A quick recap of the week

week review 2017-02-18

Here are a few highlights from the past week on AOA:

+ We gave away tickets to the Gathering of the Farm Cideries by asking: What's your favorite thing to eat when it's cold and snowy outside?

+ It's been snowy in a normal way.

+ Haley looked at a handful of projects trying to lift Schenectady's Eastern Ave neighborhood.

+ A quick scan of the latest batch of high school graduation rates from around the Capital Region.

+ What was up in the Neighborhood this week: the Blake family, Knox & Mead, purchasing your own supply of chocolate, the pearly gates, helping kids become community members, snow stress, mineral springs, snowy photos, The Tollgate, pizza, the restaurant industry, Buffalo wings, and childhood.

+ We talked with Albany native Miles Joris-Peyrafitte about As You Are, the Sundance prize-winning film he directed here.

+ Ann an David from 98 Acres examined the history of redlining in Albany.

+ The EBA building on Lark Street is up for auction -- we talked with Maude Baum about selling the longtime home of the dance company.

+ And a look at the many, many tax-exempt properties in Albany, and how that affects the city's budget and the people who live there.

Here's the whole week in one place.

Thanks to everyone who posted a comment or shared an idea this week!

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