As News Director, Michael Hibblen oversees daily news coverage for KUAR. He handles assignments for the news staff, helps develop story ideas and edits copy. Michael isresponsible for starting a news-sharing partnership between public radio stations in Arkansas in 2009 which laid the foundation for what became Arkansas Public Media. He is also a regular panelist and fill-in host on AETN's Arkansas Week, where journalists discuss issues in the news.
Opera in the Ozarks board chair Alice Martinson tours the new Inspiration Point Center for the Arts, a state-of-the-art theater in Carroll County that opened last May.
Choreographer Sophia Smith discusses her ballet adaptation of Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil," a choral work about love, grief and loss, coming to Eureka Springs this April.
Fayetteville's Woodland Junior High Quiz Bowl team is headed to nationals in Birmingham this June. Coach Trish McClung talks preparation, and a fundraiser trivia night is April 15.