Tag: New York

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    Happenchance Farm — Serendipity was just the start

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    Across two decades, Happenchance Farm keeps growing organic niche Jamie Snyder kneels with his dogs, Maggie and Benny, in front of a field of broccoli at Happenchance Farm, the certified organic farm Snyder started nearly 20 years ago in the Washington County town of White Creek. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer read more

    Happenchance Farm — Serendipity was just the start
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    Election 2017 — A roundup of area races, ballot questions

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    Voters in N.Y., Mass. to decide local races By FRED DALEYEditor   Mayoral races in North Adams, Saratoga Springs and Glens Falls, a hard-fought contest for Rensselaer County executive, and a proposal to revamp the system of city government in Saratoga Springs are among the major contests voters in Massachusetts and New York will decide read more

    Election 2017 — A roundup of area races, ballot questions
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    A sanctuary for all seekers

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    Sufi retreat keeps spiritual focus in former Shaker buildings The Abode of the Message, a Sufi community and retreat center in New Lebanon, N.Y., was established in 1975 in a collection of 19th century buildings that were once part of the large local Shaker community. Susan Sabino photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer NEW LEBANON, read more

    A sanctuary for all seekers
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    Trading old hazards for new? — Mystery shrouds chemicals that replaced PFOA

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    The Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant on McCaffrey Street in Hoosick Falls is blamed for contaminating the village’s drinking water wells with perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. The chemical has been phased out of production, raising questions about what industries like Saint-Gobain are using in its place. Joan K. Lentini photo   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer HOOSICK FALLS, read more

    Trading old hazards for new? — Mystery shrouds chemicals that replaced PFOA
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    State line sets sharp contrasts in PFOA water crisis

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    Border makes for sharp contrasts in handling of tainted-water crisis By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y.   Downtown Hoosick Falls is seen from across the Hoosic River. The groundwater that supplies the village water system remains heavily contaminated, and a local manufacturing plant near the water supply was designated as a federal Superfund site read more

    State line sets sharp contrasts in PFOA water crisis
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    Immersion in healing — For cancer survivors, a retreat just for healing

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    After cancer, owner shares riverside retreat with patients, survivors By STACEY MORRISContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y.   Roger and Letitia Wyatt run the Barn at Basset House on Hudson, a riverside retreat in Greenwich, N.Y. Next month, they’ll host a daylong retreat for area cancer patients and survivors.  Joan K. Lentini photo When Letitia Wyatt opened read more

    Immersion in healing — For cancer survivors, a retreat just for healing
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    At The Hyde Collection, new gallery adds modern element

    New gallery adds modern dimension at The Hyde Collection The new Feibes & Schmitt Gallery opened in June at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. The gallery is the result of a donation by Werner Feibes of Schenectady, who with his late partner James Schmitt amassed a large collection of modern and contemporary art over read more

    At The Hyde Collection, new gallery adds modern element
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    In water crisis, states reveal differing political cultures

    It hardly comes as a surprise that when faced with a crisis, Vermont’s state government would perform a whole lot better than New York’s. We already knew, from so many news stories over the years, that Vermont still functions as a representative democracy – and that New York has, well, Albany. But it’s still a read more

    In water crisis, states reveal differing political cultures
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    Saving a strawberry farm

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    $1.5M campaign aims to preserve Columbia County destination By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer ANCRAM, N.Y.   Don and Marnie MacLean have been running Thompson-Finch Farm, best known for its pick-your-own organic strawberries, since 1982. But a generational change in the farm’s ownership has threatened to force the sale of the property. Local conservation groups have launched read more

    Saving a strawberry farm
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    Climate-saving efforts go local

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    States, cities and activists push to meet goals of Paris agreement By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   With President Trump’s announcement June 1 that he would pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, area states, cities and citizen groups are redoubling their efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions and shift to renewable energy read more

    Climate-saving efforts go local