Author: Ted Tait
This week on Talk of the Town Erich speaks with Tiara Parks, the owner of the newly opened Parks Plant Shoppe. The shop specializes in indoor houseplants, offering a wide variety of rare and easy-to-maintain species along with repotting services. Beyond selling greenery, the business serves as a community hub by hosting local women-owned vendors and organizing interactive events like plant bingo and terrarium […]
Town Matters returns to WWER this week! This week we speak again with mayor Robin Schick about a variety of topics, including water and sewer costs in Colonial Beach. We know this is a hot topic for everyone living here, so it seemed right to use it as our first topic of conversation for the […]
Happy 4th of July to everyone! As you probably know, the town’s official fireworks display is this Friday July 3 from Town Pier around 9PM. WWER will play patriotic music to go with the display, so bring your portable radio with you to the beach! This week on WWER we have a fresh […]
On air this week – Talk of the Town Meet Patsy Byle, the artist and owner of Bomb Bee Studio located inside CB Creative in Colonial Beach. Byle, a studio art graduate, shares her passion for ceramics and explains the technical stages of production, such as centering clay on a potter’s wheel, kiln firing, and applying […]
I woke up this morning to heavy rain and wondered if Juneteenth would be cancelled. But the rain stopped, and we had a great day! Here are some photos and sound bites… Mayor Robin Schick The welcome booth Vendors Audience participation in the festivities WWER Booth […]
Summer is rolling along, and June is full of events! This Friday, join us on Town Hill for the 5th annual Juneteenth celebration. WWER will have a booth, and broadcast LIVE. Hope to see you there! Last weekend WWER was in the Potomac River Festival Parade:
Everyday Heroes: There are plenty of places to get bad news. Online, on TV and radio “news” usually means bad news. At WWER we felt it was time to highlight some good news. That’s where our new segment, Everyday Heroes comes in. Our host Mary Parker has a brief chat with some of the people […]
Our 7th Anniversary party was a great success! Lots of people came out to get some food, visit the studio, and donate! We saw old friends and some new faces. We still get people saying “I didn’t know Colonial Beach had a radio station!”. Help us spread the word that we do! If you want […]
Happy Anniversary WWER June 1 will mark 7 years for us! WWER continues to grow and we continue to welcome new volunteers. We will mark the occasion on May 31 with an open house from Noon to 2pm. We’ll be cooking up hamburgers and hot dogs and offering studio tours. There will also be a […]
As I mentioned recently, our friends at the Potomac Riverkeeper Network have restarted their weekly testing of our local waters. I’m sorry to report that the Monroe Bay Campground site failed that test this week. You can hear the report on air or listen here.
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