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.
Congressman Scott Murphy (NY-20) will visit several Greene County fire stations, present a USDA infrastructure grant to the Town of Ashland, and host a town meeting in Windham on Monday, May 10. Details: Murphy at Prattsville Hose Company, Main Sreet, Prattsville, 11:15 a.m. Congressman Murphy and USDA officials to present a grant to Ashland for [...]
Filed under: Ashland, Athens, Greene County, Leeds, Prattsville, Windham | Tagged: Chris Gibson, 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 »
Michael Ryan in the Windham Journal writes: Thousands of dollars were handed out when the Schoharie Watershed Advisory Council awarded its second round of Stream Management Program funds, last week, during a meeting at the Windham Country Club. SWAC members awarded $77,627 to seven entities in Greene and Delaware counties for projects aimed at preserving [...]
Filed under: Ashland, Batavia Kill, Greene County, Hunter, Jewett, Lexington, Maplecrest, Tannersville, Windham | Tagged: agriculture, environment, fishing | Leave a Comment »
The Hudson-Catskill Newspaper Corp. — the company that runs the only daily newspapers in each county (The Daily Mail and Register-Star) as well as weekly papers in Chatham, Windham, and on the mountaintop — bought Greene County’s only remaining weekly, the Greene County Local Courier, and The Ravena News-Herald, from George McHugh, today’s issue of [...]
Filed under: Catskill, Chatham, Columbia County, Greene County, Greenville, Ravena, Windham | Tagged: business, media | 1 Comment »
From WRIP in Windham: Lance Corporal Joshua Williamson, USMC of Grand Gorge, while on patrol in Afghanistan was wounded – shot in the lung. He was operated on in Germany and shipped to Walter Reed Hospital. In order for his parents to be with him, they need financial help. The Mountaintop Detachment #1274 of the [...]
Filed under: Grand Gorge, Windham | Tagged: military | Leave a Comment »
The Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA) and the Columbia County Council on the Arts (CCCA) announced the recipients of regrant awards through the Twin Counties Cultural Fund Decentralization Program for Columbia and Greene Counties (DEC) with 33 not-for-profit organizations awarded $48,950 for 2010. Greene County received requests from 17 applications for requests totaling [...]
Filed under: Acra, Cairo, Catskill, Chatham, Columbia County, Greene County, New Baltimore, Oak Hill, Philmont, Valatie, Windham | Tagged: art | 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 »
(At right, “Business Idol” winner Kip Christie from Banner Hill School of Woodworking in Windham [right] with award presenter Kathleen Packard of KathodeRay Media, the Greene County Chamber of Commerce and the WGXC Radio Council. Chamber Executive Director Tracy McNally is in the background.) The Greene County Chamber of Commerce held their annual Greene Jeans [...]
Filed under: Greenville, Windham | Tagged: business | Leave a Comment »
Seward complains about driving costsNY.Sen.James.Seward_Cost%20to%20Drive%20-%2008-11.MP3Starting September 1, 2009 registration fees are scheduled to increase 25 percent for passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, trailers, taxis, busses, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, construction vehicles, motorboats and custom vehicles. Fees for drivers licenses fees will also go up by 25 percent. In total, the fee hikes will create an additional [...]
Filed under: Catskill, Columbia County, Windham | Tagged: James Seward, Kay Stamer, local audio, Patrick McCulloch, Vince Seeley | Leave a Comment »
Greene Supports Cementhttp://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/07/16/news/doc4a5e963a75857373047517.txt CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers on Wednesday roundly endorsed operations of local cement manufacturers to remind state and federal officials that the industry is important to the local economy. The support was given in a unanimous vote, with one absence, during a county Legislature meeting, where officials asked that funding for modernization [...]
Filed under: Albany, Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Chatham, Greene County, Hensonville, Hudson Valley, Kingston, Prattsville, Saugerties | Tagged: business, Lafarge | Leave a Comment »
Time to end name gameThe Greenville Press, no web site, no links RENSSELAERVILLE – Linda Fenoff reports in The Greenville Press that 40 members of the Chase family hold elected, appointed, or paid positions in Rensselaerville. The town’s Budget Committee wants a job description for all appointed town positions. A nepotism law failed there last [...]
Filed under: Acra, Albany County, Catskill, Hunter, Rensselaerville, Windham | Leave a Comment »
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