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Local Entrepreneur Chris Mastantuono Launches Requalify 360 to Help Capital Region Residents Rebuild Their Credit

Written by Staff Report on April 14, 2026. Posted in Albany, Business Support Services, Community, Featured, Financial, New Business Spotlight, News, Press Release, Technology.

Queensbury Business Owner Brings 12 Years of Subprime Lending Experience and a Community-First Approach to a New Mission: Financial Empowerment

QUEENSBURY, NY — April 4, 2026 — Chris Mastantuono, the well-known Queensbury entrepreneur behind The Car Shoppe and The Car …

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The Power of Great Content and Creative Storytelling with Todd Bailey

Written by Staff Report on April 8, 2026. Posted in 2026, Arts & Culture, Business, Business Support Services, Content Creation, Entertainment, Featured, Marketing, May, Newspaper, Technology.

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For Todd Bailey, the title of a creative is the umbrella that covers everything he does. Based in Upstate New York, Bailey has built a robust career spanning premium photography, videography, and digital marketing. Working as

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Shepherd Communication & Security: From Telecom Startup to Albany Security Leader

Written by Staff Report on April 6, 2026. Posted in Albany, Blue Collar, Business, Featured, Technology.

As the managing partner and founder of Shepherd Communication and Security in Albany, New York, Richard Ruzzo transformed a volume-driven telecommunications operation into a highly specialized commercial security enterprise. Today, his company provides critical infrastructure for regional businesses, including fire

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Driving Discipline and Safety at a 100-Year Construction Firm

Written by Staff Report on March 27, 2026. Posted in Blue Collar, Business, Business Support Services, Featured, Technology.

For a 102-year-old company, Peckham Industries continues to evolve in an industry where consistency, safety, and leadership are nonnegotiable. For Plant Manager Rick Engelhardt, moving a legacy construction company forward starts with something simple but often misunderstood: discipline.

Peckham, a …

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Five Towers Media Launches Foundry 5 — Bringing Enterprise-Level Workflow Automation to Saratoga’s Small Businesses

Written by Staff Report on March 16, 2026. Posted in 2026, April, Business, Business Support Services, Featured, Marketing, Newspaper, Outsourcing, Saratoga Springs, Technology.

Local agency owner Michael Nelson expands into business automation — helping small teams stop drowning in manual work and start scaling.

Michael Nelson, owner of Five Towers Media — a Saratoga Springs marketing agency serving clients across the Capital Region …

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5 Minutes to 10x Your Marketing: What Should You Talk About?

Written by Michael Nelson on February 19, 2026. Posted in 2026, Business, Business Support Services, Content Creation, Featured, March, Marketing, News, Newspaper, Press Release, Technology.

In a recent Buying Local article, we introduced the concept of “Five Minutes to 10x Your Marketing.” The strategy is simple: record one focused, five-minute video each month and use it as the foundation for a range of marketing assets.

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Five Minutes to 10× Your Marketing

Written by Michael Nelson on January 27, 2026. Posted in 2026, Business, Business Support Services, Content Creation, Featured, February, Marketing, News, Newspaper, Press Release, Technology.

How one short video can fuel months of effective, cross-channel promotion

By the time most small businesses give up on marketing, it’s not because they don’t care.

It’s because marketing feels overwhelming.

Business owners and even marketing teams often believe …

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How Daigle Cleaning Systems Is Using Robotics to Redefine Commercial Cleaning

Written by Staff Report on December 18, 2025. Posted in 2026, Business, Featured, January, Newspaper, Technology.

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For decades, commercial cleaning has relied almost entirely on human labor. But as facilities grow larger, labor shortages increase, and expectations around cleanliness—especially in healthcare—continue to rise, that traditional model is being pushed to its limits. At Daigle Cleaning Systems,

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Arcade Archaeology: A Playable Museum with a Century of Machines

Written by Sean Palladino on December 18, 2025. Posted in 2026, Arts & Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, January, Newspaper, Technology.

Strolling through Aviation Mall in November, I stumbled across a relatively new playable museum, Arcade Archaeology, that imbued a wonderful sense of nostalgia for arcade games, filled with more than fifty pinball machines. Opening last summer in June, Lonnie Linen,

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Healing Through Harmony: How Music Therapy and Nourishing Minds Tutoring Transform Learning and Life

Written by Staff Report on November 25, 2025. Posted in 2025, Arts & Culture, Community, December, Featured, Newspaper, Technology.

When Tracey Puckhaber first saw a feature about music therapy as a teenager, she was instantly captivated. “I was sixteen, sitting at a bar with my parents, and this special came on about music therapy,” she recalled. “There was this

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