Mike and Sarah discuss the Montague Reporter's coverage of Black Lives Matters protests in Franklin County, and a recent ACLU report that found huge racial disparities in arrest rates for marijuana possession in the county.

Link to Montague Community Television video of Black Lives Matter protest in Greenfield: https://vimeo.com/427189796

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Sarah and Mike discuss the  venues for upcoming town meetings in Montague and Leverett, a three-week serialized discussion with Turners Falls local George Bush, and how small local businesses are paying or deferring rent during the state of emergency.

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Sarah and Montague Reporter Managing Editor Mike Jackson discuss the Farren Care Center's measures to prevent an outbreak of COVID-19, the first reported cases among staff at the Franklin County House of Correction, and how the leadership of Gill-Montague schools have responded to the pandemic. And, the Montague Reporter will be back in print starting with the April 23 edition. Folks are encouraged to be neighborhood point people through Western Mass Community Mutual Aid: https://www.wmacma.com/.

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Jeff Singleton, news writer for the Montague Reporter discusses the town's response to the pandemic and how things have changed (or not) as a journalist reporting on town business. He also takes us on a look back at the history of the Montague Reporter newspaper.

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Sarah speaks with the guest editors of the April 2, 2020 special youth-created edition of the Montague Reporter, Julian Mayo and Izzy Vachula-Curtis, about their experiences editing the paper.

News writer Samantha Wood, whose beat is Greenfield, discusses policy changes at the Franklin County House of Correction and the city of Greenfield in response to the coronavirus emergency. Plus, why journalists play a critical role in addressing the current health crisis.

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In this episode, Sarah and Mike discuss how the Coronavirus outbreak is impacting life in our reporting area, and how people are supporting each other through mutual aid  and food distribution networks. The Montague Reporter newspaper will be publishing in an exclusively digital format beginning with the March 27, 2020 edition.  Mike previews a youth-created special issue that will be published in April.

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In this episode, Managing Editor Mike Jackson and Sarah discuss the young comfort dog featured on the front page of the February 27 edition. Erving is trying do the math on pay raises promised to town employees. Sarah asks Mike about this week's editorial on national politics. PLUS non sequiturs on headlines and stopping the presses for a typo.

Izzy Vachula-Curtis discusses her Montague Reporter column where she writes about books and interviews authors.  Izzy's most recent column, where she interviews the author of A Match Made in Mehendi, Nandini Bajpai, was published in the February 20 edition of the Montague Reporter.

An audio postcard from Gill as Sarah and Annabel Levine distribute the Montague Reporter.