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Radio host Lyons Filmer pulls weeds under the stairs leading to KWMR's offices. She will retire at the end of the year, and spend her newfound free time doing the same in her home garden.   David Briggs

Something in the tone of her voice—soothing, fireside, full-bodied—made radio the obvious fit for Lyons Filmer, KWMR’s program director who will retire in December after 19 years at the station. In her role, Ms. Filmer works with over 90 volunteer programmers, facilitates the broadcast of several outside shows and steps in as the host on several others, including Epicenter—which focuses on local news—the Celtic Universe—a music feature—and “At Nature’s Pace,” in which she has read…