The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville issues guidelines for camping prior to the football game against Alabama this weekend, but guidelines aren't the only thing being issued on campus. Also, the city of Fayetteville abandons a plan to expand sidewalks on a downtown street.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks: Who to call if having a personal crisis, and we talk about the Ozark dialect. Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: medicinal marijuana is on the ballot in Arkansas this fall. What passage of the measure might mean for the state. Plus Robert Laurence talks about his first novel, Departure Lounge that is partly set in Madison County.
Yesterday, the University of Arkansas announced a generous gift that will allow the institution to transform a historic building on campus into a state-of-the-art performing arts facility.
Becca Martin Brown says the weekend gets an early start in the fall and she has suggestions of what to do to get ready for the first full weekend of the month.
Mara Leveritt, author of Devil’s Knot and The Boys on the Tracks, will participate in Fayetteville Public Library’s event called Ozark Writers Live. She talked to us about her work and more.
For more information about Mara, visit www.maraleveritt.com.
For more about the Ozark Writers Live event, visit the FPL website
For more about the Ozark Writers Live event, visit the FPL website
This November, Arkansas voters will decide on legalizing medicinal marijuana. California was among the first states to allow it, also by voter initiative, in 1996. We talk with the manager of an Oakland, California dispensary for insight into this emerging and controversial medical industry as well as state and national advocates. On today's edition of Ozarks, a big money announcement this morning on the University of Arkansas campus. And all the work behind the scenes to make sure drinking water is safe in Fort Smith.
A bike trail in Fayetteville is reopened, renovations continue at parks in Sebastian County, and the Razorback volleyball team loses its second game this season.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the Ozark dialect. It’s been parodied, lampooned, embraced and studied. Now it may be disappearing. Also, Roby Brock sits down with political analyst Steve Brauner to discuss how few undecided voters there appear to be with still two months to go before the election, and they’ll also examine the potential casino amendments that still might be on the November ballot in Arkansas.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: In 1980, thousands left Castro's Cuba on a boatlift to the United States. Many of them were given housing at Fort Chaffee. Jacqueline Froelich examines what happened then, what's happened since…and why historians are spending time getting the facts correct. Plus, a new adult education library for Northwest Arkansas Community College.
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has started selling tickets through easy to use vending machines. Officials say players will find them more convenient and secure.
Our Energy Corp correspondent, Christina Thomas, reports on a week-long program that hopes to help veterans make a transition into another livelihood.
More information is available by emailing spence@ncat.org or info@farmvetco.org.
Michael Tilley, editor and publisher of www.thecitywire.com, discusses Fort Smith's financial numbers for April.
“Turkish March” by Frank Vignola
Becca says listeners have a lot of great events that they must choose from this evening.
FHS senior Cheyenne Larsen reads a poem about her “third place.”
“Last Dance With Mary Jane” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
