"We'll now have totally accessible space for studios, a meeting room, a media library as well as access to Mixed Company theater upstairs, for broadcast events."
WBCR, a low-power FM radio station, began in 2005 through a grass-roots community group seeking to create independent, locally grown programming. Its home had been the basement of the Pink Cloud Gallery at 195 Main St., a small space without handicap accessibility.
The station is overseen by a board of directors and supported by community fundraising, events and donations. Talk shows, interviews, comedy, poetry, bilingual shows and news are interspersed with a
range of music programs, from jazz to rock to classical.
Joan Ackerman, of New Marlborough, who has been staging her plays for years at the Granary building, recently bought the property she'd been leasing.
The ground-floor space was the original home of the Berkshire Co-op Market, which moved several years ago to a new home on Bridge Street.
Ackerman uses the top floor of the building for her theater and has been lining up tenants, including a Pilates instructor.
More information about WBCR can be found online at www.berkshireradio.com.
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