Water Fears Flow in N.Y.
Hoosick Falls, n.y. — After his factory worker father died a painful death from kidney cancer at age 68 in 2013, Michael Hickey made it his mission to find out why so many people in his hometown along the Hoosick River were getting sick. Two years later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has warned residents of Hoosick Falls not to drink or cook with water from municipal wells, and a plastics plant has agreed to install a $2...
Rolling With the Changes: Segway Tours Are Quechee Gorge Village Owner’s Latest Business Reinvention
Quechee — On a whiteboard in Gary Neil’s cluttered office above the Cabot Quechee Store at the Quechee Gorge Village shopping mall on Route 4 is scrawled a reminder: “QGV is in reality part of a much larger natural attraction.” The sentence reflects how Neil views the 20-acre retail complex that caters to the swarm of tourists visiting the gorge every summer, a challenge that is forcing him to “recast” the assembly of gift shops,...
