Issue: May 2015
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Local groups get creative in fight against hunger
By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y. Caryn Tindal has become a regular visitor in recent months to the Comfort Food Community pantry in Greenwich, N.Y. She said her husband was laid off from a job he held for 21 years, and his new job pays 50 percent less. The food pantry, she said, helps read more
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Shearing the flock
Spring’s arrival finds an age-old tradition thriving in Vermont By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer RUPERT, Vt. Andy Rice shears a sheep in 2013 at a farm in West Pawlet, Vt. Rice is among the shearers making the rounds at area farms this spring amid signs that the demand for locally produced wool is increasing in read more
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Vermont weighs options for veterans home
Bennington facility’s subsidy becomes a target amid state budget squeeze By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Residents of the Vermont Veterans’ Home gather for an activity in late April. State officials have lately been debating how to fund the facility, which currently receives a $5 million annual state subsidy, and some have even suggested read more
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Matching farmers, landowners in the Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley program matches aspiring farmers to landowners By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PINE PLAINS, N.Y. Miriam Goler and Mark Stonehill are starting their first season at Full Circus Farm on 15 acres of leased land in Pine Plains, N.Y. They found the property through a database that matches aspiring farmers with landowners who want read more
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Myth, religion and comic-book heroes in MoCA show
By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Visitors ponder a small part of artist Jim Shaw’s sprawling exhibit, “Entertaining Doubts,” which opened in late March at Mass MoCA. John Seven photo To walk around “Entertaining Doubts,” Jim Shaw’s sprawling new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is to step into the mind read more
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In fight against hunger, Greenwich pantry inspires
Our cover article this month examines the increasing use of emergency food pantries in our region and finds a particularly inspiring story in the Washington County village of Greenwich.There, a little more than a year ago, a newly formed community group took over a tiny food pantry that operated on a monthly, appointment-only basis on read more
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New Rutland shopping plaza isn’t sprawl, panel rules
A new shopping plaza including a BJ’s Wholesale Club, to be built at the southern end of the Route 7 commercial strip in Rutland, does not run afoul of Vermont’s new anti-sprawl regulations, a state panel has concluded. The District 1 Environmental Commission ruled April 3 that the project, to be built on an undeveloped read more