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The Great Falls Community Broadcasting Company elected its current Board of Directors in June of 2010. A list of the current board members and brief biographies follows.

Gary Smith, President

Mr. Smith owns and operates Fort Apache Studios, a music production and artist management company established in 1986. He has worked with numerous recording artists (Pixies, Tanya Donelly, Juliana Hatfield, and Natalie Merchant among them) as producer, manager, label president or studio owner. Moving the company from Boston to Bellows Falls, VT, in 2002, Smith opened The Windham, a performance venue and studio. Since 2007 he operates from his farm in Walpole, NH, where he also takes care of a donkey and three sheep. Mr. Smith is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Bill Holtz, Vice President

Mr. Holtz is a licensed architect and a member of the AIA, NHAIA and NCARB. His twenty-five years of professional practice so far include residential and commercial projects in over twenty states and Canada. For the past 18 years he has hung his hat at Benson Woodworking Company, a design-build firm in Walpole, NH, as design team leader and co-owner. Recent evening and weekend pro-bono dabbling has included rebuilding from the Alstead flood (Alstead Gazebo and Kmeic's Garage), a single family residence with Habitat for Humanity (Alstead, NH) and part time board member of Main Street Arts (Saxtons River, VT). For the past 2+ years at WOOL he has greatly enjoyed co-producing a weekly radio show, "The Generation Gap", with his teenage daughter..

P. Justin Sterner, Treasurer

Mr. Sterner is the co-owner of Parker Sterner Associates, an independent sales and marketing firm. He's a graduate of the University of Montana with a degree in Finance and is a veteran of the Los Angeles film industry, having been a sales and marketing rep with Panavision for several years.

Bob Ross, Secretary

Mr. Ross was president and principal broker of a Brattleboro, VT real estate company until 2004. He started the Compass School in Westminster and was a founding board member. He is currently co-owner of Augusta Auctions company, a specialty auction house.


Dorothy Read, Director

Ms. Read worked for over a dozen years in the news department of WCFR radio in Springfield, Vt., as a stringer in Bellows Falls, Vermont, covering events and feature assignments in the Rockingham and Walpole, N.H., areas. She was a frequent contributor to wire services. She also served as the bureau chief for the Brattleboro Reformer, the local county newspaper, coordinating municipal, school, and governmental coverage.

Donald Malcom, Director

Mr. Malcom started in radio on WJUL in Lowell, Mass in 1982 and did a jazz show while teaching at the University of Mass at Lowell. He moved to N.H. in 1983 and found a slot on WTIJ, a Christian station in Walpole where he produced bluegrass programs featuring live performances. He moved to WKNH in White River Junction in 2003, Dartmouth College station in 2004, and has worked at WICN in Worcester, MA, WKNE and WKBK in Keene, NH. Mr. Malcom is an experienced DJ in several formats

Maya Costley, Director

Ms. Costley has spent over 20 years researching, studying and participating in intentional and alternative community, eco-living, consciousness and healing work. She has studied at Prescott College in Expressive Art and Buddhism, lived at Findhorn Community in Scotland and studied and trained as ameditation teacher with Hopi and Cherokee elders and Tibetan Lamas. She is mother of a 20 year old son, a whole foods chef and caterer, jewelry designer, political activist, community organizer, singer, songwriter, organic gardener, social worker with youth, Reiki master, Kinesiologist and meditation teacher. At WOOL, as a DJ, she created with Melinda Underwood, a weekly Buddhist education show called, Sunday Night Sangha", and for some time, with Tony Elliott, co-hosted a weekly live singer-songwriter, interview andperformance show, called, "Sometimes Live".


Deborah Wright, Director

Ms. Wright is president of Green Mountain Traffic Control Inc, a municipal safety service provider in Bellows Falls, VT. Growing up in Lynchburg, VA, she began singing in a gospel choir at the age of five and has used her voice as a tool to empower and enlighten ever since. As publisher and owner of an alternative newspaper, teacher of Native American herbology and past- life therapies and as a radio personality on KITZ in Seattle, WA in the 1990’s, Ms. Wright continued to utilize her voice to awaken the human instrument. Upon returning to the East Coast, Ms. Wright felt compelled to develop a new skill: Sales, through which she gained expertise in first responder equipment, cable television and the newspaper business. Her involvement in community access television in both Bremerton, WA and at FACTv in VT brings yet another level of media experience to WOOL fm. She is currently on sabbatical from her radio show, BRAINSTORMIN’ but will return to the airwaves in the fall of 2010.

Dickie Colo, Director

Mr. Colo (member #16) has been an active member of WOOL since its inception in 2004. He has been hosting his Thursday night show, The B-Side, since 2006 and has served as station Program Manager since 2008. He graduated from Union College with a B.S. in civil engineering and holds a professional engineering license in the State of Vermont. Mr. Colohas developed a career as an artisan stone mason and currently builds and designs for Sugar Rock Landscapes in Chester, Vermont. When the snow flies, this Vermont native hits the slopes as a 21 year veteran Ski Patroler at Stratton Mountain.

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