Western Mass radio

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

I've been out here in the Amherst area since yesterday afternoon.  
Last night I noticed a station at 88.9 doing classical music.   
Checking some printouts that I have from the Boston Radio Archives, I 
finally identified it as WJMJ, Hartford, owned by St. Thomas 
Seminary.It's strong enough to come in well on my car radio, but it 
doesn't come in at all inside my hotel room, even with my Sony 2010 
radio.  

At night, they seem to play classical music continuously.  Tonight, 
they didn't even do an ID between pieces.  During the day, they seem 
to be playing Beautiful Music, a little more sweet than WJIB, with 
ABC news on the hour.  Their legal ID was WJMJ 88.9 hartford, then 
they named a couple of other frequencies in other locations, without 
giving other call letters.  I heard a few IDs on the hour, and that 
was their uniform practice.

The Northampton newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, has been 
telling the story of Tony Long, who recently lost his job as a daily 
talk show host on WHMP.  So he decided to run for mayor of 
Northampton.  Trouble is, he lived in Hatfield, one town over.  He 
claimed to have moved to Northampton on 26 July, and that same day, 
he registered to vote in the city and took out nomination papers.


Apparently, his wife and children still live at his home in Hatfield. 
He claims that he moved in with his campaign manager, and that's 
where he sleeps.  If elected mayor, he says he will move his wife and 
children to Northampton.

His nomination papers were challenged on the basis that he didn't 
really live in Northampton, and the Board of Registrars of Voters 
held a hearing to decide the matter.  After the hearing, they 
unanimously decided that he was a resident of Northampton and 
therefore validly registered to vote there.  And that is all that he 
needs to be eligible to run for mayor.

My efforts to get this 386 laptop to connect to my ISP through the 
hotel's phone jack is a story in itself, but I'll spare you that.

Tomorrow, I leave for an amateur astronomy convention in Vermont.  By 
the latest weather reports, it sounds as though we'll have lousy 
weather.


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 A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                                 617.367.0468
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