Issue: June 2020
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Filling a need for food
Cars line up to receive an emergency food packages May 26 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Regional food banks and local charitable organizations have organized a series of similar events around the region as unemployment has spiked upward amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Scott Langley photo By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer Inside the local read more
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Putting worms to work
Bill Richmond, owner of Adirondack Worm Farm in Kingsbury, N.Y., displays a bin in which red worms consume food wastes and other organic materials collected from area homes to produce compost. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer KINGSBURY, N.Y. When Bill Richmond bought his 40-acre farm two decades ago, he had read more
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The drama of democracy
WAM Theatre’s Suffrage Project explores voting rights, citizenship Flo Brett, a member of WAM Theatre’s Elder Ensemble, is among those taking part in the theater company’s Suffrage Project, an online work begun in May that explores the ideas of voting and citizenship. Courtesy photo/Amy Brentano By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s an read more
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Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows
Two months after the coronavirus thrust the region’s economy into a deep freeze, public health officials began to give the OK in May for the first steps toward reopening. With new cases of Covid-19 on the decline across Vermont, Massachusetts and New York, the governors of the three states began to roll back restrictions that read more
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Cases highlight need for policing reforms
Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, and so many more: The past decade seems a blur of names of unarmed black men, and occasionally women, dying at the hands of police. The cases, from cities all around the nation, spark outrage and protests, and then fade from the news until the next case explodes into read more
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From Vermont, a White House hopeful hailed as a reformer
Name a Vermont politician who served for more than two decades in Congress and mounted two unsuccessful presidential bids. If your first guess is Bernie Sanders, that would not be wrong. But there is more than one correct answer. U.S. Sen. George F. Edmunds of Burlington was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in read more