Becca says kids activities for this week include a fishing derby tomorrow.
Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Tony deBrum, Foreign Minister for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is on a mission. He’s alerting the world on how his Pacific island nation is starting to submerge due to rising seas caused by climate change. And as witness to a decade of cold-war atmospheric nuclear bomb tests on the Marshalls, Minister deBrum is also calling for global nuclear disarmament. Several groups worked through the weekend to gather signatures for their respective ballot initiatives before the deadline to submit petitions today. Governor Beebe prepares to make his final foreign trade mission during his term in office, and Blanchard Springs Caverns in Stone County is the only cave owned and operated by the U.S. Forest Service that remains open despite a cave closure order aimed at preventing the spread of White Nose Syndrome.
For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from:Pearl Brick
Cletus Got Shot
Sweetwater Gypsies
Isayah Wofford
The Riverblenders
Xcluded
Sons of Otis Malone
Finvarra's Wren
Dick Johnson
Elephant Revival
And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Ahead on Ozarks, as many prepare for Fourth of July in backyards or fields of fireworks, the ticks are waiting: a new tick-borne illness has been discovered in the South. And The Cate Brothers release a new album, more than thirty years after it was originally recorded.Food, fun and alliteration are all part of an upcoming fundraiser in Rogers.
The booms and bangs of fireworks can be heard beginning this evening at various locations around the listening area. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
A new CD includes music the Cates Brothers Band recorded 32 years ago, but wasn't release until now.
The Fayetteville Flyover opened last night and getting from College Avenue to the Fulbright Expressway became much easier.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson. Also, Walmart hosts its first open call for hundreds of U.S. suppliers.
Kyle Kellams reports on the Great Northwest Arkansas Model Train Show that’ll be hosted this Saturday at Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale.
The event will feature Israeli pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse and his trio: Clare Starr on bass and Darren Novotny on drums. Taubenhouse performed a jazz standard on the Mary Baker Rumsey Steinway during the conversation.
Our math expert Dr. Chaim Goodman-Strauss has tips on making money by chance.
Yesterday afternoon, Governor Beebe visited the University of Arkansas campus to learn more about graduate-level research and honor first-place winners of a graduate student research poster competition.
“Dash and Dot” by Beau Hunks
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the inaugural state home sales report, the increase in traffic at Fort Smith Regional Airport for the month of January, and more.
