The 2013 book Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology is full of words from noted Ozarkers.
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Events cancelled by ice and snow are slated for the next foew days, graduation is this weekend at the U of A, and the Razorback swimming and diving team earns a favorable ranking.
A recent report from the Northwest Arkansas Council says the military-related impact on Washington and Benton counties is in excess of $150,000,000.Link: To see the full report: click here
Urgent Care Centers are affordable walk-in clinics which serve both cash-only as well as insured patients seeking acute care. But with millions more Americans enrolling onto the health insurance marketplace--and fewer primary care physicians available to see them--urgent care clinics may fill a critical gap. We visit with urgent care provider, Dr. Robert Karas.
A survey of more than 100 Arkansas business executives shows some confidence for the coming year. A non-profit legal services agency receives several thousand dollars in grantt money to help provide legal information to residents across the state. Bella Vista seeks several hundred thousand dollars in federal grants for redesign of some traffic-clodded streets. And the state board of education yesterday released four school districts from fiscal distress.
On this edition of Ozarks, we talk to a Fayetteville resident whose grandson was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting a year ago. Plus, we learn more about Healing Ministries at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Healing Touch, an international healing program, is a biofield therapy, meaning it deals with the magnetic field around the body, to promote various areas of healing. The Healing Touch ministry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville is more than a decade old, and now has its own location, ten practitioners and provides more than 600 treatments annually.
Becca offers a few events including the Parade of Lights Christmas parade as a way to get into the holiday season.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, February 17, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, we learn more about long-term care insurance. Plus, a local pastor discusses the intersection of new media and faith.
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission voted yesterday to plug an underground injection well and declare a permanent moratorium on new ones in Faulkner County, plagued by small earthquakes.
Chris Young, The Imagination Movers, Rick Springfield and the second concert in the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert series coming up at the Walton Arts Center. Jodi Beznoska has the details.
Arkansas has 4200 foster children in state custody. Nearly 300 with emotional or behavioral problems are placed in special therapeutic foster homes to receive intense intervention. But starting this month funding to the program was slashed. (Photo: Brenda and Iesha Watson.)
The Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower can be seen in northwest Arkansas this weekend. For more information, call (479) 789-5000. To download a star map, log on to www.skymaps.com.
“Meteor” by The Bird and The Bee
Close to 179 post-offices in Arkansas face a possible shutdown, the Fort Smith Board of Directors meet tomorrow to debate on a proposal to repeal the one percent tax on prepared food and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
