Becca Martin Brown has some last minute activity to do with your mom or do yourself or your kids if you are a mom, or not.
Ozarks At Large
The idea of Community varies from person to person. A year long project at Fayetteville High School concludes with an open house showcasing juniors’ and seniors’ ideas of community as seen through each of their camera lenses.
The past week in Arkansas saw a visit from President Obama, hundreds of new jobs announced, and expansion plans for one decades-old stadium move forward. We have more in this morning's Week in Review.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Michael Tilley talks about a new owner for some long-abandoned real estate in Fort Smith, and the official announcement of a Whole Foods in Fayetteville. Plus, Cletus Got Shot gets ready to perform at a few festivals in the next month.
Cletus Got Shot will perform at the 2014 Artosphere Celebration and the Block Street Block Party next weekend. Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says this Mother's Day has more than enough choices for Mom. They're free, too.
An undocumented Arkansas college student who traveled to Mexico to attain a nursing degree back in 2011, was forced to flee back across the U.S. border this winter, and risk arrest by immigration officials in order to save her own life. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, Marisol Soto somehow made it all the way back home to Pea Ridge, Arkansas. (Photo: Marisol, Andrea, and Marianna Soto)
Michael Tilley from The City Wire discusses a sale of some former Whirlpool real estate in Fort Smith and the eventual arrival of Whole Foods in Fayetteville.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, May 30, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, Michael Tilley talks about a potential multi-billion dollar acquisition by Tyson Foods and a less-than-expected participation rate for upcoming elections in the City of Fort Smith. And, a preview of two very different ways to spend tomorrow night: the rumble of monster trucks will be in Springdale, and music from the Artosphere Festival Orchestra will be in Fayetteville.
Fayetteville residents can now pay tickets and fines online; the University of Arkansas baseball team shut out by the South Carolina Gamecocks in the College World Series in Omaha yesterday; and more – on today’s Segment A.
“Two Hours from Tulsa” by RJ Mischo
The Siloam Springs 7th Annual Heritage Festival, hosted by the Siloam Springs Museum, is this Saturday in City Park. In addition to music from bands such as Prime Time Performers and Bill acorn and Friends, there will be demonstrations in lace-making, wood carving, and a an Old West street gunfight presented by the Arkansas Lead Slingers.
More information is available at www.arkansasleadslingers.com.
The final concert in the Mountain Street Stage June Music Series at the Fayetteville Public Library is Sunday afternoon and will feature RJ Mischo. RJ will have harmonica and guitar on hand to play the music he fell in love with as a teenager in Minnesota: the blues. Recently he came by KUAF to talk with us about his career
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about all the music we can listen to over this weekend.
