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Part 1 of 2: Main courses and side dishes HALFMOON (Jan. 17) -- If you're cooking a Valentines Day meal for your sweetie, do the two of you a favor and don't overdo it. After all, what fun will your evening be if you're tired after cooking all day. But just because you didn't toil away at a ho
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 15) -- The initial reports on the 12th barely made the news, a 7.0 earthquake in Haiti. After all it was only a few days ago we heard of a 6-something quake off California that caused only minimal damage. The days following, though, unveiled the horror that had been unleashed upon
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BALLSTON SPA (Jan. 14) -- Connie Frisbee Houde kept getting asked to speak about Afghanistan. But she worried that her information wasn't up to date. After all, she hadn't been to the country since 2005. So she decided she had to go back -- and she took her camera. The photographs she took dur
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 13) -- Rehearsals have begun for the Shenendehowa High School Musical Company’s production of “Anything Goes,” which will be performed March 18-20 at 7:30 p.m. in High School East. Set primarily on a luxury liner from Manhattan to London in 1934, this musical farce has ha
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SCHENECTADY (Jan. 9) -- Tara Akstull's dream was to play for the U.S. Olympic women's hockey team. Little did she imagine that when she was on the ice with the Olympians she would be wearing an opponents' uniform. And that she would end up scoring against the team. And finally she would be named
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 9) -- Marcia Steiner will serve as the 2010 chair of the board of The Chamber of Southern Saratoga County. Steiner is executive director of the Seton Health Foundation, the charitable corporation of Seton Health, which is a comprehensive, integrated Catholic healthcare system a
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 7) -- Jackie Watsky and Katherine Wright have been selected as judges for the 2010 Juried Show of Art and Photography at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library. The show will be run Feb. 28 through March 29 in the library's art gallery. There will be an opening reception on 2
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 5) -- Peter Marino wrote a novel, and no one was interested. He has tried to write a picture book, but that didn't work out, either. "I just didn't have the rhythm for it," he said. "I'm too wordy." But when he turned to writing fiction for young adults he found his niche
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CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 1) -- Kandy was a key ingredient in Walter McKay's weight-loss success. McKay had already lost over 50 pounds -- a lot of weight but nowhere near enough -- when he decided he needed help. He was making great progress, but he was still around 430 pounds. He realized he could use
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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. ...
