Issue: May 2014
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Industrial legacy adds to region’s clean-energy potential
Industrial legacy adds to region’s clean-energy potential By ALEX ELVINContributing writer A. Perry Heller photos NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt. Bill Scully says he had an epiphany while driving home on Christmas Day in 2008, past the historic mills and dams of southern Vermont. “Why,” he recalls wondering, “when there is an energy crisis, am I read more
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Poetry and place — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Visitors get more access to home of Edna St. Vincent Millay By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer AUSTERLITZ, N.Y.Although the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most prominent and colorful literary figures of the 20th century, her former home in Columbia County has had a very low profile in the region’s tourism scene.But read more
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Study backs passenger rail for southwestern Vermont
By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer Carrie Snyder photo NORTH BENNINGTON, Vt.A study released earlier this year by the Vermont and New York transportation departments concludes that passenger train service should be restored to southwestern Vermont after an absence of more than 60 years. Consultant Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., in a study paid for by read more
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Taking a stand for unadulterated food
May 24 festival is local observance of global anti-GMO event By STACEY MORRISContributing writer Joan K. Lentini photo GLENS FALLS, N.Y. When Sue Duncan decided to spearhead this year’s March Against Monsanto in Glens Falls, she decided to fight the infamous corporate agribusiness giant not with a line of protesters, but with good read more
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Teresita Fernandez — Large in scope, tiny in detail
Perception of scale provides keys to new Mass MoCA exhibit By JOHN SEVENContributing writer Carrie Snyder photo The installation “Sfumato (Epic),” featuring 40,000 small graphite rocks, is among the pieces that make up Brooklyn artist Teresita Fernandez’s new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams. NORTH ADAMS, Mass.When Brooklyn-based read more
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In energy and transport, finding future in the past
By coincidence this month’s paper features two stories from North Bennington, Vt., about efforts to revive technologies that disappeared from the local scene roughly 60 years ago. Back in the early 1950s, the Rutland Railway abandoned all of its passenger train service, including a line through North Bennington, in the face of rising competition from read more
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Vermont agency under fire after children’s deaths
Vermont officials moved last month to shake up the local office of the state’s child welfare agency after an investigation into the death of a 2-year-old Poultney girl in February.The state Department for Children and Families announced June 20 that the director of its Rutland office would be transferred to the department’s central office in read more