Tag: New York

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    In impeachment role, Stefanik hears no evil

    U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has often cast herself in the role of a Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, the current and former Republican senators from Maine, who over the course of many years built reputations as bipartisan pragmatists. But any pretense of bipartisan moderation was pretty much shattered last month by Stefanik’s new role in read more

    In impeachment role, Stefanik hears no evil
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    Local paper’s roots date to abolitionist era

    In the fall of 1842, the agricultural muses visited local poets, inspiring “odes” to be read at that year’s Washington County Fair. “In a sweet healthy air, with a farm of his own, secluded from tumult and strife, the farmer, more blest than a king on his throne, enjoys all the comforts of life,” began read more

    Local paper’s roots date to abolitionist era
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    Local fruit, hand-rolled crust

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      Katie Daino works on making pies in the kitchen of Smith’s Orchard & Bake Shop in Charlton. Daino’s mother, Shelley Smith, started the orchard’s baking operation in 1999; now they turn out more than 100 pies on an average day. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer CHARLTON, N.Y. At first glance, read more

    Local fruit, hand-rolled crust
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    Brookside Museum seeks funds to stay open

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    Local history venue for Saratoga County aims to broaden mission   K. Michelle Arthur, the executive director of the Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa, stands near a hands-on exhibit. The museum’s leaders say it may be forced to close unless it can raise $100,000 in emergency funds by March. Joan K. Lentini photo   By read more

    Brookside Museum seeks funds to stay open
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    Local cities left off list of early polling sites

    New York voters were able to cast ballots early for the first time this fall, but the list of early voting sites left out several of the region’s urban centers. In Rensselaer County, election officials set up two early voting sites, in the suburban towns of Brunswick and Schodack. But the Republican-controlled County Legislature refused read more

    Local cities left off list of early polling sites
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    To New York’s reform list, add selection of judges

      When New York voters go to the polls on Nov. 5, they’ll get to choose from among an array of candidates for local and county offices – and for state Supreme Court. When it comes to choosing justices for the Supreme Court, which is actually the state’s trial-level court, most voters aren’t likely to read more

    To New York’s reform list, add selection of judges
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    Paying an extra penny for the day’s news

    Hundreds of daily newspapers went out of business a century ago, and others raised prices and cut expenses as they dealt with shortages of newsprint that sent the industry’s costs soaring. The Post-Star of Glens Falls, in an urgent alert to readers and advertisers, described what happened in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when that city’s daily newspapers read more

    Paying an extra penny for the day’s news
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    Worker rights arrive at the farm

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    Farmers, advocates weigh effects of New York’s new labor law   Roman Chaidez drives a tractor past the heifer facility he manages for Walker Farms LLC in Fort Ann, N.Y. Joan K. Lentini photo   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   A Guatemalan man who works at a dairy farm in southern Washington County describes himself read more

    Worker rights arrive at the farm
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    Bottling the secret sauces

    Chef’s wholesale line of condiments covers aioli to agrodolce   Longtime area chef David Britton makes an extensive line of small-batch condiments at Dakine Cuisine, a business he started in Glens Falls in 2004. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. The kitchen is quiet on a September morning at read more

    Bottling the secret sauces
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    Is this the best way to help farm workers?

      One of the biggest changes to agriculture in our region over the past couple of decades is the shift to reliance on foreign-born laborers. At most of the large dairy farms that still survive across eastern New York and Vermont, immigrant workers, mainly from Mexico and Central America, now do the vast majority of read more

    Is this the best way to help farm workers?