Tag: New York

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    The landscape is the inspiration

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    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer CAMBRIDGE, N.Y.The open fields and rolling hills of Rensselaer and Washington counties have provided inspiration to artists for generations, and every October for the past 10 years, local artists have banded together to give something back. The annual Landscapes for Landsake art show and sale, scheduled this year for Oct. read more

    The landscape is the inspiration
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    Tours to aid artists’ retreat

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    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. Yaddo may be renowned as the retreat where prize-winning plays are birthed and great musical scores are composed, but it’s nearly as well known for the air of mystery that surrounds its grounds. For the artists-in-residence who inhabit the retreat throughout the year, privacy is prized almost read more

    Tours to aid artists’ retreat
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    Art for the birds

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    By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. An art exhibit next month at Crandall Public Library will help to protect the population of short-eared owls, northern harriers and other raptors that depend on the Washington County Grasslands, a 13,000-acre network of farm fields that has been threatened with development. The juried art show, Birds read more

    Art for the birds
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    Saratoga line puts tourist trains to test

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    Ambitious new operation creates a link to the Adirondacks By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. For the first time in 55 years, regularly scheduled passenger trains started running last month between Saratoga Springs and the Adirondack village of North Creek. The tourist trains, following a scenic route along the upper Hudson River, have read more

    Saratoga line puts tourist trains to test
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    Markets with a mission

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    Food co-ops expand their reach – and goals – around the region They did far better than that. By the time of its official grand opening on July 23, the co-op, with its old-fashioned barrels of bulk goods and signature 1950s appliances, had signed up 213 members. Those members paid either an annual $20 fee read more

    Markets with a mission
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    States work to save the last bats

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    White-nose illness demands ‘radical’ steps, some say By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer Five years after the first dead bats were found in a cave west of Albany, the disease known as white-nose syndrome has killed off most of the region’s hibernating bats. The situation has gotten so dire that wildlife officials in Vermont and New read more

    States work to save the last bats
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    Pushing the frontier of wine making

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    Local flavors are priority for vintners in Columbia County By NED OLIVER Contributing writer GHENT, N.Y. Carlo DeVito’s first experience making wine wasn’t exactly encouraging. “My first batch was undrinkable,” he recalled. But from that inauspicious beginning, DeVito and his wife, Dominique, kept tinkering and tweaking to become award-winning vintners. They founded Columbia County’s first read more

    Pushing the frontier of wine making