By: Heidi Kirk  Arkansas is meeting milestones with vaccination rollouts, and one vulnerable population is starting to transition back to normal. After a year of missing birthday bashes and bingo games, Helen Roderick is one of many senior citizens who received their COVID-19 vaccines and are gathering together again for the first time in over…

By: Heidi Kirk  Arkansas is meeting milestones with vaccination rollouts, and one vulnerable population is starting to transition back to normal. After a year of missing birthday bashes and bingo games, Helen Roderick is one of many senior citizens who received their COVID-19 vaccines and are gathering together again for the first time in over…

By: James Morgan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – Northwest Arkansas saw some snow earlier this week, but it was the cold temperatures Tuesday night and Wednesday morning that set records, both locally and in the River Valley. The snow that fell Tuesday afternoon was Fayetteville’s second latest snowfall on record, behind May 3, 2013, when the…

By: Lexy French FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Throughout the week, Fayetteville Parks and Recreation hosted litter clean-up events in honor of Earth Day. Volunteers were given supplies such as gloves, litter grabbers, and vests, along with an Earth Day T-shirt. City of Fayetteville’s Environmental Educator, Heather Ellzey, said the events help clean multiple areas in the…

By: James Morgan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – The Arkansas legislature passed several bills in March and earlier this month that restricted certain health care and sporting privileges for transgender youth. One of these bills, the SAFE Act, was vetoed by Governor Asa Hutchinson before being overridden by both the Arkansas House and Senate and signed…

By: James Morgan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – After over a year of online ordering and workarounds, the Fayetteville farmers market is back in person at the Fayetteville Town Square on Saturday mornings. The farmers market received a special permit from the city to return to the square on March 20, just over a year after…

By: James Morgan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – Northwest Arkansas Pride is planning for an in person parade this June after a series of completely virtual events in 2020. “We are working with the City of Fayetteville, multiple departments, including the board of health, to try to figure out how to do a safe parade this…

By: James Morgan FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – The Rome Center is reopening for University of Arkansas students this summer. Twenty-nine students will go to Rome this May for a summer session at the Rome Center. This is about 40 percent of the normal capacity for summer programs in Rome. “We are specifically accommodating students who…

By: Hailey Middleton  FAYETTEVILLE, ARK (UATV)– When the pandemic began, sit down restaurants were forced into the takeout lifestyle requiring more ketchup packets. Causing many fast food restaurant chains to run out of ketchup packets. Restaurants started increasing their orders of take out style supplies like condiment packets, plastic cutlery, and straws. As delivery and…

By: Hailey Middleton  FAYETTEVILLE, ARK (UATV) — This week is national animal care and control appreciation week, for the Fayetteville Animal Services Shelter it was another week of caring for shelter pets.  “Although we do feel appreciated by all the comments we saw on facebook, it’s just another week for us.” Animal control officer Amanda…