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Category Archives: News

OUR STUDIO RENTAL CONTRACT IS ON HOLD

by Sharon Mahoney, General Manager

On Wednesday, April 1 I appeared before the Brookfield Select Board to discuss renewing our contract for use of the Green Room, located adjacent to the Great Hall stage on the second floor of the Town Hall, as our live studio. Our request was to renew the agreement for two years, not only to bring it into line with the April 3, 2028 expiration date of the antenna/transmitter and Mezzanine contract, but to alleviate the need to go before the Select Board every year several months in advance to begin renewal negotiations. Continue reading →

TANTASQUA TECH COMES THROUGH AGAIN!

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On March 4, a crew of nine Electrical Engineering students, led by instructor and Electrical Curriculum Supervisor Noel Lamothe, volunteered their time and talent to trace and label each of the newly-installed Ethernet lines from the outlets in our new Green Room studio and the Mezzanine above it to the basement two floors below so that the cables can be connected in the proper sequence to the Town Hall server rack.

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ANNOUNCEMENT–PUBLIC HEARING

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As some of you may have heard, Apple Country Radio/WACF-LP 98.1 signed two rental agreement contracts with the Town of Brookfield this past April granting permission to move our broadcast studio and transmitter from the former Gavitt factory complex (which is being sold) to unused rooms in the second floor of the Town Hall, and to relocate our antenna atop the Town Hall clock tower. At their July 29 meeting, just as we began renovating the Town Hall spaces we hoped to occupy, the current Select Board and Zoning Enforcement Officer informed us that we needed to obtain a Special … Continue reading →

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