Tag: New York

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    In prison baseball, a home-field disadvantage

    The Prison Nine baseball team of Great Meadow prison in Comstock, N.Y., had a high turnover of players and always was the home team, even when playing against “the locals.” “Although some of last year’s prison team have left the confines of Great Meadow, it is reported that an excellent team has already been welded read more

    In prison baseball, a home-field disadvantage
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    With good, healthy food for all

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    Nonprofit Hudson store tests a new model for reaching ‘food deserts’ Selha “CeCe” Graham, the retail co-manager of Rolling Grocer 19 in Hudson, N.Y., says the nonprofit store’s mission is to “provide access to quality food for people at all income levels.” Scott Langley photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. For local people read more

    With good, healthy food for all
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    Creating a community forest

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    Deal preserves land at a village’s edge for education, recreation A group visiting the new Cambridge Community Forest last month included Alex Dery Snider, Elliott Norman, Bill Arnold, Sarah Ashton and Jared Woodcock. George Bouret photo   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. A wooded hillside on the edge of the village of Cambridge, the read more

    Creating a community forest
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    Local scenes, literary themes

    Exhibit samples works of longtime area artist, teacher Harold Keller   Harold Keller’s oil painting “The Birth of Venus near Saratoga Springs” (1966) is among works spanning several decades of his career that will be on view this month at McCartee’s Barn Fine Art & Antiques in Salem, N.Y. Courtesy photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing read more

    Local scenes, literary themes
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    Groups fight county’s bid to share data with ICE

    A coalition of civil rights and voter advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit late last month in an effort to block Rensselaer County from sharing voter registration information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The four groups went to court after the county’s leading Republican officials announced they would ask ICE to review local voter read more

    Groups fight county’s bid to share data with ICE
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    Expanding the links to fresh, healthy food

    It has been an inspiration to watch the blossoming of the local food movement in our region over the past two decades. Farmers markets, community supported farms, and locally crafted food businesses of every variety have sprung up and thrived in our small cities and rural towns as consumers increasingly seek out food that’s local, read more

    Expanding the links to fresh, healthy food
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    Of candy, conquest and the space age

    My childhood whimsy in the early 1960s was influenced by the space race, but my imagination extended far beyond the moon. I would hop on the backyard swing set, and after swinging a bit, I’d count down, very loud, in a deep voice in the style of a Mission Control television announcer, from 10 to read more

    Of candy, conquest and the space age
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    After world war, new roles for Hudson Valley military base

    It was the Hudson Valley equivalent of turning swords into plowshares.“Camp Whitman, in the town of Beekman, Dutchess County, is no longer a military establishment,” The Post-Star of Glens Falls reported on May 7, 1920. “It is being transformed into a vegetable farm, its use being given to the Hudson River State Hospital Commission,” which read more

    After world war, new roles for Hudson Valley military base
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    Melding farm and forest

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    Planting of nut trees puts a new agricultural model to the test A volunteer crew works to plant hazelnut tree seedlings at Kevin Maher’s farm in Cambridge, N.Y. photo by Joan K. Lentini     By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. The crew gathered at Kevin Maher’s farm on a weekend in the middle of read more

    Melding farm and forest
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    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun

    Adirondack festival plans three musicals and a thriller in milestone season Sid Solomon, Sam Kedere, Janet Krupin and Luce Lavely perform in Adirondack Theatre Festival’s 2018 production of “The Jedi Handbook.” The festival will offer four new shows for its 25th season. Courtesy photo/Jim McLaughlin   By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. In the read more

    Adirondack Theatre Festival focuses on the new — and the fun