Clifton Park News

Will Clifton Park follow Ballston's lake lead? Posted on: 07/04/08 Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com Officials in the Town of Ballston have been pushing for a ...

Save the Pine Bush believes Clifton Park did it right 17 years ago when it commissioned an environmental study of the area around Wood Road, calling for the protection of the habitat of the federally endangered ...

BIG CROWDS IN DOWNTOWN ALBANY FOR THE 32ND ANNUAL FABULOUS FOURTH AND FIREWORKS SHOW, SPONSORED BY PRICE CHOPPER.

Iraqis find home away from home in Clifton Park Posted on: 07/01/08 Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com After a two-year wait, a three-day trip and a two-hour delay, ...

Nancy Laustsen: Director of children's ministries at Faith Baptist Church on Glenridge Road, Rexford.

NO SHORTAGE OF EVENTS TO MARK THE 4TH OF JULY IN THE CAPITAL REGION.... ALBANY PRICE CHOPPER'S "FABULOUS FOURTH AND FIREWORKS"--EMPIRE STATE PLAZA --EVENTS BEGIN AT 2 PM AND CONTINUE UNTIL 10.

The Town of Clifton Park will celebrate Independence Day with a parade beginning at 12 p.m., Friday, July 4. The parade will follow Route 146 West to Vischer Ferry Road, where it will end at Clifton Common.

“We have to gather 1,000 signatures in a week, so it's a challenge and I'm not so sure it's ever been done," said Mike Russo, 43rd Senate seat candidate.

It's going to be an uphill battle for Russo. The former district manager for Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand has less than two weeks to meet his goal. He's canvassing voters in Clifton Park to make up for lost time. If he wants a shot at Joe Bruno's seat, he's got to make his move.

"It takes people to take a people seat. So if you'd be up for signing a petition sheet that would be great," said Russo.

Clifton Park, Halfmoon join Greenway Posted on: 06/25/08 Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com Two towns in Saratoga County joined the Hudson River Valley Greenway last ...

A husband and wife admitted they took thousands of dollars from the Halfmoon West Crescent Fire Department.

Lee Lussier was the former treasurer of the Department. He pleaded guilty Monday to grand larceny and will spend five years on probation.

His wife Dawn was the banquet hall manager. She pled guilty to falsifying business records and will spend five years on probation.

Some Clifton Park residents have watched their backyards disappear. And they fear their homes are next.

"The soil here is sandy and the neighbors here say they will continue to worry about this until something is done," she said."They're worried the erosion will take out their backyards, then the decks, then the foundation of their homes."

I Love My Heart Corp., a company that billed itself as upstate’s oldest specialty fitness equipment retailer, has closed its doors.

The Clifton Park retailer filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Albany Friday, shortly after Saratoga National Bank and TD Banknorth repossessed two company vans.

“I knew things were slow, but in the past I’ve always been able to get by. But this time sales were drastically down in April and May,” said I Love My Heart President Edward Bernstein, who also is a physical therapist. The Company may have been able to survive had it not wasted advertising dollars on publications like Success Magazine LTD a fluff publication with no distribution and national ad prices. Thousands were lost.

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans hunted for food in what is now Clifton Park.

Fred Stevens, who serves on the board of the Iroquois Indian Museum, said after the Ice Age subsided 16,000 years ago and a large sheet of ice melted, it created the river and the landscape that make up the Mohawk River Valley. The runoff from that glacier melt created a lot of underground water and natural springs and streams, Stevens said. These rivers attracted animals and people.

“That’s what drew the first Native Americas to the area,” he said Sunday at a talk at Grooms Tavern. About 50 people attended the lecture, which was sponsored by the Friends of Historic Grooms Tavern.

CLIFTON PARK -- Albany County Assistance will provide free coffee, doughnuts, soda, cookies and other refreshments from 9 a.m. Thursday through 5 p.m. Saturday at the rest stop just north of Exit 9 of the Northway to encourage drivers to stop and take a safety break as they head to vacation spots.

Posted on: 06/24/08 Written by: Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com Soft Tex, a pillow, mattress and comforter manufacturer, held an open house of their new factory, ...

The first Shane’s Rib Shack opened yesterday at The Shops at Village Plaza in Clifton Park, with four more planned – in Latham, Schenectady, North Greenbush and Queensbury — said Jonathan Trager, who grew up in Clifton Park and now lives in Saratoga Springs.

“People are looking at getting great value and having food fresh,” he said this afternoon. “They’re looking for a place with a good atmosphere, that’s lively.”

John Wasielewski calls for tax cap Posted on: 06/25/08 Ashley Lucas, Clifton Park-Burnt Hills reporter email: lucasa@spotlightnews.com Republican candidate for the 109th Assembly District, John Wasielewski, ...

At the center of the disagreement about the proposed changes to the local law regulating the Luther Forest Technology Campus is whether the anticipated tenant is willing to provide a document to the town prepared by a third-party environmental auditor every three years.