Issue: June 2024
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Signs of economic change
Region’s manufacturing takes high-tech turn as some familiar employers exit The sign outside AngioDynamics’ medical device plant in Queensbury, N.Y., says the company is now hiring, but the factory is set to shut down at the end of 2025. Employee shortages are one reason the company has cited for its decision to close its… read more
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Hudson fishing shanties face likely demolition
A collection of more than a dozen old fishing shanties along the Hudson River, some of which are seen here in 2018, has been deemed historically significant by state officials. But the city of Hudson says it lacks the resources needed to preserve them as part of a pending waterfront redevelopment project. Susan Sabino… read more
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Strong, powerful, feminine — Shanta Lee’s ‘Dark Goddess’ photography explores divine, worldly realms
Photographer’s ‘Dark Goddess’ show explores divine, worldly realms Alyse Grange and Kahywanda Wilson worked with photographer Shanta Lee to create “Obeah’d,” one of a series of Lee’s photos in the exhibit “Dark Goddess: Sacroprofanity” at the Bennington Museum.Courtesy of Shanta Lee By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Two women are sitting together on… read more
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On the rails, serving travelers with flair
He was as nimble as a circus acrobat, as gregarious as a politician and, at least in the estimation of one canine, as fashionable as a stage actor. “That’s Conductor Frost, the best fellow that ever lived,” a railroad passenger told a reporter for The Mechanicville Era in 1883. The popularity of Charles Frost, a… read more
