Issue: July 2017

  • At Wild Oats food co-op, testing limits of cooperation

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    Workers at a food co-op form a union, testing limits of collectivism By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Erin Merrigan, left, and Karen Kane show off buttons supporting a labor union at Wild Oats Market. Workers at the food co-op in Williamstown voted to unionize in February 2016, but the union and management have read more

    At Wild Oats food co-op, testing limits of cooperation

  • Saving a strawberry farm

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    $1.5M campaign aims to preserve Columbia County destination By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer ANCRAM, N.Y.   Don and Marnie MacLean have been running Thompson-Finch Farm, best known for its pick-your-own organic strawberries, since 1982. But a generational change in the farm’s ownership has threatened to force the sale of the property. Local conservation groups have launched read more

    Saving a strawberry farm

  • Climate-saving efforts go local

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    States, cities and activists push to meet goals of Paris agreement By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   With President Trump’s announcement June 1 that he would pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, area states, cities and citizen groups are redoubling their efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions and shift to renewable energy read more

    Climate-saving efforts go local

  • Juice bar puts healthy, sinful under one roof

    SoCo Creamery partners with juice enthusiasts in retail showcase By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. Leigh Duffin pours a concoction of freshly squeezed juice at the SoCo Oasis juice bar in Great Barrington. The year-old operation is a collaboration between local ice cream maker SoCo Creamery and juice makers Noah and Ari Meyerowitz, also read more

    Juice bar puts healthy, sinful under one roof

  • Vivid images, colliding cultures — Meleko Mokgosi explores love and democracy

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    In scenes from Africa, artist explores lessons of love and democracy By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   A detail from one of Meleko Mokgosi’s large-scale paintings, now on view at the Williams College Museum of Art, shows two boys playing with a dog. The paintings depict scenes of daily life in southern Africa while read more

    Vivid images, colliding cultures — Meleko Mokgosi explores love and democracy

  • ‘A world of her own imagining’ — Grandma Moses meets Modernism

    Show reveals parallels between Modernists and Grandma Moses By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt.   “The Quilting Bee” (1950) is among the works by Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses (1860-1961) in a new exhibit that explores how her techniques unconsciously paralleled those of leading Modernists of her era. (Image copyright 2017, Grandma Moses Properties Co., read more

    ‘A world of her own imagining’ — Grandma Moses meets Modernism

  • Disrespecting voters on Mass. pot policy

    Disrespecting voters on Mass. pot policy When Massachusetts voters debated last fall’s ballot question on whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use, virtually all of the state’s elected officials urged a No vote. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, eight of the state’s nine U.S. House members and read more

    Disrespecting voters on Mass. pot policy

  • Democrats line up to challenge Faso, Stefanik

      News July 2017   Democrats line up to challenge Faso, Stefanik   More than a dozen Democratic hopefuls have stepped forward in recent weeks to say they’re planning or considering challenges to U.S. Reps. John Faso and Elise Stefanik in 2018.The two Republican incumbents, whose districts stretch across much of eastern New York, have read more

    Democrats line up to challenge Faso, Stefanik