This is a rebroadcast from January 20, 2020: Today we honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a special edition of Bring It On! Tonight at 7 PM, the City of Bloomington is honoring the MLK holiday with a celebration at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. We are recognizing the 2020 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with two riveting interviews. We’ll begin …
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Johnson Christian Village is a faith-based not-for-profit serving local seniors. Rhonda Greene works there and she loves to see volunteers come in and spend quality time with the residents, or take them out into the community to do a little volunteering of their own. Activate! is a partnership between WFHB and the City of Bloomington Volunteer Network, working together to …
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An arctic blast struck Bloomington this past week, putting temperatures as low as -5 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chills below -10 degrees Fahrenheit. During this same time last year, the average temperature was 37 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill was around 30 degrees. Coming on the heels of 2023 being the warmest year on record, this cold spell is …
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For twenty years, Steve Volan represented the downtown district in Bloomington’s city council. His 6th district map was redrawn, largely due to his own efforts, and he was forced to run for reelection as an at-large candidate last year. He lost but swiftly shifted gears and now is running for Monroe County Commissioner in this year’s election. Volan talks about …
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Let’s take a look at the best of the worst in the year we’ve just finished. Here are the nastiest and most successful scams of 2023.
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On today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell speak with Dr. Gloria Howell. Gloria is the director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and has a mayoral appointment on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission seeks to promote and celebrate Dr. Martin Luther …
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WFHB welcomes The Bazargan Book Club to Saturday’s Child on Saturday, January 13, from 11am till noon. Join us as we enjoy this swinging suite of sweet musicians led by the savvy and talented Kid Kazooey. Listen on air or as part of audience, free of charge in the Monroe County History Center in downtown Bloomington. The Bazargan Book Club …
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For our first episode of the new year, we wanted to begin sharing an interview with Leon Benson. In this conversation, he covers his release from prison, reflections on the treatment he received from the authorities, and his work on the outside. This is a special privilege for Kite Line, since we have aired Benson’s work and thought many times …
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On January 17th singer/songwriters Lenox Monroe performed a Local Live Remote session from the Orbit Room! Lenox Monroe is a singer, songwriter, and story teller who has been involved in playing instruments and competing in vocal performance competitions throughout her youth. She studied vocal performance at the Indiana University Jacob’s School of Music and then went to Nashville to record …
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On January 17th singer/songwriters Claire Pendreigh performed a Local Live Remote session from the Orbit Room! Claire Pendreigh is an emerging singer-songwriter born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. With lyrics that are often both softly poetic and deeply cutting at once, her songs emerge from a place of intimate self-expression, inviting listeners on a raw and vulnerable journey through the …
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