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Serious bread energy: Family owned since 2000, Baker Street Bakery turns out award-winning artisan loaves with long rises, hand shaping, and a French stone hearth oven, plus pastries, cakes, cookies, and other desserts made with unbleached flour and zero preservatives.
Cold Meets Cozy Relief: Polar Opposites Integrative Therapies pairs whole-body cryotherapy with full-spectrum infrared sauna for a contrast-therapy reset that actually leaves you looser, lighter, and dare we say, kinda energized.
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A diner in Rochester, New York, claims he was hit with a $12.90 fee at The Gilded Oyster restaurant, which he regularly visits.
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New York State is sending out more checks to residents, with over 8 million eligible households receiving $400 inflation refund checks.
Full story at hudsonvalleypost.com ↗
A new study by U.S. News & World Report has revealed that 27 New York hospitals are considered among the best in the state, including several in the Hudson Valley.
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The Landmark Society’s 2026 Inside Downtown Tour will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13.
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The Great New York State Fair, which starts on August 26 and runs through Labor Day, will offer free concerts at the New York state Fairgrounds in Syracuse.
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