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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 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 →

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 →

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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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 →

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