Issue: November 2012
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Niche brewer getting bigger
By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer HOOSICK, N.Y.With the annual rate of craft beer sales growing by double digits nationally and a big thirst locally for its award-winning ales and lagers, Brown’s Brewing Co. of Troy is setting up a new brewery. The new facility, in a former factory just off Route 22 in North Hoosick, read more
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Take a sip, feel the heat
By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, MASS. Dana St. Pierre recalled a recent experience at the Honest Weight Food Co-op Food Fair in Albany. There were dozens of vendors with booths set up along the lake in Washington Park selling edible delights ranging from homemade soups and grass-fed beef sliders to cupcakes and homemade peanut read more
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Songbird’s decline fuels climate-change debate
Groups seek endangered-species status for Bicknell’s thrush By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer The fate of a little bird that spends its summers in the high elevations of the Green Mountains could soon become a new focal point in a national battle over regulating climate-changing emissions. Earlier this year, the federal government started the formal process read more
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A better answer to crime?
Backers push ‘restorative justice,’ stressing healing over punishment By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer EASTON, N.Y.It was early 1996 when David Kaczynski contacted the FBI with strong suspicions that his brother, Ted, was the Unabomber. Across nearly two decades before that, the mysterious Unabomber had mailed or delivered 16 package bombs to targets in academia and read more
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Chip plant draws immigrant workers in Saratoga
Chip plant draws immigrant workers, adds international flavor in Saratoga By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer CLIFTON PARK, N.Y.Haiting Wang was happy to show off the new two-story structure he will soon call home. Standing in front of his still-under-construction house last month, he was flanked by a backhoe and a workers’ scaffold as a symphony read more