Celebrating 3 years on WFRE!

Celebrating 3 years on WFRE!

Time sure has flown by. I feel like I’ve been here in Frederick for a lifetime, in a good way! I remember feeling so anxious wondering if everything would go well and if I could fit into the WFRE family. Thanks to YOU I have felt at home since the very beginning. You were so…

Gabby’s Good News: Young Local Entrepreneur Starts Mask Business

Gabby’s Good News: Young Local Entrepreneur Starts Mask Business

Grandma-granddaughter pair Miluska and 12 year old Talia are loyal WFRE listeners from Adamstown and wanted to share their good news with us! When the pandemic started, Talia’s Grandma began making masks for her essential co-workers at the post office. Talia took it upon herself to learn how to make these masks day in and…

Tim McGraw on The Late Show

Tim McGraw on The Late Show

Tim McGraw’s at-home live performance last night of his new song Hard to Stay Mad At from his new album Here On Earth:

Gabby’s Good News: Students Meet and Greet Their New Teachers Via Drive-Thru

Gabby’s Good News: Students Meet and Greet Their New Teachers Via Drive-Thru

After spending the last few months mostly inside, students from a school in Glendale, Arizona, got to meet their new teachers with a fun, drive-thru event. The kids wore masks and could stay in their cars and wave or get out and greet their teachers while safely social distancing. Everybody was excited about finally getting…

Gabby’s Good News: WFRE Gets a Love Letter That Helps St. Jude

Gabby’s Good News: WFRE Gets a Love Letter That Helps St. Jude

  OUR HEARTS ARE BURSTING WITH LOVE. A sweet listener, 13 year old Anna from Thurmont, MD wrote us a love letter during her time at home. Within that letter she explains that she’s been making masks and selling them to raise money for the kids at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Anna, we love…

Travis Tritt Went to Outer Space!

Travis Tritt Went to Outer Space!

Well, kinda…sorta. Commander of the International Space Station, Chris Cassidy made a music video for Travis Tritt’s, “Great Day to be Alive.” It’s awesome. (Don’t miss the tattoo at 2:43, and Fu Man Chu at 2:50.) Check it out: From 250 miles above the Earth, Expedition 63 is aware of the hard times that exist in…

Gabby’s Good News: Teens Create Free Online Tutoring

Gabby’s Good News: Teens Create Free Online Tutoring

In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, high school senior Ajay Sachdev spent some time helping other students on an online tutoring site and even made some money doing it. However, Ajay realized that not everyone can afford private lessons. So he collaborated with two classmates and  created a new and FREE tutoring website. Specifically…

Gabby’s Good News: Largest Ocean Clean Up in History!

Gabby’s Good News: Largest Ocean Clean Up in History!

At the end of June the Ocean Voyages Institute’s plastic recovery ship, docked in Honolulu. In just 48 days they recovered 103 tons (206,000 lbs.) of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Which set a new a record for the largest at sea clean-up to date. You can find the Patch between Hawaii and California with a…

Rascal Flatts: How They Remember You Video

Rascal Flatts: How They Remember You Video

Rascal Flatt’s may have cancelled their Farewell Life is a Highway tour but they didn’t leave us high and dry. 7 new tracks on the way with the full release of their new EP coming out July 31.