Issue: May 2022
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Saratoga Springs pushes for police reforms
In Saratoga Springs, leaders pursue changes and aim to rebuild trust Police cruisers line the street outside Saratoga Springs City Hall. Photo by Joan K. Lentini By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. A new slate of city leaders in Saratoga Springs has been moving swiftly in recent weeks toward adopting one of read more
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In sign of spring new life emerges on farms
Area events provide close encounters with piglets, lambs and more Piglets are among the new arrivals this spring at the annual Baby Animals festival at Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires. Susan Sabino photo. By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer HANCOCK, Mass. The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay read more
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After 27 years, state restores tuition aid for inmates
Some area colleges set to offer more programs By MAURY THOMPSON Contributing writer Every year since 1999, New York lawmakers have introduced legislation to make state college tuition grants available to students incarcerated at prison facilities. And every year, until this year, the legislation never made it out of committee.Inmate education advocates rejoiced when read more
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Leaving urban life to run a bookstore in a barn
Family leaves California to take charge of area vintage bookstore Sydney Nichols and Eric Kufs stand with their daughter Sally Jane in the children’s section at Owl Pen Books. Nichols and Kufs are the new owners of the 60-year-old vintage bookstore in Greenwich, N.Y. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREENWICH, read more
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Strands of history in a Hudson Valley home
A president, national icon and barrier-breaking writer all had links to property Within a few years after hosting the wedding of the future president Martin Van Buren, the house at 251 West Main St. in Catskill became the home of “Uncle Sam” Wilson. Paul Post photo By PAUL POSTContributing writer CATSKILL, N.Y.When Martin read more
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Saratoga Springs new public safety commissioner needs to clear the air.
For Saratoga Springs’ new public safety commissioner, a big part of the job so far involves clearing the air. And it turns out that a lot of bad air has built up over the past decade inside City Hall and the city police department in particular. James Montagnino, a retired lawyer with more than 30 read more
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Recruiting guardians for a seagull sanctuary
The somewhat unusual classified ad, published in various newspapers around the country in 1921, generated 1,600 applications: “Wanted — A man to live alone on an island, inland lake; eight miles from the shore; transportation, food, shelter, boat, etc. furnished; no work; no compensation.”The successful applicant that year was a recent Harvard University graduate. Similarly read more