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SPAC 2021: WE’RE BACK One-On-One With Elizabeth Sobol

by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center campus. Hopeful of a 2021 season. File photo.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — ­ “Nothing bears any resemblance to past seasons,” says Elizabeth Sobol, president and CEO of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

The SPAC campus first opened on a July night in 1966 when it welcomed to the stage the New York City Ballet. A few hours downstate, Mickey Mantle hit a home run in each game of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators

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at Yankee Stadium, and all across America, The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” dueled with Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers In The Night” for a spot at the top of the charts.

In ballparks, across broadcast networks and atop performance stages, last summer was like no other, preceded by a distress of unpredictability over what could happen. Looking ahead to the upcoming summer, that still unpredictable aura has seemingly transformed into what can possibly be.

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The Whole Story of Ballston’s Miss Heaton

by Rick Reynolds | The Saratoga County History Roundtable On March 25, 1887, the New York Times published an article that was compiled from a Troy, NY, paper about the long-distance courtship of Kittie Heaton of Ballston and George Hulbert of Danbury, CT. It seemed that they had “flirted” by letter and pictures for some time before he came to Ballston, married her sight-unseen up until that time and then, four months later Mrs. Hulbert wanted a divorce.

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This historian, cognizant of much of the Town of Ballston’s history, had never heard this one before and wanted more detail.

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The New York Times article by-line indicated that the story had come from “Troy, March 24.” Of course, Troy, like many large cities of the time, had many newspapers so it would not be an easy task to track down the original story.

However, research at the Troy Public Library uncovered the March 24, 1887 story in the Troy Daily Times and also the “prequel,” a November story that gave the details of the courtship as well.

It seems that Mr. Hulbert had placed an ad in a paper called Cupid’s Dart (did anyone know that such media existed more than 100 years ago?) in order to “open correspondence with some damsel with a view to matrimony.” Some time after, based only on letters and photographs, the two were engaged.

Basically unknown to each other, the prospective bride went to the local train station carrying a large white box with a red ribbon around it and he, carrying an umbrella with a blue ribbon on its handle, came by train from Connecticut to meet his bride-to-be. It was the red and blue ribbons that were the “signals” so that they would recognize each other. Miss Heaton’s friends were with her at this first meeting as well.

The wedding happened that evening and a wedding supper was provided afterwards. Sometime

afterwards, Mrs. Hulbert had a child, Inez. Four months after the wedding, the now Mrs. Hulbert asked for a divorce — as her husband’s actions were not deemed to be “proper.”

The location of the child’s birth is as of yet unknown.

It seems that she could have been a product of the Heaton-Hulbert marriage but the dates do not work out. Inez was born (we think!) July 14, 1888.

That is over a year beyond the onset of the divorce proceedings date in the paper. But we don’t have a birth record to confirm the date of birth nor do we yet have a court record of their divorce. But we have been unable to find either one so far.

While this historian was poring over Troy papers and uncovering all of these details, a Ballston Spa Librarian, Caitlin Johnson, was trying to trace the lineage of Miss Heaton and also find some more information about the unusual courtship, marriage and divorce of the woman. She searched through the Ballston Journals, one of the oldest continuously-running newspapers in the area, of that time period.

She found some more details, including those of the initial meeting at which the new couple “locked arms and went to the Presbyterian parsonage where they were married.”

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And all this was published in the newspapers of the day, just waiting for someone many years later to pore over microfilm and old newspapers to uncover the sordid details.

In a later article about the proposed divorce, The Ballston Journal summed it up well: “Matrimonial advertisements and weddings at ten minutes sight may savor of silly romance, but sober experiences are not slow in coming.”

Doesn’t it just seem like online dating 1800’s style? But with a not-sofortunate ending.

Rick Reynolds has been the Ballston Town Historian since 2004. He is a retired social studies teacher at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Middle School and is the author of the book “From Wilderness to Community: The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District.” Rick can be reached at rreynolds@townofballstonny.org

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Saratoga Springs City & Saratoga County Meetings This Week HOW TO WATCH/ LISTEN: Saratoga Springs City meetings are mostly broadcast live via Zoom. Information: Saratoga-springs.org.

Saratoga County meetings are Listen Only: Dial: 1-978-990-5145.

Access Code: 1840389.

MONDAY, FEB. 22 6:30 p.m. | ZBA Meeting

TUESDAY, FEB. 23 4 p.m. | Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Meeting 6:30 p.m. | Recreation Commission Meeting

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24 3 p.m. | County Legislative & Research 4 p.m. | County Health & Human Services 4 p.m. | DRC Workshop

THURSDAY, FEB. 25 4 p.m. | County Technology & Resiliency 6 p.m. | Planning Board Meeting

Last week, area residents showed up in front of 65 and 69 Phila St. to support Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation’s “Heart Bomb Campaign,” which seeks to raise awareness about important places and the impact of preservation in Saratoga Springs. The buildings, which were constructed in the mid-1850s are in poor condition and the DRC will review an application for their demolition. The Preservation, which has listed the buildings on its “Ten to Save” List, opposes the request for demolition.

