What a week it's been!

"Valley Homegrown" started off the week with a very interesting musical group called "Lalit" that played Indian Jazz Fusion. If you missed it, when it aired live on Monday night, be sure to catch the rebroadcast tonight at 9PM on Cable Channel 15.

Our staff was very excited on Tuesday to welcome our new intern, Simeon. He was put to work right away creating a community coverage piece about what the Franklin Regional Transit Authority (FRTA), and the town, are doing to help people with physical disabilities, no transportation, or who aren't going to be in town on election day, cast their ballots on June 8th. You can watch this short news story on our homepage.

Then, of course, Wednesday night happened. As folks left our studio, after the Greenfield Town Council Ways & Means Committee Meeting, the sky lit up with flash after flash of lighting. There was no thunder or rain at that point so we had no idea what was coming next.

Arriving on Thursday morning to discover that a State of Emergency had been declared, our Station Manager & New Media Producer/Director put their heads together to figure what we could do to help. Mayor Martin's office put us in touch with the Greenfield Fire Department and they provided us with street closings and other public safety information that we immediately posted on our website. Later, the mayor and Fire Chief Winn took time out of their demanding schedules to sit down in our studio and give the public a thorough rundown of the situation in a new "Mayor's Memo" episode that aired last night. One of our WMCB DJs, Corey Bellows---Host of "The Wire", spent the morning walking around town taking pictures of the storm's aftermath. He was nice enough to share them with us and you can see his slide show on the upper right corner of this blog. As Corey said, "these pictures explain why we're in a State of Emergency".

Today, we've mostly been playing catch up and continuing to update our State of Emergency page. Obviously, we won't be able to update it over the holiday weekend but you can see the most up to date information on the town's website.

Enjoy your (non-stormy) Memorial Day Weekend everyone!