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Eco Report – January 13, 2022

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  HEADLINES The U-S Fish and Wildlife Service can grant protections to the American bumblebee under the Endangered Species Act. In the past two decades, American bumblebee populations have dropped by 90%. —Linda Greene After months of lining up leases with several property owners to create a more-than-1,660-acre solar farm near Zionsville, NextEra Energy saw the project blocked in August …

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Eco Report – June 30, 2023

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Hello and welcome to Eco-Report. For W-F-H-B, I’m Julianna Dailey. And I’m Cynthia Roberts. That was Steven Stewart of the Indiana Forest Alliance. We’ll hear more from I.F.A. later in the program on how both wildfires and controlled burns pose Air Quality hazards. And we’ll learn about I.F.A’s new campaign for a new National Park as an Old Growth Forest Preserve. …

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Bring It On! – January 22, 2024: Bloomington’s 2020 MLK Holiday Celebration (Rebroadcast)

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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WFHB Local News – January 22nd, 2024

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, January 22nd, 2024. Later in the program, local journalist Dave Askins with the B Square Bulletin explores the amount of transparency within the Bloomington City Council. More in today’s feature report. That’s Rhonda Greene from Johnson Christian Village, a non-profit serving local seniors. She’s looking for volunteers to make meaningful connections with …

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Activate! Rhonda Greene, Johnson Christian Village

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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Hola Bloomington – Jan/19/2024 Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo fotógrafa colombiana americana

El día de hoy nos acompaña Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo, fotógrafa colombiana americana, quien nos platica su historia de vida y carrera profesional desde su natal Colombia, su paso por Europa, hasta su proyecto de vida en Indiana. Con dos Maestrías obtenidas por la Indiana State University, que la llevaron a ejercer su pasión por la fotografía, nos platica sobre su trabajo …

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Eco Report – January 19, 2024

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You’re listening to Eco Report on WFHB for Friday, January 19th, 2024. Later in the program, we will listen to Part 3 by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze as he speaks with a homesteader and sustainability educator from Spencer, Indiana about her life journey in academia and as a nature lover from a young age. Also, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry reports …

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WFHB Local News – January 18th, 2024

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, January 18th, 2023. Later in the program, Diljeet Singh MD, vice president of Physicians for a National Health Program, joins us on a new edition of Prescription for Healthcare. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Elyse Perry delivers a report …

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Cold Spell Hits Bloomington, Warming Stations Available Until Saturday

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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Former City Council Member Steve Volan

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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