Valentines Day: Cookies and cakes

Valentines Day: Cookies and cakes

MECHANICVILLE (Feb. 10) -- If your special Valentine is hot, you might want to let him or her know with something that's as spicy as your love. You can with a spicy chocolate chili cookie from Park 19 Cookies. Of course, if your sweetheart is a sweetie, Park 19's Valentines Day cookie collection

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Valentines Day: Jewelry and watches

Valentines Day: Jewelry and watches

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 10) -- At Hoff Jewelers, Valentines Day is about 2 things: hearts and diamonds. At Time Square, it's the beginning of a personalized gift time of year that stretches through Mothers Day, followed by graduations and wedding season. "They come in looking for something in the roma

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Valentines Day: Chocolates and candies

Valentines Day: Chocolates and candies

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 10) -- Anyone can head to the chain drugstore to buy a heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentines Day, but how special is that? Does it show how special your love is -- even if you opt for one of the mass-produced "gourmet" chocolate companies? There are much better -- more

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Pasta Pane to open this weekend

Pasta Pane to open this weekend

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 4) -- Pasta Pane, the newest eatery from Saratoga Springs restauranteur David Zecchini, officially opens for business at 5 p.m. Saturday. But before it does, the restaurant will be holding a preview party to benefit Hannah's Hope Fund. From 5-8 p.m. Friday, there will be free s

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Hannah's Hope Fund nears goal, deadline

Hannah’s Hope Fund nears goal, deadline

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 3) -- Lori Sames has a short-term goal -- a big one -- and she's focused on doing everything she can to make sure she succeeds. She has until Feb. 15 to finish raising $500,000, and she is so close -- about $20,000 away. The money is important for her long-term goal: saving her

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Exit 9 Wine settling into new location

Exit 9 Wine settling into new location

HALFMOON (Feb. 2) -- Normally the first week of the year the folks at Exit 9 Wine and Liquor take it a little easy. It's their time to catch their breath after a busy holiday season ending with people buying for their New Year's Eve celebrations. Not this year. This year Exit 9 spent that week

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Clifton Park supports IDA tax base analysis

Clifton Park supports IDA tax base analysis

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 2) -- The Clifton Park Town Board announced support for the Clifton Park Industrial Development Agency’s tax base analysis study, which will catalog current zoning regulations and analyze the fiscal impact of future land use scenarios in town. The study is taking place in adv

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Area farmers, restaurants talk about working together

Area farmers, restaurants talk about working together

CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 30) -- When Wheatfields made the pledge "from local fields to your plate," the restaurant never realized how difficult it would be. Afterall, the Hudson Valley is a fertile farming area growing a variety of delicious foods. How to get those foods to the two Wheatfields location

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Clifton Park group aids Haiti orphanage

Clifton Park group aids Haiti orphanage

CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 29) -- For 4 days, every time the telephone rang Cindy Schmehl worried. She hoped for the best but prepared for the worst. Ever since the Haiti earthquake, Schmehl worried about the 29 children at the Orphanage of Good Faith in Port au Prince. "It's one of those situations wher

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Shen, Mechanicville to host H1N1 clinics

Shen, Mechanicville to host H1N1 clinics

CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 28) --Saratoga County Public Health Nursing Services will be offering H1N1 flu clinics for students, parents, siblings 4 years and older, staff and the general public in the Shenendehowa and Mechanicville school district. The Shen clinic will be 4-7 p.m. Feb. 11 at district off

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