Have You Noticed Our Spiffy New Logo?

First, thank you to everyone who has complimented our logo so far. We're really excited to be rolling out this new design as we haven't had one in about 10 years. Right now the graphic, designed by Fresh Jones, can be seen in our blogger profile, our forum posts on Penrick.com & PowerTowneDistro, and on our page on Facebook. GCTV Board Member Terry Ruggles shepherded our new icon through the process by finding a local company for us to work with and helping us get from ten logo ideas down to one.

We began rolling out the new logo this week and you'll start to see it in more places soon. Keep an eye out for it at the beginning and end of GCTV run productions, on new business cards, and maybe even on your friends' t-shirts.

The Last 2010 Primary Election Post

Hopefully you were as excited about Tuesday as we were. It was a lot of fun (and a lot of work) covering the state primaries and very satisfying to be able to post the results on our homepage around 9:30PM. We're resting up in preparation for all of the interesting events that we'll be covering during the next few months---Rag Shag Parade, Massachusetts General Election, Turkey Day Football, and others. Keep checking back here to learn more about what's coming next.

Franklin County Fair Parade and Election Preparation

As you can probably imagine, most of our focus this week was on yesterday's parade. We have not forgotten, however, that there are Primary Elections coming up on Tuesday.

Alicia spent part of this week communicating with town clerks in the 2nd Franklin District in order to receive preliminary results soon after the polls close. GCTV encourages everyone to exercise their right to vote on September 14th and take advantage of all the resources on gctv.org to help with that process. Tuesday night we will post the Greenfield results on our website, around 9PM, and hope to announce the winner of the 2nd Franklin District State Representative Democratic Primary race not long after.

Speaking of getting things up on our website, due to technical difficulties, the Franklin County Fair Parade will not be available to view online until Monday. In the meantime, you can enjoy the slideshow below of photos we took during the event. The shoot was awesome, btw! Staff, crew, and viewers all enjoyed our coverage and many people told us that this was our best effort yet. Big thank you's go out to our Sponsors (Sandri Oil Company, The Hammond Family, Greenfield Savings Bank, The Bank of Western Massachusetts, Foster's Supermarket, Greenfield Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Greenfield Garden Cinemas, The Longe Family, New Fortune Chinese Restaurant & Sushi Bar, and Tire Warehouse), hosts (Russ Brown of "Dukes of Sports" and Tom Dillon of Dillon Chevrolet), and volunteers (Jimmie Bailey, Shawn Cromack, Faith, Susan Laing, and Sam Pyfrom). Also, the entire crew would like to thank everyone who threw us candy. :)

Weekly Wrap-up

We were busy with election stuff at the beginning of the week, covering the state rep. race education debate at The Greenfield Grille on Monday night and recording the get to know the Democratic Primary Candidates event in our studio on Tuesday night. Both events are available to watch online and you can look at a slideshow of pics, taken prior to Tuesday's, on the right hand side of this blog. (Thanks again to Joe Gochinski for providing GCTV's staff and production volunteers with yummy snacks for the second event!)

Unfortunately, we can't cover every important event that occurs in town but, thankfully, our volunteer producers tend to some of the gaps. Susan Laing recorded last night's planning board meeting and we hope to bring you the footage from it soon.

In other news, this week our board gave final approval to our new logo and you'll be seeing it soon. Finally, Drew Hutchison has produced two new "Local Bias" episodes in which he interviews the men running for Northwestern District Attorney. Drew and the staff worked hard to turn the second episode around in record time so it was recorded late yesterday morning and by 5PM it was available to watch online at gctv.org.