Maria Macrina is just a simple second-generation Italian-American girl from Sherrill who’s family taught her the value of Italian culture and traditions which she said consists mainly of family, faith and food...including gelato, which she is bringing to the residents of Clinton.

Actually, to be exact, she brought it to Clinton in 2016, by way of a food push-cart at the Thursday village green farmer’s market, but business has been so good she’s opening a store at 17 College St. in late April. “I always felt like I was headed to a store,” Macrina said. “I just wanted to systematically grow the business. I started with what I could and tried to build on what I had done each year.”