
Ozarks At Large

In this installment of What's in a Name, we look at the history of Benton, the county and the ville.


The state legislature finished business before getting ready to adjourn this year's fiscal session, and Peco Foods announces expansion in Arkansas. Those stories and more in this morning's week in review.




Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a long list of St. Patrick's Day activities.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, April 18, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers congratulates you on surviving Friday the 13th. Then, she lists all that’s happening this weekend.
Arkansas businesses can benefit by exporting goods; the University of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team loses to Mississippi; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Friday the 13th” by The Ionious Monk
Bradford Anderson, an actor on General Hospital, is in northwest Arkansas to participate in the 40/29 Northwest Arkansas Women’s Living Expo.
More information is available on www.womenslivingexpo.com/NWA2012.
Theme from General Hospital
Dan Craft, special projects reporter from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, visits KUAF to discuss a story by reporter Misty Gittings who’s following a legislative repayment issue in Bentonville.
Rhonda Vanlue Gray and fifteen others defined lives of generations of minority students to come by being the first African-American students at Alma Public Schools in 1964. She and other former students who helped integrate schools in Fort Smith, Charleston and Alma will be honored at “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration of Unsung Heroes” event at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on January 18.
“Spiritual” by Charlie Hayden and Hank Jones