Wii = We induce injury!

Wii = We induce injury!

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 3) -- Our electronics have become more and more advanced with the coming generations. This is a good change from the past "boring" fun stuff, such as boardgames, playing outside and movies. Technological advances are supposed to make our lives easier and more enjoyable. Nintendo h

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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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Introducing 'The Doc behind the Clock'

Introducing ‘The Doc behind the Clock’

CLIFTON PARK (Feb. 1) -- My goal is to inspire you, to provide you with the latest health-care options available, make you smile and help you to help me fulfill my mission -- to reach as many parents and children as I can. Sit back, relax and enjoy my weekly wellness column. Here’s my story: Wh

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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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Winter skin tips: What happened to my eyes?

Winter skin tips: What happened to my eyes?

CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 29) -- Whenever the temperature drops, like clockwork, I have women (and men) come through my door telling me that their skin has just changed. What I hear is: “Oh my goodness ... my eyes! I feel like they are looking so old, and this happened overnight!” The majority of t

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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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Cooking up a Valentines Day dinner (part 2)

Cooking up a Valentines Day dinner (part 2)

Part 2 of 2: Easy yet elegant desserts HALFMOON (Jan. 27) -- You've just finished a wonderful main course, but what's a romantic dinner without a sweet dessert. You're a good cook, but you can't bake worth a lick. What are you going to do? "You can buy a beautiful dessert," said Judy Donovan,

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Why pain killers are BAD for an injury

Why pain killers are BAD for an injury

CLIFTON PARK (Jan. 26) -- So you get into a car accident or slip on some ice, what do you do? If the accident is not serious enough to warrant a trip to the emergency room, many people just take some pain killers to help alleviate the pain until the injury heals. They do not realize, however, that N

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