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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s check in on the warzone in Portland.

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 12h

It’s a weird time to post about community radio.

It’s not that we don’t see and feel what’s happening—it affects us all

Radio creates communal joy

Communal joy is power

KWMR is *your* community radio … tune in to joy with us

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 12h

*if you need help remembering this, it kind of rhymes with "time to start over." :)

Give your driveway a ~fresh start~ (and support KWMR!) by calling 866-596-7227 or clicking https://ow.ly/Cmjo50X8NB3.

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 16h

Do you have a Donor Advised Fund? Join 1,000s of others making ☀️Thursday October 9th☀️ the shared moment for bigger, better giving — with Donor Advised Funds. Take a stand for community radio, with a contribution to KWMR on DAF Day, via KWMR's DAF Day profile: https://ow.ly/9oIC50X8LMF #DAF #DAFDay

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 2d

🗓️ Save the date –– November 13 –– for St. Columba's Inverness Beacon of Light conversation with KWMR's Amanda Eichsteadt! ⚡

"Tune In Together: The Future of West Marin Community Radio" www.stcolumbasinverness.org/beacon-of-li...

Beacon of Light Series with Amanda Eichstaedt, KWMR | St. Columba's Inverness

St. Columba's Episcopal Church, Retreat House & Contemplative Center in Inverness, California. Contemplative Spirituality in the Heart of West Marin.

www.stcolumbasinverness.org

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 2d

PSA from PG&E: Have a concern? Report it!
✦ File non-emergency reports & search reported issues via "PG&E Report It": https://ow.ly/QqyI50X7o8p.
✦ Report downed lines, damaged equipment, or gas leaks at (800) 743-5000, option 2.
✦ Emergency or hazardous situation? Call 911.

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 3d

West Marin showed up for its own Samantha Kimmey, whose debut novel The Extremities! is out now. We’ll be airing this lively, thought provoking conversation soon—stay tuned! 📻⚡️

More info: ptreyesbooks.com/book/9781685...

Miguel Kuntz in a denim shirt points to a smiling Sam Kimmey on a stage with two chairs, microphones and a copy of her book, The Extremities!

Jordan Bowen, seated left, smiles and claps while looking at Sam Kimmey, seated right and holding a microphone and a copy of her book and covering her face with the other hand, from emotion

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 4d

Today at 4pm at The Dance Palace… join us!

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 8d

🎙️ Join us Sat. 10/4, from 4-5:30pm at The Dance Palace for a free conversation with KWMR's Jordan Bowen and author Samathana Kimmey about her debut novel!

📻 For a preview of their discussion, tune in Thurs. at 5pm for Community Buzz on KWMR!

More info: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-1...

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 7d

It's SO happening here (um, college radio, that is.) Gen Z has been walking through the doors of KWMR lately, reshaping our airwaves in brilliant ways. Check out Point Tayes Radio, Thursdays at 1pm!

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

Gen Z's College Radio Revival

Reports say Gen Z isn't discovering new artists. But college radio stations are overflowing with new DJs. As young listeners reject algorithms for analog—the industry should pay attention.

emwhitenoise.substack.com

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 7d

*Cartober is officially HERE.* Your Fall vehicle donation will keep KWMR rolling along smoothly on the rough road ahead. 🙏 Thank you for the support! Here's where to jumpstart a pickup:
🔑 CALL: 866-KWMR-CAR (866-596-7227)
🔑 CLICK: www.kwmr.careasy.org

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 8d

One of most fascinating and unique locally produced programs, "Local Locations" is a local gem! Check it out...

Ernst Karel @sesamecircuits.bsky.social · 12d

To celebrate this release, this morning's LOCAL LOCATIONS on KWMR Community Radio is featuring a selection of Cheryl's recordings from Point Reyes National Seashore and the Headlands of West Marin. Archived here for the next two weeks:
kwmr.org/shows/local-...
@kwmrradio.bsky.social

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 8d

🎙️ Join us Sat. 10/4, from 4-5:30pm at The Dance Palace for a free conversation with KWMR's Jordan Bowen and author Samathana Kimmey about her debut novel!

📻 For a preview of their discussion, tune in Thurs. at 5pm for Community Buzz on KWMR!

More info: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-1...

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 9d

*Cartober is near.* Get a jump start:
🔑 866-KWMR-CAR (866-596-7227)
🔑 or www.kwmr.careasy.org
Thanks for your support! 🙏
#Cartober #CarDonation

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 9d

It's Movie Night, Friday, Oct. 10! Filmed in and around West Marin and Inverness, The Fog is one of John Carpenter's most haunting works... and little has changed since it was filmed! Join us at St. Columba's Inverness ampitheater; doors at 6pm, film at 7! www.youtube.com/shorts/PfcZ1...

Movie Night in Inverness! Fri. Oct 10 / Doors at 6pm — Bring your blankets and flashlights!

YouTube video by KWMR West Marin Community Radio

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 14d

Parachute Days is BACK…and is teaming up with KWMR Radio to bring you a concert on Sunday October 12th starting at 2pm…at Toby's Feed Barn in Point Reyes Station.

Tickets will be sold at the gate. No pre-sales.

Featuring Good Friends...Lobos De Elsie Allen High School...
and George-ish Jones-like.

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 21d

Host Gene Ptak hands the 'Turning Pages: Poetry Now!' mic 🎙️ over to Bianka & Sabreen of 'Cute Radio' every other Wednesday on KWMR! ⚡️ Our Wednesday schedule is chock full of creative voices... #longlivekwmr

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · 28d

💫 This week you’ll hear us give a special shout out on air to the West Marin community of shops, nonprofits, purveyors, public agencies, hotels and more who truly embody the spirit of community radio. We can’t thank them enough, but we have created a page on our website: kwmr.org/underwriters !

