Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."Ozarks At Large
Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala tonight at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville. Earlier this week, they stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance and played their song "It's You and It's Me."
Southwestern Electric Power Company plans to string an extra high voltage transmission line across Benton and Carroll Counties to better serve the region’s growing electrical needs. But a group of affected residents have organized “Save the Ozarks” to block the transmission corridor. A Fort Smith homeless agency halts its plans to move to a homeless campus until certain criteria are met. Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas takes us on a tour of the organization and potential campus.
Tom Vilsack, the country's Secretary of Agriculture, was the esteemed speaker of yesterday's Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture at the University of Arkansas. He took the opportunity to speak candidly with the standing room only crowd about short-, medium-, and long-term ag public policy goals, and about opening lines of communication.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: taking back tons of unneeded or expired prescription drugs. Tomorrow, Arkansans are encouraged to properly and legally dispose of the unwanted medicine in their homes. Plus a trip through Oak Cemetery in Fort Smith, and the band Surf De Solei steps into the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Wienermobile provides recent college graduates the chance to drive cross country. The Wienermobile will be in Rogers and Bentonville tomorrow.
Web Exclusive: Pictures of the Hottest Dog on Wheels Surf de Soleil is one of the bands performing at a benefit for Guatemala Sunday night at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
The fifteenth-annual living history tour of Oak Cemetery is Sunday. Portrayals of Fort Smith's past residents, prominent and not, all tell a story of the city's history.Arkansas has one of the highest rates of prescription painkiller abuse among 12- to 25-year-olds. Tomorrow's Prescription Drug Takeback Day, with disposal centers set up across the state, aims to reduce the problem.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that the latest tax revenue report for the city of Fort Smith has some good news, and the latest hospitality numbers in Northwest Arkansas look promising.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, November 4, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with Marcos Villatoro, an NPR commentator and documentary filmmaker. Plus, we speak with an expert about the signs of dyslexia.
A handful of schools in the area have canceled class this month due to flu and norovirus. For more information on the flu, visit the Arkansas Department of Health Web site here.
Last week three mentors with impressive resumes came to northwest Arkansas to meet with local start-ups and students at the University of Arkansas. The U of A Office of Entrepreneurship and the Northwest Arkansas Council sponsored the visit.
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"Lucky Number 9' by The Moldy Peaches
To help de-stress from how quickly the month has gone by, Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers suggests trying yoga at the Fayetteville Public Library.
University of Arkansas professor Chris Shields is working on a series of fantasy novels based in the Ozarks. He will have a book signing from 1-3 p.m. February 9 at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
"Etienne" by Garage A Trois
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was Monday, known by many as a day of service. But the past week had many stories linked by a sense of community.
"Sleeping In' by The Postal Service
