The week ahead is National Waffle Week, and Ozarks At Large's Christina Thomas takes a look at a unique Waffle House on Fayetteville's Dickson Street.
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Ozarks At Large's Timothy Dennis takes a look at infrastructure news from the past week.
Recordist and essayist, Joe Neal illustrates the transition from summer to fall made apparent by the quell of songbirds. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”A digital repository to share information among the state's college campuses is being developed at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Ozarks at Large's Timothy Dennis spoke with the developers of the Kenex Cloud.
Recordist and essayist, Joe Neal illustrates the transition from summer to fall made apparent by the quell of songbirds. Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book is “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir.”
A quiet meeting between business leaders from Northwest Arkansas and Central Arkansas took place last week with little fanfare or public knowledge. Roby Brock from our content partner TalkBusiness.net caught up with some of the event's attendees and has this report.Michael J. Riha, a professor at the University of Arkansas, discusses his new book “ Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer.”
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Several area burn bans have been lifted, Rogers looks to buy land near Lake Atalanta and Governor Beebe appoints a new director for the Arkansas State Police.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: volunteers provide thousands of sack lunches annually in Fort Smith, a look at the latest work by TheatreSquared, and we speak with author Tom Andes and preview his upcoming reading in Fayetteville.Tom Andes, a writer who used to live in Fayetteville, is coming back tomorrow night for a reading at Nightbird Books. He discussed how he preps for a reading.
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: we visit the traditions surrounding Ozark foods, and we learn the secret to a perfect pot of beans. Plus, we continue our series of conversations of this year's Arkansas gubernatorial candidates with Republican hopeful Asa Hutchinson.
The Ozarks Genealogical Society's annual conference is scheduled for Sept. 13-14 in Springfield, Missouri, and the featured speaker is D. Joshua Taylor (http://www.djoshuataylor.com).
The first event outside of Eureka Springs for the Creative Energy Project will bring yarn, and plenty of it, to Bentonville.
Link: For more about Yarnology or the Creative Energy Project, www.creativeenergyproject.com
Officials with hunger relief organizations in Arkansas express concern over recent efforts to remove SNAP funding from the federal Farm Bill. Central Arkansas leaders request information from ExxonMobil regarding a stretch of pipeline in the Lake Maumelle Watershed. The Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees discuss the new Common Core curriculum, set to take effect when schools start in about a month. And the Fayetteville Public Library board of directors moves forward with an offer to purchase the former City Hospital property.
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In the first of our series on the deployment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Arkansas, Cynthia Crone, the state’s insurance department deputy commissioner, explains the fundamentals, including getting an early look at Arkansas’s insurance exchange, now referred to as marketplace.
Early next month the organization called the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. Inc. will hold its annual convention in Rogers. We talked to John Bircher, National Spokesman for the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Link: To learn more about the Military Order of the Purple Heart, visit www.purpleheart.org
