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CLIFTON PARK (Oct. 20) -- Two big names in the Saratoga Springs dining scene will be opening Clifton Park restaurants durning the next few months. WOW Restaurants, which owns Wheatfields in Saratoga Springs, is aiming for a mid-November opening of its second Wheatfields location -- this one at Th
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BALLSTON SPA (Oct. 19) -- Forget car washes and bake sales. When some Ballston Spa students were seeking to raise funds for their senior class, they decided on something more dreadful and dramatic. Something not for the faint of heart. A haunted house and Halloween carnival. One that comes in 2 v
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HALFMOON (Oct. 18) -- Ballston Spa's John Noonan was the top finisher Sunday in the 7th annual Mohawk Towpath Byway Duathlon. Noonan finished the duathlon -- a 2.2-mile run, a 16-mile bicycle race and then another 2.2-mile run -- in 1 hour, 10 minutes and 32 seconds. Schenectady's Steve Becker wa
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CLIFTON PARK (Oct. 16) -- Lorraine Nelson Wolf has performed at Carnegie Hall and on Broadway. She composed the CBS NASCAR theme and the music for the documentary "Four Hands, One Heart." This weekend she will be performing in Clifton Park and composing a song for Christ Community Reformed Church.
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CLIFTON PARK (Oct. 16) -- On Saturday, Oct. 17, Karalina's -- a combination of a women's boutique, a home decor store and a gift shop located in Clifton Park Center -- will be holding a "Power of Pink" event to raise money for the Northeastern New York Affiliate of the Komen for a Cure. [caption
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SARATOGA SPRINGS (Oct. 15) -- Your mother, your sister, your aunt, your cousin. Odds are one of them is a domestic violence victim. Your coworker, the waitress at your favorite restaurant, the woman at church, the woman at the gym. Probably another domestic violence victim in the group. In the
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WATERFORD (Oct. 14) -- Sometimes mother knows best. Robert Bemis' mother was at a quilting guild meeting when she heard something that made her think of her son. "Someone said, 'If you're a good line-drawer, you can be a good quilter,'" he said. "It was an epiphany for my mother." It turned
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BALLSTON SPA (Oct. 13) -- Many of the 1,500 schoolchildren who visited Brookside Museum's annual "Native New York" education program on field trips during the past three weeks came home so excited they wished they could take their families. On Saturday, Oct. 17, they can. The program about Native
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CLIFTON PARK (Oct. 13) -- Claire Puccia Parham didn't enter college intending to become an expert -- perhaps the expert -- on the people who built the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. In fact, the Watertown native hadn't even seen the Seaway until she was a St. Lawrence University in the late
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GALWAY (Oct. 9) -- From Clifton Park to Mechanicville, Jonesville to Galway, area food pantries are seeing dramatically increased demand this year. At some of the pantries, this has meant empty shelves. Others are doing OK but are eagerly awaiting supplies from the food drives that normally occur
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HALFMOON (Jan. 20) -- With the economy as bad as it is, you would think local governments would do what they could to he...
CLIFTON PARK -- Imagine a classroom full of preschoolers minding their manners -- and having fun doing it. Welcome to...
WATERFORD -- The Friends of the Waterford Library might be a small group, but it has big plans for the upcoming year. ...
