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Walters supports redeveloping existing properties
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With the announcement a few weeks ago that Best Buy was withdrawing their plans to build a new store on an undeveloped piece of land on Milestrip road near the Thruway entrance came an interesting quote by new Town Supervisor Steven J. Walters: Walters added: “I’d like to see some of these empty plazas filled……
Cardavenue: Gift Card Exchange
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I ran across Cardavenue while reading an article in Money magazine and loved the idea – a website where you can go and post gift cards that you have acquired that you don’t want or need, and try to trade them for other merchants that you might rather have instead. I got a couple Buca…
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Wing Festival wrapup
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Since RandomThoughts101 asked, yes, we did make it down to the Wing Festival. The wings were, as always, excellent. What Amanda and I like best about the Wing Festival is that it gives us an opportunity to see some creativity in wing coatings and sauces. We are both fierce Duff’s supporters when it comes to…
Christmas shopping is done!
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Amanda and I made a trip out to the Galleria today to finish our Christmas shopping. We are now done! Still have some cookies to bake and wrapping to do, but we’ve got a couple of days left for that. Why did we go all the way out to the Galleria when McKinley is two…