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New advocate takes on pancreatic cancer
Wants to raise profile among other types
FAYETTEVILLE — Dana Quinn was with her father on the day doctors prepped him for a procedure known as Whipple surgery, that her family hoped would save him from pancreatic cancer. Continue reading...
Gift establishes teaching clinic for specialties
FAYETTEVILLE — A $435,000 private gift to the state’s medical school will provide students and physician residents at its Northwest Arkansas satellite campus with more clinical experience working alongside doctors in specialties Continue reading...
Tobacco in ads, art seen to draw history
SPRINGDALE — In her job educating the public on smoking prevention, Brenda Patterson has devised a slideshow illustrating how tobacco has been marketed from roughly the 1800s to modern times. Continue reading...
Drive-By Shooting Reported
SPRINGDALE — Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.
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Official in Tennessee plans appeal of ruling that allows sale of art
BENTONVILLE — The Tennessee attorney general’s office plans to appeal a decision made late last year by that state’s appeals court that upholds a Bentonville museum’s bid to buy a half-share of a prized art collection from a Nashville university but overturns a directive that some of the money must be used to maintain the collection. Continue reading...
Appeal planned in Crystal Bridges' bid for Fisk collection
The Tennessee attorney general’s office plans to appeal a decision made late last year by that state’s appeals court that upheld a Bentonville, Ark., museum’s desire to buy a half-share of a prized art collection from a Nashville university but which overturned a directive involving an endowment.
On Monday, Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. filed an application with the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville seeking permission for his office to appeal the Tennessee Court of Appeals’ Nov. 30, 2011, mixed ruling. Continue reading...
Groups form better-health partnership
Mercy joins Children’s, state
Public and private health leaders in Arkansas believe the way health is taught in the schools has been an underlying cause of the state’s poor performance on various wellness rankings for children. Continue reading...
Children’s study unfolding in state
U.S. health research spans to age 21
BENTONVILLE — In the year since researchers began recruiting pilot-phase subjects for the Arkansas portion of the long-term National Children’s Study, they have exceeded the number by 50 percent, a co-lead investigator said Wednesday. Continue reading...
Area duo makes supercomputer
SPRINGDALE — An auto mechanic turned technical-school instructor and truck driver turned student are using a homemade supercomputer to join nearly a half-million others using their computers’ down time to help find cures for diseases like HIV, cancer, Alzheimer’s and malaria. Continue reading...
Donation allows UAMS students extra simulation
FAYETTEVILLE — In her acting role as a patient for medical students, Betty Anderson likes to throw the students some curves so they get a realistic taste of what it’s like to diagnose someone. Continue reading...
Designer brings ‘wearable art’ to museum staff
When leaders at Crystal Bridges were contemplating the uniforms its gallery staff would wear, the standard “gray pant and navy blazer” didn’t seem a good fit in a place where inspiration and imagination are emphasized, one administrator recalled. Continue reading...
Youth agency to aid recovery
Symptoms linger after tornado
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — For the first three months after the May 22 tornado struck Joplin, Mo., it was considered normal for children to express loss and grief through clinging, crying, loss of sleep and other physical symptoms. Continue reading...
Guides give depth on art visits
BENTONVILLE — Barbara Youree prepared her group of museum goers for Crystal Bridges’ first Greatest Hits gallery tour, making clear their experience would be interactive. Continue reading...
Lecturer touts less tech, more nature for children
HOBBS STATE PARK — Being outdoors and connecting with nature helps adult’s and children’s mental health in many ways, but it’s something that’s being lost because of stress, new technologies and desk-bound workers, a university faculty member told more than 50 people at an informal lecture Saturday. Continue reading...
Count 90,000 since opening, says museum
BENTONVILLE — Don and Gayle Gaunt made the 2 1/2-hour trip to Crystal Bridges on Monday from their home in Strafford, Mo., after reading about the museum in a Springfield, Mo., newspaper. Continue reading...
Gyms set rules for technology
Clubs weigh the risks and rewards of allowing cell phones
FAYETTEVILLE — Becca Henry embraces new technology and how it helps her juggle her workout routines at the gym with her professional life in marketing. Continue reading...
