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Change on Spa City's board New finance commissioner is 1st person of color, openly gay official on coucil ByLINE: WENDY LIBERATORE
Lawyer pleads guilty to stealing ByLINE: SHAYLA COLON
BALLSTON SPA - A Wilton attorney who admitted to stealing thousands from a client was sentenced last Thursday to 364 days in a Saratoga County correctional facility. Ellen Zwijacz, who pleaded guilty to grand larceny, entered her plea knowing she faced six months of incarceration with five years of probation to up to three years in state prison if she paid more than $860,000 and surrendered her law license at or before her sentencing, the Saratoga County district attorney's office said. A third party voluntarily paid $864,581 in restitution on her behalf before the sentencing. The 43-year-old was convicted for stealing funds from one of her clients between 2013 and 2018. In her November plea allocution, Zwijacz admitted to using fraudulent documents to transfer control of her client's funds without their knowledge and changing the address and beneficiary on the client's life insurance policies so she received the benefits, the release said. She also used her position as an attorney to file Please see LARCENY 6
SARATOGA SPRINGS - The traditional look of the City Council is about to change. Minita Sanghvi, the city's new finance commissioner, is the first person of color on the council and the city's first openly gay official. The Mumbai-born commissioner said she'll provide the council with a new perspective. "It's important in a couple of ways," the Democrat said last Tuesday, just hours before her first council meeting. "One is, it sends a message to a lot of people who are not the majority that there is a role for them and a place for them in our society and our city. They have a voice that they have not had before." While she said many felt that upstate New York is not a place for progressive thinkers after the 2016 election, her win, as well as that of the newly elected Asian-American Mayor Ron Kim, does soften the city's image, which as of late has been deemed racist. "When you have people of different backgrounds, they bring along their own history and
Proposal for Fab 8.2 On pause Multibillion-dollar GlobalFoundries plant would create 1,000 jobs ByLINE: LARRY RULISON
MALTA - GlobalFoundries was planning to formally unveil construction plans for its new Fab 8.2 computer chip factory at the Luther Forest Technology Campus to the towns of Malta and Stillwater last month. The project -- which might cost GlobalFoundries between $5 billion and $10 billion --would translate into 1,000 new jobs, adding to the 3,000 positions at the company's Fab 8 factory and global headquarters. But the unveiling of details of Fab 8.2 hasn't happened yet. GlobalFoundries, however, says it's just a matter of time until it does submit its plans for Fab 8.2. The company is waiting on the $52 billion semiconductor manufacturing subsidy bill that is stalled in Congress. The measure is designed to combat China in the race for chipmaking supremacy. It would provide companies like
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perspectives, their own cultural ideas about things," the 44-yearold said. "Diversity adds more opinions and perspectives." And that is what she is interested in gaining for city residents. She said she will start with the concept of participatory budgeting where she takes a small portion of the city's $54 million budget, about $50,000 to $100,000, and asks a committee of residents how they would like to spend it. "The idea here is young people, the homeless population, students, all get voice in a way they haven't before," she said. "If you take a person who is marginalized LORI VAN BUREN / TIMES UNION ... and put them into these posiFinance Commissioner Minita Sanghvi is seated in her offi ce at Saratoga Springs tions, they bring along different City Hall. “We learned business before anything else,” she says of her family. ideas. There is a term: If you are not at the table, you are on the adas Jivanlal Sanghvi, was the family and we learned business menu. When someone like me is before anything else," she said. at the table, we are expanding that founder of Wilson Pens in India. Uneducated and from a small Sanghvi said, however, she was table for so many more people to village, Sanghvi said he was a interested in literature and hisjoin." rags-to- riches story when he tory. But her father pushed her to She said she has seen that work developed the pen that was used study accounting and then earn in Greensboro, N.C., where she to write the country's constituher MBA. She did both at Narsee lived and worked as a professor tion as it was breaking away from Monjee Institute of Management at University at North Carolina Great Britain. Studies in Mumbai, which at the before her 2014 move to Sarato"My whole life is trying to time she was there in 2000, was ga Springs, where she is now a make him proud, even after his ranked top 10 in India and the top full-tenured professor at Skiddeath," she said. 40 in Asia for business. more College teaching business The pen business extended After graduation, she worked and marketing. at Leo Burnett, an advertising But she would have never made to Sanghvi's father who went on to to establish Sanghvi Writing her way to Saratoga Springs table agency also in Mumbai. And Industries. if she wasn't gay. that's when her parents told her Please see SANGHVI 6 Her family's patriarch, Dwark"I was raised in a business
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GlobalFoundries up to $2 billion each to build new chip factories. The bill -- championed by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer as the CHIPS Act -- has already passed the Senate, and was expected to have passed the House by now. But it has languished. At the same time, GlobalFoundries has decided to hold off on submitting its Fab 8.2 plans to the planning departments of Malta and Stillwater. However, company officials say it's not connected to the inaction in Congress. "This is an ongoing process where we are partnering closely with town boards and town planning officials as we prepare a complete and well thought out application for the expansion of Fab 8," the company said in a statement provided to the Times Union by spokesman Michael Mullaney. The reality is that GlobalFoundries is likely waiting for Congress to pass the CHIPS Act before it moves forward with Fab 8.2, which would greatly increase its manufacturing output at Fab 8. GlobalFoundries CEO Tom Caulfield has been one of the biggest champions of the CHIPS Act, hosting Schumer numerous
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times at Fab 8 to promote the bill. Back in July, Schumer joined Caulfield at Fab 8 to promote the CHIPS Act, which is now part of a new, larger piece of technology manufacturing legislation known as the United States Innovation and Competition Act. Schumer also got that legislation passed by the Senate. "This is going to mean thousands of good paying J-OB-S, jobs, in the Capital Region," Schumer said at the time. "Today is the day we have been waiting for." Last week, when asked if the holdup of the CHIPS Act had delayed plans for Fab 8.2, GlobalFoundries sounded Please see EXPANSION 6
Ex-Spa mayor Kelly hired by developer Firm is closely linked to Bonacio Construction, the city’s top builder ByLINE: WENDY LIBERATORE
SARATOGA SPRINGS - West Side Management LLC, an organization closely aligned with the city's most prolific developer, Bonacio Construction, has hired former Mayor Meg Kelly as its director of operations.
