KTNA’s morning news, weather forecast, Denali echoes, and announcements for September 19t. Host is Trisha Costello. Headlines–Halter and Welton speak locally on bond issues.

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In this archived program, host Holly Stinson talks to Janet Valentine, who lived at the railroad siding north of Talkeetna known as Curry, in the mid-sixties. She tells what life was like as a young mother with small children, off the road system, far from town. Audio runs about a half hour.

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Holly Stinson provides an edited version of Mary Gunderson interviewing long-time resident and elementary school cook Minnie Swanda. It includes the story about saving The Little Red Schoolhouse for a museum. Audio runs about a half hour.

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Local writer Sarah Birdsall and host Gale Moses talk about ghosts, ghost stories, and the plan for a book on some local hauntings. Audio runs about a half hour.

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Host Maureen McLaughlin, and guests Roberta Sheldon, Ed Craver, and Trisha Costello re-visit the Talkeetna Roadhouse’s long and lively history in this program, which originally aired early this year.

Audio runs about a half hour.

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Library staff Ann Yadon and Geri Denkewalter look back on the history of the Talkeetna Library, and speculate about its future. Sue Deyoe hosts the locally produced program.  This Nugget originally aired in March of this year.

Audio runs about a half hour.

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Corinne Smith, the Nature Conservancy’s coordinator of the Mat-Su Salmon Partnership, talks to host Charlie Loeb about salmon habitat restoration and protection projects in the Susitna Valley. In a stream-side recording, Corinne explains how the partnership works with landowners to plan ahead on development projects and  successfully restore damaged streams for healthy juvenile salmon stocks.

Here is the link for more information:

http://conserveonline.org/workspaces/MatSuSalmon

Audio runs about a half hour.

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Aired live from the KTNA studio, host Amanda Randles talks with a couple of musicians from Chatham County, North Carolina, who have been working and playing in Talkeetna over the summer. Jeff Loops and Julian Sikes talk about their music and play several of their own songs during this half hour.  Short music videos of Deep Chatham can be found on KTNA’s facebook page.

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On this program from our archives, host Holly Stinson talks to Gale Weatherell and Allan Dahl, who were boyhood friends in Talkeetna in the 1940′s. In this program, the two men bring the past to life, telling stories  about personalities and business establishments in the little town of miners and trappers. This is the first of a three-part series. The second and third parts can be found in the Nuggets archive.

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