PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE Sydney Luke is suprised by some of the information written on the side of a plant at Stem, a plant shop on Alexander Street that specializes in rare and exotic plants. Imagine a hard-to-find, intensely Instagrammable houseplant, and something like the monstera deliciosa albo variegata, with its iconic broad-split leaves streaked with white, might come to mind. Samantha Mills has one in a gold pot on the counter of her shop. “Her name is Betty,” Mills said, a tribute to The Golden Girls star Betty White. Mills is a co-owner of Stem, a new shop at the corner of Alexander Street and Park Avenue specializing in plants like Betty: hard to find and all the rage.
WHECTV Created: December 23, 2020 10:02 PM
GATES, N.Y. (WHEC) Gates Police spent part of their Wednesday evening going door to door along Noel Drive, not to investigate anything, but to bring some pre-holiday cheer.
It was two weeks ago when a house on that street exploded, shaking up the entire neighborhood. Some residents living on the street were surprised when police and town leaders came bearing a gift for each house on the street just in time for Christmas.
It was a night no one here on Noel Drive will soon forget. One minute the house that sat in the now debris-filled lot was there, and the next it was blown to bits by a gas leak. Gates Police Chief James VanBrederode remembers that night vividly.