March 2024

Milan | The one-match ban on Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku has been lifted. In the match between Inter and Yuventus, Lukaku celebrated after scoring a penalty. This celebration was said to excite the fans. After this the President of the Italian Federation intervened in the proceedings. His released report revealed fans were hurling racist comments […]

The folks at Clifton Park’s Alaturco restaurant take great pride in sharing their Turkish culture with the people in the Capital Region. Since Guven Yalcintas can’t bring his Clifton Park neighbors with him to experience Turkish food and culture firsthand, he has decided to throw his efforts behind Alaturco. “I want to take these people […]

There were high expectations for “Chappie,” directed by the same man who did “District 9,” Neill Blomkamp. Unfortunately, despite all of its potential, it fell short. It is set in the future, a time when crime is fought by a robotic police force — Scouts, which were created by computer genius Dean Wilson (Dev Patel). […]

In a little more than a month from now, a town woman will be walking to make managing diabetes less of a full-time job. Kristen Gil, a Clifton Park resident, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 22 years ago when she was just 8 years old. Now a registered dietitian in the department of pediatrics at Albany […]

The votes are in, and Clifton Park has crowned 13 year old resident Katie Lee as the winner of the Clifton Park Idol singing competition for her age group. Lee, a seventh grader at Gowana Middle School, started singing at a young age when she sat with her father at their piano and learned songs […]

Sawyer Martin, along with countless other young adults, graduated from college just a few months ago. But unlike others, Martin, 22, has seen, done, and been through more than most people ever will. Martin, a Clifton Park native, has spent the past four years at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. He graduated […]

As his students file into the exercise studio at the Southern Saratoga YMCA for their tai chi class, instructor Sal Casano, decides to welcome them with a short skit about over-reliance on technology in the 21st century. “We haven’t rehearsed this!” Casano said, before beginning to read his lines from a piece of paper. After […]

As coverage of the coronavirus continues to dominate the news, the outbreak’s economic impacts are often conveyed through headlines about plunging financial markets. To many Vassar students, however, Wall Street’s woes may seem distant and irrelevant. But the reality is that the coronavirus outbreak will hit the economy in ways that directly affect Vassar students. […]

I’ve been a fan of Cory Booker since he was the mayor of Newark, a New Jersey city struggling with crime and corruption. His devotion to his community (he still lives in a low-income neighborhood in the city) was apparent on many occasions, most famously when he personally responded to a constituent’s request for someone […]

Michael R. Bloomberg, billionaire businessman and former Mayor of New York City, has recently joined the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Although two of the race’s leading candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, make a point to demonize billionaires–and there is already a billionaire candidate, Tom Steyer, in the race–Bloomberg’s billionaire status […]