The Voice of The Voice of the Villages
The Montague Reporter Podcast brings you inside the making of our weekly newspaper and the stories we report. Give it a listen!
- After reflecting on where we are in the municipal cycle this time of year, Sarah and Mike debrief the recent highly anticipated local elections, in which Franklin County voters approved funding for a new tech school building and shot down a six-town school regionalization proposal […]
- As this episode’s recording coincided with the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Sarah and Mike took the opportunity to reflect on how big historical events affect daily life, leading to a discussion of September’s special historical section from the 1890s. Then they move on to a […]
- After checking in on Mike’s health stats following the first round of the biweekly publication schedule, we hear the harrowing story of how an AI app snafu delayed printing the most recent edition of the paper. Then Sarah and Mike discuss the developing news around […]
- Mike is tired! The wind-down of town meeting season across each of our idiosyncratic coverage towns, a contentious vote around funding for a new library in downtown Turners Falls, and a sensitive story about the technical school graduation ceremony have been keeping our editor busy […]
- In a fun “ask the editor,” Mike talks about making the recent historical section of archival Turners Falls Reporter excerpts from 1894— and unintentionally answers a bonus question: why might a newpaper editor carry around a kazoo at all times? Then, Sarah and Mike dive […]
- Though bookended by an ask-the-editor segment about AI and a non-sequitur about the Iran war, the meat of this episode zooms in and focuses on the more provincial matter of town leadership. Mike introduces the two candidates running for an open selectboard seat, as well […]
- After clearing the post-its and coffee mugs aside, an “Ask the Editor” question prompts an impromptu reading of the index. The fun then abruptly drops off, as Mike and Sarah discuss selectboard members declining to seek reelection, and the multi-layered budgetary quagmires in our towns […]
- After a lighthearted “Ask the Editor” segment, Sarah and Mike gradually descend into the doom and gloom of budgetary drama in our local towns, by way of two building projects that voters will consider this year. Listeners who stick it out through this morass will […]
- In our first episode of the new year, Sarah and Mike acknowledge the overwhelming national and international backdrop of the current moment before diving deep into a different time altogether—1893 Turners Falls. They discuss the special archival section from the New Years Day edition of […]
- Catching up after a little gap, Sarah and Mike recap a potpourri of stories from the last 6 weeks:Permits don’t last forever! A prospective solar development in Wendell whose permit was approved in 2018 hits yet another snag— will this be the final blow?Industrial buildings […]