The limited liability company, located at 18 Division St. and registered at the Department of State under Alfio Bonacio Jr., maintains and manages commercial and residential properties. Its preferred vendors, its website notes, are Bonacio Construction, Julie Bonacio's realty company and B & B Plumbing and Heating founded by Bill Benton and Sonny Bonacio. Please see KELLY 6
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Should high schoolers take college courses? Governor proposes incentivizing programs that directly translate to students’ college credit ByLINE: RACHEL SILBERSTEIN
When Abby Farnan graduated from East Greenbush's Columbia High School in 2020, she had seven college-accredited courses under her belt, including advanced placement psychology and biology, as well as foreign language credits. But while her classes aligned with her career goals -- she's now a dual biology and psychology major at Union College -- only one class will count toward her undergraduate degree. The 19-year-old said she has mixed feelings about the rigorous electives and advanced coursework she pursued in high school, accredited by the University at Albany and Hudson Valley Community College. "I think that all in all, my APs were worth it," Farnan said. "They boosted my overall GPA and taught me things that really helped me do very well in my intro-level college courses. I was more disappointed with my 'college in the high school' credits not
transferring ... that was annoying for sure." Advanced Placement, "college in the high school" and other dual-enrollment programs that enable high school students to earn early college credit for a fee, have multiplied in recent years -- creating a dizzying array of academic options for many students as early as ninth grade. In the State University of New York system alone, college in the high school enrollment has grown 40 percent in the last 10 years. In 2002, dual-enrollment opportunities were nearly nonexistent. Now 41,000 high school students account for 25 percent of all community college enrollees in the state, according to SUNY figures. Parents unfamiliar with this new landscape tend to balk at the tuition bills and mandatory AP exam costs associated with electives their child pursues in high school. College admissions experts agree that AP courses are the most valuable on a college application and cost less than concurrent enrollment credits provided by local institutions. "I don't think anyone should pay for those courses and it seems like the high schools are push-
This Week in Saratoga County History Fisticuffs at the Filling Station Submitted by Lauren Roberts, January 6, 2022 SARATOGA COUNTY - Lauren Roberts is the Saratoga County Historian. She is co-host of the WAMC podcast A New York Minute in History, along with NYS Historian Devin Lander. Roberts co-produced the recently released documentary Harnessing Nature: Building the Great Sacandaga, which chronicles the creation of the Sacandaga Reservoir. You can reach Lauren at lroberts@saratogacountyny.gov Anna Riddell – 1924 Board of Supervisors Proceedings Book
If anyone were to guess which municipality in the county was the first to elect a female supervisor, the most popular answer might be Saratoga Springs or maybe Ballston Spa or even Mechanicville - but these would all be incorrect. In fact, it might come as a shock that the first elected female supervisor in Saratoga County represented the Town of Hadley. Anna Riddell came to Hadley from Boston in 1910 after marrying a local man. She first made
ing them," said Dean Skarlis, president of The College Advisor of New York, an Albany-based agency that supports high school students through the college admissions process. There are doubts about the rigor of non-AP, college-level classes taught by high school instructors, Skarlis said. Even when there is an articulation agreement between the accrediting community college and the four-year college or university the student aspires toward -- Troy’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for example, recognizes many engineering science credits from Hudson Valley Community College -- there is no guarantee the high school credits will be a direct match for any class required by the four-year degree-granting institution, according to Skarlis. AP classes are nationally recognized and translate into 3 to 5 college credits based on exam scores and how competitive the college is. International Baccalaureate classes, similarly, are recognized by most institutions. Increasingly, AP courses are being accredited by local institutions, which is a moneymaker for colleges but poses another financial pitfall for students, according Elizabeth Levine, founder
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the local newspaper in 1915 when The Saratogian reported, “Mrs. Anna Riddell has purchased a Ford runabout which she intends to operate herself after taking a few lessons.” Apparently, the lessons were a success and Anna’s love for automobiles flourished. In 1920, when Riddell’s house was destroyed by fire in the middle of the night, the family barely escaped in time, with nothing but their nightclothes, but “a Dodge touring car belonging to Mrs. Riddell which was in a building connected with the house was saved through great difficulty because of the deep snow.” No longer just a hobby, Anna had become a chauffeur for hire and may have been the first female to obtain a driver’s license in Saratoga County. In addition to her passion for cars, Anna also showed conviction for civic groups and local government. Anna was active in Woman’s Suffrage and volunteered for the Red Cross during World War I, chairing liberty loan drives and serving as a member of the motor army ambulance corps of Hadley. In 1923, Anna decided to run for town supervisor. She was up against incumbent Lester Fowler, a fellow Republican, which forced her to run as an Independent. In a closely contested race, Anna won by just nine votes. On November 7th, 1923, the headline in The Saratogian read “Hadley Woman Elected to Board of Supervisors Setting County Precedent.” Anna served on the Child Welfare Committee and the Please see HISTORY 8
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AROUND YOUR COMMUNITY Widow-Widowers Group CAPITAL DISTRICT Did you know.... There is an active Widow-Widowers group that meets each Friday for lunch. We are actively looking to recruit more widowers to balance out our group. If you are a widower, please consider joining us. We are a fun group. Call Pat: 518-557-2284.
Sophie Collura Earns Dean’s List Honors at The College of Saint Rose for Fall 2021 Semester ALBANY, NY - Sophie Collura, of Corinth, NY, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall 2021 semester at The College of Saint Rose. Collura is majoring in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Full-time undergraduate students who complete a minimum of 12 graded credit hours and who achieve a semester average of 3.5 without a D, F, or Incomplete are eligible for the dean’s list.
