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Today’s chocolate:
haute cuisine for the sweet tooth
By LYNN WOODS

Remember when eating chocolate was a guilt-inducing experience? Well, times have changed. Today, it’s not only OK to admit you enjoy the rich-tasting stuff, but eating it can be a way of achieving nirvana.

Top Stories

Medical insurance is in critical condition
By LYNN WOODS

Owners of small- and medium-sized businesses in the Hudson Valley are dropping health insurance for their employees, unable to afford the high cost of premiums.

Farm bill ups subsidies in weather-wracked times
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

ST. LOUIS--The Bush Administration is proposing to increase subsidies to farmers by $5 billion and pledges $1.6 billion in new funding for renewable energy research, development and production in the 2007 farm bill.

Distillery offers spirited business plan
By KATHY KAHN

For a true Hudson Valley tipple, Gardiner’s Tuthilltown Spirits’ Hudson Baby Bourbon may be just the answer for that perfect Manhattan cocktail even if you sip it in Mamakating or Mamaroneck. If, like James Bond, your tastes run to martinis, Tuthilltown offers its own vodka to be shaken, not stirred.

Revised ‘city within a city’ draws praise
By KATHY KAHN

“I think we’re seeing a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Kingston Mayor Jim Sottile.

Put up your nukes
Greenpeace co-founder touts nuclear energy; Riverkeeper says shut Indian Point down
By LYNN WOODS

The Indian Point nuclear plant, located 35 miles north of New York City in Buchanan, has been plagued with problems. They include a series of unplanned shutdowns of the reactors, a malfunction of the new siren system, and leaks of radioactive material into the ground water. Political leaders are up in arms, pushing for legislation to provide additional oversight of the plant.

Schott Lithotech closes; 70 out of work
By KATHY KAHN

The company that replaced Dupont Photomasks in the town of Poughkeepsie, Schott Lithotec, has shuttered. Workers arrived April 25 to learn the company had closed its doors for good after five years in business.

TZ bridge conference irks task force
Presenters to outline BRT option for bridge
By BRYAN F. YURCAN

Some members of the business community advocating for an efficient rapid-transit system across the Interstate-287 corridor, and a new Tappan Zee Bridge, are growing increasingly concerned with a perceived lack of progress on the project.

New rules apply when the move is a transfer
By LYNN WOODS

When Bayer moved its diabetes care division from Indiana to Tarrytown last year, it offered transferees a mortgage subsidy to help bridge the higher cost of housing in Westchester County. The subsidy, ranging from $75,000 to $125,000, is available for five years and pays the difference between an employee’s cost for mortgage and property tax in Indiana and in Westchester.