Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what goes into a TED talk. Also, musicians from the band Cutty Rye discuss and perform songs from their upcoming album. Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what goes into a TED talk. Also, musicians from the band Cutty Rye discuss and perform songs from their upcoming album. 
Daniel Hintz from Downtown Bentonville Inc., discusses the Bentonville running series and other opportunities to get outside. 
Cutty Rye will host a CD release party from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Greenhouse Grille in Fayetteville. The new album is titled “Half Pack of Chesterfields.”Becca from NWA Newspapers suggests watching “Wreck-It Ralph” at the Fayetteville Public Library for today's entertainment picks.
Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas discusses yesterday's vote on the Voter ID bill and what's next for the Arkansas Legislature. Ahead on Ozarks: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Halter sits down for a conversation, pondering the hows and whys of a sinkhole in Benton County and the band Water Liars play a pair of songs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Oxford, MS duo of Justin (Pete) Kinkel-Schuster, guitar/lead vocals, and Andrew Bryant percussion, piano, vocals, just released a new album called "Wyoming" on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess label. They played a show Mar. 9 at Nightbird Books and stopped by to play some songs in the Firmin-Garner Performance studio prior to the night's show.
To hear the musicians discuss why they love the poet Frank Stanford, check out this audio extra.
On the night of March 1st, a huge sinkhole appeared on a historic farm in Springtown in southwestern Benton County. No one was hurt, nor were any structures involved in the collapse. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the ecologically sensitive karst site remains at risk.
To see more photos from the site, click here.
Last week, Mercy Northwest Arkansas unveiled its new EC130 helicopter named Spirit of Mercy.
For video of what it's like to ride in the Spirit of Mercy, click here.A coalition of concerned forces in Fort Smith are making sure some children are not without lunch when schools are closed for spring break.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Ahead on Ozarks, Whats in a name, and who was Jenny Lind? She is the namesake of a tiny unincorporated town near Greenwood and of a major road in Fort Smith. Plus, a farm tour takes mothers to the source of their families' food. And a school project teaches students the importance of homegrown produce.
The Arkansas General Assembly is far from convening. Timothy Dennis has this review of what lawmakers have been working on in the past week.
Dan Craft, special projects editor at NWA Newspapers tells us about a recent report by the Walton Family Foundation that looked at the quality of life in northwest Arkansas. His story in today's newspaper, looks at the amenities in the area, who uses them and what other recreation options area residents have on their wish lists.
"Red Cross Store" by Mississippi Fred
March is national Red Cross Month. To raise awareness about the organization, Christina Thomas travels to Tontitown to speak with Jeff Patrick, director of communications for the northwest Arkansas chapter of the American Red Cross.
The pipeline, which will pump heavy crude oil mined from Canadian tar sands through Cushing, Oklahoma to Texas Gulf Coast refineries is providing hundreds of jobs for Oklahomans and sourcing steel pipe in Arkansas. Opponents claim the project is environmentally disastrous and only serves petrochemical industry interests.
(Photo courtesy of David Druding)
"Pipeline" by The Chantays
Becca Martin Brown fills us in on an archeological survey being done at Carden Bottoms near Dardanelle, as well as other dig-related events coming up in March.
