Lucas Willard
Host/Producer, The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party/ReporterLucas Willard graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. He also attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in 2010, where he studied audio and multimedia storytelling.
Prior to joining WAMC in 2011, Lucas worked with the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley, the Big Shed Audio Documentary Podcast, the Albany Broadcasting Company, WDVL & WCVF-FM Fredonia, and WSUC-FM Cortland.
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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has a new leader on this Earth Day. Sean Mahar, who served as Executive Deputy Commissioner under former longtime Commissioner Basil Seggos, will lead the department as Interim Commissioner.
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Playlist as aired on Saturday, April 20th, 2024:
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As state lawmakers pass final budget measures, the head of New York’s public university system is hoping for more tuition assistance for college students.
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Montgomery County’s first county executive will leave his position at the end of the month. The Republican is being praised as a unifying voice in county government.
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As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepares to release its third five-year review of the Hudson River PCB cleanup by General Electric, two Hudson Valley Congressmen are seeking additional remediation.
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Hairy bodies. Compound eyes. Feather-like antenna. The perhaps misunderstood moth is in the limelight in the experimental documentary film, “The Night Visitors.”
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Playlist as aired on Saturday, April 13th, 2024
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The first Montgomery County Executive, Matt Ossenfort celebrated 10 years of the county’s form of government and delivered his annual State of the County address Thursday night.
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Minority Republicans in the New York State legislature are asserting their opposition to proposed tenant protections as lawmakers continue to negotiate a state budget in overtime.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set new maximum contaminant levels for toxic chemicals that have tainted water supplies for millions of Americans, including several Northeast communities. Advocates are cheering the new protections against so-called PFAS compounds.