Issue: February-March 2025
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Housing that’s not just for the wealthy?
In the Berkshires, a new land trust aims to protect affordability Lillian Zavatsky, left, and Elizabeth Smith are among those involved in organizing a new Northern Berkshire Community Land Trust. Zavatsky, the group’s president, says it aims to help keep housing affordable. Joan K. Lentini photo By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Victorian read more
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Amid drought, a village runs dry
Some see Whitehall’s water crisis as a warning about climate risks Whitehall Mayor Francis Putorti stands inside the village’s water treatment plant in late January. The village water system shut down for two days in December after a combination of drought and a leaking pipe drew Whitehall’s reservoir down to dangerously low levels. Joan K. read more
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Dreamlike images in black and white
Hudson Hall show gathers area artist Michel Goldberg’s monotypes Michel Goldberg’s “After Bertoldo di Giovanni 1” is among the monotypes on view in the artist’s new solo exhibition at Hudson Hall. Courtesy photo By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. The mysterious monotypes of the Hudson Valley artist Michel Goldberg are the focus of a read more
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A ’24 campaign transformed by radio
People gathered on the second floor of Wiley’s dry goods store in downtown Glens Falls to listen, via radio, to the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge on March 4, 1925. It was another in a series of events through which Coolidge pioneered the use of this new medium in politics. “No one can contemplate current read more
