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Talk on the Rock: Jean-Luc Lewis on attending medical school and where he hopes it will take him

by Colette Czarnecki | Jul 24, 2025 | Talk On The Rock | 0

Episode 61: Former Wrangell High School basketball player Jean-Luc Lewis spoke with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki about his life in medical school. He left Wrangell to go to college six years ago and is visiting his home town for just the week. He attends Brown University in Providence, RI and is focusing on family medicine. He hopes his practice will take him past borders. He shared that one of his most fascinating experiences in med school was working on cadavers.

Talk on the Rock: Ninety-two-year-old Gil Stokes shares bits of life experiences in Wrangell and beyond

by Colette Czarnecki | Jul 16, 2025 | Talk On The Rock | 0

Episode 60: History is everywhere, and of course that includes Wrangell. Ninety-two-year-old Gilbert Sháa.dáa.shix̱ Stokes grew up in Wrangell and shared bits of his own life experience, on and off our island, with the community. He’s in town from Anchorage and will be attending the totem pole raising event this weekend.

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

by Colette Czarnecki | Jul 8, 2025 | Talk On The Rock | 0

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.

Talk on the Rock: Mike Hoyt and Tony Harding on carving totem poles for the upcoming totem pole raising

by Colette Czarnecki | Jul 2, 2025 | Talk On The Rock | 0

Episode 58: The first totem pole raising event since 38 years ago will happen this month, July 18-20. Many people are traveling to Wrangell for the celebration, leaving little vacancy in the island’s lodging. Over the past year, the Wrangell Cooperative Association has brought in master carvers to help teach apprentice carvers. Two of them, Tony Harding and Mike Hoyt, who is also WCA’s totem pole project manager chatted with KSTK’s Colette Czarnecki on their carving experience, the history of totems on Wrangell and what to expect during the event.