Tag: New York

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    From local pulpits, a push to banish gambling

    The Rev. Sherman Williams, pastor of Glens Falls Methodist Episcopal Church, liked to watch horses trot — with one caveat. “Personally, I very much enjoy a pure and simple horse race,” Williams said in a sermon on Nov. 4, 1894. “But I have never attended a race where gambling and pool selling were the order read more

    From local pulpits, a push to banish gambling
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    Vote early, but not by mail?

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    GOP message on early voting shifts as more N.Y. voters try it   Harold Hubbard, the Republican deputy elections commissioner of Warren County, instructs elections inspectors at a recent training session on the use of electronic poll books. The devices ensure that voters who cast ballots at New York’s early voting sites cannot vote more read more

    Vote early, but not by mail?
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    Saving Darrow — $5M raised for school

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    Head of School Andrew Vadnais stands outside the administration and classroom building at Darrow School in late January after the school’s leaders reversed a decision to shut down at the end of the current academic year. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer NEW LEBANON, N.Y. After several weeks in which it appeared the read more

    Saving Darrow — $5M raised for school
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    Homegrown HEAT

    Gordon Sacks holds a bottle of one of the new line of hot sauces made from ingredients grown at 9 Miles East Farm. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. When Gordon Sacks created his meal subscription service 15 years ago, his mission was clear: to make it easy for read more

    Homegrown HEAT
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    Editorial — N.Y. GOP flips the script on early vs. mail-in voting

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      Editorial February-March 2024   N.Y. GOP flips the script on early vs. mail-in voting   Back in January 2019, when state legislators took up the question of whether to allow a lot more New Yorkers to vote by mail, the idea received overwhelming bipartisan support. A proposal to amend the state constitution to allow read more

    Editorial — N.Y. GOP flips the script on early vs. mail-in voting
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    From Troy, a world champion in era of boxing ‘exhibitions’

    It was billed as family entertainment.“The management desires to announce that these contests will be no slugging matches but simply a scientific exhibition that all can witness with pleasure as pure harmless fun,” The Granville Sentinel reported on Sept. 28, 1894. The former world boxing champion Patrick “Paddy” Ryan of Troy was to face the read more

    From Troy, a world champion in era of boxing ‘exhibitions’
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    A downtown on the upswing — In Saratoga’s shadow, Balston Spa finds its own path to success

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    In Saratoga’s shadow, Ballston Spa finds its own path to success   The row of 19th century buildings along Front Street in Ballston Spa have been revitalized in recent decades, making the village a hub for shopping and dining. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. Ten minutes down the read more

    A downtown on the upswing — In Saratoga’s shadow, Balston Spa finds its own path to success
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    Food fight? Debate over farm bill nears

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    Local advocates keep tabs as Congress weighs shifts in agriculture funds, policy By MAURY THOMPSONContributing writer   With the threat of a government shutdown now averted until after the start of the new year, congressional leaders have reserved floor time in December to debate a new farm bill in the U.S. House. But most political read more

    Food fight? Debate over farm bill nears
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    Election 2023

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    Here are the results of major races in the Nov. 7 local elections in New York and Massachusetts. Winning candidates are in bold type. A brief summary follows the results for each county. Vote totals shown for Berkshire, Warren and Washington counties are final, official tallies that include absentee or mail-in ballots. The results for read more

    Election 2023
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    Talked up for governor’s race, he stayed in the back rooms

    There was a big push for women’s suffrage in New York in 1894 as the state constitutional convention was set to begin. Former U.S. Rep. Henry Gordon Burleigh, R-Whitehall, who was weighing a run for governor, was not ready to fully embrace the “petticoat platform” of the suffragettes. “Ex-Congressman Henry G. Burleigh of Whitehall hurried read more

    Talked up for governor’s race, he stayed in the back rooms