Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Mike Fitzgerald, owner of Saratoga Sweets candy store in Halfmoon, hovers over a basket of foil-wrapped miniature chocolate Easter eggs. His shop sells more than 500 pounds of the sweets every Easter.