Adirondack Folk School Schedule for 2022 LAKE LUZERNE - 51 Main Street, Lake Luzerne, NY 12846. (518) 696-2400. www.adirondackfolkschool.org - All classes are held at the Adirondack Folk School unless otherwise noted. Friday & Saturday, January 14&15 - Create Your Own Hardwood Cutting Board with Frank Lagace. 2 half days. Friday 5pm-9pm. Saturday 9am-1pm. Tuition $125. Member Tuition $100. Materials fee $75. Saturdays, January
15 & February 5 - Introduction to Clay/Ceramics - Hand Building with Colleen Vanderhoef. 2 half days. 9am-12pm. Tuition $125. Member Tuition $100. Materials fee $45. Saturday & Sunday, January 22&23 - Birch Bark Picture Frames and Mirrors with Jim Schreiner. 2 Days. 9am-4pm. Tuition $210. Member Tuition $170. Materials fee $35. Saturday January 29 Intro to Nature & Wildlife Photography with Dave Oxford. 1/2 day. 9am14pm. Tuition $85 Member Tuition $65. Materials fee $0. Saturday January 29 - Walking Stick with Inlaid Compass with Frank Lagace. 1 day. 9am-4pm. Tuition $125. Member Tuition $100. Materials fee $25. Sunday January 30 - Sacred Union of Plant & Water with Margo Mullein. 1/2 day. 1pm-4pm. Tuition $70. Member Tuition $55. Materials fee $15.
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Students Named to Fall 2021 Dean’s List at Hudson Valley Community College TROY, NY - Nearly 900 students were named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List at Hudson Valley Community College. Local students include: Michael Wickham of Corinth, who is studying in the Electrical Construction and Maintenance academic program. Meghan Carter of Corinth, who is studying in the Individual Studies academic program. Joshua Meliski of Corinth, who is studying in the Electrical Technology: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology academic program.
Q.U.I.L.T., Inc. Monthly Guild Meeting on Zoom CAPITAL DISTRICT Q.U.I.L.T., Inc. is a not-forprofit guild of quilters interested in learning about the art of making quilts. Members live in the Capital Region and surrounding communities. All levels
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Fire Starting at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT Friday, January 14th, 10am. This program is geared for kids 10+ years old. Join an environmental educator to learn how to start a fire when you are camping. We will discuss some Leave No Trace Principles about minimizing campfire impacts and how to start a fire. This event will be held outside so please dress accordingly. Reservations are required. Please call 518-917-2174. Stop at the office to pay, cost is $1 per child, then head down to the warming hut at the outside firepit where we will meet.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS - Youth2 (www.youthsquared. org) is looking forward to partnering with Dr. Joe Bruchac on MLK Saratoga Weekend hosting, “And Who Walked This Ground”- Saturday, January 15th, 11-12 noon, a free program, as part of MLK Saratoga’s Annual Dr. King Celebration Weekend. Participants will meet together at the Congress Spring in Congress Park and will look at the history and traditions of the Native people, past and present, and their connections to the Saratoga area and Congress Park. A COVID-safe outdoor program. For more information: mlksaratoga.org
BALLSTON SPA - Ballston Spa Elks Lodge #2619, 10 Hamilton Street, Ballston Spa, will host a Chicken & Biscuits Dinner on Saturday, January 15th from 4 to 6 pm. The menu will include Chicken & Biscuits, Salad, Peas and Carrots and Dessert. The cost is 2 for $25 or $15 each (cash only). Preorder strongly encouraged place your order call 518-885-1149, January 13 & 14th between 4 to 6pm or email dinners2619@gmail.com Limited quantities available at the door. Proceeds support Elks Charities.
New York State Arms Collectors Association, Inc. Albany Gun Show™ CAPITAL DISTRICT - January 22-23, 2022. Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany, N.Y. 450 Tables. Open To The Public. Saturday: 9:00am-5:00pm. Sunday 9:00am-3:00pm.Daily Admission $8.00 Per Person. Children under 12 free - Must be accompanied by Adult• Senior Citizens $6.00.
Church Pieroghi Sale BALLSTON LAKE Christ the Savior Church, 349 Eastline Rd., Ballston Lake is having a pieroghi sale on Tuesday, Jan. 18th. As usual we will have potato/cheese, sauerkraut, and farmer’s cheese pieroghis. All pierogi orders are $10/dz.. Please call 518-363-0001. P/U will be from 11:30- 1 p.m.
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GANSEVOORT Monday, January 17th, 6pm This is a guided hike around Moreau Lake after hours. We will get to experience the woods at night while viewing the full moon. This will be about a 3 mile hike on relatively flat terrain. Reservations are required, please call 518-917-2174. Cost is $5 for adults and $1 for children. We will meet at the park office.
Saratoga/Wilton Elks Lodge #161 Stuffed Shells Dinner for Curbside Pick Up SARATOGA/WILTON - Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 4:30-6:00pm. Call Monday and Tuesday between 10am-noon to place an order, 518-5842585. Stuffed Shells, Meatballs, Sweet Sausage, Tossed Salad, Garlic Toast. Dinner For 2 /$30.00 (Cash Only).
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GANSEVOORT Thursday, January 20th, 10am AND 2pm. It is story time with an environmental educator. This event is geared for children aged 2-5 years old. We will read a short story or two about nature then go for a short walk. Cost is $1 per child. Please call 518-917-2174 to make a reservation. We will meet outside the nature center at the pavilion.
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Kid’s Ice Fishing at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT - Saturday, January 22nd, 10am2pm. Have you ever wondered how to ice fish? Come to Moreau to get a beginner lesson and maybe even reel up a fish. Equipment provided. Registration is required. Please call 518-917-2174. Stop at the office to pay for the event, $1 per child, then head down to the warming hut. Warming hut will be open with hot cocoa. This is weather dependent. If there isn’t enough ice we will cancel.
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Legends Lost John Madden and Betty White Gary Franks, Tribune Content Agency
To kick off the New Year (excuse the intended pun) I am not doing a political column this week. In fact, I am drawing upon the lives of two of the most apolitical people you could find, John Madden and Betty White. Both are very special. They entertained, informed, challenged via a video game, and made us laugh - pick which attributes match. For me, both were uniquely inspirational as we begin a new year. We remember their lives that ended as 2021 came to a close. W hat was interesting and intriguing about John Madden was the fact that he had three highly successful careers. All were related to one theme, one common denominator football, but all using different "football" skills. As a coach he was outstanding. He led his team, the Oakland Raiders, to a Super Bowl title and many outstanding years, racking up the best winning percentage of any football coach with at least 100 decisions. Next, he turned to being an analyst for NFL games. Usually not a "big deal" role but he turned it into one. He became the true voice of the NFL. Madden seemed to cover all the big games. As a player if you understood that Madden was attending your game you knew that you had "arrived," for the game would be broadcast to 75% of the nation. You also knew that if Madden li ked you or praised you it would mean wonders for your career. He had no peer. He was the biggest NFL inf luencer ever.
