Community School of the Arts in Fort Smith has recently received a $750,000 grant to begin construction on a new facility. The center will provide students with cutting-edge technology for a variety of spaces for students to expand their arts education.

Our Militant Grammarian, Katherine Shurlds, doesn't want to beat a dead horse, so she says this week's session regarding idioms is out last for now.

As we near the 2nd anniversary of the start of the pandemic, Governor Asa Hutchinson is considering how Arkansas thinks about the virus. Dr. Jose Romero urges Arkansans to ge vaccinated and boosted.

A Civil War Confederate monument removed in September 2020 from the Bentonville town square after wide-spread civil rights protests will be re-erected for public display on a private park in the city later this year.

The second cohort of makers, innovators and people with ideas will launch soon at the Fayetteville Public Library's Center for Innovation. The Makers to Market program is a 12-week course that connects people with tools, research and support to turn ideas into reality.

This weekend four legendary radio personalities will gater for a fundraiser for the Central Arkansas Library System. Each was part of a radio ratings competitions during a heyday of radio in Little Rock. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, brings us archival sounds of their radio days as well as new conversations with each.

Wrapping up the week with an update to COVID-19 numbers, a group appealing legislative redistricting, and Razorback sports.

Michael Tilley of Talk Business and Politics discusses the groundbreaking at Mercy Fort Smith, a tax vote in Fort Smith, and home sales statistics in the Arkansas River Valley.

Field and laboratory investigations into White-nose syndrome, a highly infectious fungus that’s killed millions of hibernating bats in the U.S. and Canada, were forced to cease due to the Covid-19 pandemic. That work has resumed this winter, as the disease continues to spread.

Fayetteville-based musician Austin Cash will release Palisades.