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Calling all music lovers and radio enthusiasts. BTPM The Bridge is back at Mr. Goodbar with another Music Meeting! You have the opportunity to vote on new releases, rediscover old favorites, and share your top suggestions with us, all while mingling with fellow music lovers!

In today’s WBFO Brief, Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at the return of Broadway shows, baseball, and other re-openings with the lifting of certain statewide COVID restrictions. Meanwhile, Dr. Nancy Nielsen, MD says summertime normalcy is achievable. And even though we are on the cusp of summer, a battle over snowmobile trails in the Adirondacks is heating up.

In today’s WBFO Brief, a look at disability pride month underway in WNY and a peek at dinner theater- aboard the USS Little Rock. Also, how a summertime respite from COVID gives an opportunity for vaccine distribution before school begins in the fall.

Tragedy strikes in Saint-Fiacre, shocking Maigret to the core.

An NYS trooper is facing manslaughter charges in connection with the February 2022 shooting death of a man in downtown Buffalo, dignitaries including Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell celebrated the ceremonial groundbreaking of a new stadium Monday, and advocates are pressing for bills they say will help reduce climate change as the legislative session is set to end later this week.

The case arguing that pay raises for City of Buffalo officials were illegally granted is due back in court today. Byron Brown to share more on the state of Buffalo's financial affairs today at a legislative budget hearing in Albany. Hamburg police expected to give update on Friday's officer involved shooting. Enforcement efforts against unlicensed cannabis shops continue.

A look at the need for more funding of home care for the disabled in the NYS budget and a Women's Wednesday conversation with Capt. Lara Morrison, the first female commander at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. Also, looking for COVID in the region’s sewers, a new contract for nursing home workers who went on strike last month in Lewiston, and the community and police connection in mental health incidents.

As WBFO’s Tom Dinki looks back on the Capitol attacks last year, we learn the six people from Erie County charged by the Dept. of Justice for storming the Capitol, rank us fourth in the nation in having participants charged. Also Karen DeWitt on Gov. Hochul’s infrastructure, tax cut and health care plans. And hear Dr. Nancy Nielsen MD say “It’s really hard to justify why people aren’t getting vaccinated” against COVID.

On today’s WBFO Brief, hear Assembly judiciary committee member Phil Steck say “at this point I think it is hard to imagine that impeachment is not one of (the charges warranted).” Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt reports on the speedy investigation timetable that is pressing in on Gov. Cuomo, with many urging him to resign. And if it’s Friday, it’s Theater Talk and today local auditions abound, including news that Shea’s Buffalo is producing a show of their own. Also the Buffalo Urban League pressing for revitalization of Jefferson Avenue, PUSH Buffalo and other activist groups are speaking out on the need for more grassroots input into the city’s plans for spending COVID relief and clergy in Niagara Falls are organizing against street violence.

Celebrate the 2019 ACL Hall of Fame inductees Shawn Colvin, Buddy Guy and Lyle Lovett.