WGXC is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia counties.
We will launch a 3,300-watt community radio station on 90.7-FM throughout Greene and Columbia counties in 2010, and an online radio station currently playing local recordings around the clock. The WGXC project will be much more than just a radio station, including media training for youth and other members of the community, and a blog, local calendar of events and meetings, photography, and more. This will be an interactive multi-media project engaging the community to report about what's going on in Greene and Columbia counties.
The Greenville Mountain View Pioneer debuted this week, and the Greene County Local Courier morphed into the Greene County News, after its recent purchase by Hudson-Catskill Newspaper Corp, and it is great to read more local newsprint. Both papers are fighting for territory best covered by The Greenville Press which closed early this year, and [...]
Filed under: Athens, Coxsackie, Greene County, Greenville | Tagged: Kevin Lewis, media, Paul Macko, Peter Margoulius | Leave a Comment »
Cairo-Durham school election results: School Budget Passed 551-527; Library Appropriation Failed 477-581; Biomass heating system Failed 433-625. Board Member results: Greg Koerner-Fox – 584; Thomas Plank – 564; Beatrice Clappin – 537; Pat Ublacker – 512; Nicole Maggio – 472; Dean Pectal – 456; Sam Mozzillo – 338. The Daily Mail reports Catskill results: Catskill [...]
Filed under: Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Chatham, Claverack, Columbia County, Copake, Coxsackie, Durham, Germantown, Ghent | Tagged: elections, schools | Leave a Comment »
Voting for school board members and issues takes place Tuesday in both counties. From The Daily Freeman: Greene County Cairo-Durham (Polls are open noon to 9 p.m.) Cairo-Durham Middle School cafeteria. Catskill (Polls are open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.) Catskill High School gymnasium. Coxsackie-Athens (Polls are open 1 to 9 p.m.) District elementary schools. [...]
Filed under: Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Durham, Germantown, Hunter, Tannersville | Tagged: elections, schools | Leave a Comment »
Kyle Wind in The Daily Freeman: More than 250 jobs will be eliminated in the region if voters approve school district budgets as proposed Tuesday. All the districts in the area with except Hunter-Tannersville, in Greene County, plan to cut faculty and staff members in response to projected reductions in state aid, and, in some [...]
Filed under: Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Columbia County, Coxsackie, Durham, Germantown, Hunter, Tannersville | Tagged: elections, schools | Leave a Comment »
New York State Senator James Seward will join the Greene Business Alliance, members of the business community, and local elected officials at an Empire Merchants North open house at 11 a.m. Friday, May 14 at Empire Merchants North, 16 Houghtaling Rd., West Coxsackie, NY.
Filed under: Coxsackie | Tagged: James Seward, town meetings | Leave a Comment »
Congressman Scott Murphy held a town meeting in Palenville Monday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m. at the Palenville Fire Department, 717 Rte. 32A, Palenville. Murphy is running for re-election against Republican Chris Gibson. Listen to an audio mp3 recording of Murphy answering questions from constituents (recorded by WGXC’s Debra Kamecke) by clicking here or by [...]
Filed under: Coxsackie, Palenville, Washington | Tagged: Chris Gibson, local audio, Scott Murphy, town meetings | Leave a Comment »
Greene County Council on the Arts awarded 11 County Initiative Program awards: Bronck Museum of the Greene County Historical Society was awarded $2,200 to continue, expand and promote cultural, educational, and arts programming, including Music of History series, Heritage Craft Fair and Chilly Willy Tours; Catskill Mountain Foundation, Inc. was awarded $2,650 toward artist fees [...]
Filed under: Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Durham, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville, Tannersville, Windham | Leave a Comment »
Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Durham, Germantown, Hunter, Tannersville
Filed under: Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Columbia County, Cornwallville, Coxsackie, Durham, Germantown, Hunter | Leave a Comment »
From Chris Churchill in the Times-Union: GlaxoSmithKline announced this evening that it would shift its toothpaste manufacturing from New Jersey to Greene County preventing the shutdown of its plant in Oak Hill. The British pharmaceutical giant had planned to shutter the Oak Hill plant by 2012, following its $3.6 billion acquisition last year of Stiefel [...]
Filed under: Coxsackie, Durham, Oak Hill | Tagged: jobs | Leave a Comment »
Democrat Congressman Scott Murphy (NY-20) held a town hall meeting at 2 p.m. today in Coxsackie at the Senior Center (formerly Knights of Columbus building) at 127 Mansion St., with several constituents asking him about his recent “yes” vote on the health care reform bill. WGXC recorded the Town Hall, and you can listen to [...]
Filed under: Coxsackie, Washington | Tagged: local audio, Scott Murphy, town meetings | Leave a Comment »
Nippertown! reports that The Hi-Way Drive-In on Route 9W in Coxsackie is opening its summer season tonight. The drive-in will be showing “Cop Out” with Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan with “The Blind Side” starring Sandra Bullock. The Hi-Way Drive-In will be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the screenings are scheduled to begin [...]
