Issue: September 2018
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A closer look at a toxin’s trail
New studies find more cancer, wider contamination from PFOA Judith Enck, a former regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Bennington College professors Janet Foley and John Hultgren went door to door in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., to gather information for a community healh survey as they researched the effects of PFOA. David Bond read more
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Fruit and fulfillment
An orchard’s attractions keep growing, covering apples to art Peaches grown at Love Apple Farm are among the attractions in the weeks before apple season begins at the Columbia County orchard. The farm has been a local destination since the late 1960s, but like many other pick-your-own operations, it has been expanding its scale and read more
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From blue Berkshires, a push for Faso’s defeat
Mass. activists target N.Y. congressman in ad campaign A billboard along Route 20 west of New Lebanon, N.Y., this summer cast U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, as Pinocchio for his vote last year on health care reform. The ad was paid for by the Catskills Freedom Network, a group organized by activists from across the read more
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Strengthening a city in transition
Pittsfield project fosters new ties in ‘civic infrastructure’ Alisa Costa is the director of Working Cities Pittsfield, a grant-funded initiative that seeks to bring together local people from a wide range of backgrounds in helping the former industrial city to reinvent itself. Susan Sabino photo By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. When researchers for read more
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Antiques that challenge assumptions
Boston artist plans local installation with a Berkshires theme Pat Falco’s “Campaign Headquarters,” set up in Boston’s Faneuil Hall in 2016, established the artist’s reputation for immersive installations that mess with viewers’ sense of reality. Falco will bring his taste for mischief to North Adams this month with a new show, “Antiquitacky,” at Installation Space. read more
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State’s claims on cancer belied by new PFOA study
When Michael Hickey, a former village trustee in Hoosick Falls, decided to have his tap water tested for perfluorooctanoic acid in 2014, he was searching for an explanation for what he and others believed was a high local incidence of cancer. Hickey’s father, who had worked at a local factory that used PFOA, died of read more
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A political alliance that broke a racial barrier
GLENS FALLS, N.Y.Newspaper clippings in the Addison B. Colvin scrapbooks at Crandall Public Library’s Folklife Center tell the story of Charles W. Anderson, a civil rights and political activist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who had connections to Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs.Anderson was a spirited orator who would later be called read more
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Police chief admits he misled public about case
Saratoga Springs is facing calls for better oversight of its police force after the city police chief admitted he misled the public about his department’s handling of a 2013 case that led to the death of a black man fleeing from officers. Police Chief Gregory Veitch told reporters at the time that city police were read more