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Valley Eye Radio

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Valley Eye Radio

Valley Eye Radio broadcasts local news, information and features solely for those who are visually or print disabled.
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Valley Eye Radio provides daily weekday readings from local newspapers such as The Springfield Republican, Hampshire Gazette and various community newspapers. In addition, we broadcast readings from various other books and publications, local features and regional presentations from the Talking Information Center in Marshfield, MA. Our broadcasts are for those visually and physically impaired as well as veterans with a disability that impedes their ability to read for themselves.

06/05/2025

June 2nd - 8th is featured as Medicare Fraud Prevention Week.

We're planning a special interview with Lucilia Prates, State Director of the Massachusetts Senior Medicare Patrol Program to update us on the week and its importance in getting the word out to seniors.

If you know of someone who is visually impaired or print disabled and would be eligible to listen to Valley Eye Radio, please let them know about our service so they can benefit from programs like these.

04/30/2025

As April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, we appreciated the excuse (as if we needed one!) to highlight the dedicated work of our volunteer reader family.

We have close to 100 volunteers producing the audio recordings that our eligible listeners can hear every day, 24/7.

We can't say THANK YOU enough to all of our volunteers. We literally couldn't do it without you.

04/16/2025

She's at it again, spreading the word about Valley Eye Radio!

Today, our Executive Director, Chloe Collins, was at the Hadley Council on Aging (HCOA) & Senior Center's Annual Health Fair.

It was another welcome opportunity to reach the general public with our message of accessible free broadcasts for those unable to read print material for themselves.

04/09/2025

Our executive Director met with Governor Maura Healy today to remind her that now is a more important time than ever to make sure that individuals who are disabled have community.

04/08/2025

As part of Volunteer Appreciation Month, Valley Eye Radio will focus on the great work done by the MA Senior Medicare Patrol.

Not only are we broadcasting a promo for MA SMP this month, but registered Valley Eye Radio listeners will soon be able to hear an interview with Lucilia Prates-Ramos, MA SMP State Director and one of their volunteers.

If you know of someone who would qualify as a Valley Eye Radio listener, ask them to register as a listener online at www.valleyeyeradio.org or call us at (413) 747-7337 so that they don't miss this program and all that we have to offer.

01/16/2025

Our friends at LifePath have just announced their Healthy Living 2025 Winter Workshops with more important topics to discover and great insights to learn.

If you know of someone that could benefit from one or more of these workshops, please contact LifePath for more information.

12/27/2024

With the start of the new year just around the corner, Valley Eye Radio will begin an updated afternoon program schedule as of January 2, 2025 to help eligible listeners to more easily find the programs that are specific to their local area.

Check out our website www.valleyeyeradio.org for a sneak peak at the improved schedule or check your mailbox in January for a special mailing of the program schedule and an interest survey to all our registered listeners.

If you know of someone who is blind, visually or print impaired who has a need for our free service, please ask them to contact us at (413) 747-7337 or register at our website to become a listener.

12/03/2024

Just in time for Giving Tuesday, Valley Eye Radio's Fall 2024 News Brief is now available online at our website www.valleyeyeradio.org and has been sent to those on our News Brief e-mailing list.

You can sign up yourself to get future News Briefs in your inbox by providing us with your email address at our website.

Don't miss out on these quarterly updates!

Thank you for your support!

11/22/2024

Transportion issues in the Commonwealth of MA have been in the news and on the minds of residents a lot this year.

Thanks to Transportation for Massachusetts, Valley Eye Radio is proud to feature their latest webinar "The Money Train: Minding the Gap: Funding Transportation Outside of Greater Boston" as our "Local Event Program" on Saturday, November 23rd at 3:30 pm for our eligible listeners.

If you know of someone who is visually or print impaired, please ask them to register on our website www.valleyeyeradio.org or call us at (413) 747-7337 so they can have access to informative programs such as this and much more!

11/21/2024

Valley Eye Radio is proud to present rebroadcasts from the Westfield COA Presents series every Thursday afternoon at 2 pm for our visually and print impaired listeners.

Produced for the Westfield Senior Center, these recordings deal with a wide variety of issues such as Bank Fraud, Elder Law, Healthy Foods, Nutrition, Veterans Affairs, Medicare and many more topics of immense importance to anyone living in the Pioneer Valley.

Our thanks to Westfield Cable Access and the Westfield Senior Center for their assistance.

These interviews were originally broadcast on Westfield Cable Access channel 15. The original videos can be found at the Westfield Community Programming YouTube page under the Senior Center tab.

10/25/2024

Valley Eye Radio provides broadcast readings from about 100 volunteers of local and community newspapers, a number of general interest magazines, newsletters and more.

A number of ways are available as well for those who are visually or print impaired for readings of books from sources such as the National Library Service's Braille and Talking Book Program.

Share this flyer with those you know who would qualify and let them know about Valley Eye Radio as well!

10/24/2024

Valley Eye Radio was proud to join in with the many people who had a great time at the annual Picnic for the Visually Impaired held by the East Longmeadow Lions Club at the Pleasant View Senior Center last Saturday.

We're proud of all the great community work done by the East Longmeadow Lions and very grateful for the donation that they made to Valley Eye Radio at the event.

It was a great time for us to meet with a number of our friends with visual impairments and I'm sure that everyone is already looking forward to next year!

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Springfield, MA

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+14137477337

Website

http://www.valleyeyeradio.org/

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