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Utah Public Radio is currently building a new Website. We'll be making quite a few changes during the next several weeks, and we welcome your feedback. If you have any questions or would like to share ideas regarding our new online look and services, please email the webmaster.

FUSION HD3 RADIO NOW ON AIR AND ONLINE USU Student Station The first phase of Fusion HD3, Utah State University's student-operated radio station, has been launched. Listen online here. Fusion's radio broadcast will become available when Utah Public Radio completes the first phase of digital conversion now underway and currently being tested. Fusion HD3 officially becomes UPR's third digital channel. Listeners must purchase a digital or "HD" radio receiver in order to pick up the broadcast signal in Cache Valley. Coming soon will be a list of places you can purchase an HD radio of your own. The online stream, listed above, will continue to be available. Learn more about HD Radio: What is it? - Learn how HD Radio broadcasting is writing the future of digital radio technology How to listen - New technology doesn't have to be hard - let us walk you through your own digital radio transition FAQ - Questions? We've got answers. Check here for all your HD Radio questions

ISABEL KATANA Reported by Lee Austin Isabel Katana, well known in Cache Valley as a community activist, volunteer and benefactor, died June 15 at Logan Regional Hospital. She was 94. Katana was also well known to Utah Public Radio listeners. Lee Austin prepared this remembrance: HEAR THE STORY>> Her life will be celebrated on her 95th birthday at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 8. The celebration will be held at the Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists Church, 596 E. 900 North, Logan. Pastor Paul Heins of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan will represent Isabel's other church family. Read the obituary. If you would like UPR to post a story you have about Isabel email the webmaster and we will post your story on this website.

STORYCORPS LOCAL INTERVIEWS Thanks to those of you who participated in interviews and served as ambassadors or volunteers while StoryCorps was in Logan. Local StoryCorps interviews are archived here. MORE>> BLOG SPOT>>

BLINDING SCIENCE Reported by Kathryn Hopkins A summer internship program for aspiring scientists brought a group of high school students to the USU campus. Utah Pubic Radio's summer intern, Kathryn Hopkins tells us the teens talked technology and studied Nano Science with some of the university's top research scientists. For more information on the USU High School Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Internship program contact the College of science at (435)797-3517. HEAR THE STORY>> SEE ALL UPR SPECIALS>> ASSERT AUTISM Reported by Kerry Bringhurst Researcher at Utah State University's Center for Persons with Disabilities say a model classroom for pre-schoolers diagnosed with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder gives professionals and educators training to improve the success of an increasing number of students diagnosed with the disorder. HEAR THE STORY>> SEE ALL UPR SPECIALS>> ODYSSEY DANCE COMPANY Reported by Kerry Bringhurst Seven members of a Utah based dance company will be among venue performers entertaining during olympic events in China. Utah Public Radio's Kerry Bringhurst has more on the Odyssey Dance Company's performance in Beijing. HEAR THE STORY>> SEE ALL UPR SPECIALS>> FOUR DAY WORK WEEK Reported by Kerry Bringhurst Beginning August 4, 2008 Utah will be the first state in the nation to mandate a four day work week for employees. Utah Public Radio's Kerry Bringhurst says an increasing number of Utah city and county officials are considering a four day work week for their employees. HEAR THE STORY>> SEE ALL UPR SPECIALS>> FIRE SAFE CIGARETTES Reported by Kerry Bringhurst In July Utah became the fourteenth state in the nation to limit the sale of cigarettes to brands that meet Fire Safe Standard Certification. Retailers are clearing store shelves of all cigarettes that do not meet the new standards. Utah Public Radio's Kerry Bringhurst reports that some Utah smokers say the new standards are a real drag. HEAR THE STORY>> SEE ALL UPR SPECIALS>>

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
  2006-2007 Season

The Metropolitan Opera (Met) season moves ahead on Utah Public Radio as the Met continues its hugely successful radio broadcasts, one of the longest-running classical music series in American broadcast history. Live Metropolitan Opera Saturday radio broadcasts can be heard from http://129.123.59.120/redir.php?page=http://operainfo.org/ and here at UPR.org.

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Fresh Folk
A weekly program produced in the studios of Utah Public Radio, "Fresh Folk" features new releases in acoustic-based music, including folk, blues, bluegrass and Celtic. The host of the program is Blair Larsen.

Opera Saturday
A weekly program produced in the studios of Utah Public Radio, "Opera Saturday" brings listeners some of the best in recorded opera.  Host Tom Williams tailors the program to follow the nationally broadcast opera programs also heard on Utah Public Radio.

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