Tag: New York

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    Disaster waiting to happen?

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer GHENT, N.Y.When a huge fire broke out last summer at an industrial waste processing plant in Columbia County, firefighters initially tried to quell the blaze with water. But the firefighters soon had to retreat as a series of explosions rocked the 30,000-square-foot building that was home to TCI of New read more

    Disaster waiting to happen?
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    A taste for the tart

    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer STOCKPORT, N.Y.Steven McKay looked out over a patch of elderberry bushes, dormant for the season, on a cold and sunny November day.  His sprawling Hudson Valley property is home to many things: dozens of berry bushes and a few grape arbors, a small flock of wandering hens, a family of read more

    A taste for the tart
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    Locally grown foods at the mall

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    Supersized Saratoga store aims to show a niche is now mainstream By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer WILTON, N.Y. Construction workers were busy inside Wilton Mall last month preparing the space that will soon house the region’s largest natural foods and organic supermarket. New flooring had been installed, refrigeration equipment had begun to arrive, and workers read more

    Locally grown foods at the mall
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    Niche brewer getting bigger

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    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer HOOSICK, N.Y.With the annual rate of craft beer sales growing by double digits nationally and a big thirst locally for its award-winning ales and lagers, Brown’s Brewing Co. of Troy is setting up a new brewery. The new facility, in a former factory just off Route 22 in North Hoosick, read more

    Niche brewer getting bigger
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    A better answer to crime?

    Backers push ‘restorative justice,’ stressing healing over punishment By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer EASTON, N.Y.It was early 1996 when David Kaczynski contacted the FBI with strong suspicions that his brother, Ted, was the Unabomber. Across nearly two decades before that, the mysterious Unabomber had mailed or delivered 16 package bombs to targets in academia and read more

    A better answer to crime?
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    Chip plant draws immigrant workers in Saratoga

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    Chip plant draws immigrant workers, adds international flavor in Saratoga By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer CLIFTON PARK, N.Y.Haiting Wang was happy to show off the new two-story structure he will soon call home. Standing in front of his still-under-construction house last month, he was flanked by a backhoe and a workers’ scaffold as a symphony read more

    Chip plant draws immigrant workers in Saratoga
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    TCI’s history includes past fires, worker death

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   GHENT, N.Y. The Aug. 1 fire that destroyed the TCI of New York plant in West Ghent was not the company’s first, nor was the smaller fire earlier this year in which a trailer of oily rags at the plant ignited. In the mid-1980s, fire broke out at TCI’s read more

    TCI’s history includes past fires, worker death
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    An artist’s grand plans for Hudson

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    Old theater building seen as international center for performance art By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer   HUDSON, N.Y. Within a few years, the hulking old Community Tennis building in Hudson could be transformed into new artistic hub under the guidance of one of the world’s best-known performance artists. Marina Abramovic, who has spent four decades read more

    An artist’s grand plans for Hudson
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    Marriage vote echoes in Senate primary

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    McDonald faces challenge for GOP line amid shifting political landscape By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer   SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. If there’s a political cost to state Sen. Roy McDonald’s pivotal vote for same-sex marriage, it will be measured this month when the senator faces a rare intraparty challenge from Saratoga County Clerk Kathleen Marchione. Republican read more

    Marriage vote echoes in Senate primary
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    After a big fire, questions persist

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    Critics fault state’s limited testing after blaze involving PCBs By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer   GHENT, N.Y. After a huge chemical fire erupted at an industrial plant in West Ghent on the night of Aug. 1, authorities advised everyone within a 15-mile radius of the site to stay indoors, keep windows closed and avoid using read more

    After a big fire, questions persist