The local angle

Assistant Editor Stephanie S. Garlow pitched in recently to cover the story of a New Englander who was taken hostage on the high seas by Somali pirates:

Lessons of the high seas

She has also written about travel in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula for GlobalPost: 

The other face of the Yucatan

http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/general/090411/the-local-angle