Clifton Park News

I stopped by Ethan Allen today and shopped around for affordableA A Christmas and weddingA gifts.

Clifton Park-Halfmoon Emergency Corps officials asked the town for an additional $163,000 in 2010 on Thursday, saying some of the extra money is needed to prepare for a new Ellis Medicine facility coming to the town.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

It may be a simple case of anthropomorphizing, but I really believe our GPS deliberately led us astray to teach us a lesson.

In Clifton Park, five-term Supervisor Philip Barrett easily defeated Democratic Challenger Bill Casey.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

The only bid for the Stony Creek Reservoir came in less than half what the town of Colonie had wanted as a minimum.

Getting "the word" out about New York State wines only works when sellers join winemakers and wine-centric organziations to call attention to vintages that sometimes go virtually unnoticed in their own regions.

The former president of the Shenendehowa Central School District Board of Education is challenging Clifton Park Town Supervisor Philip Barrett in the November election.

Whiskers Animal Benevolent League is celebrating a new logo and redesigned website by reducing cat adoption prices by half.

Metro Mattress is opening two more stores in the Albany, N.Y., region, bringing its total in the area to seven.

Phil Barrett and Bill Casey have two things in common: Both are fast talkers with high energy levels, and both want to be town supervisor.

Who's going to watch football this Sunday, raise your hands please! If that's on your "to-do" list for the weekend, do it at the Ravenswood Pub in Clifton Park.

The Clifton Park Town Board will invest $15,000 to study whether it should allow a private company to install solar panels at the former town landfill on Vischer Ferry Road.

Mark O'Callaghan, the owner of Exit 9 Wine & Liquor Warehouse in Clifton Park, has been featured as one of this year's Market Watch Leaders in a recent issue of Market Watch magazine, a trade publication that follows the alcoholic drinks industry.

On2 Technologies , a leader in video compression solutions, announces that it has released its new flagship hardware video decoder design, the Hantro 9190.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended former U.S. Rep. John Sweeney's driver's license for 18 months.

Families looking to feed a horse, pet a sheep, take part in a pie-eating contest and take a pony usually have to make their way to a sprawling state or county fair to fit all those activities into one day.

Firefighters are at the scene of a transformer fire on Maxwell Road. An official from the Clifton Park Fire Department said fire police are on the scene restricting access to Maxwell Road, which runs behind Shoppers World Clifton Park, a busy shopping plaza that houses Price Chopper and other businesses.

Woodstrream Drive in Clifton Park will be closed to traffic from 7 a.m. Monday, Aug.

New York Long-Term Care Brokers Ltd. of Clifton Park, N.Y. has purchased a Binghamton firm.

Dogs will be allowed inside Clifton Park Center on Friday, Oct. 23, for the canine division of costume contest hosted by Spirit Halloween and Sloppy Kisses .