Find Your Daily Voice
45°
Community Rallies Around Smallest NPR Station, Which Reaches East Dutchess
A campaign to help a National Public Radio station that reaches East Dutchess buy a transmitter has raised almost $30,000.
Robin Hood Radio, the smallest NPR station in the country, broadcasts in Dutchess, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Their 31-year old transmitter recently died, and a new transmitter costs $27,000.
The GoFundMe has raised $28,400 from 163 people in seven days as of Monday afternoon.
"It amazes me, I didn't know what to expect," Marshall Miles, who helps run Robin Hood Radio, said. "I am blown away by the generosity of the public. It's come from all demogr…
Hudson Valley Resident Goes 'Hollywood' With NYC Bus Tours
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- It's lights, camera, action for Georgette Blau.
Which, in her case, means putting everything in "drive."
Blau, a New Rochelle resident, is the owner of On Location Tours, the world's largest TV and movie bus tour company.
And yes, that means she knows a lot of TV and movie trivia, including where the apartment was for Carrie from "Sex and the City," where the rich kids hung out on "Gossip Girl,” and the pub that was the inspiration for "How I Met Your Mother." Not to mention a host of other TV and movie "secrets."
T…
