Re: Weather cancellations

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

On 9 Mar 2001,  Chris Adams wrote:

> It's possible that things have changed since I was there, but once was the
> time that Channel 7 received all their cancellation notices from WRKO. I
> was at WRKO, and throughout the winter, part of my job was to compile the
> cancellations, and make sure the lists got faxed to Channel 7. That was
> five years ago or so, and things could have changed...
 
Channel 7 used to advertize the fact that they had the WRKO list.  As one 
storm approached, on a date that I had a trial scheduled, I asked and 
found out that the Massachusetts trial courts announce cancellations on 
WRKO (or at least they did at the time).  So I was able to get the word by 
watching channel 7, too.

Now, they apparently do their own cancellations, with the result that they 
don't carry information about court cancellations.  I had a pre-trial 
conference in Worcester on Tuesday.  By phone, I ascertained that the 
court office was open on Monday, but they were being told that they would 
be closed Tuesday.  I verified that Tuesday by finding that nobody was 
answering the clerk's office phone.

I suppose I could have listened to WRKO, but I tend to get my news from 
television these days more than radio.


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