Kayla Corcoran, History and Social Sciences Academic Chair and Faculty at Thaden School, was awarded a Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms program award. We asked her about the courses she's developed and taught dealing with immigration, conflict and global trade.

The First Presbyterian campsite turned long-time Bentonville staple, Fred’s Hickory Inn, is switching hands and its new name is Table at Hickory Inn. Although there some changes, the custom 52 year-old smoke pit will still be operational.

The second season of Resilient Black Women begins with a conversation with Dorothy Marcy. Hosts Joi McGowan and Deneshia Simpson ask her about her career as a licensed counselor.

Add an FBI search of a former president's home and the current president's loan forgivness plan to the list of topics that divide us. John Brummett, a political columnist with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Roby Brock, with our partner Talk Business and Politics, tackle the subjects this week.

Escalating gun violence on U.S. public school campuses is prompting districts in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley this fall to hire more police-affiliated School Resource Officers —SROs for short. Springdale Schools are nearly doubling school campus security forces, with Fayetteville Public Schools aiming to have armed security on all sixteen school campuses. The Arkansas School Safety Grant Program is providing funding to applicant districts to expand law enforcement.

The start of a new college football season means the start of a new season for the Razorback Marching Band. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, helps us trace the history of the band.

SoNA, the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, will bring to the stage some time-honored compositions this upcoming season. The concerts will also explore more of what orchestral music can be with new compositions, ideas and collaborators.

UAMS received a $255,000 grant to fund 25 AmeriCorps VISTA positions throughout Arkansas.

More than 80 United Methodist Churches in Arkansas are looking to enter the process of disconnecting from the denomination over the issue of "human sexuality." Gary Mueller, the bishop of the Arkansas Annual Conference, says the division breaks his heart, but that some churches are upholding what they consider the "biblical view of marriage between a man and woman."

This week's Northwest Arkansas Business Journal includes a conversation with a Missouri-based developer about three new apartment projects in Springdale, Rogers and Lowell.