Marilyn Gleason
News Director & Public Affairs HostKDNK welcomes back Marilyn Gleason to serve as the station's News Director. To longtime listeners, Marilyn's voice will be familiar. The graduate of CU Boulder's journalism school started her radio career in the Roaring Fork Valley at KAJX in Aspen, then came to KDNK in 2000 as the station was in the early stages of forming a local news program. She also pitched in as technical director for the Andy Zanca youth radio program, then continued on as a freelancer and Mountain Fair host for more than a decade. Marilyn returns to direct a growing news team at KDNK. She looks forward to expanding collaborations with regional news producers and strengthening the station's commitment to lively conversations and fostering an informed public in our local communities.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including the imminent sale of Glenwood Caverns subsequent to a child's death there in 2021, Major League Baseball will not be coming to Teton National Park after all, urban beavers, and a look ahead at Potato Day. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Thursday's news, including a lawsuit brought by Glenwood against ICE for its facility in the city, the local electric cooperative utility gets a visit from Washington top brass, and a visit with iconic folk musician Tom Rush. -
On this episode of Municipal Matters, KDNK's Marilyn Gleason interviewed the Republican candidate for Garfield County Commissioner, Eric Rudd. The Carbondale native spoke about his plan of action on issues such as the environment, wolves, and more. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including regional grants to lock bears out of trash, CD3 opponents differ on public lands, and the sensitive side of cowboys on display in poetry and music at a gathering in Western Colorado. -
News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including the highlights and lowdown from last weekend's Club 20 debate featuring many of the candidates you will see on November ballots, and the Carbondale Bike Project joins the pantheon of community powerhouses featured in the KDNK Nonprofit Connect during our Fall Fund Drive.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Thursday's news, including Common Cause coming to Western Colorado counties to aid poll workers with training amid Trump's attacks on the voting system, and KDNK Nonprofit Connect checks in on orphaned bears at a Silt wildlife rehabilitation facility.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including CD3 Jeff Hurd's position on energy sources and extraction in Western Colorado, a Club 20-sponsored election debate gathering in Grand Junction, and a visit with the Leadville library's director to tour the many useful and fun offerings at 10,000 feet.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Friday's news, including barriers to voting that start well before Native Americans reach the ballot box, how fire managers and hydrologists are cooperating, and an audio postcard from one of the hardest, highest running races in America.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Thursday's news, including an afternoon of partying at Conundrum hot springs that ended with a call to Mountain Rescue Aspen, good news for Colorado voters from the Supreme Court, and a peek at a documentary about an Eagle resident's outsized life of sport and service.
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News host Marilyn Gleason brings listeners Tuesday's news, including higher gas prices in Colorado, a poll showing Utah residents want to keep their monuments whole, and a chance to explore sustainability with local ranchers.