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OBITUARIES

Chris T. Andreadakis

Patricia May Fitzgerald

ROTTERDAM — Chris T. Andreadakis passed away on Sunday, February 7, 2021 at home after a short illness. He was born on August 18, 1923. Calling hours were Monday, February 15 at Burke Funeral Home.

Burial with military honors took place Tuesday, February 16 at the Saratoga National Cemetery.

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GREENFIELD CENTER — Patricia May Fitzgerald, 64, of Greenfield Center passed away at home on February 14, 2021 surrounded by her family and loved ones. A private funeral home service will be live streamed at 1 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2021. Calling hours are Friday, February 19, 2021 from 3-5 p.m. at Burke Funeral Home.

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CHANDLER, AZ — Fanny May Woodcock Putnam, 82, of Saratoga Springs, passed peacefully into the arms of her Lord and Savior the evening of February 11, 2021, in the company of her children at her winter home in Chandler, AZ. Born in Saratoga Springs on November 3, 1938, she grew up number six out of ten children in those difficult post-depression WWII years. Learning first-hand the meaning of deprivation and

rationing, she developed a nearScroogian appreciation of the value of a dollar, which would serve her well in the pursuit of her later accounting career.

Fanny attended and graduated from Schuylerville High School, class of 1957, where she divided her attention between academics (as much as was necessary), singing in the school choir (as much as was scheduled) and traveling with her brothers to spend time

Raymond Zielinski

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL — ­ Raymond Zielinski of St. Augustine, FL died after a courageous monthlong battle with COVID-19. He was 83 years old.

Ray was born in Albany, NY on April 9, 1937 to Mary and Stanley Zielinski. He graduated from Siena College and received his master’s degree in business

from SUNY Albany. Ray worked for New York State for 33 years.

Raymond was the president of the Albany Polish American Citizens Club for several years when the new building was established.

Ray and his wife, Ann, left Saratoga Springs after he retired for St. Augustine, FL. There he worked for the Red Train giving tours of this great historical city.

Ray could often be found on the golf course or socializing with friends. Always adventurous and vivacious, he was known for his love of parties and friendship.

He and Ann would vacation to Saratoga Springs for the summer months where he would conduct back stretch tours of the racetrack. Ray also volunteered at the Saratoga Visitors Center where he gave tours of Congress Park, Yaddo, and trolley tours of the city. Raymond belonged

to the Historical Society where he continued his interest in the bygone Saratoga.

In addition to his parents, Ray was predeceased by his brothers Richard and Stanley Zielinski and his sister, Pat Dobek.

Survivors include the love of his life for 33 years, his wife Ann, his daughters whom he was so proud of, Alecia Ramos (Tony), Amy Lee (Joe), Alison Faggiano (Blaise), Ann’s children Kelly Smachlo (Mark), Stewart McDowell (Gloria), many grandchildren, and his sister and best friend, Sandy Cooks (John).

As soon as Ray learns the layout of Heaven and its many attractions, he will be giving personalized guided tours. Ray was truly a love of history.

Due to COVID-19 a memorial service will be announced at a later date.

dancing with the boys (as much as she could get away with).

She would meet her sweetheart, Jay Myron Putnam, in 1957 and marry him for life when she was nineteen years old in June of 1958.

Her career found her early in the accounting department at Montgomery Wards, where she served over thirty years until the company waned into oblivion, then she took her accounting skills to Saratoga County, where she served another sixteen years, retiring to travel with her husband in 2004.

While she spent much of her life as a working mother, she found time do all those things that her family loved. Sewing for her children and grandchildren provided clothes, blankets, handmade dolls, quilts and many treasured memories. She was an accomplished baker, crafting cookies and winning the hearts of every starry-eyed grandchild.

Outside the house, she devoted time to her Sunday School classes at both the Saratoga and Ballston Spa Christian & Missionary Alliance churches. If she wasn’t actively engaged in caring for her family and others, she found time to devote to their treasured horses, Pete, Major and Casper, relaxing in casual riding, or heated competitive barrel-racing.

Fanny turned out to be a woman of surprises. She could be quiet and calm around the house, but quickly quite the terror at the table drawn up around a

deck of cards or a handful of dice. At home in the saddle on the back of a quarter horse, she was equally comfortable on the back of a hurtling motorcycle.

Behind the wheel of their Dodge pickup, which seemed to be her favorite ride, she was known for dominating the road and lesser drivers alike, with speed being her primary measure of competency.

