Exxon Mobil Corp. contributes $125,000 to the Arkansas Community Foundation to assist with long-term disaster recovery efforts in Central Arkansas. Two state legislators call for another financial impact analysis for the state's Private Option program, and postal workers across the state will collect food items Saturday for one of the larger food drives in the state.
Ozarks At Large

Historical author Velda Brotherton discusses foods she remembers eating and some she still cooks from growing up in the Boston Mountains prior to her taking part in an event this Saturday at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Many events this month head outdoors including this picnic benefitting SpayArkansas. Dogs are welcome.
According to a new report, the funding disparity between traditional school districts and charter schools has increased more than 54 percent in 8 years.
University of Arkansas officials yesterday unveiled a new chamber in the Human Performance Laboratory will allow researchers to have a temperature and humidity-controlled atmosphere in which to study physiological effects that heat has on the human body.
President Obama was in Central Arkansas yesterday, visiting victims of the recent storms and tornadoes that ravaged the area. Meanwhile, state legislators heard testimony from state finance officials regarding fiscal forecasts for the next few years.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a conversation from this year's Mozart in the Museum with the classical music trio Time For Three. Plus, 47 miles a day: that's how far, on average, a female hiker hiked to make it through the Appalachian Trail in fewer than 50 days. Hiker and author Jennifer Pharr Davis stops by the studio, and we get some tips on how to get into running.
John Brown University’s “Keeping Faith” campaign raised $118 million in six years. President of the university Dr. Chip Pollard talks to Ozarks at Large’s Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar about the campaign’s success and what it means to the university.
Sen. John Boozman talks to Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net about Warren Buffet’s public call for higher taxes on the very wealthy, a balanced budget and the Republican presidential hopefuls.
Music fans won’t be disappointed this weekend. There’s also “What’s Cookin’?,” Secchi Day and more.
Next Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Emergency Preparedness Fair will be hosted in Bentonville to give free advice to people to help prepare for disaster.
We visit the studio of John Rankin, a recipient of an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship, to talk about his upcoming exhibit “Beneath the Surface” August 21st at The Space in downtown Eureka Springs.