Issue: February-March 2014
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Planning for our car-free youth
As a generation shuns driving, towns push for better transit options By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer When Massachusetts legislators were debating an ambitious multi-year transportation funding bill last year, longtime state Rep. William F. “Smitty” Pignatelli was asked whether he supported a push by Gov. Deval Patrick and others to restore passenger rail service between read more
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Health care reform hits home
Area navigators describe progress, pitfalls in covering the uninsured By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer The rollout of new state-run health insurance exchanges in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts hasn’t been free of problems, but in the past few months thousands of people in the region have been able to use the new system to shop read more
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Hawthorne Valley aims for sister store in Hudson
By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. Nearly a decade of calls for re-establishing a downtown supermarket in Hudson could soon be answered, as the nonprofi t group that runs the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store considers setting up a sister store in the city. The Hawthorne Valley Association, which operates the popular farm store read more
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Farm to office — new destination for agricultural deliveries
By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer As a teenager in the Champlain Valley of New York, Adam Hainer sold vegetables from his home garden at a farmers market. But he didn’t imagine farming could ever provide his livelihood until he met Melody Horn, his future partner, at a now-defunct microgreens farm. They wound up starting read more
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From voices of elders, works of art
Exhibits draw from artist’s conversations with seniors By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. David Greenberger has made a national reputation by listening attentively to a collection of voices that are often ignored – those of the elderly. Greenberger’s original plans for a career as a fi ne arts painter were pleasantly derailed read more