The 479 Show brings you the news that shaped the region during the week with a look ahead to the following week. Each episode brings you the week in the 479 with news about various government and school board meetings around the area and other features. We also bring you features such as our Benton County Extension Report as well as our Comment from the Capitol where our area representative highlights the week in Washington. And we take a trip off the beaten path, with stories of interest around the world.

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The 479 Show brings you the news that shaped the region during the week with a look ahead to the following week. Each episode brings you the week in the 479 with news about various government and school board meetings around the area and other features. We also bring you features such as our Benton County Extension Report as well as our Comment from the Capitol where our area representative highlights the week in Washington. And we take a trip off the beaten path, with stories of interest around the world.
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Recent Episodes

August 8, 2026
479 Show - August 10, 2026
<p>Coming up on this episode, the Springdale City Council may have complicated matters in their bid to fill a vacancy while the Pea Ridge Planning Commission approved a controversial rezoning for a proposed development next to its city park. Benton County officials would discuss the proposed re-allocation of its one-cent sales tax but have a short time to place the question before the voters.</p><p></p><p>Officials in Fayetteville would break ground on the future Ramay Junior High School while Springdale opened its repurposed Elementary School.</p><p></p><p>Municipal filing season ended and we have a nunber of significant mayoral races in Benton County. But most of the eyes are on a now-former state representative and for-the-moment only candidate for county judge as his problems continued piling up.</p><p></p><p>Our Benton County Extension report focuses on getting kids ready to return to school and the accompanying routines, while the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks held its latest drive in Fayetteville.</p><p></p><p>And our trip off the beaten path takes us to Florida, which may be in such bad shape now that it had to import people to star in the "Florida man" stories that usually provide entertainment value for the big city journalists.</p><p></p>

August 1, 2026
479 Show - August 3, 2026
<p>Coming up on this week's episode, the end of the month saw the Bella Vista City Council play to a packed room due to the interest over the short-term rental proposal that would increase the number of permits. </p><p></p><p>In other news, the Rogers City Council presented its bond referendum request while the Springdale City Council left the vacant seat in their membership run for another couple of weeks, the Bentonville City Council approved administrative fees for people not mowing their grass and progress on the future Ramay Junior High School cleared another hurdle when the Washington County Circuit Court dismissed an appeal intended to stop it.</p><p></p><p>Arkansas election laws were on the spotlight as the two sides in the legal battle over laws intended to combat petition fraud or improve direct democracy depending on which side of the fence one is standing made their arguments in U.S. District Court while the Secretary of State rejected the petitions filed by one advocacy group in support of a constitutional amendment tossing out the new laws. </p><p></p><p>Municipal campaign season got started with the opening of the one-week filing period while the race for Benton County Judge took an unexpected turn into the county jail.</p><p></p><p>Our Benton County Extension report gives parents tips on food safety as their children return to school.</p><p></p><p>And our trip off the beaten path takes us to Bakersfield, California, where a former college basketball assistant will have the chance to coach a prison team after he pleaded to supplementing his income the old-fashioned way....as a patron of the tarts.</p><p></p>

July 25, 2026
479 Show - July 27, 2026
<p>Coming up on this week's episode, another full week of government action saw the Springdale City Council discuss its vacant seat during its Committee of the Whole meeting, the Prairie Grove Council amend its door-to-door solicitation ordinance, the Tontitown City Council approve some significant changes in its meeting calendar, the Fayetteville City Council adopted its ordinance limiting the use of non-disclosure agreements and approve a major rezoning, the Siloam Springs Board of Directors introduce the extension of its five-eighth cent sales tax for wastewater treatment work and the Benton County Quorum Court move forward its accounting of the 287g program.</p><p></p><p>In the school house, the Bentonville Board of Education sold one of the two parcels of property that received unsolicited offers to purchase, the Rogers Board signed on to a class-action lawsuit targeting social media companies and the Fayetteville Board approved the sale ot construction bonds and heard the update on its efforts to prepare its elementary students for success.</p><p></p><p>We also had a busy week in the courtroom as an opponent of the future Ramay Junior High School took the city and school district to circuit court to stop the process while a Fayetteville property owner whose home was a frequent stop for first responder agencies was accused of turning his dilapidated structure into a home flambe in order to cash a check from his insurance company that may result in an even larger check for his barristers.</p><p></p><p>It was a more difficult week for responders, as Springdale Police were called to a couple of shooting deaths that resulted in a couple of teen boys facing adullt consequences while a moped driver and pedestrian in Rogers were fatally injured in motor vehicle accidents and a rookie police officer gave his life while trying to save another swimmer in the Elk River north of the state line.</p><p></p><p>Our Benton County Extension report previews a seminar on the new world screwworm that is causing trouble for cattle producers.</p><p></p><p>And our trip off the beaten path takes us across the state to Jonesboro, where a friendly neighborhood Spiderman was caught on video playing Boy Scout and helping a disabled pedestrian across a busy street</p>
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