Dave Baer made the drive from near Ponca to the Carver Center for Public Radio for his first visit to Ozarks at Large. He talks about writing songs and plays a couple as well.
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Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
Arkansas has had high rates of teen pregnancy for decades, but there is reason for some optimism for the future.


Legislators may be getting closer to a compromise on the state's private option, and former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner appears in court for mail fraud charges.



Leslie Yingling with Diversity Affairs at the University of Arkansas has our final story of compassion during Fayetteville's Compassion Month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, April 7, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the man who has been intimately connected with the Nobel Peace Prize for the past quarter-century talks about the process for selecting a recipient and some of the controversies associated with the honor.
Thursday night three area high school volleyball teams will participate in the latest Cancer Challenge event. We talked with Tina Waggener, Executive Director for Cancer Challenge. To learn more visit cancerchallenge.com
"God Bless the Child" by Wes Montgomery
A music festival, major leaguer and more in our history capsule for August 18.
Becca has, for the third day in a row, something loud for an entertainment suggestion.
The web page of the Fort Smith Historic site contains lots of information on the history and culture of the area. The park is adding to that information through the creation of a database on federal court employees from the 19th century.
To access the database, visit fosmcourtdatabase.nps.gov.
To contact the Fort Smith National Historic Site, call 479-783-3961.