Another Busy Week

Turkey Day is coming up and we'll tell you more about our plans for it later in this post. In the meantime let us take a moment to reflect on this week's events.

On Tuesday night, the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee (GGEC) held another of their workshops in our studio. This one, on reducing home energy costs, featured speakers from MassSave, Community Action, the Town of Greenfield, and Franklin County Home Care who introduced attendees to free programs, grants, and low interest loans. In the category of "It's a Small World", the evening was moderated by GGEC member, and WMCB host of "Various Voices", Daria Fisk. The audience came away with many good resources and enjoyed the refreshments provided by GGEC volunteers. If you missed it, be sure to watch it online as part of our Video on Demand Player at GCTV.org. It can be found in the "Special Features" category.

Another program available to watch online is the Greenfield Town Council Meeting that we broadcast live from our studio on Wednesday night. Once again the councilors moved through their business with thought and humor. They quickly dealt with issues relating to Greenfield's 2011 Fiscal Year Budget Tax Classifications and then spent quite a bit of time looking at a proposal for an Agricultural Preservation Restriction on the town farm. Though the latter matter was tabled until the next meeting, in order to receive more information from the town planning department, our local government representatives were able to disagree with each other and yet make jokes at times. This video is in the "Local Government" category and Thursday night's school committee meeting will be joining it soon.

Finally, we get to our T-day sneak peek. We alternate filming the annual Greenfield High School vs. Turners Falls High School Thanksgiving Day Football Game with Montague Community Television. They film it when TFHS hosts it and we record it when it's one of GHS' home games. It's our turn this year which means that Russ Brown and Mike Cadran of "The Dukes of Sports" will be doing a pre-game show on the field that will be full of fun facts about this historic local rivalry and what to look for this year. Keep an eye out on our homepage on Monday afternoon for a few words from Mike and Russ as they get ready for this great event. If you can't be there in person, the game will be broadcast on Cable Channel 15 beginning at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving. Be sure sure to check back here on Thanksgiving morning for a special blog post regarding other traditional holiday programming.