Become a WGXC Town Recorder and add to the coverage of the towns you see listed above. Can you go to your town's meetings and record the proceedings? We can train and lend equipment to trained volunteers who want to help report on their town's meetings. E-mail news@wgxc.org for more information.
Catskill's Brian Dewan performing at WGXC "Defrost" fundraiser March 20, 2010 at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson. Click on image to listen to mp3 recording.
Lady Moon and the Eclipse (including Evan Randall, Peter Lindstrom, and Milandou Badilla) performed at the "Feed the Radio" fundraiser at Germantown Community Farm, May 15, 2010. Click on the image to listen to the mp3 recording.
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.
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Kinderhook's Chris Gibson announced he won the Republican nomination to face incumbent Scott Murphy for NY's District 20 in Congress in the photo above at the Desmond Hotel near the Albany airport. Click on image to listen to an mp3 recording of an interview Gibson did with WGXC at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Kinderhook, May 12, 2010.
Fran Heaney of the Chatham Courier reports that PS/21 requested Special Use Permit for permanent use of their temporary tent at a Jan. 28 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, as they do not have the $11 million needed to construct a sound proof structure. Located on Route 66, the cultural center has hosted classical music and other events since 2005 at a 50 decibel sound level at the property line, well below the town building code sound level of 90 decibels, and much quieter than the lawnmowers run by the neighbors who are complaining about the sound. Those neighbors filed an Article 78 lawsuit against Chatham after the town approved PS/21’s plans in 2005, and a judge dismissed it later that year. The ZBA meets next Thursday, Feb. 25 for another public hearing about PS/21’s Special Use Permit.
UPDATE: The comments now include two anonymous statements from people claiming to be neighbors of the facility that include information not in the Chatham Courier story, specifically: “When the ability to rent to third parties was granted in 2008 to aid the financially failing tent, the project completely changed in focus. There is nothing arts focused about the electric slide and chicken dance.”
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 historian and part-time teacher at Columbia-Greene Community College and a former Assistant District Attorney and a Catskill-based attorney; Peter Margolius, Catskill Town Justice and attorney; and Charles (“Chip”) Tailleur of Coxsackie, the Assistant District Attorney will all be running. No Democrats have announced yet, but May speculates that Greg Lubow of Tannersville, an attorney and former Chief Public Defender of Greene County; Edward Kaplan, a Hunter-based attorney; Lee Allen Palmateer, attorney and Athens Town Supervisor; and Alex Betke, a partner in an Albany law firm, Coxsackie Town Supervisor, and Catskill Village attorney may all run.
Sat., June 19, 9 p.m.: J.P. Harris and the Tough Choices (above), The Weight, and Happy Birthday perform for WGXC fundraiser at Club Helsinki, Hudson.
Tickets: $10 advance for WGXC Founding Members; $12 advance for non-members; $15 everyone at door. Click link below to buy advance tickets until June 18. WGXC Founding Members type in "wgxc" when asked for discount code.
WGXC volunteer Sam Sebren recorded the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation legislative hearing for renewal and modification of the existing Lafarge Title V Air Permit application, May 11 at 6 p.m. at the Ravena-Coeymans Selkirk High School Auditorium. Click on the LaFarge logo to listen to an mp3 recording of the hearing.
Liz LoGiudice led an "Amphibian Adventure" sound walk about frogs and salamanders May 21, 2010 at the Agroforestry Center and Siuslaw Model Forest in Acra. Click on the photo to listen to an mp3 recording of the sound walk.
Click on photo to hear Rep. Scott Murphy speak with constituents at a town meeting at the Palenville Fire Department April 19, 2010. Recording by Debra Kamecke. Photo is of Murphy at town meeting in Coxsackie on April 1, 2010.
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