Ray Gagnon zoomed in with Courtney Porter, school social worker & homeless liaison for SAU 6. We discussed potential tramua caused by Covid 19, remote learning, struggles & successes of students in SAU 6, internet access challenges & where students / families can access wifi, and lots more.

Mary Maxfield & Lisa Ferrigno from the Jake Maxfield Connection are on discussing their new community project called "Helping Hands 2020."  This is the JMC's way of giving back to our local business community, educators, and school children.  We talk about how the JMC purchased gift certificates from dozens of local businesses.  These gift certificates will be raffled off to local Newport School District employees, who could be teachers, janitors, bus drivers, para professionals, etc.  We discuss the struggles with remote learning, how both ladies (who are also educators) are handling remote learning, the struggles that parents are feeling, and lots more.  You can learn more about the JMC by clicking their website.  https://www.jakemaxfield.org/

Newport Police Chief Brent Wilmot is on discussing Brent's folk's birthdays & Mother's Day this weekend, my age that I hope to live to,  drug trade & drug travel during Covid 19, worries about drug and alcohol abuse during isolation, clean up behind Dollar General in Newport on Saturday, being careful when cleaning up not to pick up one-pot meth labs or discarded needles, and much more.

PJ Lovely is on discussing Covid 19 around the world, going out biking right now, fishing, how the Newport Shooting League might look this year with Covid 19, the way Covid 19 may affect summer Day Camp with the Rec, Rec events moved because of the pandemic, PJ going out to check the town line of Newport, and more.

Joe Osgood is back in his normal time slot, as he is home from his winter in Florida.  Joe still zoom'ed in at first...then used the phone because of a bad connection.  We talked about his take on Covid 19, precautions he takes, going out in public, how his trip was on the way back from Florida, the politics of Covid 19, Trump and much more.

Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase in on discussing his new Wednesday time slot, Covid 19 - the virus in Manchester, Derry and Nashua, testing center in Claremont, fatal fire Tuesday night in Claremont, the announcement of the comfort dog's name, and more.

After David Fuller wrapped up with us (see previous podcast) we had more of Kevin Onnela to go! We talked Cinco De Mayo, Kevin having to work today, discussion about Sullivan County / Town of Newport letters to the public, 1010 WINS & other radio, a thank you from the Newport Senior Center, prisoners being released because of Covid, Covid testing, Murder Hornets, and lots more.

Kevin Onnela is on and after not being prepared to even start, we got the show running. Kevin asks about Ben Fuller's song Spark, and who's farm he was talking about....and then Ben's Dad David called in! So we talked to David Fuller for about a half hour about Ben's music, where the song Spark came from, cattle farming, meat shortage during Covid 19, farms dumping milk, and lots more farming talk.

Eddie is in the studio, Wayne called in. We talked  about the Coronavirus, murder hornets now invading America, lots of motorcycles on the roads, different places & events getting shut down, hot rods for sale, going out to eat, and more.

David Lantz from MJ Harrington is on discussing Mother's Day, business during Covid 19, how Harrington's is going to operate with curbside pickup & phone orders, what Dave's staff can do to create a special piece of jewelry for Mother's day and more.  Plus we talk about working with gold, silver and platinum, did the Covid 19 economic downturn change the price of precious metals, do people still wear copper, and much more.