Tag: New York

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    In defense of love

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    By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer SALEM, N.Y.   The black-and-white photographs could be of almost any happy, affectionate family from the mid-1960s. They show a husband and wife sharing a conversation or tender moment, playing with their three children on the living room couch, working with a friend on a car in the back yard, the read more

    In defense of love
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    Poetry and place — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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    Visitors get more access to home of Edna St. Vincent Millay By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer   AUSTERLITZ, N.Y.Although the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the most prominent and colorful literary figures of the 20th century, her former home in Columbia County has had a very low profile in the region’s tourism scene.But read more

    Poetry and place — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    Taking a stand for unadulterated food

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    May 24 festival is local observance of global anti-GMO event By STACEY MORRISContributing writer   Joan K. Lentini photo   GLENS FALLS, N.Y. When Sue Duncan decided to spearhead this year’s March Against Monsanto in Glens Falls, she decided to fight the infamous corporate agribusiness giant not with a line of protesters, but with good read more

    Taking a stand for unadulterated food
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    Oil pipelines on wheels — Risks increase on region’s rail lines

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    Risks increase on region’s rail lines as traffic through Albany port grows By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   While environmental groups have made opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline in the Midwest a cause célèbre over the past five years, rolling pipelines of oil have quietly been established in a lot of communities closer to home. read more

    Oil pipelines on wheels — Risks increase on region’s rail lines
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    A new model for saving farmland

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    Investor group plans agricultural center in Columbia County By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer   COPAKE, N.Y.A large tract of open land in the central hamlet of Copake, once the proposed site of a controversial affordable-housing development, has now been earmarked for preservation as working farmland. The 122-acre property, a short distance off Route 22 and just read more

    A new model for saving farmland
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    In lieu of plastic, mushrooms

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    Cambridge mycologist helps company develop fungi-based products By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.Sue Van Hook is convinced that fungi hold one of the keys to saving the planet from choking on plastic. A professional mycologist and a retired Skidmore College senior teaching associate, Van Hook has embarked on a new career as chief mycologist read more

    In lieu of plastic, mushrooms
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    Health care reform hits home

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    Area navigators describe progress, pitfalls in covering the uninsured By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer The rollout of new state-run health insurance exchanges in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts hasn’t been free of problems, but in the past few months thousands of people in the region have been able to use the new system to shop read more

    Health care reform hits home
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    Hawthorne Valley aims for sister store in Hudson

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    By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer HUDSON, N.Y. Nearly a decade of calls for re-establishing a downtown supermarket in Hudson could soon be answered, as the nonprofi t group that runs the Hawthorne Valley Farm Store considers setting up a sister store in the city.   The Hawthorne Valley Association, which operates the popular farm store read more

    Hawthorne Valley aims for sister store in Hudson
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    Farm to office — new destination for agricultural deliveries

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer As a teenager in the Champlain Valley of New York, Adam Hainer sold vegetables from his home garden at a farmers market.   But he didn’t imagine farming could ever provide his livelihood until he met Melody Horn, his future partner, at a now-defunct microgreens farm. They wound up starting read more

    Farm to office — new destination for agricultural deliveries
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    From voices of elders, works of art

    Exhibits draw from artist’s conversations with seniors By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. David Greenberger has made a national reputation by listening attentively to a collection of voices that are often ignored – those of the elderly.   Greenberger’s original plans for a career as a fi ne arts painter were pleasantly derailed read more

    From voices of elders, works of art