Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, offers a preview of this weekend's film festival in Eureka Springs.
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Michael Tilley, form The City Wire, discusses a real estate recovery, the need for a new jail in Crawford County and a possible third high school in Fort Smith.Legislators yesterday heard about the progress of the Private Option rollout in the state, while Governor Mike Beebe offered his thoughts on consequences to the state's budget if the legislature decides to gut the program in the coming fiscal session.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, while there won't be a red carpet, Eureka Springs will recognize achievement in independent film this weekend. Plus, an exhibit allowing patrons to get hands-on with some of the first pages and books ever printed. And, Becca Martin Brown talks haggis.
Olivia Trimble's business Sleet City Hand Painted Signs may only be just more than a year old, but her wares can be spotted all around town, including a hand-painted sandwich board outside Onyx Coffee Lab and adorning the Town Center at the Fayetteville Square during the Little Craft Show. Katy Henriksen visits Trimble in her home studio to find out more about how and why she launched her business and how she makes her custom signs.Web Extra: Images From Sleet City Signs
The inaugural Eureka Springs Indie Film Fest takes to the screen Thursday through Saturday.We speak with one of the filmmakers.
A collection of historical documents and books are on loan to the University of Arkansas this semester.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, the Nobel director and secretary talks about the selection process for the annual Nobel Peace Prize; he's on the University of Arkansas campus today. Plus, the Northwest Arkansas Council on jobs created in the area in the past year, and the differences between education in the U.S. and the European Union.
Roiled a century ago by race riots, Harrison is taking pragmatic steps to repair its reputation, and has become culturally diverse, due to the presence of the Harrison Community Task Force on Race Relations. Still, as Jacqueline Froelich reports, a few local
white patriots have come out to mark the town as their territory.
The town of More Tomorrow, Belize could have a safe source of water soon with help from students at the University of Arkansas.
You can go to Russia to watch Olympic curling. You can go to Springdale to actually play.
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The issue of net neutrality is back in the news and we ask our tech ambassador for some of the basics.
As an African-American college freshman in 1958, Dorothy Marcy thought treatment she received was discrimination. Fifty years later she learned it was for her protection. More on Compassion Fayetteville can be found here.
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