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At our annual meeting on June 23rd, we announced the recipients of this year's awards. Each year, we give out 4 such "Producer Awards": Producer of the Year, Youth Programming, Community Service / Impact, and Outstanding Achievement.

Watch the short video of the awards ceremony here:

And the winner's are...

Producer of the Year- Amy Mosher, for her dedicated coverage of the 2021 Green Mountain Union HS soccer season. In total, Amy recorded 15 games, for both the girls’ and boys’ teams (the boys went on to play in the State championship!).

Youth Programming: For the 2nd consecutive year, local librarian Kata Welch is our “Youth Programming Producer of the Year”. Kata is the most prolific producer & host of children’s programming for Okemo Valley TV. She brings an energetic & entertaining style to “Story Time”, reading from a wide selection of children’s books. She is leaving her post as the Cavendish Town librarian in August, but don’t worry – she’s not going far. She will take over as the school librarian at Chester-Andover Elementary.

Outstanding Achievement: Dr. Linda Thomson, a clinical hypnotherapist, is also a children’s book author. Her series “Harry the Hypnopotamus” is aimed at helping kids cope with stress & anxiety using techniques of hypnosis. The latest edition, written just a few months ago is “Harry Goes to Save the Children of Ukraine”, with illustrations from Jane Hart and read in Ukrainian by Svetlana Phillips, a local resident who is from Ukraine. The book reading was recorded in our studio and the production was shared with humanitarian service agencies overseas, with the intent of supporting children who have been displaced and whose lives have been upset by the ongoing war. For this effort, Dr. Thomson received the Outstanding Achievement award.

Community Impact: For the last 2 years, yoga instructor Liza Eaton has been offering virtual sessions, held over video conferencing. She submits the recordings to us for sharing with the wider community & we've received abundant positive feedback about carrying Yoga with Liza, which is evidence that she’s had an impact. For this, Liza received this year’s Community Service Award.

We teamed up once again with SAPA-TV on the coverage of Green Mountain Union High School's graduation. Productions like this in our shared region, make for great collaborative projects. We streamed & televised it live.

Both SAPA-TV & Okemo Valley TV will be televising it on our channels - as always, check the listings for times (ours are available HERE), and we'll each be making the video available on our websites for viewing on demand as well.Great job, team. And congrats to the Class of 2022!

Our annual Town Meeting coverage has begun; we are covering five annual Town Meetings and 2 annual School District meetings. This year, as local Towns are transitioning back to normalcy with their Town Meeting formats, there are some deviations from the norm. Traditionally, Town Meeting Day in Vermont is the 1st Tuesday in March (which is March 1st this year). However, due to the ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Legislature has once again made an allowance for Towns to postpone their dates if they wish to do so. Of the Towns we cover, both Cavendish & Ludlow have decided to do this.  And none of the 5 that we cover are holding voting from the floor; instead, voting will be done by Australian Ballot in each Town. So, the meetings themselves are informational meetings only. All of them are being held as "hybrids"; that is, having both in-person and remote participation. We have been supporting the Town government bodies with the AV services for hybrid meetings for well over a year now... and we have the workflow & technology down.

We are televising all of the annual Town Meetings live (check for schedules)  and will also be streaming them live on our You Tube channel.

Our Annual Meeting coverage is as follows (links to the video recordings are provided for those that are available) : 

 - Ludlow-Mt. Holly Unified Union School District (2/22)

- Green Mountain Unified School District (2/24)

- Andover Town Info. Meeting (2/25)

- Plymouth Town Info. Meeting (2/28)

- Mt. Holly Town Info. Meeting (2/28)

- Ludlow Village Info. Meeting (3/21)

- Ludlow Village Annual Meeting & Vote (3/22)

- Cavendish Town Info. Meeting (3/28)

- Ludlow Town Info. Meeting (4/4)