Celebrate Cinco with Apples

FISHERS, N.Y. — Don’t forget las manzanas for Cinco de Mayo.

With plenty of New York apples still in abundance in supermarkets, farm stands and Greenmarkets this spring, Cinco de Mayo celebrations will be easy with apples.

“We’ve created a healthy and tasty recipe to celebrate Cinco de Mayo,” said Linda Quinn, M.S.R.D., a nutritionist for the New York Apple Association and creator of New York Apple Salsa.

This quick and easy recipe utilizes green Crispin apples or red Empire apples, extremely flavorful New York apple varieties.

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Celebrate Cinco with Apples

With New Licensing Proposal, Paterson Tries to Win Support for Wine in Groceries

ALBANY -- Gov. David Paterson hasn't put the cork in his floundering proposal to allow groceries to sell wine and is instead offering a new medallion system to lure support from liquor stores.

But a leading group representing liquor-store owners quickly put the idea on ice Tuesday, saying allowing big groceries to sell wine would put them out of business.

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Paterson Tries to Win Support for Wine

Truck Regulation Talk Mixes Signals

AURORA — The Upstate Safety Task Force went from using words such as shock and befuddled to confusion and disbelief when a state official told members a truck traffic regulation isn’t trashed completely.

On Wednesday, task force members met with Dan Young, state Gov. Dave Paterson’s regional representative for central New York, to discuss the stalling of a proposal that would have limited long-haul trucks from traveling on seven specific routes through the Finger Lakes region.

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Truck Regulation

State Senator, Farm Bureau Celebrate Bill's Defeat

Dale Stein, left, Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer and Dea

BATAVIA — Dale Stein said he would have stopped offering health insurance, a retirement plan, double-pay on holidays and other benefits for his 16 employees if he was forced to pay overtime at his dairy farm in Le Roy.

Stein and other farms in the state dodged the issue, for now, after the state Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have required overtime pay for farmworkers. The bill won’t move out of committee to go before a full vote in the Senate, where Democrats have a slim majority.

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Bill's Defeat