The Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission has hired Lacy Ekberg to serve as new executive director to replace Mike Maloney, who resigned in late January after eight years as CAPC director.

The Washington Regional Cancer Support Home and Community Clinic are partnering to provide free clinical breast exams from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 20. Registration is required by Aug. 15, and appointments can be made by calling 479-521-8024.

The works included in the next season for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas include familair pieces. A new composition by Paul Haas, music director and conductor for SoNA, is also included in the season.

More than a hundred people turned out to Lowell City Hall Thursday to oppose the paving of a small section of North Old Wire Road between Lowell and Rogers. Residents provided numerous reasons for wanting to keep the road as it is, one of them was the area’s historical significance, which includes ties to the Trail of Tears, the Butterfield Overland Stage Coach Route and the Civil War.

A new art installation on Emma Avenue in downtown Springdale springs from the mind of Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips.

Arkansas Public Theatre selects Annie as the summer musical. Becca Martin Brown, from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, gives us details.

Michael Tilley, with Talk Business and Politics , explains how a new small park and a possible partnership with Main Street Arkansas, could mean changes for downtown Fort Smith.

About a month after city, county and state leaders cut the ribbon on the Northwest Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Unit in Fayetteville, county leaders called a media conference to address concerns brought up about the facility’s operations. Mental health advocates were concerned about the number of people who’ve been admitted since the unit started accepting clients two and a half weeks ago.

Becca Martin-Brown, the features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , gives us a few ways to have fun outside after the sun goes down.

On remnant lush native tallgrass prairies in Arkansas, a team of University of Arkansas Willson Lab biologists over the past two summers have discovered rare reptiles and amphibians, some in need of ecological conservation.