Cady Kuzmich
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On the Appalachian: Mud, home and plants that attack
I’ve spent the better half of the last two days washing everything I own and bathing with Dawn dish soap like an oil-covered sea bird after an oil spill. If I’ve learned nothing else over the last four months walking in the woods of the Eastern United States, it’s that I’ve got a knack for coming into contact with plants that make my skin burst into itchy red patches that bubble and ooze. I’m… → Read More
On the Appalachian: Time for new boots
A gaping grin spreads across the inside of my brown Merrell hiking boots. With each morning I lace them up my toes poke out of the side just a bit more. They've carried me 861 trail miles so far, not to mention the countless day hikes through the Adirondacks back home. It was the same make of shoe I wore on the northern half of the Appalachian Trail. They too split open, as if laughing or… → Read More
As the rain pours down, new friends become familiar faces
While walking the aisles of a supermarket in north Georgia on a resupply trip, I saw a familiar face. Just a few nights ago that same face was that of a stranger sitting on the opposite side of a fire. Clunk, a 28-year-old British man, left a job in England teaching physics to walk a couple thousand miles from Georgia to Maine. He wears a broken watch on his wrist -- time stopped suddenly on his… → Read More
Tiny has become big
Albany -- A resurgence in minimalist tiny homes has blossomed among those eagerly adapting to a not-so-new American Dream. The desire for self-sufficiency and simple living has echoed throughout American history from Thoreau’s “Walden” to Lloyd Kahn’s guide to tiny homes published in the 1970s. → Read More
Old, and unique, farmhouse in Vischers Ferry
Vischers Ferry – Five years ago, Anouk Booneman and her husband Gert Leusink decided to take a last-minute look at an old home in Vischers Ferry. Though they were leaning toward a brownstone in Albany and were looking for a smaller home after living in a Queen Anne Victorian style home in Dutchess County, the couple was drawn in by the old home’s charm. → Read More
Referendum set on Shenendehowa land deal
CLIFTON PARK -- Shenendehowa Central School District officials announced Tuesday evening they will organize a public referendum for April 4 regarding the fate of 32 undeveloped acres behind Shatekon Elementary School. Residents who advocated for the school to reach an agreement with the town to keep the 32 acres in the public domain as a park called for the referendum after the board voted 4-3… → Read More
Josh Carter on Phantogram's hard-earned success
Seven years after Phantogram’s hit “Mouthful of Diamonds” launched Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel onto the global stage, the electro-rock trip-hop duo is returning to the Capital Region to perform a sold-out show at Clifton Park’s Upstate Concert Hall on Saturday. Barthel and Carter, both from rural Greenwich in Washington County, released their third album, “Three,” this past October. With songs… → Read More
Petition drive seeks to halt Shen land sale
Community members are determined to preserve the 34 acres of undeveloped land behind Shenendehowa’s Shatekon Elementary School despite a 4-3 school board decision Dec. 6 to sell the land to a developer. Friends of Clifton Park Open Space members are collecting signatures, both on paper and online, from those who want to preserve the land as a park. Advocates for the land hoped the school would… → Read More
Shenendehowa school board votes to sell land to BBL
Imagine downtown Saratoga Springs’ Congress Park replaced by retail or office space. That’s what Bob Miller asked Shenendehowa’s Board of Education to consider before making a long-awaited decision on the future of 34 acres of undeveloped land behind Shatekon Elementary School Tuesday evening. → Read More
Momentive picket line gets added fire power
Fire fighters joined the picket line and said allowing temporary workers to handle chemicals at the plant was a danger to the community. → Read More
Capital Region residents join Dakota pipeline protest
When Stacey Midge, associate pastor of the First Reformed Church in the Stockade, traveled to the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota on Monday to spend a few days with the water protectors, the Oceti Sakowin Camp was already blanketed in snow. → Read More
Former Alplaus post office to be sold, preserved
Advocates who have been working to preserve the old Alplaus Post Office can breathe a sigh of relief after learning last week that months of hard work have paid off. → Read More
‘Love Trumps Hate’ march set in Saratoga Springs
Local organizers have arranged a candlelight vigil and “Love Trumps Hate” march down the sidewalks along Broadway in Saratoga Springs for shortly after 5 p.m. today, joining the ranks of thousands nationwide protesting since the Nov. 8 election. → Read More
Students experience post-election racism at Capital Region schools
As news of hate speech and hate crimes spread throughout the country following Donald Trump’s presidential win, some local students experienced intolerance firsthand. → Read More
Local star heads to Broadway
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Schopf, Catellier run for position on county board of supervisors
Local attorney Jonathan Schopf and Margaret Catellier, a sales representative for an engineering firm, are both running to represent the town of Clifton Park at the county level on the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors. → Read More
Clifton Park bilingual preschool officially open
The Genius Plaza Bilingual Preschool on Moe Road has officially opened its doors after a yearlong pilot program. → Read More
Momentive workers go on strike in Waterford
Tensions ran high as Momentive Performance Materials employees on strike attempted to block the entrances outside the Waterford facility as busloads of new employees inched forward into the crowd Wednesday afternoon. → Read More
Clifton Park fire a reminder to have chimneys cleaned
An early morning fire on Tallo Wood Road Wednesday served as a reminder to Southern Saratoga County residents to clean their chimneys before firing up their wood stoves as chillier temperatures creep in. → Read More
Northway Church proposal for new, larger church approved
After much debate over the last several months, Clifton Park’s Planning Board approved Northway Church’s proposal to build a 40,000-square-foot church on a 6.8-acre lot at the southwest corner of Ushers and Pierce roads Tuesday evening. → Read More