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- Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 6:55 P
Kittens
Looking for a kitten. Does anyone know anyone who has some.
- Sun, Feb 12, 2012, 11:45 A
We are at Food City
The Montague Reporter will be set up at Food City today from 1:00 p.m. until close or until we run out of cookies, cupcakes and stuff.
We are offering $5.00 off all subscription today. We are also bringing T-shirts though it is not exactly T-shirt weather today. But THE BIG THING is that we are having a monthly raffle and for $1.00 you get a chance to win a donated prize from more than 20 local businesses or free admission to upcoming events. Better yet, you get to chose your prize!!!
Can't make it today, then the raffle tickets are always available at the Montague Reporter along with those T-shirts.
Story ideas and local brief news is always welcome.
Help us get to 1,000 subscribers. We are getting close.
- Sat, Aug 6, 2011, 12:29 P
David’s Brules book reading, stories and music
The Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center are having a very special evening on Saturday, August 6th, starting at 7:00 pm with David Brule reading from his new book, “West Along the River” and then be entertained by Banish Misfortune playing Irish roots music. Brule will also be available for questions, book signing and some story telling to go along with the readings.
This eventful evening will be held in the Great Hall of the GFDC, 2 Avenue A, in Turners Falls. Don’t forget to bring your previously purchased book for signing.
- Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 12:53 P
Kittens
Adorable kittens ready for adoption. Orange males, tiger females, calico, black&white. Call Diane 413-548-9394
- Mon, Jun 13, 2011, 2:12 P
Transitions for Seniors begins June 17 at Senior Center
Hospice of Franklin County Offers New Support Group
The Gill-Montague Senior Center is offering a new group called “Transitions for Seniors: Caring and Caregiving” beginning Friday, June 17 at 1:00pm. Led by Winnie Ganshaw from Hospice of Franklin County, the group will address changes and challenges for seniors and their families when caregiving becomes prominent. Life planning topics include changes in health, mobility, family roles, finances, housing, and support systems. All are welcome, whether or not you are in a caregiving role.
The program is an exploratory session to determine interest in a support group series for seniors on the first and third Fridays, 1:00-2:00pm, from June 17 to Sept. 2.
The program is funded in part by a grant from Franklin County Home Care Corp. and the Massachusetts Office of Elder Affairs.
To register, please call 774-2400 for more information.
- Sun, Nov 28, 2010, 10:54 A
Great cover article in this week’s reporter.
Ryan and Sarah Voiland are very impressive local entrepreneurs. I encourage everyone to read the article and to support their farming efforts in Montague and Granby.
- Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 5:40 P
Letters about alleged violation of Open Meeting Law by GM School Commmitee
In the new August 19th issue of the Montague Reporter, we printed letters submitted by Sandy Brown and Jeff Singleton, both related to the Northwest District Attorney's Office recent findings regarding an alleged violation of Open Meeting Law by members of the Gill-Montague School Committee.
The findings were delivered earlier this month in a letter from Assistant DA Cynthia Pepyne to GMRSD's attorney. We've posted a transcript of that letter here: http://montaguerepor...hool-committees.html
- Thu, Aug 5, 2010, 11:16 P
Montague Town Meeting Finds No Compromise on G-M Budget
By David Detmold - A divided Montague town meeting on Thursday, August 5th voted down a compromise motion to meet the Gill-Montague School District halfway to plug a roughly $380,000 gap between what the town considers an affordable school assessment, and the $16.4 million budget the school committee believes is needed to operate the district schools.
Precinct 1's Jeff Singleton, a school committee member, cautioned town meeting members to wait until the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) meets with town and school officials in the coming months to work out a long term plan for fiscal stability for the G-M schools before approving a compromise budget. "Wait until November so we can get a true compromise, with a plan," Singleton said.
In the end, by a vote of 40 to 37, the majority of town meeting members sided with him, voting down the compromise and leaving the Gill-Montague schools without an approved budget. For the third year in a row, the question of what level of school funding is affordable to the member towns and necessary for the district's operation will go to a district-wide meeting open to all town voters in Gill and Montague in the fall.
For the last two years, the special Gill-Montague district meetings have failed to approve a budget number the schools could live with. That impasse has led to two years of fiscal oversight of the district by the DESE.
This year, all sides seem inclined to compromise, but the timing of that compromise may depend on further meetings, and appears to hinge on developing a blueprint for a five-year plan for fiscal stability agreed to by all parties, including the state.
- Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 3:08 P
Brick House Benefit Concert at The Rendezvous
Come out for some excellent food, music and libations in support of The Brick House at The Rendezvous!!! (Starts at 8pm)
Artists to perform include:
Heather Maloney
...The Junkyard Dogs
Diane Sanabria (The Banjo Queen) with Jared Libby
Katie Sachs
Eric Dambra
Ronald Meck
Ghost Box
It's gonna be a packed night!!!!
