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NewsChannel 13 Meteorologist Reid Kisselback provides the regional forecast for Sunday, April 18th, 2021. 

It’s not often you get to write a review that is also a preview. However, since the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s world premiere of the musical “Row” has just been released by Audible Theatre and almost simultaneously with the release it was announced it would be given a live production at the festival this summer, this is a two-for-one recommendation for the show.

The Caroga Arts Collective is planning a return to in-person events this summer. The 2021 Caroga Lake Music Festival will run from July 24th to August 22nd and is planned to feature a wider variety of performances than years past.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched through Albany Saturday evening, returning to the city police department’s South Station, where on Wednesday officers clashed with protesters.

There’s buzz in the world of bugs. Soon, billions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground after 17 years.

NewsChannel 13 Meteorologist Reid Kisselback delivers his regional forecast for Saturday, April 17th, 2021. 

We lost a friend, almost a family member, Tuesday afternoon. It’s not what you’re probably thinking. It wasn’t a person. It wasn’t even a pet. It was an appliance – our loyal, broad shouldered early Eighties 40” six-burner, double oven, double broiler American Crown gas range.

The Orange County district attorney says his office is providing funding for body cameras for village police officers.

  Each weekday morning, WAMC’s President and CEO and Political Observer, Alan Chartock, and Roundtable Host Joe Donahue are joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. 

On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing the most important issues of the week, giving you a chance to catch up, ponder or reconsider.

(Airs 04/16/21 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Criminal justice advocates say they want more reforms for members of Black and Brown communities who are incarcerated at higher rates than white New Yorkers, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on police reform plans around the state, and a proposed hydroelectric project is scrapped after strong opposition.

City officials held a press conference Friday afternoon to give a clearer picture of events that unfurled during a protest in Albany Wednesday evening that turned tense when Black Lives Matter protestors threw water bottles and yelled expletives at police officers and police appeared to spray some protestors.

Newschannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the evening weather forecast for Friday, April 16, 2021.

Business leaders in Massachusetts have launched an urgent lobbying campaign to get Beacon Hill to lower a surprise increase in their unemployment insurance tax bill.

Today on the show we are talking cookies with two bakers who have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic and started a business - Cookie Therapy ALB! Ashley Brown and Faye Jones are on the line to answer your baking questions. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts. 

Now it's your turn. Here are this week's highlights from the WAMC Listener Comment Line. 

More Pittsfield, Massachusetts city councilors have expressed dismay with the school committee’s selection of a new permanent superintendent. 

    Even as teaching and learning was upended last year with the start of the pandemic, the largest school district in western Massachusetts continued to see a decrease in dropouts.

Newschannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Friday, April 16, 2021.

The candidate chosen by Williamstown, Massachusetts to serve as interim town manager has accepted the position.

Trixie Garcia – daughter of Grateful Dead front man and countercultural icon Jerry Garcia – will be in Western Massachusetts Saturday for the East Coast launch of her family’s marijuana brand. The event in the Liberty Easthampton dispensary parking lot is styled in the manner of the sprawling traveling markets that followed the Dead’s tours in their heyday known as Shakedown Street. Garcia spoke with WAMC about how the brand pays homage to her father’s legacy, and her work in the charitable arm of the Grateful Dead organization.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.

Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Siena College Professor of Economics Aaron Pacitti, and Albany County District Attorney David Soares.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the Thursday shooting in which nine people, including the gunman, were killed at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis.

WAMC's David Guistina speaks with Marina Villeneuve of the Associated Press about how New York lawmakers are responding to the state's nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is NewsChannel 13 Meteorologist Paul Caiano's WAMC Regional Forecast: 

Cloudy with rain and wet snow this morning, tapering off to valley rain showers and mountain snow showers. Highs in the lower 40s. An additional 1-3" of snow is possible in the mountains of western New England.

The Celtics squandered most of a 27-point lead in the fourth quarter before Jaylen Brown scored four of his 40 points in the final minute to help them secure a 121-113 victory over the Lakers. Brown made 13 of his first 14 shots and hit three 3-pointers in Boston's fifth win in a row. Talen Horton-Tucker led a 24-2 run by the Lakers that forced Brown and the Boston starters back into the game.

This week on 51%, we hear the untold story of women resistance fighters in Hitler's ghettos.  We also speak with an author about life in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators has approved a bankruptcy court settlement regarding the management of Playland. Legislators who support the revised agreement say it not only leaves the county amusement park in Westchester’s hands, but improves county controls and financial terms.