Issue: December 2014-January 2015
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Region’s colleges turn more to part-time teachers
A second tier of instructors is growing in New York By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer QUEENSBURY, N.Y. Neal Herr and Rebecca Cash are among nearly 200 adjunct faculty members at SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury, N.Y. The college has increased its roster of part-time instructors from 154 to 196 in the past 10 years. Rebecca Cash read more
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A passion for performance
In Dorset, community-theater tradition thrives in ninth decade By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer DORSET, Vt. Members of The Dorset Players, seen here in this fall’s production of “The Heiress,” are apt to play many roles both on and off the stage. The community theater group has no artistic director; instead, its board makes group decisions read more
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Keeping a city’s past intact
In Pittsfield, campaign to save church leads to wider preservation effort By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. The former St. Mary the Morning Star Church in Pittsfield has helped to spawn a new preservation drive in the city after a developer proposed this fall to raze it to make way for read more
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Parking garage plan raises ire in Saratoga
By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. The Saratoga Springs City Center, seen above from Maple Avenue, is proposing to build a 511-space parking garage to replace a surface parking lot across the street. An architect’s rendering, left, shows the garage and a new pedestrian bridge over Maple Avenue that would link it to read more
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Election 2014: The pendulum swings to red
Here are the detailed results of federal and state elections held Nov. 4 across the region. A guide to politcal party abbreviations is at right. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*). Winners are marked in bold. Figures for Massachusetts and Vermont are the final, certified results from the secretary of state’s office in each read more
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Modern landscapes, digitally refracted
Exhibit showcases a pioneer of using computers in visual art By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Works by Anne Morgan Spalter, who wrote a widely used textbook on the use of computers in the visual arts, are the focus of a new exhibit at the Independent Art Projects gallery in North Adams. In Anne read more
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Two cities, two tales of managing growth
By coincidence we have two stories in this issue about small cities in the region that are grappling with how best to preserve their character and shape their future development.Pittsfield and Saratoga Springs are separated by a state line and have quite different economic and political traditions, so it may not be entirely fair to read more
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Local video adds to debate over police tactics
A Saratoga County sheriff’s sergeant resigned last month and was charged with official misconduct and harassment after a video that went viral on the Internet showed him berating and apparently slapping a young man who was refusing to allow his car to be searched. The video, which quickly became part of a growing national debate read more