SHOPPERS ‘PAY IT FORWARD’: Secret Santas pay off layaway debts
SPRINGDALE — Secret layaway Santas have been busy in Northwest Arkansas helping families whose best-laid Christmas shopping plans have veered off course but also warming the hearts of retail workers who’ve heard heartbreaking stories in these tough economic times. Continue reading...
Grant to help rural patients
Funds for Mercy aid telemedicine
Arkansas is continuing to move forward with its telemedicine efforts and other projects that rely on improved and expanded broadband networks. Continue reading...
’11 law limits access to meds
Questionnaire, state ID musts
In the four months since a new state law went into effect that further restricts access to over-the-counter cold and allergy decongestants, Shawna Harris has offered a longer questionnaire for customers who want to buy them. Continue reading...
Museum given $1 million
Shewmaker endowment benefits ‘Next Generation’
Melba Shewmaker surveyed the wall of children’s drawings and messages depicting “On my first trip to Crystal Bridges... ” before stopping at a note atop a work by an 8-year-old Bentonville boy. Continue reading...
Crystal Bridges Museum, Louvre, 2 others to share art
BENTONVILLE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville is partnering with the Louvre in Paris and two other museums to share their artworks and educate museum patrons on the cross-influences between American and European art. Continue reading...
Art history abounds in disputed collection
BENTONVILLE — The Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the heart of a legal dispute between the Tennessee attorney general and a Nashville, Tenn., university is a treasure trove of works for students of art and American art history, those familiar with it say. Continue reading...
Court decides art deal is good
Fisk, museum to share works
BENTONVILLE — A Tennessee high court has upheld a deal for Nashville’s Fisk University and a Bentonville museum to share the university’s Stieglitz art collection, and overturned a lower court ruling requiring Fisk to sock away two-thirds of a $30 million payment in an endowment to maintain the artworks. Continue reading...
State medical officials join in ‘superbug’ fight
Eventually, bacteria turn resistant to antibiotics
Arkansas researchers, medical workers and public health officials have joined growing efforts of the global health community in fighting the emergence of “superbugs” impervious or resistant to antibiotic drugs. Continue reading...
2 counts, GAO report confict on Marshallese migrants
A federal agency’s report to Congress earlier this month concerning Pacific Islander migrants doesn’t include a recommendation that Arkansas begin receiving funds to offset the costs of providing services to its Marshallese population that other U.S. hosts already get. Continue reading...
Museum tickets going fast
65,670 booked through New Year’s at Crystal Bridges
BENTONVILLE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has booked 65,670 tickets through New Year’s Day and well over 20,000 of those in its first week. Continue reading...
Hospital seeks a higher level in trauma care
Washington Regional asks for 2nd-highest designation
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS — Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville has upped its commitment to the state’s fledgling trauma system and will seek the highest level of emergency care for patients in the northwest region. Continue reading...
Bentonville museum welcomes thousands
Weekend visitors view, learn, eat, drink
BENTONVILLE — After the sun set on the opening day for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the public got a first look at the difference between the vistas seen in daylight from within the museum’s glass-walled buildings and its nighttime views. Continue reading...
Walton opens Crystal Bridges
1st visitors surprised at variety
BENTONVILLE — There’s a reason Norman Rockwell’s iconic Rosie the Riveter painting resonates with John Douglas, who was 6 years old during the United States’ early involvement in World War II. Continue reading...
Ceremony honors new outreach clinic
Marshallese community to benefit
SPRINGDALE — About five years ago, outbreaks of tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases in the Marshallese and Hispanic communities led an outreach team of public health nurses to began making regular house calls. Continue reading...
Museum Staff Weigh in on Favorite Pieces
BENTONVILLE — Museum goers who’ve ever found themselves racing the clock before closing time know the importance of asking ahead about artwork, then budgeting their time accordingly. Continue reading...
Reciprocity Perk of Membership
Top Regional Museums’ Holdings Complementary With Crystal Bridges
BENTONVILLE — Some patrons who become members of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will have an incentive to explore other museums in Arkansas and beyond through a national reciprocal program. Continue reading...
Complex Design Complements Natural Location
BENTONVILLE — The pair of suspended-cable pavilions that span a ravine is home to two spring-fed ponds, resulting in the illusion they’re floating on water. The structures, one a gallery and the other a restaurant at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, feature roofing consisting of alternating bands of copper and glass. Continue reading...
