Tag: Ghent

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    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces

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    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces Christopher Duggan photo courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer   Imagine the people who make creative work happen in an arts or cultural institution all having a stake and a voice in the organization’s operations and mission. Or imagine creative organizations clearly read more

    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces
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    The art of venturing outside

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    Grounds, gardens become destination for visitors to cultural sites   Atelier Van Lieshout’s “Blast Furnace” is among the works in the sculpture park at Art Omi in Ghent, N.Y. The arts center’s grounds have remained open to visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic even as its indoor galleries have been shuttered. Many other cultural sites across read more

    The art of venturing outside
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    Fruit and fulfillment

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    An orchard’s attractions keep growing, covering apples to art Peaches grown at Love Apple Farm are among the attractions in the weeks before apple season begins at the Columbia County orchard. The farm has been a local destination since the late 1960s, but like many other pick-your-own operations, it has been expanding its scale and read more

    Fruit and fulfillment
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    County seeks refund as land deal raises questions

    The chairman of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors is asking the local economic development corporation to pay back $114,000 in taxpayer funds that were used to buy land included in a deal that has become the focus of a series of conflict-of-interest allegations. Supervisor Patrick Grattan, R-Kinderhook, wrote to the Columbia Economic Development Corp. read more

    County seeks refund as land deal raises questions
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    Disaster waiting to happen?

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer GHENT, N.Y.When a huge fire broke out last summer at an industrial waste processing plant in Columbia County, firefighters initially tried to quell the blaze with water. But the firefighters soon had to retreat as a series of explosions rocked the 30,000-square-foot building that was home to TCI of New read more

    Disaster waiting to happen?
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    TCI’s history includes past fires, worker death

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   GHENT, N.Y. The Aug. 1 fire that destroyed the TCI of New York plant in West Ghent was not the company’s first, nor was the smaller fire earlier this year in which a trailer of oily rags at the plant ignited. In the mid-1980s, fire broke out at TCI’s read more

    TCI’s history includes past fires, worker death
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    After a big fire, questions persist

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    Critics fault state’s limited testing after blaze involving PCBs By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   GHENT, N.Y. After a huge chemical fire erupted at an industrial plant in West Ghent on the night of Aug. 1, authorities advised everyone within a 15-mile radius of the site to stay indoors, keep windows closed and avoid using read more

    After a big fire, questions persist
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    Pushing the frontier of wine making

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    Local flavors are priority for vintners in Columbia County By NED OLIVER Contributing writer GHENT, N.Y. Carlo DeVito’s first experience making wine wasn’t exactly encouraging. “My first batch was undrinkable,” he recalled. But from that inauspicious beginning, DeVito and his wife, Dominique, kept tinkering and tweaking to become award-winning vintners. They founded Columbia County’s first read more

    Pushing the frontier of wine making