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MCCI Board MCTV is looking for new Board Members! Read the letter to the community here. MCTV is a "project" of Montague Community Cable, Inc. (MCCI). MCCI attempts to reserve one Board seat for each of the five villages in Montague with the rest of the seats considered "At Large" for a maximum total of eleven Directors. We currently have three seats available. Please contact us if you are interested in joining the board.
Anne Harding, President
Anne Harding has a long standing belief that the process by which changes are made is sometimes as important as the changes themselves. To that end, although a non-resident, she attended some of the public meetings surrounding the controversial awarding of the cable contract in 2001. Anne bought a house in Turners Falls in 2004, is mostly unpacked and is beginning to be more involved in the community. She has a variety of work experience in academic, non-profit, small business and corporate environments. Anne’s positions have included: teacher with Nauset Head Start; administrative director for the River Valley Performing Arts Center; marketing, publicity and LAN management for the Northfield Mountain Environmental & Recreation Center; contract manager for Systems, Software, Support; and trade spending analyst for Light Life Foods. She is currently employed by Northeast Utilities dividing her time between the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station and Cabot Station in Turners Falls. Anne also has a small fiber arts business. A resident of Bernardston from 1989-2003, Anne has a consistent and varied history of long term community service: parent volunteer and PTO member at the Bernardston Elementary School (7 yrs); editor of Bernardston Town Newsletter (5 yrs); teacher and coordinator for the Bernardston Instructional and Family Swim programs (6 yrs); and chairperson of the Bernardston Cultural Council (6 yrs). She believes in conservative fiscal oversight of public monies and was active in budget administration with most of the above groups. Anne is currently the recording secretary for the Pioneer Valley Regional School District and a volunteer with Franklin County Big Brother/Big Sister.
Donna Festinger is a 20+ yr. resident of Greenfield with many years experience as a local producer for GCTV, having produced the Greenfield High School field hockey games videos for the past five years. She became active at MCTV in the fall of 2006 editing a DVD for the field hockey team. Donna has worked as a literacy teacher and substitute teacher in the Greenfield elementary and middle schools since 2003. She has many ideas for new shoots of local interest with a deep love for Turners Falls and especially the Connecticut River, which she enjoys as a boater and swimmer. She also has an enthusiasm for volunteering as a camera operator and producer for our local cable TV stations.
Michael "Mik" Muller moved to Montague Center in 1999 and joined the embattled MCCI Board in July of 2001 at the request of Tom Adams -- then the interim Station Manager of MCTV. Michael comes to the board with a great deal of experience in local media and community building: for two years he had a weekly public access TV show on MNN in New York City called “Treebranch is On the Air”; for a year he had a weekly radio show on WQMC college radio while attending Queens College (NYC); and since 1993 he has run various community bulletin board systems (BBS) and web sites, including MontagueMA.net, which he started just a few months after moving to town. The online system Michael started in 1993, Treebranch Online Service, was a BBS (and then a website, and then a weekly cable TV show) that brought together NYC residents interested in local environmental issues, and hosted several local environmental organizations online, such as Neighborhood Open Space Coalition (who now owns the service and the cable show), City Parks Foundation, Friends of Clearwater, and Ecofest. Affiliations: Michael is the Lecturer (Program Director) of the Montague Grange; is the owner / operator of both the MontagueMA.net and FiveCol-Soc.net community websites, and the admin of the Franklin County Publication Archive website; is a Montague Town Meeting member for Precinct 1; is on the Franklin County Tech School’s Technical Advisory Committee; is also a contributing writer and photographer for the Montague Reporter, as well as its volunteer Technical Administrator; is on the Montague Greening committee, and is the current president of the Montague Business Association. Michael also created and managed the Montague Soapbox Derby, an annual event in September, as well as the Mutton & Mead Medieval Festival, an annual event in June. He is self-employed as the owner / president of Montague WebWorks, a webware firm based in Montague and Northampton. He is also the author of the software this website runs on, called WebWorks Community Server.
Michael Langknecht lives in Montague and has a business in Turners Falls. He has been self-employed cabinetmaker for the last 16 years. Michael is a Montague Town Meeting member; a member of the GMRSD School Committee (where he chairs the personnel subcommittee); he co-chairs the Elementary Study Group for the GMRSD; co-chairs the Sheffield School Community Council; is on the MCCI Board (since 2001); and on the board of The Brick House Community Resource (since 1999); he is the co-founder, past President / Vice President / Treasurer and current Secretary of Critical Mass: Art and Crafts of Western Mass., Inc., a 501c(6) organization that supports and promotes the development of artist and artisan based businesses in Western Mass; and a member of the 3rd Street Village Arts Advisory Council. Michael is on the MCCI Board because of his strong belief in community integration. To be strong, healthy, and functional, community agencies, organizations and institutions must be well networked. A town’s public access cable provider must be an active participant in, and supporter of, that network.
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