Second Street Musicians, so named because they meet at Trinity Church in Ashland, which is on Second Street. Patricia Potter is the leader of this group of string players of many ages.

Oregon State Parks and Marine Mammal Institute weigh in on recent strandings, with Chris Havel from OPRD and Josh Stewart from MMI.

AIFF Board President Kirkaldy Myers and supporter Lorraine Vail describe plans for an April mini-festival

Jeremy Durst from Southern Oregon University Jazz Band talks about an upcoming gig

Goldie Taylor's been on NBC, ABC, and other networks providing political analysis. Her success is all the more notable because of some serious disadvantages she had growing up, including sexual abuse before she was even a teenager. Taylor takes the good and the bad and tells the whole story in her memoir "The Love You Save."

Modern playwright Meghan Brown, who wrote "What Happened While Hero Was Dead," to show Hero's side of what comes across as a decidedly un-feminist story. Student actors at Southern Oregon University stage the play later this week (February 16th), under the direction of Holly Derr, visiting from the University of Memphis.

Kimberly Johnson is the Chief Executive of Children's Legacy Center and the Interim CEO of One Safe Place while OSP refines its work and its future plans.

The Rogue Valley is home to Martin Behnke's Timberline Express Big Band (TEBB for short), a band chock-full of good jazz musicians (and a singer).

The Market Street Spawning Habitat Project is dropping gravel--intended spawning habitat for the fish--into the Sacramento river at the Market Street Bridge in Redding. It's a lot of gravel, about 8,000 tons. Josh Watkins, Water Utility Manager for the city, visits with details on the project.

Lisa Mensah is the President and CEO of the Oregon Community Foundation. Dee Anne Everson is a board member; they discuss donations in and grants out.