On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker ponders whether nuclear holocost or climate change will get us first. Also, “Earth’s Checklist,” a poem, by Margit L. Bowler, and on a related note, Carl Safina and Paul Greenberg claim “We Need an Infrastructure Package for Nature.” Finally, Eugene Robinson puts it simply by saying, “Ignoring climate change hasn’t made it go…
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For years, Fort George Brewery blew a work whistle at its downtown brewery every day, audible in and near downtown Astoria. For some, it was a kind of connection during the pandemic. The whistle was moved earlier this year, but that’s not the end of the story. KMUN’s Jacob Lewin reports: Ever since Fort George…
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Clastsop County Vaccine Update
With 18 new cases a day, some of the covid-19 spread we’re now seeing in Clatsop County is coming from people who have been vaccinated. KMUN’s Jacob Lewin spoke with County Public Health Director Margo Lalich and has this report: While the large majority of new covid cases involve the unvaccinated, locally about 15-percent of…
Around Our Schools interviews Tongue Point Job Corps Center’s newly approved Director, Kim Zufelt, a local, long-time Job Corps employee. Hear her moving success story along with life-long resident, Katrina Gasser, Tongue Point Job Corps’ Liaison to the Community. Their personal stories celebrate local expertise and their commitment to empowering students from all over the…
Trail hiking….part 1!
Finally, two weeks ago, the overture began and Astoria’s Cascadia Chamber Opera Company emerged from the long pandemic shutdown. The new season began with a performance at the Performing Arts Center of the comic opera, The Old Maid and the Thief. I talked with opera Artistic Director Bereniece Jones-Centeno about how things went.
Alana & Mac welcome Dave Larson from High Life Adventures & Larson Logging to the show. This show sure zips along even when Mac gets bogged down in the great “Smokey Bear” vs. “Smokey the Bear” debate.
Friday, August 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Julia Gingerich of Sparrow Dance Company and Jennifer Crockett with the Liberty Theatre Block Party. Artist and musician Jennifer Goodenberger with a new body of work at Astoria Art Loft First Saturday Art Walk. Kassia Nye, executive director…
Host Donna Quinn interviews author and teacher Marianne Monson, founder and President of The Writer’s Guild of Astoria. They talk about all things Writer’s Guild, the poetry contest happening now and the upcoming exciting reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown at the Liberty Theatre on November 5.
On the next Story Told, living in the year 76 NA, standing for ‘nuclear age,’ Michael reads the contemporary “Mushrooms in August.” Additionally, Dr. Robert Brake tells the American people to “Put ‘Em Up!” and lastly, a tribute to the Astorian Charles Scott Parker
A Conversation about Local, Favorite Restaurants.
Long Island.
Your beloved hosts Merianne and Linda discusses a wide variety of topics: Fettuccini Alfredo, grilled watermelon, the merits of cilantro stems, puppy energy, and everything in between.
A conversation with author and designer Michael Arseneault about his new book “Storytelling”, a collection of stories and pictures about historical places on the Oregon Coast.
On the next Story Told, a double diatribe on two American symbols: the vote, and the flag. And from Michael Schaffner, “I’m a reenactor. Critical race theory helps me bring history, good and bad, to life.”
Cougars.
Mac & Alana welcome Courtney Bangs to talk about the Clatsop County Fair, goats, and fair food. Tune in and find out who ate a bug-cookie!
Teaching and learning. Most of us spend years of our lives in school. Teachers are a primary influence in our lives. We learn much at school, but just as much from other experiences in our lives. Who taught or mentored you? How did a teacher change your life. For teachers, what prompted you to get…
Friday, July 23rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Oil painter Carrie Williams & woodblock printmaker Karina Andrews, 2 of the 55 artists taking part in the Astoria Open Studios Tour. Cascadia Chamber Opera director Bereniece Jones-Centeno & Board secretary++ Lauri Krämer Serafin on CCO’s performance of Menotti’s comic…
A crew of historic preservation students spent the past two weeks working on a century-old, women-owned commercial building in Astoria, Oregon. The project, funded by the TAWANI Foundation, is part of an effort to get more women involved in the preservation trades. Joanne Rideout reports. Photo: Students get a lesson in period window restoration as…
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker sings a dead bird’s song in telling an abridged history of the North Coast Times Eagle. Additionally “My Mother in Hot Summer,” “Cabbages in the Garden,” “The Sage,” “Picking Pears,” “The City of Sorrows,” and “The Soft Rain” all by Walt Curtis of unofficial Oregon poet laureate fame.
Wings over Willapa.
What do Richard Donner, Mac’s Dad, the Flavel House garden & grounds, and Witches all have in common? Somehow, Mac & Alana manage to chat about all of them on the big show this week.
Friday, July 16th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: INDIE Award Winning Novelist Alan E. Rose with “As If Death Summoned” at KALA’s First Person: Authors Talk in Astoria. Singer/songwriter/musician Leigh Jones as Eugenia Riot, performs at Pickled Fish and the Shelburne Pub on the Long Beach Peninsula,…
On the next Story Told, all about the Bastille, featuring from Catherine Bridget Snow “Liberty and the Bastille,” and from Michael McCusker “The First and Eternal Freedom.”
A biography of Ahmad Rashad – a Portland native, a University of Oregon football star, an NFL-Pro Bowler, and a sports broadcasting icon.
A biography of Charles Jordan – Portland’s first Black city commissioner, and a longtime director of Portland City Parks.