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.Ozarks At Large
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.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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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.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush heads to Arkansas this week for a school choice rally in the state capitol, and Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe offers his thoughts on partisan antics in Washington, D.C.. LifeStyles Inc. gets international accreditation, and a major construction project in the Arkansas River Valley will leave drivers with delays as construction begins today on Interstate 540 in Van Buren and Fort Smith.
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks, weather trends and whether Punxsutawney Phil can be trusted. Plus, Shannon Wurst stops by to talk about her CD release party. 
Shannon Wurst headed to Montana to record her fifth studio CD, Lionheart Love. But the CD release party will be in her native state this weekend.
Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge located in Southern Carroll County is now also an artist’s colony. But the painters are not human. Tigers, an occasional lion, and one very big brown bear create original abstracts. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the furry creatives are earning their keep: the paw paintings are fetching a great deal of cash.
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Web Exclusive: A Video of Lines and Tigers and Bears. Oh My!Monday the Community Clinic in Rogers marked a milestone, celebrating the 100,000th patient served in the fifteen years of service by the clinic.
Chief meteorologist Dan Skoff with KNWA gives us the history of the holiday and the weather and tells us whether we can expect six more weeks of winter.
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.
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Ahead on this Monday edition of Ozarks: the inspiration for the novel The Red Kimono. Jan Morrell explains how her family's history was a starting point for her book about American citizens taken to internment camps during World War II. Plus the campus of Arkansas Tech University-Ozark prepares for a milestone and why changes to the Arkansas River are part of a plan to help the entire region grow.
Justin Minkel, a Springdale elementary school teacher and 2007 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, has just written a new book aimed at young readers.
Here are out ten clips relating to Buffalo, New York and the War of 1812.
1) Ten Thousand Maniacs (from the Buffalo area) sing Because the Night,
2) Robert Redford and Wilford Brimley in The Natural (filmed in Buffalo).
3) Bruce Springsteen sings about Buffalo's Erie Canal.
4) A trailer, featuring Marilyn Monroe, for the movie Niagara…set in nearby Niagara Falls.
5) Buffalo native Rick James ponders a Super Freak.
6) A BBC documentary about the assassination of President McKinley. The shooting happened in Buffalo. (as did the subsequent swearing-n ceremony of Theodore Roosevelt).
7) The only electronic song we know of about Buffalo native Grover Cleveland.
8) Judy Garland sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow…written by Buffalo native Harold Arlen.
9) Amanda Blake, another Buffalo native, as Miss Kitty on an early episode of Gunsmoke.
10) Johnny Horton sings The Battle of New Orleans, about the final battle of the War of 1812. Arkansas connection: written by Jimmy Driftwood.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, offers a preview of the state's politics in the coming year.
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Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers suggests 12 things you should do in 2014.
Kevin Kinder and Kyle Kellams compare their lists of favorite music for 2013.
