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  • 1 week ago | radio.wcmu.org | Tina Sawyer

    Editor's note: This story was produced for the ear and designed to be heard. If you're able, WCMU encourages you to listen to the audio version of this story by clicking the LISTEN button above. This transcript was edited for clarity and length. David Nicholas: In early 2025, commercial beekeepers around the country discovered a massive shortage in their honeybee colonies. Bee researchers are still investigating to learn what's happening but have some ideas.

  • 1 month ago | radio.wcmu.org | Tina Sawyer

    Editor's note: This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. You can listen to this conversation by clicking the LISTEN button above. Rick Brewer: Sending a child away to college can be an emotional experience for both a child and a parent. Bea Chapman is a recent Mount Pleasant High School graduate. They sat down with their Mom Robyn Chapman as they prepare for their journey to enter college next fall.

  • 1 month ago | radio.wcmu.org | Tina Sawyer

    Editor's note: This story was produced for the ear and designed to be heard. If you're able, WCMU encourages you to listen to the audio version of this story by clicking the LISTEN button above. This transcript was edited for clarity and length. Rick Brewer: After torrential rains caused Midland and Gladwin county dams to burst in 2020, the onset of rushing water created a 'vacuum effect' causing water in Wixom Lake to drain.

  • 1 month ago | radio.wcmu.org | Tina Sawyer

    Most of Midland County has recovered from the devastating floods of 2020. It has been five years since the Midland Historical Society sent over 400 archival feet of wet but freeze-dried historical assets to Prism Specialties Art in Livonia from The Doan History Center in Midland. Prism remediates damaged or nearly destroyed works of art or archived paperwork. Many of the pieces were saved from flood damage and some are still being worked on.

  • 1 month ago | radio.wcmu.org | Tina Sawyer

    This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Listen to this story by clicking the LISTEN play button above. Tina Sawyer: Some cooking students dream to one day land their dream job as chef in a fancy restaurant. But one chef has made a decades-long career cooking aboard ships on the Great Lakes. I recently talked with Katherine Schmuck who started the conversation explaining how a chance meeting in a bar got her culinary career started.

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