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Volume 7 • Issue 9 saratogatodaynewspaper.com
1.7 Billion Trees Paint The Town and Growing by Andrew Marshall Saratoga TODAY
by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Saratoga Tree Nursery’s annual spring seedling sale is underway, and the 250-acre site is buzzing with activity as a small team prepares to distribute more than 1.2 million trees for conservation plantings.
That might sound like a lot, but the nursery’s six full-time staffers are used to it. On any given day, they tend to 5 million seedlings and more than 50 native species at two sites on Routes 9 and 50. Since 1911, when the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
SARATOGA SPRINGS – The month of March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, and to help raise awareness some of Saratoga Springs’ downtown streets and businesses might be looking a little blue - literally. The Cancer Services Program of Saratoga County, in conjunction with Saratoga Hospital, is coordinating a campaign called Main Streets Go Blue (MSGB.) MSGB is a month-long awareness campaign encouraging people to stay proactive in their health, while bringing attention to the threat of colorectal cancer.
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It Takes a Community by Daniel Schechtman Saratoga TODAY
MarkBolles.com • Saratoga TODAY The staff at the Saratoga Nursery takes a break from preparation for the spring seedling sale. Pictured left to right: Susannah Hand, Breyton Pendell, Mike Echtner, David Lee and Brian Phillips.
SARATOGA SPRINGS – As public schools across New York State begin their preliminary budgetary planning, private schools are quietly struggling to survive in a down economy. While private schools do receive a small portion of state funding for mandated programs (typically under 5 percent of the total budget), a majority of the
budget is made through tuition and fundraising. But in a down economy, these dollars are all but certain. “A challenge for all of our parents here is paying tuition because the economy is going to affect everyone,” said Jane Kromm, principal of St. Clement’s Regional Catholic School. “Parents are paying school taxes already, but they’re choosing to send their children here, so that’s another tuition that they’re paying.”
Inside TODAY... pgs 15-25 Obituaries pg 5 Local Living pg 9 Education Pulse
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