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JONESVILLE (April 18) -- The Jonesville Store has survived since 1854, but the Clifton Park building code might do it in. The former general store turned restaurant is historic, and that's a big part of the problem. It seems that building codes have changed a bit in the past 150 years. Fire codes
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CLIFTON PARK (April 15) -- Never underestimate the power of a purse. That's what Tara Brettholtz discovered. Last year Brettholtz, president of Mothers and More's Southern Saratoga chapter, was brainstorming with the director of the YWCA of Troy-Cohoes about possible Mother's Day projects for the
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HALFMOON (April 14) -- Unlike a lot of store owners, Björn Loftfield isn't a newcomer to organic and natural products. He has been in the business for 23 years -- and since 1995, Loftfield and his wife, Barbara Moore, have co-owned The Green Grocer on Route 9. "In my lifetime, food has gone from
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CLIFTON PARK (April 13) -- Mark Becker says he can help you save money and the environment. It's all of matter of recycling your old ink cartridges. Becker, owner of the Cartridge World store in the Village Plaza, says that 8 cartridges are thrown out every second in the United States -- and 350
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CLIFTON PARK (April 1) -- The Clifton Park Action Park, run by the town's Office of Parks, Recreation and Community Affairs, opened today for its 2010 season. The 100x100-foot park has approximately 20 pieces of concrete and modular skate equipment for both skateboarders and inline skaters and i
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HALFMOON (March 29) -- For many people in Halfmoon and Clifton Park, today is the day that spring really begins. That's because today is the day the Country Drive-In opens. For Lena Riberdy, it starts her 22nd season at the establishment. "I've never had another real job," she said, adding
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CLIFTON PARK (March 28) -- When William Van Evera leads workshops for parents of special-needs children, it isn't his credentials as a chartered financial consultant or a chartered life underwriter that impress them. It's that he has been through what they are dealing with. As the father of a
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CLIFTON PARK (March 27) -- If you look hard enough, you will find diversity in the Shenendehowa school system. Sure, it's not as diverse as city schools such as Albany and Schenectady, but there are students from around the world in the district. "If you look at it statistically, it wouldn't be t
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CLIFTON PARK (March 25) -- If you're looking for more unique items than colored eggs and chocolate bunnies in your basket this year, you might suggest the Easter Bunny hop on over to ta-da! in Clifton Park Center on the way to your house. The toys, gifts and novelties store has all sorts of baske
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CLIFTON PARK (March 24) -- Easter is going to the dogs. And for Sloppy Kisses, that's a good thing. Melanie Dallas, who owns the stores in Clifton Park Center and downtown Saratoga Springs, said the holiday is the second only to Christmas in its popularity to dog owners. To celebrate, Slopp
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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. ...
