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Haunted Grandeur

by Jo Page May 1, 2013

I don’t know where I found the 100abandonedhouses.com website, but I know that once I started looking at the images of once-elegant and capacious derelict houses in Detroit, I was deeply intrigued. Kevin Bauman’s emotive ...

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Religious Conversion

by Ann Morrow August 30, 2012

St. Bridget’s church in Watervliet has two towering stained-glass windows on either side of the sanctuary. These beautiful portraits of the church’s namesake saint and the holy mother gaze serenely toward the sanctuary, as though ...

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Is Nothing Sacred?

by Ann Morrow April 26, 2012

It was picture perfect: A young family enjoying the balmy spring weather with an evening stroll. Heading down the sidewalk of 19th Street in Watervliet, Eric Fagan, Jill Fagan, and their daughter Amber walked toward ...

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Rehabbing the Neighborhood

by Darryl McGrath January 26, 2012

The first thing you notice inside 95 Trinity Place is the light. An abundance of natural light flooding into a late-18th-century factory building is a suprise, considering that the first people who worked here had been ...

Brunswick

by The Staff December 1, 2011

There may not be any more startling change over the last 25 years in the Capital Region than the extensive suburban development in Rensselaer County. There’s been a fair amount of tension and conflict over ...

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Cooking Up Community

by Amy Halloran September 22, 2011

Like “a rock band of chefs”—that’s how Martin Ping, director of Hawthorne Valley Farm, described the Chef’s Consortium when the group recently did a gig there. Yes, these chefs gig just like bands, and they ...

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