By JASON SUBIKThe Leader-HeraldMAYFIELD - Few people can say they've turned their passion into a profession, Adam Retersdorf is one of them.Retersdorf, a class of 2000 Gloversville High School graduate, built his first wooden boat with the help of grandfather in 1998, using a design he created ...
JOHNSTOWN - How difficult is it to make money with a website-based business? George Christman knows."A lot of people have a false-notion that you can just built a site with no revenue model and just offer everything for free, like Facebook and build a billion dollar company. The reality of that ...
NORTHVILLE - When Dollar General made overtures to the village about possibly locating a store there, Brian Correll knew things were going to need to change at the Five and Dime."The village didn't really want it, they went to all of the meetings and they were able to keep it from happening in ...
GLOVERSVILLE - Imagine a foreclosed home, with a bad roof. Its previous owners, whether a private individual or a bank, have stopped paying the taxes on it and given it up to a foreclosure entity.The house is then sold at tax auction for a low price, but, unfortunately, the story is often far ...
PERTH -They say necessity is the mother of invention. Luck can also play a role.When Tyler Chilton was a student in Fulton Montgomery Community College's electrical technology program he wanted an amplifier for his headphone system, but he didn't have much money for the kind of high-end, low ...
When Peaceful Valley Maple Farms manager Barbara Kirk first heard about the increase in the minimum wage for tipped workers it was on the news.Kirk said she immediately called her bookkeeper to find out if the increase applied to her business, which is open about 21 hours a week, serving ...
The supply of homes for sale in Fulton County in March dropped to 395, an 18.4 percent drop from 478 in March 2015.But shrinking inventory seems to be the only positive statistic the local real estate market is participating in, as the median sales price for a home in Fulton County, $69,000, ...
Fulton County Office for Aging Director Andrea Fettinger said she gets about three calls a month from area seniors who've fallen victim to financial scams."It's seasonal, it becomes a trend and then it happens in our area," she said. "I feel like these scammers know to go to certain regions of ...
JOHNSTOWN - With recent building projects in Northville, Palatine Bridge, Fort Plain, the town of Johnstown, a planned project in Broadalbin, and ongoing renovations at the company's East Main Street location - it has become apparent that Stewart's Shops has been revamping and expanding its ...
NORTHVILLE - When Electro-Metrics Corp. recently hosted a field trip from the Northville Central School District's Intro to CNC class Art Armstrong, a manager of the company's Fabricated Products Division, was pleasantly surprised to discover the class has access to a better 3D printer than his ...
JOHNSTOWN - When Marie Kaseta Barr was a child she used to love to play store."I had that in an advertisements once, 'anybody want to play store?' And I'm still playing the dream of my childhood. That's why it's always good to listen to kids," she said.Marie Barr, 87, moved to Johnstown in the ...
On the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation's website there is a page devoted to the rules and regulations pertaining to the State Environmental Quality Review process, known as SEQR.To comply with SEQR, any local government or state agency proposing a project must identify ...
VAIL MILLS - Since starting CMK Real Estate in 2008, Christian Klueg has grown his company from an office in Northville with only himself and his mother as agents to a business with six locations and 47 real estate agents."Every year we've grown," Klueg said.Klueg opened his second office in ...
GLOVERSVILLE - When Darrin Romeyn looks at Gloversville he sees a city somewhat analogous to his own career."People always say, turn a negative into a positive and things happen for a reason and I never really was a full believer in that," Romeyn said.Romeyn said he changed his mind when a ...
Lower cost flower arrangements at big box supermarkets like Price Chopper or convenience stores like Stewarts Shops are putting price pressure on independent florists.Stacia Conyne, a floral designer at Peck's Flowers and a 15-year veteran of the florist business, said the large scale retailers ...
BROADALBIN - Although Frank's Gun & Tackle Shop has long been a supporter of local tourism events, such as hunting and fishing tournaments, the store's biggest contribution to local tourism might be its reloading room.A few years ago, Frank's Gun & Tackle Shop decided to focus ...
When Mark Kilmer, the president of the Fulton Montgomery Regional Chamber of Commerce, attended Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State address Wednesday, he noted the crowd was a bit more "subdued' than other State of the State addresses he's attended.Kilmer said the relative lack of enthusiasm ...
PERTH - New York's medical marijuana market opened Thursday and, so far, has only 71 patients, according to the state Department of Health.The growth of employment at the Vireo Health of New York medical marijuana manufacturing plant will hinge on the growth of that market, said Vireo Health ...
CANAJOHARIE - With parts of it demolished, but no owner willing to finish the job, the 27-acre former Beech-Nut plant still stands at the entrance to the village, a problem with no easy solution.Montgomery County Treasurer Shawn Bowerman said property taxes have not been paid for the property ...
For once, local people are complaining the weather is too warm."It's killing us, to tell you the truth," Jim Blaise, the owner of Royal Mountain Ski Area said of the unusually warm December weather.Last month was the globe's warmest November on record, the seventh consecutive month to reach a ...