If the hand of fate had touched Mallory Brooks on the left shoulder instead of the right, there’s no telling where the unfailingly cheery Arkansan might have wound up. It may have after all led her to the invasive and sometimes painful world of broadcast journalism that has been her stock and trade for…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Susanna Watt. Watt was born and raised in small-town Louisiana, the second of seven children. Her father’s job with the Union Pacific Railroad brought her family to Little Rock when she was 10. Watt’s mother homeschooled her and her siblings from pre-K through…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Margaret Ellibee. Ellibee grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, so she considers herself to be both a Badger and Razorback. Ellibee’s college education allowed her to teach vocational agriculture in Stuttgart. From there, Ellibee worked at the state level in secondary education, as well…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Doris Lawrence of Delta Pest Control. Lawrence grew up in El Dorado and then attended the University of Central Arkansas, where she received a BSE in business education. After a few years of teaching business education, Lawrence took classes at night to get…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Gretchen Hall, the CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors’ Bureau. Hall grew up in Sheridan and graduated high school at Mount St. Mary Academy in Little Rock. She attended Lyon College on a basketball scholarship and graduated with a bachelor of…
Pea Ridge is best known as the site of a Civil War battle. All the city streets are named after men who fought there. The roads that run east and west were given names of Confederate soldiers, and the north and south thoroughfares received names of Union soldiers. The King Lane Apartments are located just…
At 32, Andrew Gibbs-Dabney, the founder and CEO of LIVSN sports the predictable tousled hair and easy manner of the new breed of Arkansas outdoorsman: a jock with a kayak, the bro on a bike. There are thousands just like him these days, male and female, all scaling mountains and combing rivers on any given…
By Dustin Jayroe Over the years, it’s become fairly typical for people to think of news personalities as celebrities. As journalists, they may not think it themselves, but it’s a natural phenomenon that’s bound to happen when one is on television with so many eyes watching. Figures of the past like Walter Cronkite,…
For this week’s Woman Wednesday, AY About You sits down with Bailey Moses. Moses was born and raised in Cabot and still proudly resides in Cabot with her husband Peyton, a firefighter. After graduating Cabot High School, Moses received her undergraduate degree from Arkansas State University in strategic communications with a double emphasis in…
For this week’s segment of Hometown Heroes, AY About You sits down with Katy Sursa, the site director at Gigi’s Playhouse, and a host of volunteers who help make the organization tick! Sursa grew up in Hot Springs and met her husband in Oklahoma for college. The two moved back to Little Rock after…
