"It was interesting to think about moving back home, because ... when you're from a small town and you go off to college, you always say, 'i'm never going back, I'm going on to bigger cities'... But, it's nice to come back to what you're comfortable with...Virginia is now pushing towards a stronger arts community...You can see things building up and I wanted to be part of the build up." - Amber Johnson Amber Johnson grew up on the range and returned to open a dance studio in downtown Virginia,

Hayim Herring joined us recently to talk about his latest book - Connecting Generations Bridging the Boomer, Gen X and Millennial Divide. Social isolation, loneliness, and suicide are conditions we associate with the elderly. But these issues have sharply increased across the younger generations. Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials and post-Millennials all report a declining number of friends and an increasing number of health issues associated with loneliness.

This Youth in Radio Podcast features Ben Bartholomew talking about his love for music on vinyl. Hear the episode below. Listen Thursday mornings about 8:10 to hear the Youth in Radio Podcast on KBXE/KAXE. The Youth in Radio Podcast is also available on kaxe.org and through iTunes. If you know someone who might want to make a podcast, send an email to [email protected] . Northern Community Radio's Youth in Radio Podcast seeks to keep radio relevant and educate the next generation of Northern

Leah Lemm heads to Hackensack to talk to a family that is cooking up traditional Thai food. This story is made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the Citizens of MN.

In this 2nd Strong Women Podcast only conversation we look at one extraordinary woman in Minnesota History - Coya Knutson.

Today we looked back at a Focus Group we held on June 10 th of 2019 at the KAXE Studios in Grand Rapids. About 13 women were in attendance including hosts and facilitator Heidi Holtan and Laura Connelly. Laura recently read an interesting article in The Atlantic magazine. It said that the best hope for improving the lot of all women is to close the leadership gap by doing the following: elect a female president elect 50 women senators women equally represented in the ranks of corporate execs and

"It was a vibrancy very much like Bemidji. A vibrancy of art, of spoke word, of theater and music and it was just this gorgeous little town and there were these sculptures on the corner and we thought, this is really cool to have an outdoor gallery lik this where artists are allowed to display the things they think about and work on. And, you can't avoid it. You can avoid goinmg into a gallery. You can't avoid the sculpture walk. So, it's art on display. Everyboy has an opinion of one way sort

This week Marshall from the Timberjay newspaper reports from NE Minnesota some of the top stories he covered this week including the suspension of the Tower City Council clerk Linda Keith, Polymet comments that were kept from the public by the MPCA and a potential fuel shortage of premium gas in northern MN.

"Like in real life, you have the low points and the high points. Their life had plenty of low points, but they always found the life in even the darkest of situations." - Luke Votava Bigfork native Luke Votava wrote a musical about the life and love of his grandparents who lived the majority of their lives in the Red River Valley. After writing one song about a barn as a project as an undergraduate in college, a song cycle began that has snowballed into a full-fledged musical. Tomorrow night at

Program 64 Grand Rapids at 50: Prosperity and Mobilizing for War in 1941 A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the forested wilderness of Itasca County in the 1870s. In