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DELMAR
With exercise and better diet, Delmar woman has diabetes on run
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Helene Meckler leads a changed life, and she calls the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes “a blessing in disguise.”
GE’s Nancy Fitzroy is subject of latest Wizards of Schenectady video
Friday, May 17, 2013
Most of Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy’s friends were all about going to Skidmore College and finding a husband. She had other plans. “I didn’t have any idea of what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want to go to Skidmore and get my degree in ‘Mrs.,’ ” said Fitzroy, a Pittsfield, Mass., native and a mechanical engineer at General Electric Co. for 37 years from 1950-87. And she did get married, too.
Good diabetic diet goes beyond cutting out sugar, carbs
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Diane Whitten, a nutrition educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County who teaches “Dining with Diabetes” classes, stresses that it’s not about eliminating carbohydrates all together or thinking that carbs are bad.
SCHENECTADY
Review: MacLean, audience team for intimate show
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
If Dougie MacLean was having as bad of a day as he explained he was before he kicked off the first of two sets Tuesday night at the GE Theatre at Proctors, he certainly turned it around during his performance.
SEATTLE
'Zero Energy Idea House'
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Before she got into the construction business 41 years ago, Donna Shirey was a teacher. Turns out, she still is.
SCHENECTADY
Duryee AME choirs in sound hands with Tucker
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Larissa Tucker is director of the Duryee Voices of the Duryee Memorial AME Zion Church on Schenectady Street in Schenectady and also is in charge of the church’s combined choir and the children’s choir. Along with her duties of directing the groups and organizing them, she also lends her own voice to the music, and that is usually something very special.
Mother's Day especially difficult for military moms
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Tammy Lence wears the black and cobalt blue uniform for Laz Parking. She wears the black and yellow, star-spangled Army lanyard around her neck for her son, Michael McCarroll.
There’s method in red-winged blackbirds’ mating behavior
Sunday, May 12, 2013
This week we’re looking at the world through the eyes of a female red-winged blackbird. What kind of challenges does she face? What decisions does she have to make?
Founder of fashion show feels at home in multiple fine arts
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Electric City Couture Fashion Show founder Joleen Button will be an interested observer at the popular event at Proctors later this month.
SCHENECTADY
Italian cuisine scores very high at Johnny’s restaurant
Sunday, May 12, 2013
We denizens of the Capital Region just can’t get enough Italian food. Johnny’s is new and it’s hopping, as diners embrace another Mallozzi restaurant.
CAPITAL REGION
Alzheimer’s conference to provide attendees with info, support and a respite
Saturday, May 11, 2013
When your spouse has Alzheimer’s disease, it changes your marriage.
Veggies with eggs make for healthful breakfast
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Mom always said to eat your vegetables, so this Mother’s Day serve her breakfast in bed inspired by a walk through the garden.
An easy yogurt mousse the kids can help make
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
It doesn’t matter how skilled — or not — your kids are in the kitchen. This easy, fruity mousse parfait is a great Mother’s Day project they can help with.
DETROIT
Renovating great-grandpa's old place
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Christopher Lee and Amy Feigley-Lee find themselves at home and heart-bound to a Detroit house once owned by Lee’s great-grandfather in the Roaring ’20s, but which was lost at the onset of the Great Depression.
SCHENECTADY
Review: ‘Les Miserables’ is a feast for the eyes and ears
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
“Les Misérables” at Proctors is creative, beautifully staged, and brilliantly acted and sung. The sets are the perfect mix of grunge and utility, and the backdrop is breathtaking.
