Originally from Anchorage, Taylor Heckart says she’s excited to be in a tight-knit community surrounded by nature. Heckart saw many shades of green while walking the City Creek trail in Petersburg for her first time on May 22, 2025. (Olivia Rose/KFSK)

Petersburg’s community radio station has a new reporter. 

Taylor Heckart is a self-described bookworm (and amateur quilter) who comes from a family of educators. She said her love of learning is what led her to journalism.

Heckart grew up in Anchorage and has reported from radio stations in Unalaska and Nome. She told KFSK’s Olivia Rose that she is excited to learn about life in Southeast Alaska firsthand.

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Heckart started at KFSK on May 27.

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