Tag: Massachusetts

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    Sun Belt’s Covid surge raises questions here

    The month of June has seen our region slowly venturing forward after so many weeks of coronavirus-related shutdowns. Restaurants that had been limited to selling takeout meals since March have begun to offer outdoor table service – and in Massachusetts and Vermont, limited indoor seating. Museums and galleries are preparing to reopen. Retail stores, hair read more

    Sun Belt’s Covid surge raises questions here
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    The drama of democracy

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    WAM Theatre’s Suffrage Project explores voting rights, citizenship   Flo Brett, a member of WAM Theatre’s Elder Ensemble, is among those taking part in the theater company’s Suffrage Project, an online work begun in May that explores the ideas of voting and citizenship. Courtesy photo/Amy Brentano   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s an read more

    The drama of democracy
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    Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows

    Two months after the coronavirus thrust the region’s economy into a deep freeze, public health officials began to give the OK in May for the first steps toward reopening. With new cases of Covid-19 on the decline across Vermont, Massachusetts and New York, the governors of the three states began to roll back restrictions that read more

    Region moves to reopen as virus spread slows
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    Cases highlight need for policing reforms

    Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Freddie Gray, and so many more: The past decade seems a blur of names of unarmed black men, and occasionally women, dying at the hands of police. The cases, from cities all around the nation, spark outrage and protests, and then fade from the news until the next case explodes into read more

    Cases highlight need for policing reforms
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    Fresh food in a pandemic

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    Region’s farmers forge ahead as shutdowns scramble local-food networks Lisa MacDougall holds two flats of kale inside one of her many greenhouses at Mighty Food Farm in Shaftsbury, Vt. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer As the Covid-19 outbreak began to shut down the nation last month, the region’s farmers and read more

    Fresh food in a pandemic
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    Retracing a family’s roots — and uprooting

    Illustrator’s memoir draws on childhood in wartime China James McMullan’s memoir tells the story of his family’s life in China and his childhood there amid the Japanese occupation of 1937-41. Courtesy photo   By JOHN SEVENContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. With a family story centered on China that stretches back 100 years, illustrator James McMullan is read more

    Retracing a family’s roots — and uprooting
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    Virus arrives in region, upending all plans

    The coronavirus crept into the region stealthily, probably sometime in late February, then burst into public view on the weekend of March 7-8. That weekend, Vermont officials announced that a patient being treated at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington had the state’s first confirmed case of Covid-19. A patient at Berkshire Medical Center in read more

    Virus arrives in region, upending all plans
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    First battle was lost in failure to test

    As we prepare this issue for press at the end of March, the Covid-19 pandemic has shut down much of the Northeast and is threatening to hit New York City and its suburbs with catastrophic force over the next few weeks. For now, the focus of the nation and our region is appropriately on how read more

    First battle was lost in failure to test
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    A leader known as a foe of slavery, friend of workers

    Vice President Henry Wilson, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts known as “always the working man’s friend,” rode on the driver’s seat as he took a coach from Glens Falls to Lake George and back again on Aug. 6, 1874. Wilson went to Lake George to have lunch at The Fort William Henry Hotel, and read more

    A leader known as a foe of slavery, friend of workers
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    From her point of view — Women filmmakers

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      Sally Kelton (played by Sally Forrest) pleads with Steve (Leo Penn) in Ida Lupino’s 1949 film “Not Wanted.” Lupino’s work was the focus in the first of a series of seminars on women filmmakers now under way at Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Mass. Courtesy photo/Kino Lorber   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. A read more

    From her point of view — Women filmmakers