This week the Arkansas Colleges for Health Education in Fort Smith announced the next projects for the campus and we asked Kyle Parker, President and CEO of ACHE, about the future.

A special ceremony marked the opening of the new home of Mercy Clinic Orthopedics and Mercy Sports Medicine this week. The project is part of a $247 million expansion plan. The 22,000 square-foot-facility houses 13 providers, 41 exam rooms and 15 casting beds. The new building is located at 1000 S. 52nd St. in Rogers.

It’s not often on Ozarks at Large that we get the chance to hear from a local band in its infancy. The duo Ladies Night may have only performed a handful of shows together, but both of the band’s members are far from new to the area music scene. Dana Idlet is the namesake of Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds, and Meredith Kimbrough has performed throughout the area as part of Lost John, Nature and Madness, and other bands. The duo recently stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk

Michael Tilley, with our partner Talk Business and Politics , discusses numbers with us this week. Among those numbers: 12,000 new jobs in northwest Arkansas added in one year.

Veterans Memorial Park in Van Buren has been a part of the community for decades. An effort to redevelop the green space located in the heart of downtown began last summer. A ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for 11 a.m. June 30 will celebrate the project’s progress.

Starting Sept. 1, Arkansans with concealed-carry gun licenses will be allowed to carry their weapons on public university and college campuses. Institutions across the state are revising school policies to accommodate the new state law. We visit a local community college to observe progress.

A Thursday roundup includes: an NIH grant for University of Arkansas research into muscle atrophy, a change in state procedure for birth certificates and a trio of Fayetteville musicians noticed by NPR.

Nearly 100 companies from across the country will have their American-made products at Walmart stores after the retailer's fourth annual Open Call event Wednesday. About 500 entrepreneurs were invited to Bentonville after thousands had applied. Sundari , C&C Foods and EcoClear Products spoke with Ozarks at Large about the Open Call experience.

A new mixed-use development gets underway in Johnson, and another development moves forward in Bentonville. We learn more in this edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, ponders places around the world many of us don't properly pronounce like Budapest and Worcester.