This Week in Moab

There is a network of resources and people that Moab community members can lean on during their substance use recovery journeys. On the latest This Week in Moab, hear from Lanette Denton at USARA and Dr. Paula Cook at the Moab Recovery Center about their interconnected organizations, de-stigmatizing substance use,...

If it’s just after five o’clock on a Monday, it’s time for This Week in Moab! Join host Molly Marcello in conversation with some amazing Moab women. First up is Sara Melnicoff, whose nonprofit, Moab Solutions, is celebrating 20 years of helping people and the planet. Next is Ranger Karen...

What’s the scoop behind KZMU News? On the latest This Week in Moab, KZMU News team Molly Marcello and Emily Arntsen join host Christy Williams Dunton in conversation. They bring clips and stories reported over the past year, and discuss the backstory of their reporting. Plus, we’ll hear about the...

On the latest This Week in Moab, we hear from Science Moab’s executive director, Carrie Schwartz. The nonprofit elevates the exciting science around the Colorado Plateau, and is bringing back ‘Science on Screen’ events to Swanny City Park. Plus, later in the program we have Karen Guzman-Newton, whose research at...

On the latest This Week in Moab, we have a conversation with Lena Pace, the new superintendent of the SE Utah Group of National Parks. Pace has worked all over this country: on a floating ranger station in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, to the desert of Lake Mead...

When writer Jim Stiles moved to Moab in the 1970s, this corner of the rural West had endured decades of boom and bust and was swiftly approaching an identity crisis. For well over three decades, Stiles opined on this very crisis with essays, photos, memories and lamentations. His alternative publication,...

Moab Trail Mix says it’s time to ‘spruce up’ our shared trails! Trail Mix will host ‘Spring Spruce Up,’ a big volunteer action day on April 13th at popular trails all over Moab. Tune in to the latest This Week in Moab to hear about this trail-improvement gathering, which will...

Get ready for the trashiest fundraiser in Moab: the Trashion Show! Guests Claire Core and Kari Han discuss this beloved local event, and what to expect from costumes to music to dancing and of course – the nonprofit host – the Resiliency Hub. Plus, Celia Alario discusses an upcoming storytelling...

It’s been a season of discovery, change and recalibration at KZMU. On the latest This Week in Moab, host Christy Williams-Dunton interviews staff and board members on the opportunities of this transitional moment. Download this episode! Subscribe to KZMU Public Affairs on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Music in this episode is ‘As Colorful...

The Moab Museum’s upcoming exhibit, ‘A Moab Prison Camp: Japanese American Incarceration in Grand County‘ has been years in the making. Public programs manager, Mary Langworthy, discusses the local and national story of Japanese American incarceration during WWII, in which Moab played a brief but significant role. And later in...

Opinions matter. Our guests on the latest This Week in Moab have independently curated 30 years’ of opinions about West. Host Christy Williams Dunton speaks Betsy Marston and Dave Marston of Writers on the Range, a nonprofit opinion service celebrating their 30th year at an event this weekend in Moab....

The team at the Utah Avalanche Center is back in the Moab office – and the field. As they gear up for the winter recreation season, we check in with avalanche forecaster Eric Trenbeath about our local snowpack, typical conditions and the history of avalanches in our region. But first,...