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Our Town Interviews were a HUGE Success

Posted by Whitney on 10/26 at 12:42 PM

WPSU interviewed 23 individuals about the stories they videotaped for Our Town: Curwensville.

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Our Town: Curwensville Pre-production & Story Selection Meeting

Posted by Whitney on 10/19 at 12:34 PM

On Tuesday, October 13, Our Town: Curwensville volunteer videographers met with WPSU staff to discuss the upcoming television program. 

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Curwensville to be Focus of “Our Town” Production—Volunteers Needed

Posted by Whitney on 10/08 at 10:19 AM

WPSU has announced that Curwensville will be featured in the station’s “Our Town” series. The “day-in-the-life” one-hour video scrapbook will focus on the people, places and happenings of Curwensville, Pa., as seen through the eyes of its residents.

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An Amazing Evening for WPSU and the Sheffield Area

Posted by Charlie G on 09/17 at 03:53 PM

Last Thursday night, I stood in front of a TV camera in WPSU’s studios and
was awed by the generosity and enthusiasm of the friendly folks in the
Sheffield area. We spent the evening airing the locally created production
“Our Town: Sheffield and the Valley” and invited viewers to become members
of WPSU-TV and receive a DVD of the program. The program was also repeated
the Sunday, the 13th.

The response was astounding!

More than 230 pledges were called in during the two broadcasts, contributing
over $18,676. to support their favorite public TV station, WPSU.

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The Volunteers in Sheffield Preview the Our Town Show

Posted by Charlie G on 09/02 at 03:31 PM

Last night the volunteers in Sheffield got to see the finished version of Our Town: Sheffield for the first time. Everyone assembled in the high school auditorium. I had a chance to thank everyone for all of their work.  Dick Knupp has been working on the show for weeks. Everyone wondered out it would turn out.

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The Our Town: Sheffield & the Valley show is being edited at WPSU

Posted by Charlie G on 08/17 at 03:24 PM

Dick Knupp is busy at work at WPSU editing the community volunteer’s videos and adding their comments to create the many different stories that will make up Our Town: Sheffield and the Valley. We are more than half way finished. There are photos of Dick working in the editing room in the photo gallery for Our Town: Sheffield. The show will be broadcast on Thursday, September 10th at 8pm on WPSU and wpsu.org. People will be able to see it on TV in Pennsylvania and on their computers anywhere in the world, that night. Let Sheffield fans know that they can see the show.

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A Great Day in Sheffield and the Valley

Posted by Charlie G on 07/29 at 06:07 PM

Last Saturday we had a great time meeting and interviewing residents of Sheffield and the Valley. The “Our Town” crew went to the Valley Voice office at 9am only to find lot of enthusiastic volunteers. They were coming to drop off or pick up videos and schedule an interview later in the day.

After a while the crew and I left to take some video of the area that will be used for the introduction of the show. Then we went to set up the equipment for the interviews. Many thanks to Susie Curtian for allowing us to use her home for the interviews all day. We also had lunch and some great cookies.

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Sheffield and the Valley ready to go into production

Posted by Charlie G on 07/22 at 04:52 PM

Last Thursday night over thirty people came together to decide what stories should be told about the Sheffield area on “Our Town: Sheffield and the Valley.” There was lots of enthusiasm from everyone.
On July 25th the crew from WPSU will be in town to record interviews with the volunteer story tellers who have recorded videos about the area. After we do the interviews we will take the volunteer videos and their comments and edit them together into segments. We will edit through most of August and then preview the show for the volunteers. After we make any corrections needed and will broadcast the program on Thursday, September 10th at 8pm. Viewers will be able to see the program on WPSU-TV and on the internet at wpsu.org. If you know people who live out of the area, let them know they can watch it on their computer at the same time people in Pennsylvania can see it.
There are more pictures of town and the planning meeting in the photo gallery of the website. Here is a list of story ideas for the show.

