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On today's Local News Hour host Leslie Thatcher's guests include: (6:27) New Heber Valley Rotary President Joshua Jewkes has a look ahead at the club's plans for the upcoming year. (21:26) Park City Council Member Becca Gerber recaps last night's city council meeting and (35:50) Co-Writer of the film Jewtah Jeremy Rishe and local actor Lance Rothchild talk about the free screening of the film.

On this week's edition of Cool Science Radio, John Wells and Lynn Ware Peek’s guests include: (01:14) Technology journalist Nate Anderson who advocates for a life of goal-oriented, creative exertion as being more meaningful, he says, than what our technological devices provide us. Anderson shares what 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche can teach us about joyful living in a tech-saturated world. (25:29) Then, Dr. Saurabh Gombar, founder and chief medical officer at Atropos Health and Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine joins the show. His work surrounds making health care more targeted and precise by aggregating millions of anonymized electronic records to instantly inform patient care.

On today's Local News Hour host Leslie Thatcher's guests include: (2:31) Summit County Council Member Malena Stevens with a recap of Wednesday's meeting, including a discussion on whether the county should start charging EV owners to plug in their cars on county-owned chargers. (21:03) Heather Booth the founder of The Jane Collective and Directors of the film The Janes , Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, talk about the film and tonight's free screening and (39:19) Park City Special Events and Economic Development Program Manger Jenny Diersen previews some upcoming events and impacts on traffic and parking.

On today's Local News Hour, host Sean Higgins' guests include:(2:47) Ian Hartley with the Mountain Trails Foundation's weekly report (7:01) Summit County Community Development Director Pat Putt with an update on development projects throughout the county, (23:56)Wasatch County epidemiologist Chris Smoot who talks about the County Health Department's new wastewater testing for COVID-19, and (36:39) KPCW General Manager Renai Bodley Miller with details on an exciting new offering from the station – the launch of our daily newsletter.

On today's Cool Science Radio, Lynn Ware Peek and John Well's guests include:(01:02) National Geographic explorer, TED talker, and award-winning documentarian Lucy Cooke who explores a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom in her new book: Bitch: On The Female of The Species. Then, (25:39) Senior Editor at Scientific American Magazine, Tanya Lewis, who will discuss how an advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend authorizing the Moderna and Pfizer shots for the youngest children. What does this mean for summer, the upcoming school year, and how parents, in general, make their decisions surrounding the vaccine.

Tune into The Mountain Life at 9 am following the Local News Hour and NPR News. In light of it being a great summer holiday week, hosts Lynn Ware Peak and Pete Stoughton are taking today off and rebroadcasting two of their favorite shows.First up (01:14), local Park City resident and founder of the Kresser Institute, Chris Kresser. Chris is a renowned expert, clinician, and educator in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health. His mission is to provide the next generation of functional health practitioners and coaches with the skills, tools, and training they need to turn the tide of chronic disease—and change the future of medicine.Then (25:15) writer, filmmaker, and health enthusiast Max Lugavere, who wrote best-seller Genius Foods, is now back with Genius Kitchen. His new book includes more information on how to use food as medicine, and as a means to enhance your brainpower.

On today's Local News Hour, host Michelle Deininger's guests include: (06:43) Summit County Manager Tom Fisher discussing Wednesday's county council meeting, (23:51) Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez, (36:42) and Becky Jacobs, Salt Lake Tribune reporter on women's issues.

On this week's This Green Earth, hosts Nell Larson and Chris Cherniak speak with special guests including: (01:41) Michelle De Haan, Park City's water Quality and Treatment Manager and Mike Luers, General Manager of the Synderville Basin Water Reclamation District. They join the show to discuss the Annual Water Quality Consumer Confidence Report and water testing. Then (32:20) Kayli Yardley, Statewide Prevention and Fire Communications Coordinator, joins the show to discuss Utah's current wildfire season.

John and Lynn's guests on today's Cool Science Radio include: (01:31) Dr. Ashani Weeraratna who has written "Is Cancer Inevitable?" joins the show. A person born in America and over 60 has a 50% chance of being diagnosed with cancer. Her book explores new understandings about cancer cell interactions which will help doctors better control, and eventually cure, cancer. Then, (23:47) James Bridle who has written, Ways of Being. His new book is an exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos

On today's edition of the Local News Hour, host Michelle Deininger's guests include: (11:44) Cheryl Fox, Director of Summit Land Conservancy, who has a big announcement, and (40:32) Summit Community Garden Ex. Director Sloane Johnson, who will let us know what’s growing and what activities are planned for July.