Tag: New York

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    Many reasons to doubt biochar firm’s promise

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    For the sake of argument, let’s be charitable and assume for a moment that the developers who want to build a new sewage sludge-to-fertilizer plant in northern Saratoga County are sincerely trying to solve a pressing environmental problem while making a few dollars for themselves.As our cover story this month details, the partners in a read more

    Many reasons to doubt biochar firm’s promise
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    A Civil War veteran who retired to local pasture

    Between 8,000 and 10,000 people gathered in Greenwich on Aug. 26, 1885, for a Veterans Reunion. Among the 600 Civil War veterans who were guests of honor was “War Horse Charlie,” an equine veteran that had called Washington County home since 1864. Charlie was one of about 3 million horses and mules that served in read more

    A Civil War veteran who retired to local pasture
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    Endangered owls meet solar panels

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    Green goals collide as energy firm plans project in prime bird habitat   The vast expanse of open land known as the Washington County grasslands is home to 10 of the 11 grassland bird species that are considered in greatest need of conservation in New York. photo by Joan K. Lentini   By TRACY FRISCHContributing read more

    Endangered owls meet solar panels
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    Tight labor market shifts area’s economic goals

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    Tight labor market shifts region’s goals for economic development   With businesses across the region struggling to recruit workers for routine operations, economic development officials say their focus now is on expanding the local labor pool as much as on wooing new employers. Joan K. Lentini photos   By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer GRANVILLE, N.Y. Washington read more

    Tight labor market shifts area’s economic goals
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    Election 2022 Results

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    Here are the results of the Nov. 8 general election for federal and state offices across the region. Winning candidates are in boldface type if the outcome is not in dispute. Incumbents are marked with an asterisk (*).Figures for Massachusetts and Vermont are final, official returns recorded by the secretary of state’s office in each read more

    Election 2022 Results
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    A 19th century fall pastime: gathering chestnuts

    The vision of chestnuts roasting on an open fire in December could be squelched if Jack Frost nipped at one’s nose in September. “We have good promise of a fine crop of chestnuts,” the Fort Ann correspondent of The Granville Sentinel reported on Sept. 22, 1876. “Frost holding off is favorable for large nuts with read more

    A 19th century fall pastime: gathering chestnuts
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    Pandemic dividend comes fresh from the oven

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    Economic upheaval helps spur new micro-bakeries across region   Kean McIlvaine moved from Washington, D.C., to Washington County, N.Y., after the pandemic threw her culinary career into turmoil. Once here, she started Covered Bridge Bread, a home-based baking business. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SHUSHAN, N.Y. After the pandemic clobbered the read more

    Pandemic dividend comes fresh from the oven
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    State’s new ethics panel off to rocky start

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    By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   When Kathy Hochul took over as New York’s governor last year after the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, one of her first promises was to strengthen the state’s system for policing the ethics of its top officials. The state’s ethics watchdog at the time, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, known read more

    State’s new ethics panel off to rocky start
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    Saving democracy might require more than electoral reform

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    In nearly two decades of reporting on elections and politics across our region, we’ve covered lots of ideas for making our political system more open and accessible — and for giving voters more meaningful choices. On our editorial page, our guiding principle has been that anything that gets more voters to participate in elections, and read more

    Saving democracy might require more than electoral reform
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    Vigilante groups sprang up locally — and spurred a backlash

    A former Saratoga Springs tally-ho driver who had fallen into reckless living experienced a forced conversion on his way home from a night of carousing. “He was suddenly confronted by several men wearing white caps, who gave him some sound and telling advice, and warned him that unless he kept better hours and discontinued drinking, read more

    Vigilante groups sprang up locally — and spurred a backlash