
Marilyn Gleason
News DirectorKDNK 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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There will be a free screening of 'A Decent Home' tonight (10/3/25) in Carbondale's Third Street Center, as well as a speaker panel. Any donations will go towards the purchase efforts of the Mountain Valley Mobile Home Park.Mobile home parks are a new front in the struggle for affordability, as they are snatched up by distant investors who ratchet up rents for the lower-income families who live there. Two mobile home parks in the RFV are in a high-stakes fight to control their destiny on a short deadline. April Long stopped by the KDNK studios to tell about a new front in the battle to hold onto affordable neighborhoods from Aspen to Parachute.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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It was just this time of year in 1997 that a mix of artistic passion and mud was molded by loving hands into the Carbondale Clay Center. Since then the elemental art form of ceramics has had a vibrant home on the last block of Carbondale's Main Street, where established artists, students, children and others exhibit and create. Matt Eames directs operations at the Clay Center, and he joined Mike Lemmer in the KDNK studios yesterday.
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Wilderness Workshop, based in Carbondale since 2004, has a storied history and legacy of big wins for mountain landscapes and the environment. Founded back in 1967 by Joy Caudill, Dottie Fox and Connie Harvey, this powerhouse trio of Aspen women convinced Congress to designate capital-W Wilderness in the Hunter-Fryingpan, Collegiate Peaks, Raggeds and West Elks, and doubled the size of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area. That was in the 1970s and 80s. A string of policy victories followed. More recently, energy has focused on staving off ravages from gas and oil extraction, including the hard-fought cancelling of gas leases in the Thompson Divide outside Carbondale.The hard work is not over for Wilderness Workshop. Advocacy director Erin Riccio (RICH-eeyo) just returned from Washington D.C. She stopped by KDNK this morning to tell news host Mike Lemmer about the trip, and new threats to wilderness and communities from the energy sector.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.
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KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.