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Top Stories: Light Rail Test Run, Spotlight On Petra Kelly

Stephanie Kuo
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KERA News

The top stories this afternoon from KERA news: A new light rail extension takes its maiden voyage. The DART extension runs three miles from the Ledbetter Station in South Dallas to the University of North Texas Dallas campus.

And every Thursday, the Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, looks at the personal journey of a North Texas creative. Today, the light falls on Petra Kelly.

She's not a band leader or a star vocalist. But the violinist has played and recorded with more than two dozen bands and is a mainstay of the Denton music scene. She’s the epitome of a gigging musician.  

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.