
Ozarks At Large

The Little Free Library project has small, neighborhood libraries on street corners in Fayetteville, Africa, Australia and almost everywhere else.
A collection of University of Arkansas graduates is making headway in the digital world. Their new company, TTAGG, helps clients understand what their customers are saying about them.

Bentonville residents can expect a wastewater rate increase in a few months thanks to a new ordinance enacted by the Bentonville city council. Also, a winter meteor shower will light up the night sky, especially during the next few days.

Top Arkansas immigrant civil rights activist Mireya Reith, executive director of the Arkansas United Community Coalition, explains what we should expect regarding reform, at both the federal and state level.
A recycling pilot program in Fayetteville stands to expand next year, the Applied Sustainability Center at the UA in Fayetteville wants Arkansans to focus on sustainable energy in the state, and one of Arkansas's congressional delegation is optimistic that Congress will avoid the fiscal cliff.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Ahead on this edition of weekend Ozarks, music made with bedsprings and sawblades, and we learn the history behind a lake in Benton County, and it isn't Beaver Lake.
The Siloam Springs Farmers Market has created an online market this winter.
The city of Bentonville recently got a grant from the Endeavor Foundation for sidewalk construction in an area with sparse pedestrian infrastructure. Heifer International assesses damage to ongoing projects in the Philippines following the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. This year has seen record corn yields for Arkansas farmers, but that's not necessarily all good news. Today is voting day in Fayetteville to extend a current hotel-motel-restaurant tax. And the UA Soccer team advances to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.
"Earth to Asgard" by Patrick Doyle
Beaver Lake, a fresh water impoundment on the uppermost White River in northwest Arkansas is warming, and my be changing due to climate change, according to new research gathered by University of Arkansas limnologist Thad Scott.
The northwest Arkansas version of a startup weekend means entrepreneurs of all kinds will gather together in Fayetteville beginning Friday night.
"Smooching" by Mark Knopfler
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says fall is a prime time for visual arts in the region.