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Acclaimed Restaurant Closing In Region After Decade: 'We Are Forever Touched' Acclaimed Restaurant Closing In Region After Decade: 'We Are Forever Touched'
Acclaimed Restaurant Closing In Region After Decade: 'We Are Forever Touched' For husband-and-wife team Nick and Sarah Suarez, it’s about to be a wrap on a decade of culinary excellence. Their Columbia County restaurant – Gaskins in Germantown — will hold its final dinner service on Sunday, Nov. 24, the couple announced on Facebook. “Deciding to close has been the hardest decision of our life,” they said in their post Wednesday, Sept. 11. “As strange as it feels to say goodbye, we know that what we have created, with all of you, has been truly spectacular.” The Suarezes said there was no single reason for the closure, “rather an understanding that after 10 years of …

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by Michael Mashburn
Business
Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In Westchester Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In Westchester
Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In Westchester Workers in downstate New York are all getting a holiday bonus this year, as minimum wage rates get bumped for the third straight year. As of Friday, Dec. 31, minimum wage workers in Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau counties will see a bump in their paychecks as their hourly wages will rise to a minimum of $15, putting them on par with employees at large firms in New York City, which has been at that benchmark for three years. Minimum wage employees in those counties had previously been getting $14 an hour. Fast-food workers across New York also make $15 an hour, regardless of location, wh…

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
SUNY Orange Job, Career Fair Nears SUNY Orange Job, Career Fair Nears
SUNY Orange Job, Career Fair Nears Looking for work, or a better job?  You can meet representatives of  more than 70 Hudson Valley employers on April 12 when SUNY Orange hosts its annual Job and Career Fair. The fair runs from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on April 12 in the Diana Physical Education Center on the College’s Middletown campus. Businesses representing the fields of healthcare, banking, manufacturing, human services, retail, education, insurance, hospitality and tourism will be on-hand to meet job seekers.  Public sector employers will be in attendance as well. 

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by Jon Craig