Then after all the aforem e nt i on e d s u c c e s s h e turned to business. Using his name, knowledge, voice, experience and analysis he helped produce a video game that has been the "gold sta nda rd" for kids and young adults for decades. Madden Games have earned a reported $7 billion over the years. I played countless hours of Madden NFL in front of my son's console through the years. It seemed like ever y Christmas a new edition was the right gift to give my son, and, me? It was fun! Just imagine being on the top of three mountains over a lifetime. Many cannot climb one. Super humans, maybe two. There is no word for one who could perform the "hat trick" of life to borrow a hockey term - standout in three different roles but in the same related field. Truly amazing. All this comes as no surprise to those who knew him, and I can't claim to be among that group. But I have heard a lot about Madden via a special Fox Sports segment and from those who warmly shared their feelings about the man. The story that stands out the most for me goes back to Madden's coaching days. He went to the hospital after a game to visit an injured football player on rival's team. The player had been hit hard and injured by one of Madden's toughest players and had to be carted off the field. What we did not realize at the time was that this young ma n wou ld never w a l k again, much less play football again. When Madden arrived at the hospital no one was there with this young man
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Albany-Tula Alliance Seeks Entries for 2022 Multimedia Contest CAPITAL DISTRICT The Albany-Tula Alliance is seeking Capital Region students from high school to first-year college to enter a multimedia contest on the importance of discerning fact from fiction. For the past quarter-century, the Albany-Tula Alliance has been a cooperative sister city initiative between New York’s Capital Region and the Tula Region in Russia. Through the years there have been many cultural, educational, scientific and business exchanges between the two. Even though government relations remain strained the friends of the Alliance continue to work together as citizen diplomats. The annual Essay Contest is asking students to submit a creative response to the prompt: “How can you form an unbiased opinion of another culture without being able to travel there?” Students can submit their responses in dozens of different forms from a poem to podcast, from a sculpture to a collage, from an essay to a song or video. The deadline for registration and essay submission is Friday, February 28, 2022. The participant of the winning essay will
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Red Oak Ridge Hike at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT - Tuesday, January 25th,11am. Join an environmental educator on an interpretive led hike along the Red Oak Ridge trail. This trail traverses half way up the mountain range and connects to the Western Ridge trail. From there we will go over to Mud Pond and make our way back up to the office. This is a moderate hike at about 4+ miles round trip. Please call 518-917-2174 to make a reservation. We will meet and pay, $5 for adults and $1 for children, at the park office.
Beaver Lodge Walk and Talk at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT Wednesday, January 26th, 10am. Together we will visit our Back Pond beaver lodge, a short walk from the nature center, and view the beavers’ interesting abode. After, we will warm up in the Nature Center to discuss all things beaver. Kids of all ages will learn something new
as he was struggling with his painful injury. Madden repeatedly tried to get someone from the opposing team to return from the airport to stay on with the injured player. Finally, the team sent someone back to the hospital to console the immobile player. Stories like this make you understand why God blessed John Madden so much. He isn't a role model since few of us can match his degree of success, but he is an inspiration on so many levels. As good or great as you may perceive yourself to be, you could always master other fields a s w el l . Ke ep w ork i ng hard and utilize all of the God-given talent you have. And remember that helping others along the way will bring help back to you. As my mother used to say, the more you give the more you get. Betty White made sure we understood that age was just a number. She had a very productive life. She died peacefully just days before her 100th birthday. Unlike Madden who evolved into different roles, Betty White seemed to play the same lovable person in every one of her roles, giving us memorable one-liners along the way. She made us laugh. W h a t 's r e m a r k a b l e about both Madden and White is that they did not seek glory or were starving for admiration. Yet they received it. They were modest and humble. And also apolitical. We never knew their party affiliation or who they voted for, and we all appreciated that fact. They simply brought us joy.
As Far As Political Satire Goes, 'Don't Look Up' Fails In More Ways Than One Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
"Don't Look Up," Adam McKay's dark comedy released on Netflix just before Christmas, has gotten an enormous amount of attention, despite the fact most film critics tend to agree it doesn't hold together too well artistically, even as some welcome it for its propagandistic value. As you'd expect from the creator of "Step Brothers" and "Talladega Nights," nothing about the film is subtle. A giant comet is barreling toward Earth, and both the media and Washington are incapable of taking the threat seriously. McKay and the story co-creator, David Sirota, have been very clear about what they're up to. "Clearly," McKay tells GQ, the movie is an "analogy or an allegory for the climate crisis." After the Netf lix release, McKay took to Twitter: "Loving all the heated debate about our movie. But if you don't have at least a small ember of anxiety about the climate collapsing (or the US teetering) I'm not sure Don't Look Up makes any sense. It's like a robot viewing a love story. 'WHy ArE thEir FacEs so cLoSe ToGether?' " That tweet is probably funnier than any line in the movie. But it's also ironic, given that the reason the film fails as political satire is that McKay is more like that robot than he realizes. There are three flaws to this allegory. He gets the media, politics and the effect of climate change wrong. McKay told NPR that he joined with Sirota to write the movie because, "We're both incredibly frustrated with the lack of coverage of the climate crisis. You know, it's usually the fourth or fifth story. It's never the right tone, which should be much more urgent." Really? Where do these guys get their news? Many news outlets have full-time reporters dedicated to climate change. Just last year ABC News and CNN created full-time climate change news teams. The Washington Post and the New York Times were already there. In April, Time magazine ran another of many cover stories on climate change showing a burning map of the world under the headline, "Climate Is Everything." In 1989, Time skipped Person of the Year and made
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The League of Women Voters of Saratoga County Students Inside Albany Conference SARATOGA COUNTY - The League of Women Voters of Saratoga County is accepting applications for High School Juniors residing in Saratoga ,Warren ,or Washington counties to attend Students Inside Albany. The 2022 Students Inside Albany conference is scheduled to be in person this year. Proof of COVID vaccination and masks will be required. It will be held May 22-25, 2022 at the Hampton Inn & Suites, downtown Albany. The SIA conference, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation, Inc., is designed to increase students’ awareness of their responsibility in representative government and provide the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility. This interactive conference will bring together high school students from across the state to learn about New York State government and the process by which
citizens can participate in the policy making arena. As part of this program, students will also tour the Capitol and observe both the Senate and Assembly in action by spending an afternoon shadowing their legislator. The Conference is an intensive four day training experience designed to immerse students in the process by which public policy is proposed, enacted and changed in New York State. All conference expenses for the successful candidate will be covered by the LWV of Saratoga County. Applications are due to the LWV Saratoga by January 27, 2022 may be found on the LWV website www.lwvsaratoga.org/ youth-programs or from HS Social Studies teachers.
