by Andrea Palmer
Catherine Hover, owner of Saratoga Paint & Sip, has opened a new cafe and shared workspace in the heart of downtown Saratoga Springs.
The Palette Cafe, at 493 Broadway, features co-working space. It serves kru coffee, alcohol beverages, snacks, desserts, meat and cheese plates and the New Orleans specialty doberge cake. The cafe carries specialty doughnuts by Darling Doughnuts.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of International Trade has honored Berkshire Bank for its entrepreneurial approach, customer relations and distinctive culture.
44 Business Capital, a division of Berkshire Bank, as named as the 2019 SBA Export Lenders of the Year at the 12th annual SBA Export Lenders’ Roundtable. During the event, both lenders were recognized for their efforts to increase access to capital for U.S. companies providing international trade financing to small businesses.
Discover Saratoga was recognized as Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Upstate NY’s partner of the year during a gala in April 4 at River Stone Manor. The accolade is presented to a chapter member who has consistently contributed time and experience to upstate New York’s meeting industry.
Jim Malatras, the current president of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, was named president of Empire State College by the SUNY
Board of Trustees.
His appointment is effective July 15.
“Dr. Malatras has dedicated his career to serving the state of New York, and he has a keen focus on public education as a path to ensure social mobility for our citizens,” said SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall.
“Empire State College offers a highly individualized education and in doing so it provides a unique opportunity for a campus president,” said SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson. “We are confident in Dr. Malatras’s abilities to move the campus forward in its mission to provide a high-quality academic experience.”
By David L. Cumming
In the years approaching retirement, you should be thinking about whether your current plan puts you in the best position to achieve the lifestyle you envision for your golden years. For many people, the years leading into retirement are a time of not only eager anticipation, but also serious contemplation about what must be done to achieve their goals.
There are five key factors to consider when planning your retirement strategy.
BY Rob Snell
If you’re a dad, you may well be pleased to unwrap some tools as Father’s Day gifts. Of course, it might be a stereotype that all men are handy at repairs; women certainly can be every bit as good when it comes to building and fixing things.
In fact, the construction process is valuable for anyone to learn – and the same skills that go in to creating and mending physical objects also can be applied to financial projects – such as working toward a comfortable retirement.
Here are a few of those skills:
Diagnosing the challenge.
By Stephen Kyne, CFP
Life insurance can be an important part of your financial plan, but do you know what kind of insurance is right for your needs? Insurance comes in many forms, and many people have the wrong type of insurance, and aren’t insuring their need in an efficient way. That means they may be needlessly overspending.
Two local small business were recognized during National Small Business Week in May at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 21st Annual Small Business Excellence Awards luncheon in Albany.
Small businesses are selected for the Excellence Awards based on their company’s longevity, innovation, sales growth, increased employment, ability to overcome adversity or community contributions.
by Andrea Palmer
People in the building trades and conctruction industry continue to say there is a shortage of skilled labor.
Kevin Maynard, owner of Kevin Maynard Construction in Fort Ann, said older skilled workers are aging out of the industry and there are not enough younger workers to replace them.
By Jill Nagy
In the late 1990s, when acquisitions fever was high, a group of venture capitalists made an offer to Fred Giardinelli, owner of Eastern Heating and Cooling, a thriving company that does work throughout the Capital District, including the Glens Falls and Saratoga areas: They would buy his company, but he would continue to operate it.
He accepted the offer, as did enough other business owners, to form a 12-company conglomerate that is now Comfort Systems USA, a national company listed on the New York Stock Exchange that has some $2.1 billion in annual revenues.