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Marfa Public Radio Seeks Over $450k

KRTS operators Matinee Media have requested $476,242 in federal funding to provide the new public radio station to the Marfa area. This money would go toward the total operating cost of $634,990. (Is that anually? - guess it costs a bit more than pirate radio!) link

"Marfa Public Radio (KRTS-FM) seeks federal funding assistance in constructing the basic transmission line (tower, antenna, etc.) for a new stattion to provide first service to Far West Texas, as well as the only radio service for a substantial portion of the population."

Future KRTS website
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Poet Creeley Dies at 78
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Auction: Book, "Soldiering At Marfa 1911-1945"

AREA Summer Workshop Returning for Round 2

Last summer, students enrolled in an architectural research workshop called AREA visited town to research and build with adobe, the ancient building method which is indigenous to Marfa. In the process, a 90-year-old adobe house was simultaneously photographed, analyzed, added to, and even deconstructed in the pursuit. (Hey, if the house's wood floors have to be butchered in the pursuit of knowledge, so be it.) The kids are returning for Round Two of the project this summer from June 1st to July 1st.

AREA, which is an acronym of Activisim Research Experimentation and Architecture, is led by Professor Ronald Rael of the Clemson University School of Architecture, and enrollment is open to all students of architecture and related fields (on a competitive basis.) Go to AREA.