A list of the 33 sponsors who keep us Live and Local for West Marin: Bear Valley Cottage
Black Mountain Cycles
Bolinas Hearsay News
Brickmaiden Breads
Cabaline Country Emporium
CLAM (Community Land Trust Association of West Marin)
Dance Palace Community Center
Elk Fence Distillery
Gallery Route One
Heidrun Meadery
Hog Island Oyster Company
Inverness Park Market
Leave No Trace (Cleaner California Coast)
Lodge at Marconi
Loose Joints Records
Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT)
Marin Symphony
Maritime Radio Historical Society
Motel Inverness
OK Computer
Olema House
Palace Market
Point Reyes Adventure Co.
Point Reyes Books
Point Reyes Light
Point Reyes National Seashore Assoc.
Point Reyes Vacation Rentals
Rotary Club of West Marin
Rotoscope Wine
St. Columba's Inverness Episcopal Church and Retreat House
Stinson Beach Community Center
Wild West Ferments (West Marin Culture Shop)
Willow Creek Wealth Management

(against the psychedelic tower again)

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 8

SEELIFE X KWMR MUG! TO HOLD IT IS TO ADORE IT. IT IS A WEE MUG AND A CHARLIE CALLAHAN ORIGINAL ... kwmr-radio.myshopify.com/collections/...

SEELIFE MUG NOW IN THE KWMR STORE! IT HAS A SMILING DOLPHIN ON IT WITH A RAINBOW

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 4

"KWMR is important. Not in the abstract, but in the sense that it holds the shape of our days." Cameo Wood published a terrific letter to this week's Point Reyes Light about the role our station plays in the West Marin Community. Thank you, Cameo! www.ptreyeslight.com

An easy plan for KWMR
In West Marin, mornings begin with fog and a voice on the radio. The fog lifts, the voice remains. This is how we keep the day from slipping.
KWMR just lost more than a quarter of its budget—25 percent gone to a federal clawback that arrived like all bureaucratic weather: sudden, impersonal, real. Budgets are arithmetic until they aren't. Then they're people, time, programs. What vanishes is not a number but a station's margin of breath.
Consider the inventory. Music shows that know our roads by feel. Public affairs that speak plainly. Spanish-language programming that tells our neighbors they are heard in the language they dream in.
Updates when the creeks rise and floods turn our routes into guesswork. A local ar-chive-yes, check the archives-where our weeks are stored, imperfectly and com-pletely, so that memory can be replayed at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday. There are many ways to listen— on the dial, online, from a phone in the market parking lot while the signal skips across the bay.
Ask, just for a moment: What would it be like if we didn't have it? The ordinary answer is "we'd manage." The truer answer is that we would not be the same place. The station is unique to our area:
POINT REYES LIGHT
September 4, 2025
not a franchise, not a template, not interchangeable with something from over the hill. It sounds like here.
A listener, Lee Giammona, offered a plain solution with a name that sticks: "25 to Stay Alive." Add 25 percent to whatever you already give. Small or large. Monthly or once. It is not heroic. It is neighborly.
It closes distance. It keeps the voice where we expect to find it when the power blinks and the sky goes the wrong color.
We can argue policy later. Today we keep the transmitter warm. We tune in, we share the archives, we tell a friend how to stream, we bring in the next donor the way we used to bring in the next pie for the fundraiser-without ceremony, because the point is obvious.
KWMR is important. Not in the ab-stract, …

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you, Daniel! Please come back on air anytime!

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you're interested in why this summer was so cool along the coast, how I approach wildfire prediction, or my broader philosophy on climate communication, check my wide-ranging two-part conversation on West Marin Community Radio (KWMR)'s "Epicenter!"

kwmr.org/post/17695

Thumbnail image depicting this radio conversation.

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Pam Kan-Rice @ucanrpam.bsky.social · Sep 4

Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu had interesting things to share with @kwmrradio.bsky.social about Northern California's unseasonably cool spring into summer and about fire season kwmr.org/post/17703

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Long live KWMR! The Pacific Sun @pacificsun.com made our fight to stay live and local after federal funding cuts the cover of this week's issue. Check it out! pacificsun.com/long-live-kw...

Long Live KWMR: Federal Cutbacks Won't Stop West Marin's Public Radio Station | Pacific Sun

Even President Donald Trump can’t keep down KWMR, the treasured public radio station serving rural West Marin.

pacificsun.com

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Pass the mic! 🎙️ Michael Neuman turns over Studio A to James Zimmerman every other Tuesday afternoon, when we go from deep dives into jazz, blues and more on Afternoon Acoustic (2-4pm) to Marshall Radio Hour’s eclectic alt-rock mood music (4-5pm). ⚡️

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KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 2

GET READY! ⚡ Join PG&E's Wildfire Safety Webinar for the North Coast...happening this Thursday September 4th at 5:30pm! 🔥 ow.ly/JhA750WGlPF

Webinars & Community Events | PG&E

Learn about PG&E webinars and events. Leaders share information on our Community Wildfire Safety Program and local projects.

ow.ly

KWMR West Marin Community Radio @kwmrradio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Tune in at 5pm to Part II with Dr. Daniel Swain to hear about the state of weather forecasting after federal fundings.. and some interesting details about how they are "re-re-hiring" forecasters. And ICYMI, listen to Part I of our conversation with @weatherwest.bsky.social at kwmr.org/post/17695

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