Author: Colette Czarnecki

Teddy bears and all kinds of pies

The clankety noise an oven door makes while opening up joins the sounds of apples being sliced in Olinda White’s kitchen and dining room. She’s checking on two pies in the oven – a lemon and pumpkin.

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Talk on the Rock: KSTK’s General Manager Cindy Sweat on what the rescissions package looks like for public media

Episode 59: Public media is facing a threat these days, as the House passed a rescissions package on June 12. It would eliminate $1.1 billion in approved funding for public media. That funding would normally go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund many public media outlets, including ours here at KSTK. The station’s General Manager Cindy Sweat spoke with News Director Colette Czarnecki to give more of an idea of what defunding public media looks like and what it might mean for our rural communities. 

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