Issue: July 2022
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Cell-tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of national debate
Cell tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of a national debate Courtney Gilardi and her daughters stand outside their home in Pittsfield, Photo by Susan Sabino. By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Courtney Gilardi’s 9-year-old daughter came downstairs one morning in the late summer of 2020 and announced that she was feeling “headachy, read more
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Fresh pasta made to order in Saratoga
Rose Contadino feeds her rolled dough through a pasta cutter to turn it into fettuccine noodles at her shop in Saratoga Springs. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. Rose Contadino stands in front of her industrial-sized pasta cutter, filling an order for a pound of linguine. Dressed in read more
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U.S. Senate seat opens in Vermont
Wave of retirements sets up a series of competitive primaries By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer Open U.S. Senate seats rarely come along in Vermont, but when they do, the state’s lone U.S. representative usually is well positioned to step up. Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s independent junior senator, served 16 years in the House of Representatives before read more
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MCLA artist’s residency lifts portraits of a community
Exhibit reflects artist’s yearlong residency in North Adams Conrad Egyir’s new exhibit, “Travelogue,’ which opened in June at Gallery 51, includes his portraits of, from left, Odiase Williamson, Winston Wall and Delano Mills, along with others he met in the course of his artist residency at MCLA. Courtesy photos By KATE read more
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Placing bets as politicians reached the homestretch
A Republican rally at Whitehall, N.Y., was not, as it turned out, the best place for Democrats to line up wagers on the 1888 presidential election, in which Republican Benjamin Harrison was challenging Democrat Grover Cleveland’s bid for a second term. “Two Glens Falls Democrats and one from Fort Ann went to Whitehall the other read more
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On Pittsfield cell tower city’s leaders fumble
If 20 people were sickened by a toxic release from a chemical factory in their neighborhood, most of us would expect some public authority to take charge promptly to limit further public exposure and environmental damage. So when 20 people in Pittsfield, Mass., began reporting nearly two years ago that they were being sickened by read more