Annual Souper Bowl of Caring Chili Fest MIDDLE GROVE - Annual Souper Bowl of Caring Chili Fest at the Middle Grove United Methodist Church Sun., Feb 13, 2022 from 10:15-1pm (or until sold out). This is a take out only event. Wide variety of homemade chili for sale for $6 per quart. Church is located at 429 Middle Grove Rd (corner of Middle Grove & North Creek Rd).
"Endangered Earth" the "Planet of the Year." In McKay's movie, what is supposed to be the New York Times drops its coverage of the planet-killing comet story when it fails to get good web traffic. Do I really need to be the one to defend the New York Times from this idiotic insinuation? Like a robot watching the news, McKay watches the near-daily coverage of climate change and says, "wHeRE IS tHE cLImATE HySTeria!?!" Then there's politics. Meryl Streep's entertaining take on a female President Trump scores some points, but Trump isn't president. Joe Biden is, and he calls climate change an "existential threat" all the time. And he's not alone. Sirota wrote speeches for Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2020, and his old boss routinely said that kind of thing, too -- as did virtually all the Democratic presidential nominees. And it's not just rhetoric; we're spending vast sums of money and reorganizing the missions of many government agencies to deal with the existential threat of climate change. But here's the funny thing: Climate change is not an "existential threat" like a planet-killing comet, which let's just admit would make for great TV. Not even according to the United Nations' IPCC, whose worst-case scenarios for climate change, as terrible as some are, manifest themselves over a century and would not end all life here. McKay & Co. are free to disagree about the aptness of their analogy. In the movie, the only way to stop the comet is to push it off course by aiming nuclear weapons at it. Some argue that in real life, the only way to reduce carbon emissions is to use nuclear power. Sanders and many of his Democratic colleagues oppose that -- which is odd if you actually believe we have no time to waste to save the planet. Finally, it's worth asking: Is McKay helping? Unlike an incoming comet, climate change requires sustained and sustainable intergenerational consensus. Chastising people who agree with him because they fall short of his peak hysteria and demonizing everyone else seem like exactly the kind of self-indulgence that's made for satire.
Tools for Mental Wellness at Healing Springs Recovery Center SARATOGA SPRINGS - First & Third Thursday of each month. Meeting at Healing Springs, 125 High Rock Ave. (Rear parking lot, blue awning). 518-306-3048. Social distancing, all must wear masks. Check out our “Let’s Talk Mental Health - Above Ground Podcast” www.abovegroundpodcast.net - Peers supporting mental health wellness. Email: peerwellness518@gmail.com
Eastern Ridge Loop at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT Thursday, January 27th, 9:30am. This guided hike will traverse the Eastern Ridge trail from the Western Ridge trailhead. Once we reach the Ridge Run we will loop back to the Western Ridge trail back to the parking area. This will be an advanced to expert hike due to length at about 6-7 miles. The first mile we will be hiking up the Western Ridge trail from the spring parking lot so there will be an incline. Once on the Eastern Ridge it is relatively flat with some ups and downs. You must call to make a reservation at 518-917-2174. Cost is $5 for adults and $1 for children. We will meet and pay at the park office then drive over to the spring parking lot where we will start our hike.
Ballston Spa United Methodist Church Thrift Shop BALLSTON SPA - The Ballston Spa United Methodist Church Thrift Shop is open on Tuesday morningsfrom 9:30 until noon. We are located at 101 Milton Avenue in Ballston Spa. However much you can fit in a grocery bag is just $3.
Porter Corner’s United Methodist Church Continues to Collect Bottles and Cans PORTER CORNERS -The Porter Corners UMC continues to collect deposit refundable beverage bottles and beverage cans They must have the label intact. You can leave yours at the back door of the church at 512 Allen Road or if you have a large amount we can arrange to pick them up. To arrange for pickup please call Jane at 518-893-2289 or Carrie at 518-893-6214. We thank you for your continued support!
Eagle Watch at Moreau Lake State Park GANSEVOORT Friday January 21st, 9:30am Join an environmental educator on a ride along the Hudson River looking for eagles. We will drive over to different pull offs along Spier Falls road to stop and look for Bald Eagles. We will drive to a couple different locations then get out of our vehicles to look around for Bald Eagles. Please bring binoculars if you have them. Sighting is not guaranteed. Please call to make reservations at 518-917-2174. Cost is $5 for adults and $1 for children. Meet and pay at the park office.
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ple are doing different things. While someone is cooking dinner in the kitchen, he or she can still interact with someone else playing video games in the family room or paying bills in the home office. Entertaining also is easier, as mingling with guests is much more convenient when walls are not getting in the way. A smaller home can feel much larger if it employs an open concept. The square footage is not divided into smaller quarters, which sometimes are rooms (such as formal dining rooms) that are only used a few times per year. This eliminates underused spaces and opens up sight lines in the layout. The value of real estate has risen dramatically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and prospective buyers may prefer an open-concept plan because it can help them minimize building costs.
Open-concept homes have become increasingly popular in recent years. An open-concept home is one in which the rooms flow into one another with limited obstruction from walls or other barriers. According to the National Association of Home Builders, 84 percent of new single-family homes have fully or partially open layouts. While they may seem like a new trend, open floor plans are anything but. Early American homes featured open, often one- or two-room units built around the central kitchen/hearth. This maximized warmth and functionality. Homes evolved as incomes grew, and soon homes had several smaller rooms with specialized functions. What’s old has become new again. However, before diving head first into a new home purchase or a big renovation to realize an open-concept dream, consider the pros and cons of this type of setup to determine if it’s really right for you.
