Artosphere Orchestra to appear on Friday's performance today and a few activities for the first weekend of March.
Ozarks At Large
The Butterfield Trail Elementary Archery Team came in first place in a recent regional tournament. We meet the 24 member team during an after school practice as they prepare to head to the state tournament.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (www.agfc.com) is looking at buying a 42-acre plot of land north of Jasper to expand operations.
More than 200 Arkansas public schools this winter received a piece of a $7 million dollar cream pie, under the Arkansas School Recognition and Reward Program. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, two of the schools are in Huntsville’s District.
Still no House vote on the Private Option, though a House committee forwarded a Senate bill to leave the Lt. Governor's office vacant until November, and Axciom made it's third and potentially final round of layoffs, expected to save the company between 20 and 30 million dollars.
On this edition of Ozarks, Roby Brock talks to Senator Jane English about the deal she made to switch her vote for the private option. Plus, we have a report on last night's public input forum that was organized by Ozark Regional Transit
Last week the University of Arkansas Libraries hosted a panel discussion about Daisy Bates. Janis Kearney, Roy Reed and Gerald Jordan participated in the forum. (Photo: UA Libraries Special Collection)A jam night, concealed carry forum, and theater auditions are among several upcoming events at NWACC.
Jacqueline Froelich takes us on the Ozark Highlands Recreational Trail to meet a cartographer who maps our bioregion on foot and by water
Becca tells us Cher, Bruno Mars, and the Dave Matthews Band are among those performing in Tulsa soon.
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Sunday, April 6, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the sounds of Spring and Summer are lone without the chirps of frogs. We visit an area pond to hear what's hopping, and we celebrate the croaking amphibian in our Sunday morning montage.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net talked to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s political columnist John Brummet about the upcoming fiscal session of the Arkansas Legislature, the chances of the GOP becoming a majority party in the State House and Senate, and more.
“Mugshot” by Russell Malone
State lawmakers and the Joint Budget Committee take a look at Governor Mike Beebe’s proposed budget; and the Arkansas Razorback men’s basketball team loses to Kentucky – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
A gallery tour at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and an Eagle Watch Tour hosted by Hobbs State Park at Rocky Branch Marina figure on today’s to-do list. Tomorrow, a gallery talk on American Realism will be hosted at Crystal Bridges. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details.
Essayist Joe Neal records and writes of migrating and resident geese negotiating our frigid winter skies. His newest book is in “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” published by Half-Acre Press.
“Wherever It Leads” by Montana Skies
Fayetteville’s Advertising and Promotions Commission is planning to revive the Old Post Office on the Fayetteville Square. We take a tour of the building that's nearly a century old.
To take a video tour of the Old Post Office, click here.