Endowments are backbone of operations
BENTONVILLE — America's richest family gave more than $1.2 billion to Crystal Bridges in 2010, including three gifts totaling $800 million in endowments that serve as the foundation of the museum's ongoing financial support. The Walton Family Foundation, funded by the heirs of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, announced last year's gifts of more than $1.2 billion to the museum in a Sept. 23 news release. The amount included $403 million beyond the $800 million in endowments that the museum announced in May. Continue reading...
Announced Art Piques Curiosity in Untold Works
BENTONVILLE — Art scholars, curators and dealers who live and breathe art await the Nov. 11 opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art with an anticipation borne of their depth of knowledge of some of its announced works. Continue reading...
Regional Pieces to be Displayed With Collection
BENTONVILLE — Museum goers who wonder what Crystal Bridges will display on opening day have thus far heard mainly about the American masterpieces and other prized works in its permanent collection. Continue reading...
Crystal Bridges to Rely Heavily on Volunteers
BENTONVILLE — Like most museums, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will depend heavily on the work of volunteers. Continue reading...
Walton Inflames East With Collection
In the six years since Alice Walton’s May 2005 revelation that she was buying up multimillion-dollar artwork and building a nationally important museum in Wal-Mart’s hometown of Bentonville, she has spurred a sense of boosterism and high economic hopes at home, while also igniting a broad debate on museums’ public stewardship of the arts. Continue reading...
Museum a Draw For Conventions, Bus Tour Groups
BENTONVILLE — It used to be that when John Lamparski went to tourism trade shows, he was the one pursuing national and regional companies to consider a stop at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. Continue reading...
Museum’s Trails For Hikes, Bikes, to Link Art, Flora
BENTONVILLE — Unusual dogwoods, sculptures, remnants of a never-built railroad and the natural architecture within forests are themes hikers and cyclists will be able to explore on 3.5 miles of trails surrounding the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Continue reading...
Doctors travel circuit for kids
Drive from LR hard after chemo
LOWELL — At a little more than four years old, the Centers for Children is adding four new pediatric medical subspecialties that will reduce or eliminate the need for Northwest Arkansas children to travel to Little Rock for care. Continue reading...
Texas arrest called 1st time for billionaire
Attorneys: Previous conviction likely not to show in databases
It’s not unusual that Alice Walton’s 1998 drunkendriving conviction did not show up on background checks performed after the billionaire’s recent arrest on a charge of driving while intoxicated, according to two Northwest Arkansas attorneys familiar with such cases. Continue reading...
Museum founder arrested on DWI
Wal-Mart billionaire Alice Walton was jailed overnight on a charge of driving while intoxicated in Texas after a birthday dinner last weekend in an incident that a family spokesman says she “accepts full responsibility for,” and which coincided with final preparations for the grand opening of her art museum in Bentonville. Continue reading...
Dinosaur tracks thought unique
Cell photo alerts UA professor
LITTLE ROCK — A discovery of a large set of fossilized dinosaur tracks by gypsum miners in Howard County this summer has kept University of Arkansas geoscientists busy recording what are believed to be the first footprints of three-toed dinosaurs in the state. Continue reading...
Hospice facility to open Oct. 17
12 beds, quarters for kin available
FAYETTEVILLE — Dr. Stan Bradley practiced medicine for nearly two decades before finding his true calling and dream job. Continue reading...
PEOPLE & PLACES
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Walton support of museum tops $1 billion in ’10
Beebe calls Crystal Bridges ‘international cultural beacon’
America’s richest family gave more than $1.2 billion to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2010, about $400 million more than what the museum previously had announced. Continue reading...
$10 million donation gets kids closer to art
Walker gift supports museum field trips
BENTONVILLE — In this downturned economic climate, it’s difficult for school districts to send students on day field trips to museums and other attractions. Continue reading...
$10 million gives schools ticket to art
Walker gift funds class trips to Crystal Bridges Museum
BENTONVILLE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art plans to formally announce a $10 million endowment gift from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation on Thursday that will pay for visits of up to 14,000 schoolchildren in the museum’s inaugural year. Continue reading...
FEMA relief gets counties back on track
Storm aid hits $1.65 million
Federal aid and a return to normalcy are beginning to trickle in to two tornadobattered Northwest Arkansas counties that had to appeal an initial denial of Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance, local officials said. Continue reading...
