March 15, 2013 Prom season will be here before you know it. Make it a great night and go in style. Here are some ideas of places in Utica and Central New York to get your dress and look great.
February 19, 2013 Mark your calenders and grow out your pony tail. The 2013 Pony Tail Drive for Pantene Beautiful Lengths will be held on April 6th from 1 to 4pm. Join the hairdressers at the American Ukrainian Veterans and Mens Club at 208 Canal St in Rome. The event honors a local Rome woman who is starting her battle with breast cancer.
January 22, 2013 Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and it's time to start thinking about how you'll be spending the day. This year, take a romantic getaway with your Valentine. That doesn't mean you have to travel far and spend a ton of money, either. We have some hidden gem bed and breakfasts right in our backyard which would be perfect for a Valentine getaway.
January 12, 2013 Looking for Valentine's Day ideas in Utica? No matter what kind of date you want to make it, we've got some thoughts on how to spend the day.
October 10, 2012 Now that autumn is here every roadside stand, farmers market and grocery store has apple cider for sale. But where can you go to see the cider pressed and bottled on site? We've channeled our inner-Johhny Appleseed to find the best cider mills in Central New York. An
September 20, 2012 Ready to give your yard a festive fall look? The first stop should be at an area Pumpkin Patch. With the skills of Linus tracking down the Great Pumpkin, we went searching for the best pumpkin patches and farms in Central New York
Rather than going out to clubs or staying home, everyone used to go to the Clinton Arena for hockey on Saturday nights, well at least for 2300+ people! Were you one of em? Although it’s great to see some good ball, or in this case ‘puck’, the team to root for was the Clinton Comets, and it wasn’t just because they were the home team. It was because they were good, CRAZY good!
“In West Philadelphia, born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days…” Nope, this isn’t about the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Instead, this pigskin prince by the same name was born in Queens, raised in Utica and spent most of his days on the gridiron.
This Utica native started making waves baseball-wise when he won All-American Honors as a New Hartford Spartan, and you guessed it that got the attention of the powers that be and the rest is history, but let’s take a peek at that history!
With Chili-Palooza coming up on September 21s, it’s had me thinking of what possibly could be some the strangest Chili recipes. I’ve been able to locate a Boilermaker Chili, I’ve seen some with chocolate, but what about with booze? People use whiskey and wine to cook so why shouldn’t chili fall into that category? Well it kind does. This either may be really good, or really awful but here’s a recipe for Bacardi Rum Chili from our friends at epicurean.com.
I started collecting baseball cards as a boy and kept getting a card by this Mark Lemke guy whenever I eagerly opened pack after pack of ’89 Donruss… Little did I know at the time that he was a hometown boy and it figures that I caught him at the end of his career already, but here’s the skinny on this Utica native!
Given that the football season is almost in full-swing, it brings to mind the rich sports heritage that we have here in the Mohawk Valley and beyond, and not just locally but also in what we’ve provided to the national sports community as well, from lending our athletes to erecting a plethora of sports hall of fames within driving distance.
