Issue: December 2011-January 2012
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Peer-support approach challenges long-held views of mental illness
Peer-support approach challenges long-held views of mental illness By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Brad Morrow had his first encounter with the mental health system when he was in his late 30s. In the space of 15 minutes, a psychiatrist he’d never met before told him he had bipolar disorder, gave him some… read more
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Banking for the common good?
Group aims to grow alternative financial system in Mass. By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Consumers angry at the U.S. banking system could soon have an alternative way of saving and pooling their resources for the good of the community – at least if some people in western Massachusetts have their way. Common Good Finance, a… read more
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Berkshires adjust to new loss of clout
Political map shifts power further to east By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer It’s a long way from the days of Silvio Conte, the beloved Pittsfield Republican who represented the Berkshires in Congress for 32 years until his death in 1991. In the Conte years, Berkshire County felt itself to be the center of Massachusetts’… read more
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Children of industry
By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.Looking at the canvas, you can almost hear the enormous machines whirring and clanging and feel the cotton lint hanging in the air of the mill room as you, a child, work. In another, you see “the overseer,” an ominous, shadowy presence. Maybe he’s there, or maybe he’s… read more
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Farm-to-plate’s newest frontier
By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer HUDSON, N.Y.The ideal of farm-fresh ingredients has taken the restaurant business by storm over the past decade or so, but now the newly reopened stainless-steel diner on Hudson’s main street is taking the farm-to-table concept to a new level. At Grazin’, as the classic 1940s diner is now known,… read more