Issue: February-March 2013
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Gun shows draw controversy
Where critics push for limits, some fear loss of freedom By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.The line at the door to the City Center began forming hours before the show opened. By 10 a.m., crowds of shoppers moved about the gun-laden tables inside the exhibition hall. Outside on Broadway, demonstrators held up 26 read more
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Growing greens all winter long
Grants help farms meet an all-year demand for local produce By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer POWNAL, Vt. Unlike many crop farmers in New England, Lisa MacDougall doesn’t hibernate. Even when the weather turned bitterly cold for a week in January, she was still busy picking spinach and kale for her community-supported-agriculture program and read more
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Accessible expression
By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. When it comes to the creation of top-quality art, physical and mental disabilities don’t have to be insurmountable barriers. That’s the message of two shows that opened this month at the Bennington Museum. “Engage,” presented by the group VSA Vermont, features 39 works by 35 contemporary read more
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Helsinki on the Hudson
Three years on, club is at center of city’s growing music scene By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. When Club Helsinki closed its intimate, eclectic performance space in Great Barrington, Mass., and moved west to Hudson a few years ago, its owners hoped to play a role in the ongoing revitalization of their read more
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Panel backs licenses for undocumented workers
Vermont may allow driving privilege regardless of legal status By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Vermont’s debate over providing driver’s licenses to undocumented foreign workers appears to be shifting from the question of whether to issue licenses to the question of what kind to provide. In January, a nine-member study committee appointed last year by the read more
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Disaster waiting to happen?
By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer GHENT, N.Y.When a huge fire broke out last summer at an industrial waste processing plant in Columbia County, firefighters initially tried to quell the blaze with water. But the firefighters soon had to retreat as a series of explosions rocked the 30,000-square-foot building that was home to TCI of New read more