- Tue, Jun 15, 2010, 12:18 A
"We Are Not a Team That Quits"
Turners Tops Ware, 5-3 in the 10th! Preview the article that will appear in this week's paper at http://montaguerepor...team-that-quits.html
- Tue, Jun 1, 2010, 4:43 P
New Farmer’s Market
Montague Center now has a new farmer's market on the common Mondays from 3-7pm. Fresh free range eggs from Firefly Farm, locally produced wool, vegetable plants and fresh greens from Brooks Bend Farm, strawberries coming Monday 6/7! New things every week. Vendors are welcome, no set up fees. Go to the library and get dinner all at the same time!
FMI, call Pinnie at 367-9746
- Tue, Apr 27, 2010, 8:59 P
May Day Bake Sale at Food City
May Day! The Montague Reporter will have a table at Food City on Saturday, May 1, 10-3. We'll be selling baked goods, t-shirts, and subscriptions. Stop by to say hello and/or make a donation. If you'd like to contribute treats for us to sell, that's cool, too!
- Fri, Mar 26, 2010, 3:41 P
In It To End It (Breast Cancer)
Both my husband and I were born in the town of Montague and graduated from Turners Falls High School 35 years ago. Unfortunately, during the past 2 years both he and I were stricken with breast cancer, exactly a year apart. Luckily we live near enough to Boston to receive excellent medical treatment and both our outlooks remain positive. Having recently finished treatments, we are both walking in the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer in Boston on May 15 and 16. We have committed to raise $1,800 each for this worthwhile event. This money will be distributed in the Boston area. Funds raised support 5 key areas:
Medical research - access to treatment - screening and diagnosis - support services - education and awareness.
Won't you please consider making a small donation towards this cause? Perhaps you know someone touched by the disease. You can make the donation in their honor (or memory). Please visit my Avon website: http://www.avonwalk.org/goto/MAstell
Thank you for your support!
Marilyn (Emond) Astell
- Thu, Mar 11, 2010, 6:57 A
Warming and Subscriptions
Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to subscribe and this is a great time to do so.
- Wed, Mar 10, 2010, 8:58 A
Warming and Subscriptions
Usually buy the Montague reporter at Food city, I sent out my check this morning for
subscription for home delivery.
Indeed this is such a worthy cause.
- Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 2:39 P
Warming and Subscriptions
Dear Friends of the Montague Reporter:
As you may be aware, the Montague Reporter currently has an effort to gain 100 new subscribers for the by the end of winter - March 19th - and to bring in needed funds for the homelessness prevention program and new warming shelter of the Interfaith Council of Franklin County at the same time.
Certainly a worthy cause.
Many people have helped in various ways, by reaching out to their circles and inviting friends to subscribe to the paper. Most notably, Patrick Pezzati has generously offered to match dollar for dollar all funds they raise during this drive for the Interfaith Council's homelessness prevention programs from Turn It Up! CDs and Movies at the Montague Book Mill.
Also of note is Jonathan Ransom, a founding member of the Montague Reporter's board of directors, who went above and beyond by suggesting to 50 of his friends try to find two new community members to subscribe during the Warm Up Franklin County sub drive. He found three! (effectively increasing the subscription list in his home town of Wendell by 5% in the process).
It is very hard for a small paper like the Montague Reporter to weather the recession in our part of Western Massachusetts, particularly in the dreary end of winter, especially when advertising dollars are few and far between. The influx of new subscribers you can help them drum up will not only provide them with a much needed boost in revenue in March, but will stand them in very good stead as they approach new advertisers (with an expanded subscriber list) in April.
So, thanks for helping out how you can, in whatever way you can, to make their subscription drive a success!
We are so lucky to have a local paper like this in town. Let's support them however we can.
- Mon, Mar 1, 2010, 11:44 A
Warming up
Help warm Franklin County and support local news coverage.
Subscribe to the Montague Reporter before the end of winter, March 19th, and 25% of the subscription price will be donated to The Interfaith Council of Franklin County's homelessness prevention program which includes supporting the Warming Center in Greenfield and the existing shelter in Montague City.
All you have to do is contact the Montague Reporter at 58 Fourth Street. Turners Falls. Ma or call 413-863-8666 and of course you can contact us right here through MontagueMA.net
Local Subscriptions are $20.00 and out of area are $25.00.
Thank you in advance for your support. Keep Warm!
- Wed, Dec 23, 2009, 8:29 P
Montague Reporter, 12/23/09: Read All About It!
Coming to you a day early this week: Turners Falls Airport Commission gets ready to hire a new manager, two Greenfield men and an Ervingside woman are the three finalists; White Paper or Whitewash? -- opponents claim state study on sustainability and carbon impacts of biomass burning is "biased from the start," as some consultants hired by the Department of Energy Resources are already on record in support of biomass electricity; Rep. Chris Donelan suggests that Wendell get out of the Mahar district and regionalize with Amherst so other towns can pursue their plans for K-12 regionalization with Mahar; Singleton accepts the Hanold challenge on budget alternatives in the wake of town planner debate; Wailin' Dave at the Deja Brew; the Warblers Rock; Talking Pictures: Me and Orson Welles (coming to the Amherst Cinema); the story behind the lighting extravaganza on Griswold St, and more! Read it slow -- no paper next week!
