Issue: February-March 2019
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Cleaner than coal? — Cement plant’s plan raises concern
Cement company’s alternative-fuel plan raises questions about air emissions The sprawling Lehigh Cement Co. plant in Glens Falls is seeking approval from state regulators to supplement its normal fuel supply of coal and natural gas with raggertail, a mixture of plastic and paper left over the process of recycling paper and cardboard. Joan K. Lentini read more
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Self-portraits for a digital age
Exhibit puts Instagram ‘selfies’ among art exploring gender, identity The South African photographer Zanele Muholi’s 2012 portrait of Kekeletso Khana, part of her “Faces and Phases” series, is among the works on view in the current “Possible Selves” exhibit at WIlliams College Museum of Art. The show also includes 200 Instagram images.Photo courtesy of Williams read more
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Rekindling a community radio spirit
New studio, fund-raising drive set for nonprofit community station By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. After several years without a home, the nonprofit community radio station of the southern Berkshires is setting up a new studio and preparing to resume a full schedule of locally produced programming. On Feb. 1, WBCR-LP began leasing a read more
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A downtown theater reborn
After decades-long intermission, performance space has second act Elizabeth Miller bought the long-dormant Park Theater in downtown Glens Falls and restored it to its original function as a space for performances and entertainment. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. The activities planned in the coming months at The Park read more
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College to shut down leaving a Vermont void
Green Mountain College has announced plans to shut down at the end of the current academic year and surrender its 155-acre Poultney campus to creditors. The private liberal arts college, which specializes in environmental studies and in recent years won accolades for its campus sustainability projects, cited financial pressures resulting from shrinking enrollment as the read more
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Benefits and hazards of a one-party Albany
Remember when Albany meant gridlock? For so long, New York’s state capital was the place where even simple problems couldn’t be solved – and where good ideas went to die. Then came November’s election, which upended Legislature’s balance of power. That balance has for decades, except for one brief period, included an Assembly controlled by read more
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From Congress to the battlefield
It wasn’t a typical congressional message to constituents.Instead of boasting about bringing home the bacon, U.S. Rep. James Bedell McKean, R-Saratoga Springs, called on his constituents to risk their own hides. “Traitors in arms seek to overthrow our Constitution and to seize our Capitol. Let us go and defend them,” McKean wrote in an Aug. read more