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On weekend nights The Raindancer serves up endless plates of prime rib, lobster and seafood to diners from throughout the Capital Region, but on weekday afternoons the family-owned restaurant mostly caters to its regulars.
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Schenectady Open Bonspiel

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Schenectady alumna a Miami Heat dance team member

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Cheering and dance

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Scenes from a Schenectady Curling Club tournament
posted Feb. 8, 2010

House fire battled
posted Feb. 8, 2010

Handy Days
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Private golf clubs struggle amid economic downturn
Sunday, February 15, 2009


In the popular 1980 movie comedy “Caddyshack,” private and elite Bushwood Country Club is besieged by gophers and the intrusion of zany real estate tycoon Al Czervik, played by the late Rodney Dangerfield.
Wacky assistant greens superintendent Carl Spackler, played by Bill Murray, never conquers the wily gophers, and he blows up much of the club trying to exterminate them.
These days, private golf clubs all across the country, including the Capital Region, are struggling for survival, and gophers are the least of their problems. They don’t have the economic muscle of Bushwood’s Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) or Judge Smalls (Ted Knight)....

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