Whether you talk to industry experts or regular listeners, most people asked will tell you that there’s something special about the sound of WMWV. That musical selection and rotation has been the work of a man named Mark Johnson since 1993. Mark says, “My heart was always about the music.” Normally music selection in modern radio is the result of studied charts tracking the popularity of songs in different genres. For Mark Johnson it was a passion that involved personally listening to submissions and using his own intuition to make judgements about what worked or didn’t with the sound of the station. Johnson says the music was his favorite part of the job. In a Mt. Washington Radio exclusive interview, I asked Mark if he had anything to say to the listeners. Mark said, “Thank you for listening to us all these years, all the very kind comments about, you know, what we do. Maybe even comments from people that didn’t like certain things. It’s all good. You know- this valley is amazing. I’m so proud to live here.” Mark Johnson will be leaving Mt. Washington Radio Group this Friday.

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A massive cross-border initiative involving dozens of law enforcement agencies between Carroll County and the State of Maine concluded several months of investigations Thursday by arresting 35 individuals for a myriad of charges from distributing drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana to destruction of evidence, child abuse, theft, and more. Official arrests released include people from Conway, N. Conway, Fryeburg, Brownfield, Ossipee, Berlin, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Jackson, Shapleigh, Laconia, Porter, Milton, Rochester, Bartlett, and Sebago. Authorities say the effort isn’t over and that law enforcement agents from town, county, state, and federal agencies are still working on arresting more individuals as they move forward with prosecution.