Disadvantages of open floor plans
Smoke and smells are another thing to consider. When something on the stove spills over, a small range hood will not be practical for clearing smoke from a large space. Though the aroma of freshly cooked food is enticing, it can make it hard for cooks to keep guests out of the kitchen. Open-concept homes are popular, but homeowners should weigh the pluses and minuses to see if this trend is truly right for them.
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Open layouts are not for everyone. The same sense of space that occurs when walls are taken down may make rooms feel cavernous and less cozy, particularly in homes with ample square footage. In addition, privacy can be hard to come by when all rooms feed into one another. When the kitchen is not separate from the family room space, that makes it easy for noise to compromise the area’s comfort levels. There is no hiding from noise in an open floor plan, as sounds from voices, television shows and appliances tend to echo and blend together. And if the home is a single-story layout, those noises from the main living areas also may carry to adjacent bedrooms.
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Open floor plans facilitate the flow of natural light throughout a space and can promote air flow, helping to reduce warm or cool pockets of air in otherwise closedoff rooms. Open homes make socializing easier, even when peo-
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Week Of January 16, 2022 ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may be tempted to overspend this week, as you have a mind to remodel or redecorate your home in a major way. Try not to get carried away. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 You are ready to pour a huge investment of time and resources into a creative project that is dear to your heart, Taurus. Let the ideas flow organically instead of pushing too hard. GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Phone calls and emails keep coming in, to the point where you may want to turn off your devices for the rest of the week. Find opportunities for peace and quiet. CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, you may feel like you have all of the answers. But you can still heed advice from those who came before you — especially in the work setting. LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, you have high hopes for a productive week, but you may not check off everything on your to-do list. It’s fine to let one or two things slide. VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, why make things difficult for yourself when others are willing to lend a helping hand? You don’t have to chart the course alone, so accept any offers of help that come along. LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, if you are feeling immense pressure to make an important decision, take all the time you need to work through every scenario. This way you’re confident in your choice. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, this week will feel like a lot of hurrying up and
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she was of "marriageable age" and they were seeking a husband for her. The idea struck her with terror. "I knew I was gay and I didn't want to get married," Sanghvi said. "In India, you don't get married to just a boy, you get married to his whole family. I felt it was really unfair for me to ruin his life and his whole family's life because I could not tell the truth to my parents. I found the excuse to do another master's degree. My parents are pro-education and I knew it would be an out. I left for the U.S." She enrolled at the University of Arizona, the only school with a retailing and consumer behavior program that accepted students in the spring semester so she could "get out as quickly as possible." There in Tucson, she met other LGBTQ+ friends and felt transformed. "In India, I never mentioned the words 'I'm a
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confident the passage of the bill by the House was not a long-term issue. "At the federal level, we anticipate Congress advancing legislation to expand domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity through USICA and the (CHIPS Act) to address both the ongoing and prevent future chip supply challenges," GlobalFoundries continued in its statement to the Times Union. New York state officials -- which are also hoping that the CHIPS Act could fund a $2 billion national semiconductor manufacturing lab at Albany Nanotech -- are hopeful too that the funding will be passed and signed by President Joe Biden. During her State of the State presentation last week,
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lesbian,'" she said. "Here it was so different, so brand new." She returned home to India that summer, determined to come out to her family. "I'm not sure they understood, but they were very accepting of me," she said. "There was never any doubt they love me." After graduating from the University of Arizona, she was offered a job at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, teaching business and marketing. She loved it and decided to go for Ph.D. She earned it with her award-winning dissertation "Marketing the Female Politician: An Exploration of Gender, Appearance and Power." Her 2014 dissertation could have been a manual for what she could expect in her near future. "Findings reveal the struggles specific to female politicians, such as impossible appearance standards, issues of selfdoubt, trouble building credibility and dealing with the old boys' network, as well as subtle forms of
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Kelly, who was a two-term leader of the city, did not respond to a Times Union request for comment on her new job. Her LinkedIn profile reflects her new position. The Foothills Business Daily reported that she started
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discrimination, such as lack of access to critical resources," she wrote in her introduction. "This interdisciplinary study reveals how appearance is used as a code to indicate deeply-held, unconscious biases that facilitate the ongoing objectification of female politicians." Sanghvi said she felt her appearance was an issue as she campaigned door-todoor and is certain that, on one occasion, city police were called on her because of the color of her skin. But she does find it refreshing that being gay in Saratoga Springs is "mainstream" and she doesn't feel marginalized like she did in Greenboro where people called her derogatory names. Yet with so many people of color in Greensboro, her skin tone was a nonissue. "It's all a matter of perspective, geography and time period," she said. "But I do think that my skin color (in Saratoga Springs) does give people more anxiety than my sexual orientation. But considering I got almost 50 percent
of the vote (in a three-way race) that wasn't a barrier for a lot of people." In addition to teaching and her role on the council, Sanghvi is also married and a mother of a 7-yearold boy. She is also a writer, completing the first Indian lesbian romance novel, "All the Stars in My Sky," which will go to print with HarperCollins Publishers this spring. All this makes her a busy person. Regardless, she said she is excited to have a seat on the council. "I think everyone is excited to move the needle forward in different ways, whether it is complete streets, participatory budgeting or environmental initiatives," Sanghvi said. "Everybody's heart is in the right place. Not everyone will agree with every decision. But it's all done thinking of the larger population, equality and social justice. ... We are not running away from problems, we are embracing them and dealing with them as they should have been done before."
Gov. Kathy Hochul said attracting new chip fabs to upstate New York would be one of her top priorities during the upcoming session of the state Legislature. She plans to help attract chip fabs by investing in building infrastructure at so-called "shovel-ready" tech parks across upstate that target chip fabs, including the Luther Forest Technology Campus where Fab 8 is located. Hochul has not said how much money she wants to allocate toward the infrastructure improvements, but Luther Forest for instance would need tens of millions of dollars in upgrades to water and electric utilities to allow for a second fab at Luther Forest. "GlobalFoundries applauds Gov. Hochul for her strong leadership and for her timely plan acknowledging and investing in New York state as a national focal point of semiconductor manufacturing and innovation," the statement provided by Mullaney said. her new job on Monday. Sonny Bonacio, whose website boasts he has developed more than 2.8 million square feet of real estate in downtown Saratoga Springs, also did not respond to a Times Union email asking about Kelly's hiring. Kelly is the founder of the Saratoga Children's Theater and a former LGPA golf instructor. Most recently she worked in development at the Charlton School.
