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0000017a-5a01-dba2-ad7e-5b3141260000One River, Many Stories runs throughout the month of April and KUMD is a part of it. Check out our stories below. Find more information and stories at onerivermn.com.

Radio Theatre: bringing a community to life and "playing nice with others"

©Brett Groehler

Tom Isbell is a bit of an overachiever.

The UMD Theatre professor/director is also a novelist  and playwright .

So when he heard about the One River, Many Stories project,  a year-long community journalism collaboration about the St. Louis River, Isbell says he realized "we tell stories with theatre, too."  And he figured it was "time to get out of our little corner of UMD and play nice with others."

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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