In America, 35,574 veterans are homeless, 1.25 million receive food stamps, and 1.7 million lack proper health care.
“The words homeless and veteran should never be used in the same sentence,” says Diane Nazzaro, the new executive director of the Ballston Spa–based Veterans & Community...
When Matt Whitbeck was in high school, a career in the trades wasn’t exactly something that was promoted to him. “It was almost the contrary, where it was somewhat discouraged,” he says. “At the time, vocational school was seen as a landing place for...
It was Easter, and Kristen O’Dell was fighting a courageous battle with end-stage bladder and lung cancer. She knew that it would most likely be her last Easter with her son, Tavin, and while she wanted to make it special for him, all her...
When Rasi Harper first heard tales of Saratoga Race Course from the trainers and jockeys who sat in his barber chair, it wasn’t the thrill of the races, the stakes of the bets or the social lives of horse racing’s elite that drew him...
Glens Falls native Drew FitzGerald has a running joke with a friend who’s the former head of the material science department at MIT.
“If I call him and say, ‘Hey, Jeff, what are you working on this week in the lab?’ he’ll tell me that he’s fabricating nanoscale desalinating graphene meshes,” FitzGerald says. “And I’ll say, ‘No you’re not—you’re reducing gender-based violence in the developing...
Wine seems to inspire equal levels of passion and determined ignorance.
There are oenophiles who will wax poetic on the merits of Chambolle-Musigny vs. Gevrey-Chambertin, and laypeople for whom the wine world’s exclusionary vibe makes them less, not more, curious about the intricacies of fermented grapes. And then there are those who seek to bring these two opposing camps together.
“We really want to take the...
