Are The Kids All Right? A year ago, many educators and parents wondered what imprint the dramatic shift in delivering educational content brought about by COVID-19 would leave on their children. Cut off from face-to-face interaction with friends and teachers for months at a time, would the Pandemic Generation ultimately be the most resourceful…
The Doctor Is In Dr. John Moore Jr. is a man intensely passionate. It starts with his family, of course, and the unwavering love affair with his wife, Barbara Ann, the lightning bolt who struck him decades ago and with whom he’d welcome and raise two sons. Moore’s passion infused his medical…
What Lies Beneath: PTSD Not Singular to Service Melanie Taylor sat at a restaurant table as the familiar tightening in her stomach and throat began to take hold. It had been an ordinary evening out; nothing unusual or remarkable at all, really. She’d eaten here before, knew the owner, felt comfortable. Until,…
GloWILD! at the Little Rock Zoo Coming off one of the most challenging periods in its history, the Little Rock Zoo has been reminded of just how much the community values the attraction. Not only have individual ticket and patron sales rebounded nicely from the zoo’s pandemic-related closure in 2020, but new events are…
Through His Own Experience, Kyle Brewer Leads The meeting room at the recovery center is sparse and clean and, on this day, lit by morning sunlight blown into the room on a gentle autumnal breeze. It’s not hard to imagine people gathering here to discuss their demons and share their hopes for a new…
Springwoods Behavioral Health sits just off a busy Fayetteville thoroughfare. Like almost everything in Northwest Arkansas, the place feels new, even though it’s been here for more than a decade. Around it, residents go about their daily lives, shopping for groceries at the local Sam’s Club or walking their dogs from a nearby residential neighborhood. …
A Star on the Wall: ‘Three Wise Men’ Beau Wise is getting better at talking to people. The veteran had had a time of things getting back to civilian life after 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. He didn’t have much to say to the very people whose freedom he’d…
In May 2002, Conway awoke to the shocking news that a prominent local businessman and his protégé had been found in the former’s home, shot execution-style. It was the first double-homicide in the city’s history and the beginning of a much longer journey for Ashley Elliott. Ashley is the daughter of one of…
Halfway through its 2021 run, the Arkansas State Fair is breaking attendance records and packing people in for long-awaited concerts. And with some of the most-anticipated performers yet to take the Vaccinate Arkansas main stage, promoters are inviting one and all to come out and be a part of the history-making crowds. “The theme of…
To Save A Child: Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas A disheveled 6-year-old, her hair tousled and falling in wisps around her pajama-clad shoulders, clutches a well-worn stuffed cat with both arms. She sits motionless in this very quiet room, her cornflower blue eyes darting jitterily this way and that. She doesn’t understand what’s happening,…