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LEGAL NOTICE Town of Hadley Take notice that I, Katherine M. Austin, the undersigned collector for the town of Hadley, County of Saratoga, have duly received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes within the Town of Hadley, for the year 2022 and that payment of taxes must be MAILED or placed in the drop box at the Hadley, Town Hall. There will be NO IN PERSON collection. Take further notice that taxes may be paid on or before January 31st, 2022 without charge or interest. On all taxes received after such date, there shall be added interest of 1% for each additional month of fraction thereof until such taxes are paid or until the return of unpaid taxes to the County Treasurer pursuant to law. Take further notice, that pursuant to the provisions of law, the tax roll of the Town of Hadley will be returned to the County Treasurer of the County of Saratoga on the 4th day of April 2022, Collector of Taxes Town of Hadley
January 2022 Meeting for the Capital District Genealogical Society CAPITAL DISTRICT Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 1:00pm - Online Zoom Meeting. CDGS meetings are presently held on Zoom. Registration is free and will open to the public on 16 June 2021. See www.CapitalDistrictGenealogicalSociety. org under meetings and events. There is a 100-person limit. Topic: Family Search: The Other 70% by Jill Morelli. You put the given and surname into the fields provided by Fam-
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February Drama Camp MALTA - February Break Drama Camp for ages 7-13 will run Tuesday, February 22 through Friday, February 25 from 10:00am until 3:00pm. The camp will be taught by Malta’s Artistic Director Elyse Young and will include acting skills, vocal techniques, theater games, crafts, rehearsals and performance of a short play. Camp and performance will take place at the Malta Community Center, One Bayberry Drive, Malta. Students must wear a mask when not performing. For more information, go online to www.maltaparksrec.com or contact Town of Malta Parks and Recreation Department at (518) 899-4411.
Signup for the Monthly Indoor Craft & Garage Sale SARATOGA/WILTON - On Sunday, January 23rd, from 11-3 pm the popular Elks Ladies
CLEANOUTS-JUNK REMOVAL Cellars - Attics - Yards Basements - Garages Real Estate Cleanouts - etc. No charge for TV’s w/ paid job. Always recycle. No job too small or large! Please call Dennis (518) 466-3116 C.L. HOME IMPROVEMENTS Taking care of all your window and remodeling needs. Neat & dependable. Fully ins. Free est. Rich (518) 528-7173 DIVORCE $389.00 - Uncontested Make Divorce Easy – only 1 Signature, Inc. poor person app. Info: (518) 274-0380 EXCAVATION, TRUCKING, STONE & TOPSOIL Water diversion, driveways, brush hog, land clearing, oil tank removals, septics, grading, digging, lawns, pool fill-ins, site prep. Part of the proceeds go to the veterans. (518) 339-3369
Auxiliary Indoor Craft and Garage Sale at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Club on Elks Lane will hold their monthly. Admission is free with over 40 vendors; parking is great, bargains galore, and lunch, We offer household items, sports equipment, hand-made items, clothing, fabrics, food treats, body lotions, and just about anything you can imagine may be found here. New vendors are signing up every month. Snow or rain, the sales go on and it is a fun activity the entire family enjoys. Come browse, visit, eat, or just get out of the house with a friend. All proceeds go to our local charities. Next sale dates are January 23, and February 27, 2022. An 8 foot table and chairs are just $15; call Linda at (518) 289-5470 for information or to sign up for a table(s). Masks should be worn by everyone per NYS Guidelines.
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Painting, Writing from prompts, Ancient Game of Go, Intro to Taoism, Six Wives of Henry VIII, and much more. Wherever you are this winter, you can Zoom Academy classes. Brochures are available by request. Email jeff. shinaman@esc.edu or call (518) 587-2100 x2390 or go to www.esc.edu/all. Registrations will be accepted right up until the start of classes the week of January 24. Some classes will sell out so sign up soon. Membership is $75 and goes through June 30, 2022. Five-week classes are $50 each. A spring term is also planned to start in mid-April.
Looking for New Social Activities? BALLSTON SPA - If you’re over 55, a long-time or new resident in the area and looking to meet active seniors, check out the Ballston Area Senior Citizens (BASC). BASC sponsors many activities. Our new temporary meeting place at the Ballston Spa VFW358 at 68 East North St. Ballston Spa. Residents from surrounding communities are welcome to join. Programs and activities include Festive Dinners, dances with live bands, “pickin’ sessions”, bus trips, weekly luncheons, exercise classes, chorus, crafts, etc. Stop in any Thursday 11:00am and
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Fish Creek Rod and Gun Club Breakfast SCHUYLERVILLE The February Breakfast will be on February 13th from 8:00-11:00 at 123 NY-32, Schuylerville, NY 12871. Adults $10 and Children $5.
