
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.
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration releases revenue projections for the 2014 fiscal year ahead of next year's Fiscal Session of the Arkansas General Assembly. Governor Mike Beebe is sued by one of the leaders of the state Republican Party over an alleged violation of the state's Freedom of Information Act. Fort Smith transit officials propose a fare increase to help offset rising overhead costs. And Van Buren officials get a peek at a proposed budget for next year.
"Rustle of Swing" by Cab Calloway
Several area non-profit organizations are encouraging residents to donate on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Heifers for South Dakota has helped organize donations of cattle from around the country to help South Dakota farmers affected by a blizzard.
Four years after Woodstock, a circle of friends living in Eureka Springs decide to stage an Ozark heritage family folk festival on a remote and rugged Carroll County wilderness. But instead of parents with children, an estimated hundred fifty thousand hippies showed up. Jacqueline Froelich takes us to visit the site, on the fortieth anniversary. (Photo: April and Dustin Griffith, landholders, hold up an artifact found on a festival campsite.)
"Ball 'N Chain" by Big Mama Thornton
Winter is coming, true…but we also have information about baseball and fishing.