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THE TOWN OF BROOKFIELD HAS APPROVED OUR RENTAL LICENSE!

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To our followers, listeners, fans and friends—On July 1 the Brookfield Select Board approved a one-year renewal of our rental license for the Town Hall Green Room. Instrumental in this process was Interim Town Administrator Blythe Robinson, a true professional who cut through the confusion and came up with a new agreement without having to negotiate the red tape and delays inherent in Mass. General Law 30B, Section 16, which had been cited by the Select Board as the actual and only path we were supposed to follow.

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UPDATE ON OUR TOWN HALL LEASE NEGOTIATIONS

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On Saturday a memo was sent to the Brookfield Select Board, who had declined at their April 1 meeting to renew our rental agreement for the Town Hall second floor Green Room as our studio. The text of the memo was as follows: To: The Brookfield Select Board and Town Administrator From: Sharon Mahoney, President and General Manager, Apple Country Radio Inc. Re: Apple Country Radio’s lease of the Town Hall Green Room under M.G.L. 30B, §16 Date: June 13, 2026 During your meeting on April 1 of this year, the Select Board unanimously voted to give my organization a … Continue reading →

OUR RENTAL AGREEMENT IS UP FOR RENEWAL!

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The Brookfield Select Board’s Executive Assistant has notified us that the Select Board will put Apple Country Radio on its Wednesday, April 1 meeting agenda, where they will review – and hopefully, renew – the license agreement that allows us to use the Green Room on the second floor of the Town Hall and the Mezzanine above it as our live studio and storage space. Apple Country Radio has spent almost $12,000 of our own funds cleaning, painting, refinishing the floors and Mezzanine stairwell, and installing electric wiring, lighting, and Ethernet capability in both the Mezzanine and the Green Room. … Continue reading →

TO OUR LISTENERS AND FRIENDS…

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At some time tomorrow our antenna will be disconnected from our transmitter array and removed from its current location at the Gavitt Wire & Cable’s old factory. It will be put in storage until some time late in the following week, when it will be remounted on the Brookfield Town Hall Clock Tower just down the street from our current location. Until then, Apple Country Radio, WACF-LP 98.1FM will go dark. We will be off the air for the time being while we move the rest of our transmitter equipment to the Town Hall to await its re-connection to the … Continue reading →

THANK YOU, TANTASQUA STUDENTS!

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Over the past three years, donors and listeners around the region gifted Apple Country Radio with over 50 cartons of CDs and vinyl! Those cartons have been stored at the former Gavitt offices, awaiting transport to the storage room above our new studio space at the Brookfield Town Hall. On Thursday, October 9, at 11am, a group of volunteers arrived in a white van from Jillian Carty’s CAD class ready to help! These students were eager to work and superbly organized. They loaded a truck trailer with two loads of those cartons as well as studio equipment and supplies with … Continue reading →