Tag: New York

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    From readers, care and food for local journalists

    How long does it take to make a newspaper editor smile? In one local case in the 19th century, the process took 14 years.In 1869, Harriet Wing of Glens Falls, the wife of Halsey Rogers Wing, received a packet of catalpa seeds in a letter from Kentucky. Perhaps, at the time, Harriet was still grieving read more

    From readers, care and food for local journalists
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    A menu of constant change

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    Restaurants struggle to navigate pandemic, partial reopening   Railroad Street in Great Barrington is car-free on a Friday night in June, allowing the street’s many restaurants to serve more customers at outdoor tables. Scott Langley photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. At the Prairie Whale, strings of lights are gleaming in the read more

    A menu of constant change
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    From hemp, cures for body and soil

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    Hudson Valley operation stresses mission of regenerative farming   Hemp seedlings are ready for transplanting at Old Mud Creek Farm in Columbia County. The farm rasies hemp to meet the demand for CBD oil, but the health of the soil is a big part of its mission. Scott Langley photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer read more

    From hemp, cures for body and soil
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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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    A statesman whose dairy cows were his pride

    Making the rounds of the late summer agricultural fairs has long been a tradition for politicians.But it’s not all that often that a prominent politician takes home a prize, unless it’s in a celebrity cow-milking contest, which typically is more of a stunt than a feat of skill. One politician from the region, though, served read more

    A statesman whose dairy cows were his pride
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    Filling a need for food

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      Cars line up to receive an emergency food packages May 26 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Regional food banks and local charitable organizations have organized a series of similar events around the region as unemployment has spiked upward amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Scott Langley photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   Inside the local read more

    Filling a need for food
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    Putting worms to work

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      Bill Richmond, owner of Adirondack Worm Farm in Kingsbury, N.Y., displays a bin in which red worms consume food wastes and other organic materials collected from area homes to produce compost. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer KINGSBURY, N.Y. When Bill Richmond bought his 40-acre farm two decades ago, he had read more

    Putting worms to work
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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