Filed under: Coxsackie | Tagged: movies | Leave a Comment »
The Register-Star reports that Carol Weaver will become the Mayor of the Village of Kinderhook, with 77 votes to trustee Richard Phillips, an incumbent, with 69 votes, and newcomer Brian Murphy with 75 votes. In Coxsackie, The Daily Mail reports that Republican Village Trustee John Oliver received 368 votes, Republican Trustee Dianne Ringwald received 356 [...]
Filed under: Athens, Coxsackie, Hunter, Kinderhook, Tannersville | Tagged: elections | Leave a Comment »
Seeing Greene’s Dick May handicaps the race to fill the seat of Greene County Court Judge Daniel K. Lalor, who retires on December 31. In November, voters will choose a replacement, and it will not be District Attorney Terry Wilhelm who says he is not running. May reports Republicans Ted Hilscher of New Baltimore, a [...]
Filed under: Albany, Athens, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greene County, Hunter, New Baltimore, Tannersville | Tagged: elections | Leave a Comment »
Cairo’s old development suitor, Charles Maggio, has moved his plans up the road from Cairo to Coxsackie, The Daily Mail reports. But Cairo may now have a second supermarket on the site where Maggio’s Alden Terrace project would have been, according to The Greenville Press (no web site). Susan Campriello’s Daily Mail story outlines the [...]
Filed under: Cairo, Coxsackie, Greenville | Tagged: development, George Pulver | Leave a Comment »
Greene County election results STATE WIDE RACES52 of 52 (100%) machines reporting (52 total districts)PROPOSAL #1Vote for 1PROPOSAL #1 YES3540PROPOSAL #1 NO1848PROPOSAL #2Vote for 1PROPOSAL #2 YES3766PROPOSAL #2 NO1546COUNTY WIDE RACES52 of 52 (100%) machines reporting (52 total districts)STATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 3RD JDVote for 1Jill Dunn 5336James P Gilpatric 4237COUNTY LEGISLATIVE 009 RACES2 of [...]
Filed under: Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Durham, Greene County, Greenville, Halcott, Hunter, Jewett, Lexington, New Baltimore, Prattsville, Windham | Tagged: Bill Lawrence, Charles Martinez, Chris Pfister, elections, Forest Cotten, Harry Lennon, James Hitchcock, James Mulligan, James Van Slyke, Joseph Izzo, Keith Valentine, Kevin Lewis, Larry Gardner, Linda Overbaugh, Ray Brooks, Robin DePuy, Sean Frey, Wayne Speenburgh | Leave a Comment »
Signs of the times McBride’s Resale Shop at 465 Main St. in Cairo was shut down this week. Read all about it in these two images. A sign on the building still calls it Main St. Cafe, though that business has been closed awhile. Over two thousand without power in Columbia CountyNational Grid reports over [...]
Filed under: Cairo, Claverack, Columbia County, Copake, Coxsackie, Greene County, Greenport, Greenville, Hudson, Kinderhook, Taghkanic, Valatie | Tagged: Linda Overbaugh, Sean Frey | Leave a Comment »
Mistaken identity muddles Catskill candidacyThe Greenville Press (no web site) CATSKILL – Linda Fenoff scoops everyone with the story of Linda Overbaugh’s now potentially failed candidacy for Greene County Legislator. It seems there are two Linda Overbaughs in Catskill, and local Republicans claim a Board of Elections official put the wrong Overbaugh on the petitions [...]
Filed under: Cairo, Catskill, Chatham, Copake, Coxsackie, Ghent, Greenport, Hudson, Kinderhook, New Baltimore, Philmont, Stuyvesant, Valatie | Tagged: Bill Lawrence, elections, Forest Cotten, Harry Lennon, James Hitchcock, James Van Slyke, Karen Deyo, Ken Dudley, Larry Gardner, Linda Overbaugh, Ray Brooks, Sean Frey | Leave a Comment »
Columbia County Board of Supervisors holds its regular meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. at 401 State St. in Hudson. Protesters will be back voicing opposition to the Board’s proposed moved of the Department of Social Services from Hudson to Ockawamic. “As a direct result of the public outcry and resistance, a key member of the [...]
Filed under: Claverack, Columbia County, Coxsackie, Greene County, Hudson | Tagged: business, Linda Mussmann, protests | Leave a Comment »
Register-Star reporter Jamie Larson claims Columbia County Board of Supervisor Chairman Art Baer, “asked the Register-Star to get [Hudson Mayor Rick Scalera] to sit down with him today to reopen the discussion about [using the] Charles Williams [School] or other sites as possibilities.” The story begins with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce holding an [...]
Filed under: Claverack, Columbia County, Coxsackie, Greenport, Hudson, Kinderhook, Livingston, Woodstock | Tagged: Art Baer, Linda Mussmann, Pat Grattan, Rick Scalera | Leave a Comment »
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