WJFF - The Local Edition

Guest: Roz Burke, Executive Director of Wayne County Children & Youth Services and Kelsey Fasshauer, Wayne County Children and Youth Caseworker

Every week we check in with Wayne County, to see what is new and what is happening.

This week, we will be talking about foster care in Wayne County, and here to give us some insight into that is Roz Burke, Executive Director of Wayne County Children & Youth Services, and Kelsey Fasshauer, a Wayne County Children and Youth Caseworker – Guest: Loreen Gebelein, Sullivan County, Director Center for Workforce Development

Keeping on the local government theme, Every week, we check in with the Sullivan County Government to see whats going on and to meet new employees at the government center.
This week, WJFFs Patricio Robayo spoke to Loreen Gebelein, Sullivan County, Director Center for Workforce Development

Guest: Owen Walsh, The River Reporter  – Guest: James B. Huntington, host, WJFFs WorkShift Live!

Guest: Robert Maier, Eagle's Nest

Recently, Gov. Cuomo announced new rules when it comes to wedding venues.
Starting on March 15, wedding venues can take place but only at half capacity, and up to 150 people.

Furthermore, everyone who attends must get tested for COVID-19 and the local health department must approve the event. – Guest: Sullivan County Democrat Special

Staff Reporter for the Sullivan County Democrat, Isabel Braverman, went inside the vaccine clinic at SUNY Sullivan on last week and she spoke with Sullivan County Public Health Director Nancy McGraw and an Eldred School teacher who received her first dose.

In this special podcast episode of the Sullivan County Democrat, She gives a peek at what it was like at the vaccine. – Guest: Diana McCarthy & Marjorie Linko, Liberty Public Library

Peter L. Dumont was a Union soldier who was born in Schoharie County and had moved to Utica as a teenager and he sent eighty detailed letters home to his wife Clarinda, writing with candor about military life and sketching pictures.

The letters were given to their daughter, who passed them down through the generations in a cardboard box marked War Letters from My Father to My Mother.

Now, over 150 years later, their great-great-great granddaughter Diana McCarthy has transcribed the letters and will present their stories for the first time via Zoom at the Liberty Public Library.

Guest: WJFF's International Women's Day

oin our moderator Jen Metzger, former NY State Senator, as she discusses "Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID 19 world" with special guests:
-Vanessa Green, CEO, and Founder Call Blackline
-KT Tobin, Executive Director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz
-Juanita Sarmiento, Youth Economic Group Coordinator, Rural & Migrant Ministry

Guest: Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID 19 world

WJFF Radio Catskill presents a one hour Local Edition focused on International Women's Day.

Join our moderator Jen Metzger, former NY State Senator, as she discusses "Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID 19 world" with special guests:
Vanessa Green, CEO and Founder, Call Blackline
KT Tobin, Executive Director of the Benjamin Center at SUNY New Paltz
Juanita Sarmiento, Youth Economic Group Coordinator, Rural & Migrant Ministry – Guest: Lori A. Rivenburgh, Executive Director Wallkill Boys & Girls Club

How can summer camps reopen during a pandemic?

Guest: Jessica Wisneski, New York Working Families Party

Recently, New York Working Families Party released a statement calling for state legislature to commence its own investigation into the Governors nursing home cover-up, assert control over the budget process, and pass a budget that reverses this Governors decade of cuts to services and tax breaks for the wealthy, raises significant revenue, and addresses excluded workers and working families needs in this ongoing health and economic crisis. – Guest: Sariah Park, Artist

Can printmaking and weaving be used as tools to unmake waste? This is the central question in Sariah Parks most recent body of work Threadbare.

Sariah Park is an interdisciplinary artist with over fifteen years of experience in fiber, print, and fashion design.

Park made the works in this series by upcycling and repurposing dead stock and damaged printed textiles, and by printing with waste to create large-scale works on paper.

Parks work has been featured and sold around the world with select retailers like Neiman Marcus, Louis Boston, Creatures of Comfort, and has been featured in Hyperallergic, the Wall Street Journal, Womens Wear Daily, Vogue, Elle, and Harpers Bazaar.

Her new exhibition at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance opened on February 13 and will be displayed until March 27.

Guest: Mary Beth Wood, Executive Director Wayne Economic Development Corporation

Every week we check in with Wayne County, to see what is new and what is happening.

This week, we will be talking about Wayne Countys Hospitality Grant Program, and here to give us some insight into that is Mary Beth Wood, the executive director of the Wayne Economic Development Corporation. – Guest: Isabella Rossellini
, Actor & Erin Dudley, Executive Director of The Hurleyville Performing Arts Center

SEX & CONSEQUENCES is a 40-minute comical but scientifically accurate show on biodiversity and the multiple ways animals reproduce and have babies. and will be debuting

Hurleyville Performing Arts Center will present Isabella Rossellinis Sex and Consequences with conservation partner Wildlife Conservation Society.

Sex and Consequences kick off HPAC Connects new 2021 program NATURECULTURES.

WJFFs Tim Bruno spoke to Isabella Rossellini and Executive Director of The Hurleyville Performing Arts Center Erin Dudley.

Guest: Philippe Abraham, Secretary-Treasurer NYSUT

New York State United Teachers, the NYSUT, announced a new state legislative agenda intended to promote racial and social justice in education, calling for funding in the upcoming state budget to help improve school climates, foster implicit bias training programs for educators and diversify the education workforce.

WJFFs Patricio Robayo spoke to Philippe Abraham, Secretary-Treasurer for NYSUT – Guest: James B. Huntington, host, WJFFs WorkShift Live!

We now turn our eye to the economy, and here to give us the latest on what is going on in the economic world and help us make sense of it all is Jim Huntington, host of WJFFs WorkShift Live!

Guest: Meaghan Mullally-Gorr Sullivan 180 Director of Health and Wellness

Every month we are checking in with Sullivan 180 to what is new and what is going on.

According to Sullivan 180, Sullivan County struggles at the bottom of the county health rankings each year, our children and youth continue to pay the price with poor health outcomes.

Sullivan 180 wants to change that and has created Empowering a Healthier Generation Program is to engage Sullivan County School Districts in promoting health and wellness among students, staff, parents, and their communities.

WJFFs Patricio Robayo spoke to Meaghan Mullally-Gorr, Sullivan 180 Director of health and wellness about the program, here is that conversation. – Guest: Jessica Barkl, SUNY Sullivan Associate Professor of Theater and Speech

SUNY Sullivan will hold a world premiere of Shakespeare in Isolation co-written by Jessica Lpez-Barkl and Nick Lpez.

Drafted during the height of the COVID-19 crisis, Shakespeare in Isolation is an inventive mash-up of Shakespearean most dramatic, thrilling, and humorous moments.

The production will be performed via YouTube Live from March 5 -13, Wednesday -Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM.

Guest: Bill Cutler, Sullivan County Recycling Coordinator

Recently, County legislators approved a resolution to move forward with a composting initiative. Currently, the county transports 30 percent or 24 tons to Seneca Meadows Landfill.
After receiving a grant to do a study of the countys waste management system, the county is eyeing the Monticello landfill for a composting site. The details of the initiative are being worked out.
Composting helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improves soil quality, and can control erosion. – Guest: Denise Muise Wild, Laboratory Manager Middletown Medical

On the Front Line, is a multi-part series where WJFFs Patricio Robayo talks to nurses, doctors, and healthcare workers who are on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic.

He sat down virtually with Denise Muise, a Laboratory Manager for Middletown Medical.