Stories by Rich Polikoff

  • The state/region in brief

    Districts barred from joining suit A group of school districts larger than the Deer/Mount Judea district in Newton County will not be allowed to join the small…

    by Rich Polikoff November 22, 2014

  • William Conner Eldridge Jr.

    Conner Eldridge won’t be doing this forever. Eldridge is the United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, the youngest of the 93 U.S. attorneys…

    by Rich Polikoff July 28, 2013

  • Stacy Lynn Leeds

    FAYETTEVILLE — As with any good college student, laundry weighed heavily on Stacy Leeds’ mind.

    by Rich Polikoff July 21, 2013

  • William Allen Schwab

    FAYETTEVILLE — Bill Schwab might never write that book about gated communities. He was working on one a few years back, and was closer to its finish than its b…

    by Rich Polikoff May 19, 2013

  • Dr. Alfred Yeoman Gordon Jr.

    Dr. Al Gordon did not attend the University of Arkansas. This qualifies as a supreme irony. Gordon’s mother and father went there.

    by Rich Polikoff April 21, 2013

  • Stacy Lynn Lewis

    Stacy Lewis has stared down some truly frightening putts.

    by Rich Polikoff March 3, 2013

  • Hot glass

    Ed Pennebaker doesn’t have time to get distracted.

    by Rich Polikoff February 10, 2013

  • Ethel Goodstein-Murphree

    Although it will be months before she returns to her real office, Ethel Goodstein-Murphree is already in love with the place.

    by Rich Polikoff December 23, 2012

  • Shelter owner ailing; big cats left in lurch

    A refuge that shelters wild animals near Eureka Springs has taken six large cats from a private Crawford County refuge since Monday, but the future remains unc…

    by Rich Polikoff November 15, 2012

  • Roger Barnard Collins

    Roger Collins wasn’t willing to merely be an employee.

    by Rich Polikoff September 2, 2012

  • John L. Smith

    Arkansas Razorbacks Coach John L. Smith believes that if you want to win, you have to pay the price. Smith has poured most of his life into coaching - but has …

    by Rich Polikoff August 26, 2012

  • Arthur Gustav Malzahn III

    Gus Malzahn doesn’t get nervous before games. He used to get nervous. When Malzahn was a wide receiver for Fort Smith Christian, and later at Henderson State U…

    by Rich Polikoff August 19, 2012

  • Miles Grant James

    It started with lettuce and tomatoes.

    by Rich Polikoff March 25, 2012

  • Suzanne Denise McCray

    It seems as though the University of Arkansas owes Suzanne Mc-Cray a lot. McCray is the UA’s vice provost for enrollment management and its dean of admissions,…

    by Rich Polikoff February 19, 2012

  • Sarah Grace Mesko

    Sarah Mesko’s musical hero is Freddie Mercury. Mesko idolizes the late lead singer of Queen for his astonishing vocal ability, operatic in style and quality. T…

    by Rich Polikoff February 5, 2012

  • Colorful monk who loved to sing

    When no one could pick up the phone, Father Hilary Filiatreau of the Order of St. Benedict would greet callers with a song.

    by Rich Polikoff December 22, 2011

  • Donald Jay Smith

    Donnie Smith would love to learn to speak fluent Spanish.

    by Rich Polikoff December 18, 2011

  • Carol Anne Reeves

    Carol Reeves learned more from a board game than she did in school.

    by Rich Polikoff November 27, 2011

  • Musical group seeks new venue

    Despite week after week of record heat, there weren’t many empty seats this summer at Opera in the Ozarks.

    by Rich Polikoff September 6, 2011

  • Jeffrey Paul Long

    Playing quarterback is a dangerous choice of extracurricular activities. On a team that runs the option, it’s even riskier. In that offense, the quarterback is…

    by Rich Polikoff August 28, 2011

  • UA to fix Fulbright statue base

    A statue of J. William Fulbright usually found on the west side of Old Main at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has been moved to storage so its base…

    by Rich Polikoff August 6, 2011

  • Michael Andre Anderson

    Pickup games shouldn’t matter much. But to Mike Anderson, they always do. The new University of Arkansas men’s head basketball coach likes to play those casual…

    by Rich Polikoff May 15, 2011

  • 14 offered just a peek as museum blossoms

    With just over six months remaining until the planned opening of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Don Bacigalupi was smiling.

    by Rich Polikoff May 4, 2011

  • Sidney Johnson Burris

    Sidney Burris is the reason the Dalai Lama is coming to Arkansas on May 11 for two forums in Fayetteville about nonviolence.

    by Rich Polikoff May 1, 2011

  • SEC WOMEN: UA finds form in victory

    After a rough couple of weeks, the Arkansas women’s basketball team finished the regular season on a good note Thursday night.

    by Rich Polikoff March 11, 2011

  • SEC Women: Arkansas buckles down, beats LSU

    All of a sudden, Arkansas has LSU’s number in women’s basketball. The Razorbacks completed a season sweep of the Lady Tigers on Sunday, hanging on for a 42-40 …

    by Rich Polikoff February 21, 2011

  • Peter Benoliel Lane

    Peter Lane was seeing a cello for the first time, and he didn’t quite know what to make of it.

    by Rich Polikoff January 16, 2011

  • Sandra Gotshalk Stotsky

    Jewish mothers, as the stereotype goes, push their children hard and push equally hard on behalf of them.

    by Rich Polikoff December 26, 2010

  • Long pipe dream, city opens ice rink

    The average high temperature in Bentonville in December is 47 degrees, or 15 degrees above the point at which water turns to ice.

    by Rich Polikoff December 25, 2010

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