
Ozarks At Large



Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers gives a litany of entertainment options for Mothers' Day gifts.

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.



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.

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.
Thursday night three area high school volleyball teams will participate in the latest Cancer Challenge event. We talked with Tina Waggener, Executive Director for Cancer Challenge. To learn more visit cancerchallenge.com
"God Bless the Child" by Wes Montgomery
A music festival, major leaguer and more in our history capsule for August 18.
Becca has, for the third day in a row, something loud for an entertainment suggestion.
The web page of the Fort Smith Historic site contains lots of information on the history and culture of the area. The park is adding to that information through the creation of a database on federal court employees from the 19th century.
To access the database, visit fosmcourtdatabase.nps.gov.
To contact the Fort Smith National Historic Site, call 479-783-3961.