Tag: New York

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    Signs of economic change

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    Region’s manufacturing takes high-tech turn as some familiar employers exit   The sign outside AngioDynamics’ medical device plant in Queensbury, N.Y., says the company is now hiring, but the factory is set to shut down at the end of 2025. Employee shortages are one reason the company has cited for its decision to close its read more

    Signs of economic change
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    Hudson fishing shanties face likely demolition

      A collection of more than a dozen old fishing shanties along the Hudson River, some of which are seen here in 2018, has been deemed historically significant by state officials. But the city of Hudson says it lacks the resources needed to preserve them as part of a pending waterfront redevelopment project. Susan Sabino read more

    Hudson fishing shanties face likely demolition
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    On the rails, serving travelers with flair

    He was as nimble as a circus acrobat, as gregarious as a politician and, at least in the estimation of one canine, as fashionable as a stage actor. “That’s Conductor Frost, the best fellow that ever lived,” a railroad passenger told a reporter for The Mechanicville Era in 1883. The popularity of Charles Frost, a read more

    On the rails, serving travelers with flair
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    A month in the hills — Birthing center to stay open with state aid

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    The only remaining maternity ward in Rensselaer County will stay open after receiving a promise of $5 million in new state grants. St. Peter’s Health Partners announced April 29 that it will keep the Burdett Birth Center in Troy open for at least five years while the hospital system works to improve the center’s economic read more

    A month in the hills — Birthing center to stay open with state aid
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    Fresh food at a farm stand for members

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    Start-up grower gives members access to produce from range of area farms Aliza Pickering, seen here at her parents’ greenhouse and garden center in Arlington, Vt., has set up a membership group that provides subscribers with fresh local produce from area farms, including her own, through a roadside farm stand in Saratoga County. Joan K. read more

    Fresh food at a farm stand for members
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    Counties push back against election changes

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    Legal filings challenge New York shift to even-year voting Participation gap Turnout is sharply higher in New York’s even-year elections, which feature statewide and legislative races, than in odd-year elections that have only local contests. The figures below show the number of votes cast in each year’s general election in area counties. County        read more

    Counties push back against election changes
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    Cycling editor earned respect in newspaper fraternity

    Editor Franklin Fishler’s preferred mode of transportation must have made it difficult at times to make deadline. But it got him out into the far-reaching communities of Washington County to gather the news firsthand, setting him apart from his peers, who typically relied on correspondents based in individual towns to keep readers informed. “Editor Fishler read more

    Cycling editor earned respect in newspaper fraternity
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    In defense of books

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    Some in region push back against banning efforts in schools and libraries   Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman reads to an audience at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, one of a series of stops he made around the state in recent months as part of his Banned Book Tour. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer read more

    In defense of books
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    Banding together for a bridge

    Group aims to preserve a century-old span over the Batten Kill   Members of the new group Friends of the Battenville Bridge gather at the west end of the century-old steel structure, which spans the Batten Kill between the towns of Greenwich and Jackson.Joan K. Lentini photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer GREENWICH, N.Y. Some read more

    Banding together for a bridge
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    New U.S. House map shuffles area towns

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    Final redistricting plan splits Saratoga and Rensselaer counties By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   Voters in northern Saratoga County and nearly all of Rensselaer County will find themselves in new congressional districts when they head to the polls this year, thanks to a revised political map that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law on read more

    New U.S. House map shuffles area towns