The Danbury Library wants you to make reading one of your resolutions for the new year. Kick off your new literary habit and take Danbury Library’s Winter Reading Challenge, which launches on New Year’s Day and lasts until the end of January. You can participate in the challenge with Beanstack, a free app that allows you to track your reading and engage with the library virtually. As you do so, you will have fun earning tickets which you can then choose to allocate to one or both of the two prize drawings. This year’s prizes are an Xtreme Play Gift Card from Infinite Attractions for 3 hours or a $100 Spa Gift Card to Dawn’s Pizzazz. For all the details, visit https://danburylibrary.org.
Ed Histed
Ed launched his radio career in 1975 and has spent more than five decades in the broadcasting industry. During that time, he has served in a wide range of roles including Air Personality, News Director, Sales Manager, Operations Manager, and General Manager at numerous radio stations in various markets across the country. Beyond on-air and management responsibilities, Ed has also worked extensively on the technical side of broadcasting. His background includes RF engineering and information technology, with particular experience configuring digital automation systems and remote voice-tracking platforms used by stations across the country. Ed was also among a select group of industry professionals invited by Google to its California headquarters following the company’s acquisition of Scott Studios. He was one of just 12 broadcasters nationwide chosen to participate in discussions and provide input during the design and rollout of Google’s digital broadcast automation platform. Although the majority of Ed’s career—spanning roughly four decades—was rooted in music radio, he transitioned into news and information programming in 2012. He says the move into spoken-word broadcasting was a natural evolution after decades of experience in multiple areas of the industry.