Beach Grass Roots – June 12th, 2025

In this episode of Beach Grass Roots, we talk with the Lower Columbia Q Center, a nonprofit resource center providing outreach, education and charity for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies of the Lower Columbia Region of Oregon and Washington. The LCQC is the June 2025 beneficiary of the Astoria Co-op’s Change for Community program, which asks…

ARTS – Live & Local! June 6th, 2025

Friday, June 6th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Violinist Audrey Cereghino & Cellist Dylan Morrow, soloists, & Violist Betsey Ellerbroek, in concert with the North Oregon Coast Symphony at the Nehalem Elementary School & the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Barbara Anne Gaidosh, Oregon Folksinger, in concert…

Talk of Our Towns June 5th, 2025

Today we will be discussing how new concepts of retirement are changing individual lives, and indeed our entire culture.  It is my pleasure to have two thoughtful highly educated experienced professional therapists to explore this topic. My guests are Astoria based IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapist and trainer, Katelyn Staecker and her dear friend of…

Poems for Company – May 26th, 2025

“Three Controversial Musicians”: Today’s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked.  Naomi Shihab Nye, “Cross That Line,” from You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2011), used by kind permission of the author.  Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died,” from Lunch Poems (City Lights Books, 1964).  William Matthews, “Mingus at the…