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College in the high school credits are typically offered at a discounted rate by community colleges, and also by some public and private four-year institutions. Schenectady County Community College, for example, charges high school students $64 per credit, a fraction of its $192 per credit price tag for other part-time students. Financial aid and scholarships are offered on a limited basis and may not cover the full cost of the credits. Concurrent enrollment classes could provide a valuable head start for high school students, particularly those who know they will pursue a vocational degree at community college. However, it won’t necessarily save them money. Between New York’s Excelsior Scholarship and other financial aid resources, SUNYs are tuition-free for most full-time students from low-income and middle-class homes -- making it harder to justify paying for those credits in high school. However, there are advantages to taking dual-enrollment courses aside from cost and time savings. There’s evidence that high school students who take college-level course work are more likely to attend college and graduate within five years than those who did not. The benefits are strongest among students from marginalized backgrounds and first-generation college students, but studies show low-income students and stu-
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Equalization Committee, also serving as chairwoman of the Board of Canvassers. Most supervisors in Saratoga County serve two-year terms, which was the case for Anna. In 1925 she was defeated by J.H. Smead, who had formerly served as a supervisor in the town and was held in high regard. She kept herself busy, no doubt helping with the family business, a feed and grain store in Hadley, but also serving as a deputy for the Sherriff’s Department in 1926 and 1929. In 1931 when it was rumored that Supervisor Smead planned to run for Saratoga County Sheriff, Ann threw her hat in the ring and once again was pitted against Lester Fowler, this time in a primary. Both Lester and Anna wanted the seat vacated by Smead and it was no secret that there was bad blood between them lingering from the former contest. It all boiled over on a summer afternoon when a chance meeting at the local gas station turned ugly. According to an article that appeared in The Saratogian on August 5, 1931, Riddell and Fowler found themselves at the Rozelle Filling Station in Hadley at the same time and while “visiting”, the conversa-
tion became heated. According to Riddell, Fowler “called her a name which could not be printed. ‘You can’t call me a name like that’ Mrs. Riddell says she told Fowler, ‘and then he got up out of his chair and struck me in the face, nearly knocking me over.’ She says she was attended by a physician.” Fowler’s side of the story was a bit different, he stated, “on the occasion in question the woman involved was guilty of breach of the peace of loud and profane language, and of violent conduct, during the course of which she committed an assault upon him. Fowler denies that he struck the woman and her entire version of the controversy.” Although both claimed to have been assaulted by the other, Fowler was arrested and charged with assault in the third degree and a hearing was scheduled for August 7, 1931 in front of Justice of the Peace S. L. Holland in Hadley. However, at the 11th hour, a Supreme Court Order referred the case to the Saratoga County Grand Jury. As a result, no further action could be taken on the case until the Grand Jury convened in October, after the primary election was to be held. The results of the primary were as close as it could possibly be: Lester Fowler led Anna Riddell by one single vote. Despite Anna’s call for an inspection of all the votes, Fowler
dents of color are the least likely to have access to these courses. Community college and four-year SUNY credits earned in high school are likely to transfer within the SUNY system, but some private schools will also accept them. Dual-enrollment courses also enable students who don’t have a clear career goal to explore their interests, according to Kristin Mesick, a college and career counselor at Colonie Central High School. “Perhaps most importantly, they give students experiences that will help them feel more academically confident when they hit their college campus of choice,” Mesick said. Regardless of whether the credits transfer, “it’s a win.” Colonie Central High School currently offers 36 dual-enrollment and college-accredited AP courses, in subjects ranging from art history and engineering to intro to sports medicine. School officials recognize that navigating these course options and figuring out which will be most useful for the future can be a minefield. To help students make informed decisions, the district is developing a network of graduates who can share their college experiences and advise current Colonie Central students. The safest bet is choosing advanced courses that are in core subject areas, according to Levine. Taking AP courses and college-accredited foreign language courses backed by UAlbany at Saratoga
Springs High School has paid off for Susan Steer’s twin daughters, Tess and Emily. Both will graduate college a semester early, Emily from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and Tess from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. Both colleges have tuitions topping $55,000 a year and the family will save tens of thousands of dollars. “It winds up being very cost-effective, especially for kids going to private colleges,” Steer said. There has been much talk over the years about increasing access to advanced high school coursework, particularly for underrepresented student populations, but less focus has been on the quality of those courses. At SUNY, some changes may be in the pipeline for college courses offered to high school students. Gov. Kathy Hochul in her Jan. 5 State of the State proposed reforming concurrent enrollment programs at the 64-campus public university system. Her 2022 agenda proposes incentivizing high-quality programs that have a proven track record of translating into college credit. Currently, grant funding for the courses is disconnected from their relative success in helping students get ahead in college. “With support tied to success, Governor Hochul will encourage the establishment and growth of effective concurrent enrollment programs, and in doing so, put more and more students on a path to getting a post-secondary educational credential and the employment opportunities that come with it,” the governor’s agenda book states.
was declared the winner. Anna did go on to run in the general election as an Independent but was unsuccessful. The following month, the Grand Jury failed to return an indictment for Fowler’s assault charge. Despite her loss, Anna continued to stay involved in local government. She served as Tax Collector over multiple terms during the 1930s. After the death of her husband, Anna moved to Saratoga Springs and lived with her son Carl. She passed away in 1957 at the age of 82 in the Wilton Nursing Home. At the time of her death, the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors passed a Resolution in Memorium recognizing Anna for her service as the first female on the board. Though her fisticuffs with Fowler at the gas station may have been the best documented fight in her life, we shouldn’t lose sight of the other major struggles that produced a positive outcome for her community and illuminated her strength of character. Anna entered an arena that few women had ventured into before and the courage it must have taken is admirable. She continued to push boundaries of acceptable female employment, driving right through those barriers, and made history. Thanks for taking the road less traveled Anna, it gives the rest of us something to aspire to.
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League of Women Voters of Saratoga County Meetup SARATOGA COUNTY - LWV Saratoga will hold a Meetup on Jan 19 th at 7:30 via zoom. The national League (LWVUS) will be having a convention in June and will be considering additions, deletions and changes to our positions. This meeting is our opportunity to weigh in on the positions that are the basis of all League action. LWVUS’s positions are found in Impact on Issues. We already know that there will be asks from other Leagues. We concur with adding many sections from our new LWVNY Healthcare Position to the LWVUS Position, and also with a Position on Broadband. Think about issues you’d like to have the Leagues tackle, but that we don’t have a position to stand on. This is a process known in LeagueSpeak as “program planning.” Join the discussion. This program will be held on Zoom. Please register at our website, www.lwvsaratoga/events. Meetups are a way for us to come together to explore, understand and advocate for issues that matter to us. They are focused on our members and their interests.
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Winter Discovery Nature Walks at Camp Saratoga WILTON - On Saturday, January 22nd, at 3:30 pm Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park will be hosting a Winter Discovery Nature Walk. During this walk over gentle terrain, participants will learn about how the plants and animals living within the surrounding environment have adapted to survive the harsh conditions of winter. Together, participants will also discuss the basics of winter tree identification. If there is snow, this program will include searching for signs of recent animal activity, including looking for animal tracks in the snow. If needed, snowshoes will be available for rental prior to the program for $3 per participant. This walk is also being offered again on Saturday February 5th at 3:30pm.
Ballston Spa United Methodist Church Food Pantry BALLSTON SPA - The Ballston Spa United Methodist Church Food Pantry is open each Wednesday from 9:30 to noon and serves all of Saratoga County. We are located at 101 Milton Avenue in Ballston Spa.
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