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Life in balance
Nothing stopped Elant’s CEO from growing company
By KATHY KAHN

Donna McAleer never had much time to read labels on the backs of food items as she shopped for her family.

As the chief executive officer of Elant, she read stacks of reports that crossed her desk each day. She built the company from a single nursing home in 1985 to the largest provider of senior services in New York state.

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951-unit project faces opposition from Dutchess residents
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

A 951-unit residential project proposed for 2,000 acres in the rural northern Dutchess County community of Pine Plains is still a long way from becoming a reality.

Unemployment hits lowest point in nearly six years
By ALEXANDER SOULE

Unemployment in the mid-Hudson Valley reached its lowest mark since May 2001, dipping in December to 2.8 percent in Putnam County.

Community support needed for affordable housing, advocate says
By KATHY KAHN

Architect Michael Shilale has a new visitor gracing the front of his New City firm. She’s called “The Seated Lady,” a creation of sculptor Edward Walsh.

On-site counseling SCOREs big with small business
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

While the days of doctors making house calls may be over, small-business owners now have the option of counseling services coming right to their door.

That’s because several small-business advocacy groups offer on-site consulting.

This is not your dad’s bowling alley
By KATHY KAHN

Lounge lizards take note: there’s a new nightclub in town that’s disguised as a bowling alley.

Bowlers take note: there’s a new alley in town that’s disguised as a nightclub.

Lucky Strike Lanes, www.bowlluckystrike.com, just opened at the Palisades Center in Nyack and is part entertainment center and part lounge.

Putnam touts retention efforts, plans for Empire Zone
By BOB CHUVALA

Putnam County’s Economic Development Corp. brought two new businesses and about 110 new jobs into the county last year and convinced a half dozen small businesses to stay with their 35 jobs. And this year the EDC will file an application to establish an Empire Zone in the county to help convince new business to settle there.

Dyson Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary by distributing $28 million in grants
By KATHY KAHN

While most take for granted the wealth of nonprofit offerings in the Hudson Valley Safe Homes, Rural Opportunities, Hudson Valley Housing Development, to name a few their combined contribution to the economic vitality has created what a 2006 Dyson Foundation study has dubbed the “third sector,” following government and for-profits. Many of those organizations have benefited from the generosity of the foundation established in 1956 by Charles and Margaret Dyson.

New mom cooks up home-style fast food
By KATHY KAHN

Like necessity, pregnancy can also be the mother of invention.

For Stacey Hawkins, her nine-month nesting period resulted in several unwanted pounds and kindled a desire in the new mom to feed her family healthier foods.

First-time home buyers helped through Federal Home Loan Bank
By KATHY KAHN

As residential prices rise and the longing for home ownership seems unreachable for young couples and families today, the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (www.fhlbny.com) is working with several banks to try and make the American Dream come true.