Issue: December 2022-January 2023
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Endangered owls meet solar panels
Green goals collide as energy firm plans project in prime bird habitat The vast expanse of open land known as the Washington County grasslands is home to 10 of the 11 grassland bird species that are considered in greatest need of conservation in New York. photo by Joan K. Lentini By TRACY FRISCHContributing read more
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New book celebrates Bennington’s Blue Benn Diner
New book celebrates Bennington’s Blue Benn and its longtime owners A new book by two area journalists pays tribute to the Blue Benn diner in Bennington and the couple who ran it for nearly five decades, Sonny and Mary Lou Monroe, seen below in 1977. Courtesy photos By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, read more
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Tight labor market shifts area’s economic goals
Tight labor market shifts region’s goals for economic development With businesses across the region struggling to recruit workers for routine operations, economic development officials say their focus now is on expanding the local labor pool as much as on wooing new employers. Joan K. Lentini photos By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer GRANVILLE, N.Y. Washington read more
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Election 2022 Results
Here are the results of the Nov. 8 general election for federal and state offices across the region. Winning candidates are in boldface type if the outcome is not in dispute. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*).Figures for Massachusetts and Vermont are final, official returns recorded by the secretary of state’s office in each read more
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A roller coaster fills the heart in Mass MoCA
New MoCA show draws on the thrills, bright lights of amusement parks Viewers can sign up to ride the single-cart roller coaster at the center of “Brake Run Helix,” the new installation by Los Angeles artist EJ Hill at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy Mass MoCA By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH read more
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A 19th century fall pastime: gathering chestnuts
The vision of chestnuts roasting on an open fire in December could be squelched if Jack Frost nipped at one’s nose in September. “We have good promise of a fine crop of chestnuts,” the Fort Ann correspondent of The Granville Sentinel reported on Sept. 22, 1876. “Frost holding off is favorable for large nuts with read more