By Bill Buell Daily Gazette Reporter Where to go on your honeymoon: How about Mauritius? Perhaps you’ve never heard of it, but since the late 1980s the small island country just east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean has become…
By Indiana Nash Daily Gazette Reporter At first, Evelyn Keplinger wasn’t sure she could swing it. “When she [Sabihah Mamdani] called me, I thought she was joking,” Keplinger said. Mamdani, a local bride to be, was looking for someone who…
John Cropley Daily Gazette Reporter ALBANY — State regulators have rolled out a new letter-based grading system for food safety at hundreds of stores across the state. Supermarkets and other food retailers must prominently display the rating given to them by…
BY KRISTIN SCHULTZ Gazette Reporter NISKAYUNA — GE wants to lasso the sun and store it in Niskayuna. Managers of the GE Global Research Center have asked the Planning Board for approval to install 700 solar panels — for now…
BY KRISTIN SCHULTZ Gazette Reporter NISKAYUNA — At its final meeting of the year, the Niskayuna Planning Board approved three resolutions, discussed a proposed solar array and looked at a plan for apartments on Nott Street. Unlike previous meetings, which…
By Stephen Williams Daily Gazette Reporter Editor’s note: This article was updated at 9:20 p.m. Richard Ruzzo’s name was spelled incorrectly. NISKAYUNA — The Capital Region Land Bank has awarded $30,000 to pay for the acquisition and demolition of a badly deteriorated “zombie” house…
Caroline Lee/For The Daily Gazette Uncle Rico’s, in the ShopRite Square shopping center, treats its pizza seriously, made with homemade sauce and dough, and beautiful creamy mozzarella cheese. It could also be your favorite place for wings. My friend Sheryl…
By John Cropley Gazette Reporter NISKAYUNA — Getting blood drawn for medical testing may become quicker, less painful and more informal with new technology being developed by a General Electric startup. The device developed by Drawbridge Health is usable by untrained personnel,…
By Stephen Williams Gazette Reporter ALPLAUS — The Capital Region Maritime Center in Alplaus, which has been empty since 2012, could become home to a children’s physical therapy center. Everyone who spoke during a recent public hearing on the proposal…
Stephen Williams Daily Gazette NISKAYUNA — Plans for a riverfront apartment community at the site of an auto scrap yard near the Rexford Bridge will go forward. The town Planning Board on Monday unanimously approved the $26 million Rivers Ledge project along the…
By Kristin Schultz Gazette Reporter Shop Rite Plaza will welcome a new neighbor later this winter when Nisky Martial Arts and Family Center opens next to LT’s Grill. Construction in the 3,000 square foot space will begin in January with…