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WFHB goes live on-location for play-by-play coverage of roller derby bouts featuring the Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls.

The sounds of the Bloomington Brass Band open our annual Memorial Day Special. You get a front row seat as we go on-location to Veterans Memorial Plaza at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Bloomington, Indiana. This program is hosted by retired Army Reserve Colonel John Tilford, founder of Hoosier Honor Flight, a not-for-profit organization created to fly World War II veterans and terminally ill veterans of any war to Washington, D.C. to visit the National World War II Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery and other sites on the National Mall at no cost to the veterans.

The full unedited audio from the ONLY press conference given by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during his 15-day visit to the United States in May 2010. Recorded live at the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana, after two days of teachings in the city his late brother called home. While several media outlets recorded his remarks, only WFHB set up a multi-mike mix to create this exclusive audio track.

Hear the entire list of primary results for Monroe County in the May 4, 2010 election. Recorded on-location at Election Central inside the Justice Building in downtown Bloomington.

“We saved the Waldron”. That was Bloomington mayor Mark Kruzan’s triumphant declaration as the Bloomington Area Arts Council announced it has signed an agreement for the city to take over the John Waldron Arts Center from the financially troubled council. The BAAC is getting a good deal, walking away from the Waldron without any debt. The city is getting a good deal too, as the holders of a clear title to a historic building worth anywhere from one to two million dollars, and careful control over its destiny.  Hear the details straight from the source in this unedited full audio from the announcement.

WFHB Assistant News Director January Jones presents an hour-long journey with people on the front lines fighting for everyone’s right to shelter and compassion. In this year's edition of our annual documentary, we follow local social worker Bill Ferry, a case manager for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH). The PATH program works directly with people experiencing homelessness to help them get back on their feet. We visit the people and places in a side of Bloomington few people ever see as we take you on-location to the Shalom Center, the Interfaith Winter Shelter and hear interviews with advocates Joel Rekas, Hal Taylor, and David White, along with winter shelter volunteers and PATH clients.

Several times a year WFHB partners with the Bloomington Storytelling Project to host a live storytelling event, featuring local stories read by the people who experienced them. There are only two rules for story submissions: they must be less than fifteen minutes long, and they must be true. In the third installment, the BSP records in Brown County, Indiana, where storytelling is an integral part of the local culture. Recorded live on-location for WFHB at the Muddy Boots Cafe in Nashville, Indiana on March 6, 2010.

Mayor Mark Kruzan delivers his 2010 State of the City Address in a full-length recording of WFHB's live feed from our remote transmitter inside City Hall. Kruzan gets a little help from fire chief Roger Kerr, police chief Mike Diekhoff, and Bloomington Transit director Lew May. After the address Will Murphy and Chad Carrothers gather impressions from local officials and Murphy goes one-on-one with Kruzan for follow-up questions.

Local voices reach a national audience as WFHB goes live from an overnight homeless shelter to hear from social service advocates and people who have experienced homelessness. Our topic is family homelessness, specifically the lack of family shelter in our own community. Hear the tragic story of a family that feigned domestic abuse just so that the mother and children could find shelter...while the father faced criminal charges. Guests include Rev. Jack Skiles, site director for the Interfaith Winter Shelter; Joel Rekas, director of Shalom Community Center; Bobbi Summers, director of Martha's House; Bill Ferry, a local outreach caseworker for the homeless with Centerstone through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program; and Dorothy Axsom, a mother who almost lost her children in the throes of extreme poverty. Hosted by Darryl Neher and broadcast live all across the country on February 24, 2010 as part of the National Homelessness Marathon.