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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="128"] Cairo: High 55F; low 39F.[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="125"] Catskill: High 57; low 41F.[/caption]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

READ TEMPERATURE IN HUDSON: On thermometer in Studio A.
FAR LEFT:The temperature on the far left is from the Hawthorne Valley Farm Weather Page.
MIDDLE TEMP: Cairo from Weather Underground page.
FAR RIGHT: Catskill from Weather Underground page.

Local weather forecast.
Today's forecast is specific to Catskill, in Greene County:

Today: Chance of drizzle before 8 a.m., then chance of showers, mainly after 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy. High near 59; low around 39.


The outlook for the next three days:

Thursday: Sunny. High near 60. Increasing clouds overnight. Low around 39.
Friday: A chance of showers, mainly between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy. High near 59. Mostly clear overnight. Low around 30.
Saturday: Sunny. High near 56. Mostly cloudy overnight. Low around 44.


Sunrise today: 7:03 a.m.
Sunset today: 6:21 p.m.
Length of the day: 11 hrs., 18 min.

Town meetings

Today is the second Wednesday of the month.
(WGXC suggests you call ahead to confirm meeting time and location.)

VILLAGE OF ATHENS Board meets at 6:30 p.m at the Athens Community Center, 2 First St., Athens (945-1551).
CLERMONT Planning Board meets at Town Hall at 7 p.m. at 1795 Route 9, Clermont (537-6868).
COLUMBIA COUNTY holds a full Board of Supervisors meeting at 7:30 p.m. at 401 State St. in Hudson.
COPAKE Resource Advisory Committee meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 230 Mt. View Road, Copake (329-1234).
GHENT Planning Board Application meeting and Zoning Board of Appeals meeting, 7 p.m. both at Town Hall, 2306 State Route 66, Ghent (392-4644).
HUDSON Planning Committee meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson (828-1030).
JEWETT Town meeting at 7 p.m., at Municipal Bldg. 3547 Co. Rt. 23C (263-4626).
KINDERHOOK Town’s 9 & 9H Corridor Committee meets at 7 p.m. at at Town Hall, 4 Church St, Niverville (784-2233).
KINDERHOOK Village Board meeting and budget hearing, 7 p.m. at 6 Chatham Street, Kinderhook (758-9882).

Programming Notes


6 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.: WGXC programming for the day ahead


6 a.m.: WGXC Morning Show Hosted by Philip Grant. Morning news, music, interviews features and agriculture reporting. Call in with your views at 518-828-0290.
8 a.m.: Democracy Now! hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
9 a.m. WGXC Morning Show continues with local news, events, music and more. Philip Grant, host.
10 a.m.: @Issue hosted by Victor Mendolia
11 a.m.: Al Jazeera English
12 p.m. (noon): The Schoemer Show hosted by Karen Schoemer
2 p.m.: The Work Show: October Harvest This month's edition of The Work Show is all about working the harvest. Those interviewed about their working lives, both as workers and employers, include Jimmy Story of Story's Farm in Kiskatom, Greene County; Rande and Chris Loken of Love Apple Orchard in West Ghent, Columbia County (recently sold to Frances Greenberger, of Art Omi fame); and Laura Lacouer of Rural Migrant Ministry, based in Dutchess County, but serving migrant and rural workers throughout the Hudson Valley, Catskills and western New York. Music includes a piece from Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne, sung by soprano Victoria de los Angeles; King Harvest by The Band; Mir Stanke, a harvest song sung by the Bulgarian Television Women's Choir; and Wildegeeses, from Michael Hurley and Ida. The show is hosted and produced by Paul Smart.
3:30 p.m.: Radio Explosion
4 p.m.: WGXC Afternoon Show: Mail the Horse makes grunge gospel/country rock music from a basement in Brooklyn. In advance of their performance at the Spotty Dog in Hudson Wed. night, members of the band will drop by the Catskill studio for a chat. And, as usual, local news and events offered by Ron Diamondstein, Jill Sutton, and Peter Krug. Broadcast from the Catskill Community Center.
6 p.m.: Al Jazeera English
6;30 p.m.: Free Speech Radio News
7 p.m.: Live Congressional Debate: Schreibman v. Gibson Thanks to a livestream from The Daily Freeman, WGXC will broadcast the first debate between Republican incumbent Chris Gibson and his Democratic challenger Julian Schreibman, candidates in the 19th Congressional District race. The debate will take place at M. Clifford Miller Middle School in Lake Katrine. Gibson is a first-term Congressman from Kinderhook (Columbia Co.), and Schreibman is an attorney in private practice from Stone Ridge (Ulster Co.). Tune in to this live broadcast, courtesy of The Daily Freeman newspaper.
10 p.m.: Vinyl Rundown hosted by Chris Bishop.

Midnight to 5:59 a.m.: Free103point9 Transmission Arts overnight

Sasha Pearl; Mail the Horse
Oct. 10, 2012: 8 p.m. (Live)
Oct. 11, 2012: 2 a.m. Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be broadcast live on free103point9 Online Radio and will also air Thu. Oct. 11 at midnight on WGXC 90.7-FM, hours after the show.

Mail the Horse,/a> makes grunge gospel/folk music in a basement in Brooklyn, NY. Mike Amidon, Brendan Smith, and Michael Hesslein are the members.

Sasha Pearl is a member of Pocatello, and her solo work features mini guitar and her voice.