Carol Hall: Is a native of St. Lawrence County and currently resides in Albany. She moved to the Capital District in 1959 to attend the Albany College of Pharmacy. Hall is the president of Whiskers Animal Benevolent League. She and her colleagues are gearing up for the organization’s annual spring gala “Whiskers in Bloom” 5 […]
Thomas A. Perrera, who went from selling newspapers on street corners to co-founding York Road’s Peppermill Restaurant, died of esophageal cancer Jan. 11 at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 91 and lived in Mays Chapel in Timonium.
Thomas A. Perrera, who went from selling newspapers on street corners to co-founding York Road’s Peppermill Restaurant, died of esophageal cancer Jan. 11 at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 91 and lived in Mays Chapel in Timonium.
Wolf Road, region s Main Street, struggles in pandemic economy
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A near-empty parking lot is seen at the New York State Department of Transportation offices on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, on Wolf Road in Colonie, N.Y. Office lots are mostly empty as staff work from home during the coronavirus lockdown. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times Union
COLONIE It is the Capital Region s Main Street, drawing travelers and shoppers from far and wide.
But the pandemic, which crippled the hospitality, restaurant and brick-and-mortar retail sectors, has hit Wolf Road hard.
Pier One stands empty after its parent firm went bankrupt in the weeks before the first major outbreak of coronavirus. The Turf Inn, once a destination not only for travelers but for locals out for a night of clubbing, is dark and empty.