Issue: April 2015
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Developers push to change Saratoga’s outer greenbelt
In golf club’s plans, some see threat to Saratoga’s greenbelt By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. The landscape around Exit 14 of the Northway, on the east side of Saratoga Springs, remains largely wooded as a result of open-space protections the city adopted more than 20 years ago. Critics fear that could change read more
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Group rallies to buy former Girl Scouts camp
By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer FORT ANN, N.Y. A group of campers hike through the woods at Camp Little Notch, a former Girl Scouts camp in Fort Ann, N.Y. The Girl Scouts decided to close the camp in 2008, but a group of former campers and staff rallied to reopen it as an independent operation. read more
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From business to brushstroke
By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Tony Conner of Bennington, Vt., was working for an oil company in New Jersey in the 1980s when he set a goal of becoming a professional artist. Courtesy photo For Tony Conner, the road not taken was as clear as a lone printed word on a business memo read more
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Music from snippets and sketches
De Jong, cellist and pioneer of sampling, celebrates first solo album By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y. The cellist Paul de Jong is best known for his decade of work as one-half of The Books, a duo whose compositions made extensive use of sampling, the capturing of short bits of recorded sound. Four read more
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Start of a transformation: Accepting all 300 pounds of me
New Manchester library points a way forward for rural communities Stacey Morris There I was, on line at Albany International Airport, waiting to board a plane for Nashville on my maiden voyage as a freelance travel writer. I’d recently departed the safety of a 9-to-5 job because I wanted more freedom. Now that I read more
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Bennington says no to fluoridated water
A proposal to add fluoride to Bennington’s drinking water has been dropped after the town’s voters rejected the idea by a lopsided margin. An advisory question on the March 3 town meeting ballot asked whether the town should fluoridate its water to help prevent tooth decay. A total of 1,539 voters, or about 58 percent, read more
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Changing the ground rules for Spa City development?
We live in an era when zoning and planning laws supposedly give communities the power to shape their own destinies, where the public has a chance to shape the ground rules for their town’s development and an ability to scrutinize the specifics of each new project. The reality in many communities, however, is a planning read more