- Mon, Dec 14, 2009, 11:37 P
Idea
Have you seen the two houses battling for the best Holiday lights here
on Griswold Street in TF?
Take the kiddies or yourself to see them.
There must be a story behind it!
Photos would be good with night film too.
Once a journalist, always a journalist.
Kuve Inovia (Merry Christmas)
- Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 10:04 A
Holiday Family Fun at Burrito Rojo! A fundraiser for the PCDC
On Weds. Dec 16th from 4:30-6:30 come and join us for some holiday family fun at Burrito Rojo! Hear Susan Palucci read The Night before Christmas, and Anne Harding read the Polar Express! Christmas song sing-a-longs with JD Keating!
We will be raffling off many items such as gift cards to The Lady Killegrew and Burrito Rojo.
This is a fundraiser the the Parent Child Development Center. The PCDC provides care & education to children 0-5 in Hampshire and Franklin County. $3.00
- Tue, Dec 8, 2009, 10:23 P
Reporter needs laptop computer
Do you have a working, internet-ready laptop computer that you aren't planning to use this winter? Would you be willing to give, loan, or sell it to Montague's non-profit community newspaper for a very modest price? We'd be ever so grateful. Here's the backstory:
With the help of many of you, at our November fundraiser the Montague Reporter raised enough money to replace its most egregiously overtaxed office computer, to install new memory in several others, and to make several other small but important technology upgrades. Thank you, and special thanks to Mik Muller and Veronica Phaneuf, who are contributing a great deal of time and expertise to this project.
However, with winter coming on now, we've realized that if we also had a very basic laptop, we could set the editor up to work in his living room and keep the heat turned down in the office several days a week. We think we could save hundreds of dollars this way! Can you help? Let me know through this site, by clicking the "Contact Montague Reporter" link in the Reporter area on www.montaguema.net, or by calling the Reporter office at 863-8666.
Thanks in advance! Jen
- Tue, Nov 10, 2009, 2:20 P
Benefit @ Wagon Wheel, Tues. Nov. 10
TONIGHT!! -- 5:00 PM
Please join the Montague Reporter's board of directors, staff, volunteers, subscribers, readers, and friends at a benefit for the newspaper at the Wagon Wheel (Route 2, Gill) from 5 -7:30pm on Tuesday, Nov. 10th.
$15/adult, $8/child gets you dinner, a chance to try your hand at a special Reporter-themed quiz created by Voo Quizmaster Chad, music by Infinite August, etc. etc.
Your contributions will help us raise much-needed funds to upgrade technology, cover rising printing costs, and offset wintertime office expenses.
Please let us know if you plan to come -- we need to know how much food to make! Call 863-8666 or email reporter-bills@montaguema.net.
Parking will be limited -- please try to carpool and call 863-8666 if you'd like help arranging to do so.
Can't make it? Donations gladly accepted at 58 4th St, Turners Falls, MA 01376. (And, hopefully soon, through PayPal on this website.)
- Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 11:45 P
Benefit @ Wagon Wheel, Tues. Nov. 10
Please join the Montague Reporter's board of directors, staff, volunteers, subscribers, readers, and friends at a benefit for the newspaper at the Wagon Wheel (Route 2, Gill) from 5 -7:30pm on Tuesday, Nov. 10th.
$15/adult, $8/child gets you dinner, a chance to try your hand at a special Reporter-themed quiz created by Voo Quizmaster Chad, music by Infinite August, etc. etc.
Your contributions will help us raise much-needed funds to upgrade technology, cover rising printing costs, and offset wintertime office expenses.
Please let us know if you plan to come -- we need to know how much food to make! Call 863-8666 or email reporter-bills@montaguema.net.
Parking will be limited -- please try to carpool and call 863-8666 if you'd like help arranging to do so.
Can't make it? Donations gladly accepted at 58 4th St, Turners Falls, MA 01376. (And, hopefully soon, through PayPal on this website.)
- Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:07 P
Read All About It! (Montague Reporter, 10/9/09)
This week in the Montague Reporter: Montague City polling station may move... to Precinct 3! Erving says "No Way" to gas stations in the aquifer recharge zone; Millers Falls may have the most beautiful planters in town, catch them before the frost; Chamber pots, turnips and sleighs provide interesting reading for Montague Center residents... in days of yore; MOVE member Ramona Africa coming to Brick House for documentary on Philadelphia police bombing; Leverett sees no gain in regionalization push; Wendell picks up speed on internet connections in the town center; and MontagueMa.net looks forward to a party in the 3rd St. parking lot. And much more: falling arches, bridge work, flu shots (are they really good for you?) and Thoreau revisited. All in this week's issue. Look for it wherever fine newspapers are sold!
