Tag: New York

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    New Lebanon farmers market expands to year-round storefront

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    Farmers market expands through year-round retail storefront   Volunteers and staff of the New Lebanon Farmers Market — Phoebe Young, Josh Young, Lucas Cipkowski and Eleanor Young — stand behind some of the fresh produce at the market’s new year-round retail storefront. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y. The food read more

    New Lebanon farmers market expands to year-round storefront
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    U.S. House districts shift for Hudson Valley races

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    Court rulings set stage for close Hudson Valley races as Delgado exits   A final map of New York’s new congressional districts, released last month by a court-appointed expert, creates two new politically competitive districts in the Hudson Valley, neither of which has an incumbent currently. One would stretch from Columbia County westward to Ithaca. read more

    U.S. House districts shift for Hudson Valley races
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    State’s new political map might help our democracy

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    It is a season of discontent for House Democrats from New York. In a difficult election season, they already were at risk of losing their majority in Washington. And lately they’ve been sniping at each other – even planning to run against each other – as they grapple with the fallout from a gerrymandering effort read more

    State’s new political map might help our democracy
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    Bequest for library yielded a grand public building

    When Salem, N.Y., received a bequest in 1890 to create a local library, the village’s leaders embraced it as an economic development opportunity. The soon-to-be-constructed Proudfit Hall would provide space not just for the proposed Bancroft Library but also for retail shops, offices and a 700-seat auditorium. “With the erection of the Bancroft Library, the read more

    Bequest for library yielded a grand public building
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    Saratoga Springs pushes for police reforms

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    In Saratoga Springs, leaders pursue changes and aim to rebuild trust   Police cruisers line the street outside Saratoga Springs City Hall. Photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. A new slate of city leaders in Saratoga Springs has been moving swiftly in recent weeks toward adopting one of read more

    Saratoga Springs pushes for police reforms
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    After 27 years, state restores tuition aid for inmates

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    Some area colleges set to offer more programs By MAURY THOMPSON Contributing writer   Every year since 1999, New York lawmakers have introduced legislation to make state college tuition grants available to students incarcerated at prison facilities. And every year, until this year, the legislation never made it out of committee.Inmate education advocates rejoiced when read more

    After 27 years, state restores tuition aid for inmates
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    Leaving urban life to run a bookstore in a barn

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    Family leaves California to take charge of area vintage bookstore   Sydney Nichols and Eric Kufs stand with their daughter Sally Jane in the children’s section at Owl Pen Books. Nichols and Kufs are the new owners of the 60-year-old vintage bookstore in Greenwich, N.Y. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREENWICH, read more

    Leaving urban life to run a bookstore in a barn
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    Strands of history in a Hudson Valley home

    A president, national icon and barrier-breaking writer all had links to property   Within a few years after hosting the wedding of the future president Martin Van Buren, the house at 251 West Main St. in Catskill became the home of “Uncle Sam” Wilson. Paul Post photo   By PAUL POSTContributing writer CATSKILL, N.Y.When Martin read more

    Strands of history in a Hudson Valley home
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    Saratoga Springs new public safety commissioner needs to clear the air.

    For Saratoga Springs’ new public safety commissioner, a big part of the job so far involves clearing the air. And it turns out that a lot of bad air has built up over the past decade inside City Hall and the city police department in particular. James Montagnino, a retired lawyer with more than 30 read more

    Saratoga Springs new public safety commissioner needs to clear the air.
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    Recruiting guardians for a seagull sanctuary

    The somewhat unusual classified ad, published in various newspapers around the country in 1921, generated 1,600 applications: “Wanted — A man to live alone on an island, inland lake; eight miles from the shore; transportation, food, shelter, boat, etc. furnished; no work; no compensation.”The successful applicant that year was a recent Harvard University graduate. Similarly read more

    Recruiting guardians for a seagull sanctuary