A new monument to mark the graves of Archibald Yell and his family members was dedicated this weekend at Fayetteville’s Evergreen Cemetery . Yell, who is believed to have been born in the late 1790s, was the state's first congressman and second governor.

New Orleans duo Kim Prevost and Bill Solley will launch the 21st annual KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series with a concert this weekend at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. Robert Ginsburg, host of Shades of Jazz, recently spoke with the duo to learn more about the duo's music and to give us a preview of the concert.

The beginning of May is approaching, and the May Festival of the Arts will soon begin in Eureka Springs. Becca Martin Brown, features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette , gives us a rundown of some of what is happening during the month.

Former Green Forest Mayor Charlie Reece will soon break ground on a multi-use, grid-tied solar energy housing development in Green Forest. There are also plans for replicating the Villages of Carroll County in Berryville and Eureka Springs.

The Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter is in the process of establishing a charter school that would cater especially to children who have experienced trauma. We learn more about the effort, which would become the first trauma-informed school in the state, and one of only a handful in the country.

February jobs numbers are in for the Fort Smith metro area. Michael Tilley from Talk Business and Politics paints us a picture of the good news and bad news from the jobs report, and we hear about the GoFundMe page launched to help raise money for the U.S. Marshals Museum.

Becca Martin Brown, features editor at the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette tells us about a piano performance taking place tonight at Faulkner Performing Arts Center, a celebration of new Champion Trees at Compton Gardens, and more.

The band OSOG is a musical collective hailing from Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier this year, the band stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about their music, transitioning from playing metal to acoustic music, and more.

Hundreds of glass bottles and jars were recently discovered at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. The artifacts are thought to have been used by Norman Baker, who claimed to have a cure for cancer. We learn more about the discovery.

University of Arkansas researchers conducted a study on rats that revealed neurons in the motor cortex of the brain exhibit an unexpected division of labor. The discovery could help scientists understand how the brain controls the body. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications .