Tag: New York

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    Channeling a pioneer of comedy

    Local artist’s one-woman show tells the story of Totie Fields By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer SALEM, N.Y. If you’ve ever had a good belly laugh courtesy of the likes of Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell or Chelsea Handler, you can thank Totie Fields. Fields’ name may conjure up a hazy memory or be completely unfamiliar, depending read more

    Channeling a pioneer of comedy
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    Finding fulfillment in a grass-fed flock

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    Professor’s sideline grows into full-fledged farm By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer CLERMONT, N.Y.Jennifer Phillips’ love affair with grazing animals, and her subsequent farming career, started 10 years ago when she acquired a few lambs to mow her then two-acre yard. “I got my initial inspiration for mowing with sheep from the cover story of an read more

    Finding fulfillment in a grass-fed flock
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    Is privatization the cure?

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    Counties push to sell public nursing homes, citing budget pressures By THOMAS DIMOPOULOS Contributing writer William “Beaver” Watkins remembers how “it all went to hell in a hand-basket.” Two years ago, the Washington County Board of Supervisors began to consider privatizing Pleasant Valley Infirmary, the county-owned nursing home in Argyle. Watkins, the Cambridge town supervisor, read more

    Is privatization the cure?
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    Celebrating a folk legend

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    Performances around region mark Woody Guthrie centennial By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Woody Guthrie, one of America’s great voices during the Great Depression and World War II, was a restless soul. Leaving his home in Okemah, Okla., at the age of 18, he spent the next 23 years wandering the nation, moving frequently and traveling read more

    Celebrating a folk legend
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    From the woods to the fields

    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y. For Chris Lincoln and Tammara Van Ryn, a return to New York after several years living in New Hampshire meant not only returning to their roots, it meant the realization of a longtime dream.  For a dozen years, Lincoln was doing consulting work in forestry while Van Ryn read more

    From the woods to the fields
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    Lyme that lingers

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    By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer QUEENSBURY, N.Y.When Holly Ahern found out several years ago that her daughter’s mysterious illness was Lyme disease, she quickly immersed herself in the subject. Ahern, an associate professor of microbiology at SUNY Adirondack, soon learned about the controversies swirling around the disease and came to realize that many others were read more

    Lyme that lingers
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    Family’s sideline grows into full-time farm

    Roadside vegetable stand in ‘70s set stage for multi-generational business By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer ARGYLE, N.Y. Some family businesses are planned in advance, with every last detail crafted before being put into motion; others unfold by happenstance and evolve naturally over time. The latter has been the pattern at Butternut Ridge Farm. The farm read more

    Family’s sideline grows into full-time farm
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    In rural Columbia County, a Quaker group tests a new model of community

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    In rural Columbia County, a Quaker group tests a new model of community By TRACY FRISCH Contributing writer CANAAN, N.Y.Along a quiet dirt road in the foothills of the Berkshires, a half-dozen new houses have taken shape on an old farm over the past decade. But the social norms and values of this new community read more

    In rural Columbia County, a Quaker group tests a new model of community
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    Ruling boosts Spa City reform effort

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    Vote possible this fall on government overhaul By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. A local citizens group won a major court ruling last month in its effort to force a referendum on overhauling the Saratoga Springs city government, but it’s not clear yet whether voters will get to weigh in on the issue read more

    Ruling boosts Spa City reform effort
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    A hard act to follow — Hubbard Hall

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    As founder’s retirement looms, Hubbard Hall seeks a new leader By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.Hubbard Hall, the 19th century opera house that was reborn more than 30 years ago as a performing arts center for southern Washington County, is facing some big changes. Benjie White, the executive director of Hubbard Hall Projects Inc., read more

    A hard act to follow — Hubbard Hall