Science & Environment

Storm Recovery Update

After disrupting Halloween, today almost 350,000 customers in MA are still without power, but that number is dropping as crews from all over the country converge to help repair lines damaged in Saturday’s storm. We survey how the recovery is going, and what it...

Franklin County Cider Days

Monte Belmonte and organizer Charlie Olchowski visit Pine Hill Orchards in Colrain to talk about Cider Days. Happening November 5 & 6, CiderDays is a community event celebrating all things apples in Franklin County, Massachusetts. 2011 marks the 17th year of this...

Clean Energy Connections

Clean Energy Connections – Building on Success is the region’s premier forum for cleanteach business-development information and networking. The event convenes business owners, entrepreneurs, financiers, educators, career seekers, community leaders, and public...

Square One Tornado Recovery

Joan Kagan, Executive Director of Square One and Gail Price, Director of Square One’s Main Street Children’s Center will talk about the impact June 1st tornado had on their organization — when their downtown Springfield headquarters housing the...

Steve Levy, Wired Magazine

Springfield Public Forum speaker Steven Levy, Wired Magazine writer, will speak on  “How Google Shaped Our Lives” and his book, ‘ In the Plex: How Google, Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives.”...

Rail Trails: Part 1

First in a three part series about the regional bike path system.  Tonight we will look at the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail which is a former railroad corridor converted into a 10-foot wide paved, universally accessible, passive recreation path. The Ashuwillticook runs...

USS Constitution

Guests: Matt Bonner, Commanding Officer USS Constitution, Anthony Barnardo, Second Class Petty Officer USS Constitution, Phil Gagnon, Boatswain’s Mate First Class, USS Constitution. The USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United...

Wired West

Guests: Monica Webb, Wired West Executive Committee Chair, and  Steve Nelson, Wired West Executive Board member. In Western Massachusetts, close to 50 towns have residences and businesses with partial or no access to high-speed internet, while access has become a...

The State We’re In: Judith Dumont

This week’s guest is Judith Dumont, Director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute which is spearheading efforts to bring high-speed internet service to every community in the Commonwealth. We’ll look at the work to create the infrastructure to bring broadband to...