Following is this week's Bohemian article announcing that the wonderful KOWS-FM radio station is moving to the Sebastopol Methodist Church. If you go to the Bohemian's website, you can make comments and help welcome this community station to our small town.
Coming Home: Nonprofit Occidental radio station KOWS-FM relocates to Sebastopol
BY TOM GOGOLAKOWS is on the move, or as they like to say, they're on the moooo—OK, you get it.
Mandatory cow joke dispensed with, here's the news: the offbeat Occidental community radio station, 107.3 on the FM dial, is poised to sign a new lease and start the process of relocation this week to a classroom at the United Methodist Church in downtown Sebastopol. They'll be fully jacked-in at the new space come Dec. 1, if all goes according to plan.
And it looks like it is. Late last week, a few members of the all-volunteer nonprofit descended on the new space to sketch out the hows and wheres of installing a control studio in the classroom.
Programmer Arnold Levine, a Brit with an elfin mien and a gold ear cuff, scoped out the work ahead with another station volunteer while a church employee, the man with the key, looked on.
Meanwhile, effervescent volunteer programmer Minkoff Chatoy provided spirited color commentary to the technically involved proceedings getting underway. Chatoy is host of A Fool in the Forest, Tuesdays from 8pm to 9pm, and she bursts into the new space with a delighted gasp, grabs some chalk and draws the KOWS logo on a chalkboard as she raves about KOWS coming home to Sebastopol; the station has been scoping a new home here for about a year and a half.
The community station has been broadcasting for eight years ...
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