Tag: New York

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    Small theaters struggle to convert before film reels disappear

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    By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer   “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.” The movie industry is arguably experiencing its biggest technological revolution since Al Jolson spoke those first words, in “The Jazz Singer,” to usher in the era of the talkies in 1927. By the end this year, the major read more

    Small theaters struggle to convert before film reels disappear
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    Mercury threat persists, studies show

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    Health risks linger in region despite cuts in emissions By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer   Despite tougher pollution standards that have led to a sharp reduction nationally in emissions of airborne mercury, several new studies suggest that high concentrations of the toxic heavy metal are persisting in the environment and continuing to pose a health read more

    Mercury threat persists, studies show
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    Group aims to preserve grasslands for bird habitat

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    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer   FORT EDWARD, N.Y.After several years of raising public awareness about the birds and landscapes of the Washington County grasslands, a local conservation group says it wants to move beyond education to actually buying and preserving some of the open land. “We’re planning a fund-raising campaign to purchase land from read more

    Group aims to preserve grasslands for bird habitat
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    Building a grass-fed future

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    Beef farmers band together for access to new markets and new hope By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   HEBRON, N.Y.At first glance, Sarah Teale seems an unlikely person to organize an agricultural cooperative for small-scale producers of grass-fed beef. She lives in Manhattan, where she has a successful documentary filmmaking career and her own production read more

    Building a grass-fed future
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    Local airwaves, local voices

    By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer   HUDSON, N.Y.The motto for WGXC-90.7 FM, the local radio station that started broadcasting to Columbia and Greene counties just over two years ago, is “hands-on radio.” The phrase sums up why WGXC stands out in the era of chain-owned commercial radio stations whose homogeneous programming typically is produced in read more

    Local airwaves, local voices
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    Inside tales from New York’s troubled child welfare system

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer     GLENS FALLS, N.Y.Sid, a delicate-boned young woman with a tough veneer and numerous piercings, spent most of her high school years in detention. By her own account, her trip through the nether world of New York’s child welfare system began when she was 14, after she took the read more

    Inside tales from New York’s troubled child welfare system
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    A schoolhouse for the creative

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    Plans advance for a visual arts school in Columbia County By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer   HARLEMVILLE, N.Y. A historic former schoolhouse in the rural hamlet of Harlemville may soon return to its roots by serving as the home of a proposed Art School of Columbia County. Planning for the new art school has been read more

    A schoolhouse for the creative
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    A quest for full flavor

    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer   HILLSDALE, N.Y.Becoming a spice trader wasn’t part of Laura Griffin’s career plan. But when she visited an Indian spice store in Boston in 2008, the experience changed her life. “The store had a wall of spices that looked and smelled amazing,” Griffin recalled. “And I realized my spices at read more

    A quest for full flavor
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    Gun shows draw controversy

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    Where critics push for limits, some fear loss of freedom By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.The line at the door to the City Center began forming hours before the show opened. By 10 a.m., crowds of shoppers moved about the gun-laden tables inside the exhibition hall. Outside on Broadway, demonstrators held up 26 read more

    Gun shows draw controversy
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    Helsinki on the Hudson

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    Three years on, club is at center of city’s growing music scene By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer   HUDSON, N.Y. When Club Helsinki closed its intimate, eclectic performance space in Great Barrington, Mass., and moved west to Hudson a few years ago, its owners hoped to play a role in the ongoing revitalization of their read more

    Helsinki on the Hudson