The Yager brothers, Dustin, H. and Kyle, 7, and Corey Richetts, 8, all of Greenfield, splash in the Green Itiver at the Greenfield swimming area. Taste of summer Hot-Spring ushers in the real thing By NICOLE CUSANO Recorder Staff Lori Picheite, left and Judy Graves, both of Ashfield, enjoy one of the 24 flavors of ice cream at Jed’s on Route 2 in Shelburne. SHELBURNE – Secretly, of course, I wanted a taste of every flavour – especially apricot, lemon, pistachio nut, pina colada and amaretto. But alas, I couldn’t bring myself to trouble the ever-busy Ruth Schecterlo to whip
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Brandy Fulp eats a dish of ice cream from the 3B Ice Cream shop on Derry Street – Mihaela Silva enjoys a vanilla ice cream cone from Toots’ Treats #3 Tom Miller just opened the shop a little more than a year ago with the idea of creating an old fashioned, hometown atmosphere. He’s using the same machine as Ice Cream Heaven to create 24 flavors of made-to-order soft ice cream, plus 24 flavors of no-fat frozen yogurt. He also offers 24 flavors of hand-dipped, hard ice cream, including low-fat and sugar-free varieties. Most of the hard ice cream is
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At left, checking the scenery outside of the 3B Ice Cream shop on Derry Street is Josh Rissinger, the chain’s general manager, while pictured below is the owner of Toot’s Treats, Tom Miller, offering up a sampling of some of his best sellers. Shops savor flavor of success ICE CREAM – From Page C1 #1 Don Douglas and Kim Malatesta just took over the business in April, and they’ve been attracting swarms of people with a new machine that lets them make 27 flavors of soft ice cream. The machine adds flavored syrup on a per-serving basis to Brookwood Farms
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Some of midstaters’ favorite ice cream flavors include, from left to right in front, mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream, and pink teaberry, and, from left to right in back, vanilla and chocolate peanut butter cup. Don Douglas and Kim Malatesta recently took over management of Ice Cream Heaven in Rutherford. Here’s the scoop on Ice Cream Heaven Location: 6220-C Derry St., Rutherford About the shop: It’s located in the left end of a building that also houses a separate pizza and sub shop, next to the Rutherford Cafe. New owners Don Douglas and Kim Malatesta just took it over
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Here are the top finishers in The Patriot News Co.’s “Best Little Ice-Cream House in Harrisburg” poll: We have only two customers in Harrisburg area and they come from first and third! 1. Ice Cream Heaven (51 votes) [24 Flavors System] 2. 3B Ice Cream (30) 3. Toots’ Treats (35) [24 Flavors System] 4. Baskin-Robbins (22) 5. Galloping Goose (17) 6. White Mountain Creamery (14) 7. Annie’s (13) 8. Reeser’s Soft Ice Cream (10) 9. Rakestraw’s (6) We might be eating more exotic ice-cream flavors such as “death by chocolate” and “chocolate chip cookie dough” these days, but none of
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