Tag: New York

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    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch

    As this issue goes to press, the national news is focused on the bitter battle over a Supreme Court nomination. We’re in a week of limbo between the dramatic testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh and the completion of a highly anticipated but limited FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh. Even by read more

    As midterm vote nears, take it down a notch
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    Local suffragist tried to upend a party machine

    A Hudson Falls suffragette tested the muscle of local political bosses in 1918 and attracted statewide attention as the first woman in upstate New York to compete in a Republican primary for a state Assembly seat. When Elizabeth Mitchell launched her campaign, it had been less than a year since New York amended its state read more

    Local suffragist tried to upend a party machine
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    Fruit and fulfillment

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    An orchard’s attractions keep growing, covering apples to art Peaches grown at Love Apple Farm are among the attractions in the weeks before apple season begins at the Columbia County orchard. The farm has been a local destination since the late 1960s, but like many other pick-your-own operations, it has been expanding its scale and read more

    Fruit and fulfillment
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    State’s claims on cancer belied by new PFOA study

    When Michael Hickey, a former village trustee in Hoosick Falls, decided to have his tap water tested for perfluorooctanoic acid in 2014, he was searching for an explanation for what he and others believed was a high local incidence of cancer. Hickey’s father, who had worked at a local factory that used PFOA, died of read more

    State’s claims on cancer belied by new PFOA study
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    A political alliance that broke a racial barrier

    GLENS FALLS, N.Y.Newspaper clippings in the Addison B. Colvin scrapbooks at Crandall Public Library’s Folklife Center tell the story of Charles W. Anderson, a civil rights and political activist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who had connections to Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs.Anderson was a spirited orator who would later be called read more

    A political alliance that broke a racial barrier
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    Police chief admits he misled public about case

    Saratoga Springs is facing calls for better oversight of its police force after the city police chief admitted he misled the public about his department’s handling of a 2013 case that led to the death of a black man fleeing from officers. Police Chief Gregory Veitch told reporters at the time that city police were read more

    Police chief admits he misled public about case
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    An escape route from dairy farming’s crisis?

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    Some see hope in shift to organic production, but economic pressures remain Samantha and Chris Kemnah walk among the cows at Clover Bliss Farm, their 2-year-old organic, grass-fed dairy operation in Argyle, N.Y. Joan Lentini photos   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer ARGYLE, N.Y. The name of Clover Bliss Farm refers to the contentment its abundant read more

    An escape route from dairy farming’s crisis?
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    A soothing crop for stressful times

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    Lavender becomes focus of couple’s back-to-the-land enterprise David and Diane Allen opened Lavenlair Farm to the public two years ago. The farm in the Washington County town of Fort Ann grows lavender and produces an array of lavender products that the Allens sell at an on-site gift shop, at farmers markets and online. Joan K. read more

    A soothing crop for stressful times
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    Tales from the trail: Haze and some light

    The general election season is suddenly upon us, at least in the two hotly contested U.S. House districts in our region of eastern New York. With the crowded Democratic primaries settled, the month of July brought the first chances for the two district’s incumbent Republicans to engage with their newly anointed challengers. We should all read more

    Tales from the trail: Haze and some light
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    A case of campaign name-calling that backfired

    William Randolph Hearst, as the Democratic candidate for governor of New York in 1906, delivered a campaign speech so full of guttural ire that it went down in history. Hearst coined a nickname for his Republican opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, that reporters would repeat for years to come. He branded his opponent the “animated feather read more

    A case of campaign name-calling that backfired