UW Health has COVID-19 Information at https://coronavirus.uwhealth.org/ with a hotline number, a Frequently Asked Questions page, and many other links.

Public Health Madison & Dane County has Coronavirus info at https://publichealthmdc.com/coronavirus .
They post the current number of people in Dane County who have tested positive on the right and provide links on the left such as What to Do if You are Sick or Possibly Exposed.

SSM Health is offering free virtual evaluations: https://www.ssmhealth.com/

On March 1st 5 Midvale Heights neighbors came together to form Friends of WIDE-LP. Their first act was to work out the details of an application to Madison's 2020 Neighborhood Grant Program, and the application was submitted today (March 2nd). The application seeks a small grant in support of station outreach to the neighborhood by covering printing costs for a brochure, business cards, and door-hangers to raise awareness of the station and promote participation in an online survey.

As we start the new year, WIDE-LP has made the following program changes:

The Ralph Nader Radio Hour is a new weekly feature at 6 pm Thursdays, replacing Radio Curious.
Stage & Screen (musicals) moves to 10 pm Saturdays.
Humor Me moves to 10 pm Fridays.
Uncommon Instruments moves to 11 pm Fridays.
PNS Daily Newscast (6 min.) moves to 8 am weekdays.
2020Talks (3 min.) now airs at 10 pm weeknights (rather than after PNS Daily News). 2020Talks also continues to air before Story Classics at Noon Tue.-Fri.

The annual fall meeting of the Board of WIDE-LP will be held at 1 pm on Monday Oct. 28. If you would like to join us and learn more about our volunteer operated radio station, send email for details to radio@widelp.org.

Madison area music lovers are invited to join us at the WIDE-LP Radio Transmitter Garage for our 3rd annual Make Music Madison event on June 21, 2019. As you can see at http://madisonwi.us/WIDE-LP/photos/MakeMusicMadison/2019/index.htm, we have a full schedule of performers lined up for your extended lunch hour, 11:30 am to 2:45 pm. All but the last hour will be broadcast live on 99.1 FM. We'll be in the garage if it rains, but if the weather cooperates the front deck at 626 Orchard Drive will be our stage.

This announcement will begin airing on the station Oct. 28, 2018:

At the annual meeting of the Madison Mainstream Radio board on Oct. 17, Tom Kozlovsky, Bob Park and Barbara Park were elected to new 2 year terms starting Jan. 1, 2019. As of that date current board chair Eric Howland will leave the board and Bob Park and Ken Skog will begin terms as co-chairs. Patty Stockdale will become vice-chair and Barb Park will continue as Secretary/Treasurer.

WIDE-LP is making the following programming changes as we start the new year:
Making Contact is moved from Wed. to Tue. at 6 pm.
Talk Nation Radio is moved from Tues. to Wed. at 6 pm.
Mind's Eye Radio Sun. at 10 pm is replaced with Musical Satire.
Musical Time Machine starts on Sun. 1/7 at 7 pm.

If you are a listener with other changes to recommend, email us at radio@widelp.org.

At the Nov. 28 meeting of the Midvale Heights Community Association board they voted to contribute $500 of much needed support to the station. We are VERY appreciative of this support from the neighborhood into which we moved just over 2 years ago!

New this month is the WIDE-LP Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WIDE.LP.99.1/. This is where we now post announcements of the topics in the next day's talk shows. These posts then go automatically to our Twitter site. On Facebook we can schedule these posts to go out at a future time. When we use this feature the time will typically be 5 pm the day before a broadcast.