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Sheffield to be Focus of the Next “Our Town” Production-Volunteers Needed

Posted by Charlie G on 07/13 at 12:34 PM

Public television station WPSU has announced that the Sheffield area will be featured in the station’s “Our Town” series. The “day-in-the-life” one-hour video scrapbook will focus on the people, places and happenings of Sheffield, PA, and the valley communities near it, as seen through the eyes of its residents. As part of the project a new web page has been created to highlight the Sheffield area.  The web address is http://wpsu.org/tv/ourtown/sheffield.

Community members from the Sheffield area are invited to attend a volunteer planning meeting to learn about the project. The meeting will be held at the Sheffield Fire Hall at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 16th and anyone interested in the production is invited to attend.

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Hollidaysburg Enjoys Their Favorite Town

Posted by Charlie G on 06/23 at 11:37 AM

Over 100 requests have come in for the Our Town: Hollidaysburg DVD. We even received a call from Hong Kong. We heard from a lot of people who enjoyed the program and learned some new things about Hollidaysburg. Thanks to all of those who came over to the WPSU studio to help answer the phones. There is a new picture in the photo gallery of us when we were on the air, with all of you working hard and me talking away.  The show is available to watch on the “Our Town” website so you can watch it again or let those who missed it know that they can see it. People can still order their own copy of the show.

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Our Town: Hollidaysburg to Premier Thursday, June 4th at 8pm

Posted by Charlie G on 06/02 at 12:10 PM

Several Hollidaysburgers will travel to the WPSU studios this Thursday, June 4th to help present the 50th program in the series, Our Town: Hollidaysburg. They will be answering phone calls from friends and neighbors back in Hollidaysburg calling in to get a DVD copy of the program that was created by volunteers from the community. The DVDs are available to viewers who make a membership pledge to support public television station WPSU. For a pledge of $75 you will receive one DVD of the show and for $120 pledge you will get two DVDs. Our Town: Hollidaysburg will not only be broadcast on WPSU-TV, but also on the web. Watch it live online at 8pm tonight.

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Everyone Enjoyed the Our Town: Hollidaysburg Preview

Posted by Charlie G on 06/02 at 11:35 AM

On Tuesday May 26th at Jack’s Colonial Hotel Grille just under fifty people viewed the almost completed version of Our Town: Hollidaysburg. The attendees were very complimentary of the program. We previewed the show so the volunteers can see their segments and so we can make sure all the the video is in the right place. After the show ran we discussed a few changes that needed to be made and enjoyed the refreshment made by John Seely’s team at the Grille.

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Our Town: Hollidaysburg

Posted by Charlie G on 05/20 at 11:57 AM

Dick Knupp, the Our Town editor is nearing completion on the Hollidaysburg program. You can see pictures of him hard at work. Click on Gallery on the Our Town website. We will be previewing the program for the volunteers and their families on May 26th at 7pm in the dining room of Jack’s Capitol Hotel Grille. This is a private showing, but everyone will get to see it on Thursday, June 4th at 8pm on WPSU and on this website. So tell people everywhere that they will be able to watch on their computers at wpsu.org You can also download a promotional poster for the show at http://wpsu.org/assets/pdf/ourtown/hollidaysburg_poster.pdf.

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Our Town Hollidaysburg Editing

Posted by Charlie G on 04/30 at 03:19 PM

Thank you to the several volunteers wrote about their experiences working on Our Town: Hollidaysburg. Dick Knupp our editor is working hard on all of the features. I will post a photo of him hard at work in a couple of days. It was so great having so many people come out and help with the show. It was a perfect day.

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A Great Day In Hollidaysburg

Posted by Charlie G on 04/21 at 01:18 PM

On Saturday, April 18th Hollidaysburg came to life with lots of volunteer producers and videographers as they created the elements that will be assembled into Our Town: Hollidaysburg, the public television program for WPSU. Everyone was wonderful to work with. I particularly want to thank Sarah Piper from the Community Partnership for helping getting things organized, Adam Cruse of Smart Media for all of the video that he shot for the show, and John Seely for feeding the volunteers and TV crew.

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