Issue: February-March 2024
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Vote early, but not by mail?
GOP message on early voting shifts as more N.Y. voters try it Harold Hubbard, the Republican deputy elections commissioner of Warren County, instructs elections inspectors at a recent training session on the use of electronic poll books. The devices ensure that voters who cast ballots at New York’s early voting sites cannot vote more read more
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Saving Darrow — $5M raised for school
Head of School Andrew Vadnais stands outside the administration and classroom building at Darrow School in late January after the school’s leaders reversed a decision to shut down at the end of the current academic year. Susan Sabino photo By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y. After several weeks in which it appeared the read more
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Homegrown HEAT
Gordon Sacks holds a bottle of one of the new line of hot sauces made from ingredients grown at 9 Miles East Farm. Joan K. Lentini photo By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. When Gordon Sacks created his meal subscription service 15 years ago, his mission was clear: to make it easy for read more
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From oppression to liberation — Black artists uplift emancipation at WCMA
New show at Williams museum explores the journey of Black Americans John Quincy Adams Ward’s 1863 bronze sculpture “The Freedman,” left, helped to inspire an exhibition by seven contemporary Black artists exploring the meaning of emancipation in the 21st century. Hugh Hayden’s 3-D printed “American Dream,” right, offers a direct answer to Ward’s read more
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Editorial — N.Y. GOP flips the script on early vs. mail-in voting
Editorial February-March 2024 N.Y. GOP flips the script on early vs. mail-in voting Back in January 2019, when state legislators took up the question of whether to allow a lot more New Yorkers to vote by mail, the idea received overwhelming bipartisan support. A proposal to amend the state constitution to allow read more
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From Troy, a world champion in era of boxing ‘exhibitions’
It was billed as family entertainment.“The management desires to announce that these contests will be no slugging matches but simply a scientific exhibition that all can witness with pleasure as pure harmless fun,” The Granville Sentinel reported on Sept. 28, 1894. The former world boxing champion Patrick “Paddy” Ryan of Troy was to face the read more