Radio Catskill wants to hear from you

My name is Pete Madden, and I’m a journalist and a member of the community advisory board for 90.5 WJFF Radio Catskill, our region’s listener-supported public radio station. I joined the advisory board because I know how critically important local news and programming is to the health of any community, and I invite you now to help us ensure the station continues to keep our community strong.

We’re launching our annual survey to solicit feedback from listeners across the Catskills and beyond. If you’re a regular listener, we want to know what you like, what you don’t like, and what you think might be missing. And if you’re not a regular listener, we want to know what might make you consider tuning in. We’ll deliver the results of the survey to the station’s board of trustees and use the data we collect to make recommendations to the station’s leaders throughout the year.

As a small token of our appreciation for your participation, your response to the survey will enter you into a drawing for a $75 gift card to a Foster Supply Hospitality restaurant of your choice. Foster Supply Hospitality owns and operates some of our area’s best dining experiences, including Kenoza Hall, the DeBruce and the Arnold House Tavern.

You can find the survey in both English and Spanish at wjffradio.org. Thank you in advance for your participation and support, and thank you again for listening.

Pete Madden
Yulan, NY

Libraries are a great deal

I never knew a library could be so much: they support census work, filling in social service forms, researching obscure books, articles and even movies.

They have had more programming than any other service in our county I can think of.

I am wildly proud to have our libraries funded as much as we can comfortably afford! In fact, I think it’s one of the greatest deals we get to experience in modern life.

Thomas Bosket
Long Eddy, NY

[Editor's Note: This column was changed on March 24 to correct where  Pete Madden lives. He is a full-time resident of Yulan, NY.]