Kelley Scholfield is an Urban Greenspace Specialist with the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation department. She brings neighbors together to care for our parks and natural habitats. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to build a strong, healthy and engaged community. You can learn more about volunteer opportunities in the …

For today’s show, Raquel Anderson, Professor at IU for Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, talked about the process of language development in child dual language learners and social factors that impact language input and use.

Content Warning: This episode contains references to sexual trauma and harm. We start off this episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances, as compiled by Perilous Chronicle- followed by some recent prison news. We close our episode with a feature created by students as part of Dr. Micol Seigel’s Inside Out program at Indiana University. As mentioned on …

This month, we welcome Grier Carson, Library Director of the Monroe County Public Library, to discuss the library as a civic institution.  Carson talked to our host, Jim Allison, about the library’s role in a democracy and how it protects intellectual freedom and access to information for everyone without regard to their social status, gender, race, or religion.  The library …

The second in our series of Big Talk interviews on the health and future of Lake Monroe, This week, Michelle Cohen, executive director of the Lake Monroe Water Fund, joins us. Deep Dive is a cooperative effort of WFHB News and Limestone Post magazine. Please read the Limestone Post article, How Healthy Is Lake Monroe — and How Long Will …

WFHB’s Youth Radio has partnered with Girls Rock Bloomington to present this recording of our 2023 Camp Showcase Final Performance, as well as an interview with GRB Director Amy Oelsner. Aja and Jessie talk to her about the origins of the camp, how its grown and what the process of educating the participants is like. Engineered by Nick Romy Produced …

On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell, spend the hour with Dr. Marvin Dunn. Dr. Dunn is fighting against the potential miseducation of countless children and young adults in Florida. He is here to discuss his efforts to combat this miseducation and the current state of racial politics in Florida. Last Wednesday, August 16, …

Fire, flood, tornado, mass shooting – how can you help Monroe County be ready and respond? Vinal Lee is chair of Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD). He connects agencies and individuals who are ready to step up. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to build a strong, healthy and engaged …

Today, Melanie interviews Mitch Teplitsky, a documentarian working on a project about Spencer Pride! He is also the Marketing Director of Morgenstern Books in Bloomington and they talked about some of the programming coming up in the next week including Spencer Pride‘s BANNED Book Club as well as the upcoming Author Talk with Jonathan Balash interviewing Jim Fielding about his …

  Hello and welcome to Eco Report. For WFHB, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Frank Marshalek. Coming up later in today’s episode, we learn about the EcoBlitz wildlife survey program monitoring biodiversity and bat populations in Indiana which discovered a new species of bee. We also get details about an upcoming forest protection roundtable as Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze speaks …