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Christopher Belmonte
Christopher "Monte" Belmonte (born 1978) is a radio personality in Western Massachusetts known for his fundraising event Monte's March, in its twelfth year in 2021. Belmonte is a program director and morning show host at The River, WRSI, in the 6-10 am slot. He broadcasts while he is on his fundraising march from a portable transmitter in a shopping cart he pushes. The walk takes place over two days, walking 43 miles from Springfield to Greenfield, Massachusetts, with Belmonte often in costume. He is often joined by Congressman Jim McGovern who has marched with him nine out of the last twelve years. His 2020 march raised $614,577 for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. During the COVID pandemic many schools did "solidarity marches," doing local marches while raising money for local food banks. Belmonte also writes about wine for the Valley Advocate. He has been a regular guest bailiff on Judge John Hodgman. He supports other charity projects, raising money for cancer with ...
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WRSI
WRSI (93.9 FM, "93.9 The River") is a radio station licensed to serve Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Saga Communications and licensed to Saga Communications of New England, LLC. It airs an adult album alternative music format. History On July 11, 1977, Ed Skutnik filed an application on behalf of his Company, Green Valley Broadcasting Co., Ltd. to build a new FM station in Greenfield, Massachusetts. A competing application was filed by Poet's Seat Broadcasting, Inc. for the same vacant FM channel (95.3 MHz in Greenfield). After years of hearings and appeals, the FCC ultimately awarded the permit to Green Valley Broadcasting, which began construction in January 1981. WRSI officially went on the air July 26, 1981, with a diverse programming line up, including music from the genres of rock, classical, jazz, new age, folk, world and country. A concerted effort was made to showcase local western Massachusetts musicians. WRSI was the first stereo FM stat ...
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Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the third-largest city in Massachusetts, the fourth-most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence, and the 12th-most populous in the Northeastern United States. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston), had a population of 699,162 in 2020. Springfield was founded in 1636, the first Springfield in the New World. In the late 1700s, during the American Revolution, Springfield was designated by George Washington as the site of the Springfield Armory because of its central location. Subsequently it was the site of Shays' Rebellio ...
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Greenfield, Massachusetts
Greenfield is a city in and the county seat of Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Greenfield was first settled in 1686. The population was 17,768 at the 2020 census. Greenfield is home to Greenfield Community College, the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra, and the Franklin County Fair. The city has a Main Street Historic District containing fine examples of Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian architecture. Greenfield is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Pocumtuck Indians first settled and originally inhabited the Greenfield area. Native American artifacts found in the area have been dated between 7,000 and 9,000 years BCE. The Pocumtucks planted field crops and fished local rivers. Some sources claim that they were wiped out by the Mohawks in 1664 and that the land was left unoccupied. Other sources show that the Pocumtucks joined the Wampanoag chief Metacom in August 1675 in the fight against English encroachment, ...
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Jim McGovern (American Politician)
James Patrick McGovern (born November 20, 1959) is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing since 1997. He is the chair of the House Rules Committee and of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China as well as the co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley. Born and raised in Worcester, McGovern attended Worcester Academy. While in college he worked as a congressional intern and then aide to U.S. Senator George McGovern (to whom he was not related), a two-time presidential candidate for whom he campaigned. From 1981 to 1996 he was a senior staff member for U.S. Representative Joe Moakley. McGovern first ran for Congress in 1994, where he lost in the Democratic primary. He ran again in 1996, defeating Republican incumbent Peter Blute. He has been reelected every two years since then witho ...
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Daily Hampshire Gazette
The ''Daily Hampshire Gazette'' is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, and covering all of Hampshire County, southern towns of Franklin County, and Holyoke. The newspaper prints Monday through Saturday, with the latter labeled "Weekend Edition". As of , it is the longest running daily newspaper in Massachusetts. Sisters and competitors Newspapers of New England, based in Concord, New Hampshire, owns both the ''Gazette'' and the main daily to the north, '' The Recorder'' of Greenfield, Massachusetts. The ''Gazette'' also competes in its own coverage area with '' The Republican'', a regional daily in Springfield. In addition to the daily newspaper, ''Gazette'' newsrooms publish one weekly newspaper serving Northampton's suburbs, based in the newspaper's Northampton building. NNE also owns one regional alternative weekly. * The ''Amherst Bulletin'', published every Friday, with a distribution of 6,400, covers several towns east ...
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Judge John Hodgman
''Judge John Hodgman'' is a weekly, comedy, comedic court show podcast hosted by John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn. The show is distributed online by Maximum Fun. The program features host John Hodgman acting as a judge (with Jesse Thorn as bailiff) adjudicating real-life disputes within a fictional courtroom setting. The cases answer questions like, "Should the kitchen sink's built-in dispenser be filled with dish soap or hand soap?" and "Can you stop family members from using your childhood nickname?" History ''Judge John Hodgman'' was originally a segment of the Maximum Fun podcast ''Jordan, Jesse Go!'' When Hodgman ended his podcast ''Today In The Past'', he began ''Judge John Hodgman'' as a full-fledged podcast. The podcast launched in November 2010, and released its 500th episode in January 2021. Format In each episode, "Judge" John Hodgman hears and renders a judgment on a dispute (often over petty or trivial matters) between two people (calling in via Skype or similar ...
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Turners Falls, Massachusetts
Turners Falls is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Montague in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,512 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its name is generally used as a metonym for the entire town of Montague, for which it is the business district and comprises more than half the population. Geography Turners Falls is located at (42.598943, -72.556809). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and (17.02%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2020, there were 4,512 people, 2,015 households, and 1,153 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 866.0/km (2,239.0/mi). There were 2,145 housing units at an average density of 418.3/km (1,081.4/mi). The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.93% White, 0.74% African American, 0.34% Native American, 0.97% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, ...
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Dorchester, Boston
Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot) is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This Municipal annexation in the United States, dissolved municipality, Boston's largest Neighborhoods in Boston, neighborhood by far, is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods. The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in the Dorset, English county of Dorset, from which History of the Puritans in North America, Puritans emigrated on the ship ''Mary and John (ship), Mary and John'', among others. Founded in 1630, just a few months before the founding of the city of Boston, Dorchester now covers a geographic area approximately equivalent to nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cam ...
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Norton, Massachusetts
Norton is a New England town, town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States, and contains the villages of Norton Center, Massachusetts, Norton Center and Chartley, Massachusetts, Chartley. The population was 19,202 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Home of Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Wheaton College, Norton hosts the Dell Technologies Championship, a golf tournament, tournament of the PGA Tour held annually on the Labor Day holiday weekend at the TPC Boston golf club. History Winnecunnet Lake was an ancient fishing, hunting, and camping site known for thousands of years by Indigenous Pokanoket and Mattakeeset families. In the old days before dams and other obstructions, rivers running gently into the lake and swamplands around it provided canoe routes north to Lake Massapoag and south to the Taunton River. Growing tall in the lowlands along two of Norton’s main waterways—Wading and Rumford—- and continuing further a ...
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American Radio DJs
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ...
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Food Security
Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World Food Security, food security is defined as meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The availability of food irrespective of class, gender or region is another element of food security. There is evidence of food security being a concern many thousands of years ago, with central authorities in ancient China and ancient Egypt being known to release food from storage in times of famine. At the 1974 World Food Conference, the term "food security" was defined with an emphasis on supply; food security is defined as the "availability at all times of adequate, nourishing, diverse, bal ...
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