November 2025

While our initial efforts have focused on developing music line-ups and Internet content for all of our listeners at KLMN-LP 106.9 FM, we are now working diligently to create local radio programs for all to enjoy.  We are happy to share that we are working toward featuring local musicians and authors for Summer 2026.  

Great talent exists beyond the mainstream airways, which is exactly why we are so passionate to shine a broadcasting light on them.  Featuring local artists is a way to share the heart, soul and craft that goes into their music.  Music is an essential part of life and culture – one of the things that defines humanity.  It is art through soundwaves.

Featuring children’s authors and their stories is another important goal of ours, with a goal of improving literacy for kids.  I grew up with listening to cassettes playing out stories, while I read along in the book.  There was a time when we listened to bedtime stories that allowed our imaginations and dreams to flourish.  Our spotlight will offer a time for families to gather near the radio and listen to night time stories in their cabins and around the campfire.  We hope they will have the book with them to read along as well.  This is a moment to offer a space to feel connected with a world that is outside of us but is still reachable through storytelling.    

Radio is important to share across generations, especially on our mountain.  It is very important for our community to connect in this way.  As you are part of our community, feel free to send us an email at [email protected] with recommendations of local musicians and children’s authors.  If your suggested musician or artist isn’t ready for this coming summer, we’ll add them to our list for Summer 2027, since we live on mountain time.    

This article was published in The Mount Lemmon Echoes, Vol. 52, No. 10, November 2025