that has nearly vanished.
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers reminds us that the Washtington Elementary PTO will host the 10th annual Tour of Homes Saturday.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: art for you . . . and possibly art by you. We talk to the artistic eye behind a new exhibit of photographs exploring street art in Lebanon and we'll also take a quick tour of the Community Creative Center, where everybody and anybody is encouraged to make art. And, research into the water quality of Beaver Lake by scientists at the University of Arkansas.
The Holocaust is a delicate subject that can be intimidating for teachers to discuss with high school students. One Fayetteville teacher recently attended a seminar that equipped participants with skills they can use to approach the subject and how they can use the event as a way to teach social justice issues.
More information on the seminar is available at nwp.org.
To read a poem written by Suki Highers about her experience at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, click here.
Officials with IT Services at the University of Arkansas showed off the "smart podium" to interested faculty Tuesday afternoon.
The U.S. Department of Education announced this week the award of charter school grants totaling $136 million to twelve state education agencies, including the Arkansas Department of Education. Jacqueline Froelich reports.
"Sofflee" by Akira Tana
A group is attempting to make liquor sales legal in Boone County.
