Sam's Upstate Blog – Page 5 – Thoughts and Reflections from Upstate New York

Improving the Harriman Campus

It would be hard to catalog all the damage governors and other state-level officials of New York State have done to the […]

My wife picked up a few bags of butternut squash pumpkin-shaped pasta from Trader Joe’s this past October. I finally got around […]

I baked another of Paul Hollywood’s Basic Wholemeal Bread loaves. I changed my kneading technique this time, focusing on stretching the dough […]

The Times Union published an article on Thursday about a bill passed by the New York State Legislature intended to increase protection […]

Another attempt at Paul Hollywood’s Basic Wholemeal Bread. I think it came out quite a bit better, though I could have scored […]

The Albany Business Review published an article yesterday about the sale of the Freshmarket Commons, a crowded strip mall squeezed into a […]

Don’t collect it in the first place. The Times Union reported Thursday that the Census Bureau is now no longer permitted to […]

There’s an article in today’s Times Union about an up and coming Tapas and Wine bar opening this spring in downtown Troy. […]

The Times Union published an article this morning outlining Albany County’s potential plans to move some of their offices from their downtown […]