Josh Krohn
General ManagerJosh is a graduate of the University of Nebraska with a degree in communications and broadcasting, and a Certified Audio Engineer through the Society of Broadcast Engineers. At 13, he got his first taste for public radio when he interned at KBBI, an experience that shaped his career. Josh returns to Homer after twelve years with Classical 90.7 KVNO, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was senior audio engineer and production coordinator. Previously he was station manager/general manager of KUHB-FM, St. Paul, Alaska, in the Pribilof Islands.
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A discussion about the current state of the Homer Senior Center, including financial challenges, services provided to the community, ongoing investigations and restructuring efforts, future sustainability, and opportunities for community involvement and support.Guests: Shirlie Gribble, Board of Directors; Colleen James, Board of Directors; Sarah Weideman, Executive Director; Adi Davis, Director of Operations; -
A discussion about the current state of the Homer Senior Center, including financial challenges, services provided to the community, ongoing investigations and restructuring efforts, future sustainability, and opportunities for community involvement and support.Guests: Shirlie Gribble, Board of Directors; Colleen James, Board of Directors; Sarah Weideman, Executive Director; Adi Davis, Director of Operations;
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The Karen Strid Trio features Karen Strid-Chadwick on piano; Dale Curtis on flugelhorn, and Scott Bartlett on percussion. They are joined by guest vocalist Jonah Hopton.Scott Bartlett studied percussion performance, ethnomusicology (MA, Univ. Hawai’i), and museum studies. Since 2020 he has been the executive director of Homer Council on the Arts, where, among other duties, he oversees HCOA’s touring performance series. Scott is a multi-percussionist with occasional forays into ‘ukulele and double bass. He stays active in various Homer area music projects including the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra, Pier One Theatre pit orchestras, KP Brass Band, Banned, and with three young musicians at home.Dale Curtis is a retired music educator and band director who lives in Ketchikan. He has spent most of his life playing professionally with bands throughout Alaska including the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Faculty Big Band, Sitka Jazz Festival Big Band, UAA Jazz bands, Princess Cruises showbands, and the US Air Force Band of the Pacific. He was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division band from 1969-1971. Dale has performed with Mike Vax, Bobby Shew, Dianne Reeves, Lionel Hampton and Frank DiSalvo at Indian Wells Resort Hotel in Palm Springs California. The album Bridge To Nowhere by the Dale Curtís Quintet was recorded in 2011 with NYC musicians at Tony Bennet Studios.Karen Strid-Chadwick is a retired professor (of 40 years) of Jazz Studies at UAA. She coordinated and produced all UAA Jazz Week festivals and the UAA Jazz Week Benefit Concerts series. Karen had the distinction of studying with the late, great John “Wendy“ Williamson, trombonist and pianist. She performs with many jazz Anchorage and Homer musicians.Guest vocalist Jonah Hopton is a tenor and composer who graduated from the world-renowned San Francisco Conservatory of Music. -
A discussion on Kachemak Bay State Park, about projects, funding, features, and challenges, with members of the Kachemak Bay State Park Citizen Advisory Board, Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park, and the park superintendent. -
A discussion on Kachemak Bay State Park, about projects, funding, features, and challenges, with members of the Kachemak Bay State Park Citizen Advisory Board, Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park, and the park superintendent.
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A discussion on violence in Alaska, Missing, Murdered, Indigenous Womens and Children, how the legal system helps/fails, local resources, and solutions to providing safer communities. -
A discussion on violence in Alaska, Missing, Murdered, Indigenous Womens and Children, how the legal system helps/fails, local resources, and solutions to providing safer communities.
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Eradication of the invasive aquatic plant elodea from Crescent Lake in the Kenai Mountains has been successful so far, but project managers say more funding is needed to complete the project. At a recent science conference in Bethel, Elders and community members spoke about changes in weather patterns they’ve experienced on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. -
Eradication of the invasive aquatic plant elodea from Crescent Lake in the Kenai Mountains has been successful so far, but project managers say more funding is needed to complete the project. At a recent science conference in Bethel, Elders and community members spoke about changes in weather patterns they’ve experienced on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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Each spring, in conjunction with Earth Day, Howl hosts a week of spring cleaning with DirtBag clean-up week to start off their summer programs. This year the event will take place April 20-24th. The Orpheum Theatre has been a fixture in downtown Kodiak for more than eighty five years. It's the community’s only movie theater outside of the Coast Guard Base. But that could be about to change, as the owners get ready to put the theatre up for sale.
