Spontaneous gatherings and celebrations took place across Arkansas this weekend after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared 46th President of the United States and his running mate, Kamala D. Harris, elected the 49th Vice President, surpassing the required 270 electoral votes. In this audio montage, we hear people's reactions in Fayetteville's historic district and downtown.

A majority of voters living in Holiday Island, established in the 1970s as an unincorporated resort community in northern Carroll County with a population of around 2,300, decided to incorporate as a town, elect their first mayor and city council. We speak with Mayor-elect Dan Kees about the incorporation process.

Like so many other observances this year, Veteran's Day ceremonies around the state will be largely virtual. One of them will be hosted at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock and ties into the center's current exhibition, "We Hold These Truths: American Veterans of Arkansas," which focuses on Black military veterans in Arkansas.

This week's collection of audio archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History , is made up of voices of famous broadcasters who have visited the Natural State during the past 50 years. We hear from Edward R. Murrow, Howard Cosell and others.

This week, voters in Sebastian County voted to end a tax that created about $6 million annually for the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , talks about that and about two elements of the economy doing better than expected during the pandemic.

Kevin Flores made history this week in Springdale as the first person of color to get elected to the City Council. After immigrating from El Salvador in the mid-1990s as a child, Flores grew up in Springdale, went on to serve in the Marine Corps, and is now an attorney. He beat incumbent Rick Evans with 57 percent of the vote.

Since the onset of the pandemic in March, hotels have struggled to bring in revenue as tourism remains low. The American Hotel and Lodging Association reports that, nationwide, occupancy rates are half of what they were last year or worse. In Northwest Arkansas, hospitality and tourism employment has dropped by nearly 17,000 jobs in one year.

Retrospect is the debut album from Dandelion Heart. The 13-track project features songs that look back on the musicians' lives as individuals and as a band. The quartet will celebrate their debut album with a bruch party Saturday at Prairie Street Live.

Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , gives us another weekend of online options, a destination to start celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving, and a new single worth listening to right now.

Several diverse candidates ran for office across the state. Some have won elections and will now serve on city councils, quorum courts or in the Arkansas Legislature. Leading up to the election, Arkansas United also made numerous efforts to encourage minority communities to turn out to at the polls.