Pearl Brick tells us about her guitar, and plays another song in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.Ozarks At Large
Pearl Brick tells us about her guitar, and plays another song in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.The stories behind unusual high school mascots…like Airedales or Little Johns…are the stuff of legend.
Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what's in a name like the Wampus Cats? We learn the stories behind Arkansas high schools' mascots. Plus winter treats to warm on a final weekend of ice skating in Bentonville, and Mount Comfort Cemetery is set to get a marker commemorating its part in the Civil War.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a look at what's next for the ruptured Pegasus pipeline. Plus, we pay a visit to the new Walmart to Go store in Bentonville.
The new Local Community Radio Act will greatly expand licensing opportunities for construction of new independent low-power FM stations. We talk with a program director at the Prometheus Radio Project who pushed for the law’s passage, as well as with an Ozarks LPFM nonprofit who hopes to construct a station.
Arts Live Theatre prepares for its production of Honk! Jr. which opens Thursday evening at the Continuing Education Auditorium on East Center Street in Fayetteville.
More information available at www.artslivetheatre.com.
Rain, the Beatles tribute band, is in town. Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us more.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net has a round-up of the state’s business and political news from last week.
Ozarks at Large’s Christina Thomas speaks with two UA alumni who’re constructing a wooden sculpture on campus.
