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Stephen Alan Baskin, age 75, died of complications from Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome on November 12, 2023. Steve was born November 23, 1947, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the first child of Alfred Calder Baskin and Dorothy Ralston Fox. He grew up in Harrisburg, graduated from California S

Meeting the challenge of school drop-offs can build life-long coping skills.

This week 60% of Buddy Shute and the Motivators (Buddy along with Brenda and Steve Baskin) came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Their CD, "You Gotta Move" is the Ozark Blues Society of Northwest Arkansas' selection to represent the region in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Buddy and others will be playing at the Meteor Guitar Gallery tomorrow night in support of sending this year's OBS artist reps, Downtown Livewires, to Memphis.

The Museum at the Big Horns History After Dark lecture series returned on October 20. Jessica Salzman, Museum Collections Manager, introduced the speakers. Cynde Georgen, local historian, and her husband Steve Baskin presented "Whiskey Shots and Gunshot Chasers: Thirty Years of Throwin' 'Em Back

Buddy Shute has been a fixture on the Northwest Arkansas blues scene for many, many years. This year he and Mark McGee (often described as the best harmonica player in the Ozarks) traveled to Memphis to represent Fort Smith in the Riverfront Blues Challenge.

Buddy Shute has been a fixture on the Northwest Arkansas blues scene for many, many years. This year he and Mark McGee (often described as the best harmonica player in the Ozarks) traveled to Memphis to represent Fort Smith in the Riverfront Blues Challenge. Shute, along with his band Buddy Shute and the Motivators -- comprised of Brenda Baskin on vocals, McGee on harmonica, Steve Baskin on bass and vocals and T.J. Gates on drums -- stopped by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette podcast stud...

"Parents do drop off differently. In the past, a parent would come out of the car, make their childs bed, get a last hug and leave. Now, its more like a school drop-off," said Baskin of one example of the changes implemented last year. Baskin said while many camps will continue the same protocols this summer, theyve added new ones that involve vaccinations and rapid COVID-19 tasting. Some camps are requiring all staff to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Theyll also require campers to undergo COVID-1...

Fire up. its a big concern out west. otherwise heavy rain expected again across parts of the southeast with several inches of rain in the forecast and temperature wise, were talking summer back in the picture across sections of the midwest into the northeast. temperatures in the upper 80s and also widespread 90s. >> steve: the dog days of summer. thank you. >> brian: he ruled the pro wrestling ring for years as the total package. thats what they called him. back stage, he was drowning in a world...

Magazine. today we got anna kooiman in for gretch. >> anna: great to be here. >> steve: we got a lot to talk about. >> anna: lets get to the headlines. the first one is a fox news alert. this is overnight, a brand-new report that the united states has secretly cut off aid to egypt amid the unrest there. thats according to democratic senator pat leahy. the white house refused to definitively say whether it believes morsis ouster was a coup or not. about $585 million has not been disbursed yet. ...

>> steve: thats right. today were waking up with the news that the four -- remember, nobody at the higher echelons, nobody at the state department, including the secretary of state, in trouble in any way. they had to punish those four mid-level people. but today were waking up to the news that john kerry, since hes taken over as secretary of state, has reviewed the complete account and has determined that those people did absolutely nothing wrong. theyre free to return to their job. this include...