We will long remember the extended-family fried dough and bacon breakfasts and sundown shindigs she hosted in their barn and corral where dozens of family and friends would gather around the fire with coffee, music, and hours of stories and gossip.

In the end, Fanny reflected the love of her Lord and Savior in her sacrificial love for others; her friends, her brothers and sisters, her children, and most of all her husband.

She loved, and she was loved.

Those of us blessed to know Fanny knew without question that her heart was for others, whether family or friend, and you were not a friend for long before you understood you were family.

She is survived by her husband of sixty-two years, Jay M. Putnam, an old rodeo rider, who shared her love for horses, rodeos, and the cowboy way, and her two proudest achievements, her son Casey (Tracey Hartman) Putnam, and her daughter Margaret (Brad) Williamson.

Her legacy continues in those who we knew brought her so much joy; her seven grandchildren: the

Putnams - Cheyanna, Elizabeth and Garrett, and the Williamsons Caitlin (Ross) Downhour, Tierney, Beck (Lexi Schmidt), and Keely, and her five great-grandchildren: Cheylee, Braylee, and Novalee on the Putnam side, Maynard and Simon on the Williamson side.

She is also survived by her brothers; Roger George, Karl K., and Kirklin D. She is preceded in death by her parents, Kirkland D. and Martha A. (Owens) Woodcock and siblings Betty Lou (Zwijacz), Ralph Lamar, Olive Sandra “Sandy” (Dickenson), and Joy Susan, as well as half-sisters, Lois (Saetes) and Rose-Marie (Neiger).

Memorial services will be held both in Chandler, Arizona and in Saratoga Springs with details being published as soon as circumstances allow.

Fanny will be interred in the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, weather and pandemic restrictions allowing, as early as May 2021, on a specific date to be announced.

The family’s heartfelt thanks go to the exceptional nurses at Chandler Regional Medical Center and the professional staff of In My Home Hospice Care, who provided not only attentive nursing care for Fanny, but also a peaceful, compassionate, and hymn-filled environment during her transition from this life to the next.

Memorial donations can be made to In My Home Hospice Care, 1204 East Baseline Road, Suite 101, Tempe, Arizona 85283.

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

COURT Ralph Knapp, 68, of Saratoga Springs, was sentenced Feb. 10 to 60 days in jail, after pleading to failure to register as a sex offender, a felony.

Emily S. Baxter, 34, of Slingerlands, was sentenced Feb. 9 to five years of probation, after pleading in Saratoga Springs to fourth degree felony grand larceny.

Paul Pike, of Saratoga Springs, was sentenced Feb. 8 to 3 to 6 years in state prison, following the conviction of vehicular assault in the first-degree, according to a statement released by Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen. An investigation

by Saratoga Springs Police determined that Pike crashed his car into a telephone pole just south of Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Route 50, after traveling more than 100 feet on the shoulder of the roadway. A 7-year-old passenger in the back seat of the vehicle suffered serious

physical injuries, including a skull fracture, a severe brain bleed, and a laceration to his face, according to the statement. Heggen said Pike had failed multiple field sobriety tests at the scene of the crash – which occurred June 10, 2020 - and that it was determined he was impaired by a variety of drugs, suboxone, klonopin, and Vyvanse among them.

Joshua L. Briggs, of Warrensburg, was charged Feb. 9 with grand larceny in the fourthdegree in connection with a series of retail larcenies in February at the Target Store in the town of Wilton. Briggs is accused of stealing electronics valued at $1,551.43.

Robert Salisbury, Jr., 32, of Schenectady, pleaded Feb. 11 to felony DWI, in Ballston.

Sentencing April 15.

Ronnie L. Gardner, 28, of Saratoga Springs, pleaded Feb. 11 to grand larceny in the third-degree, a felony, in Wilton. Sentencing April 12.

BLOTTER 5 Leslie F. Allen, Jr., 39, of Corinth, was sentenced Feb. 11 to 1.3-4 years state prison, after pleading to failure to register as a sex offender, a felony, and 3 to 6 years state prison for felony grand larceny, that was originally charged in the town of Greenfield between Feb. 3 and June 11, 2020.

POLICE Matthew Salvo, 41, of Greenfield, was charged Feb. 12 in Saratoga Springs with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor.

Christopher Hance, 31, of Middle Grove, was charged Feb. 13 in Saratoga Springs with unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third-degree, a misdemeanor.

Kenneth Drobner, 27, of Albany, was charged Feb. 13 in Saratoga Springs with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle registration suspended – both misdemeanors.

Nile Steigerwald, 58, of Saratoga Springs, was charged Feb. 13 with misdemeanor DWIO, and unsafe backing of vehicle.

James J. Willsey, 31, of Malta was charged Feb. 6 with felony DWI- Previous Conviction, and circumventing an interlock device, a misdemeanor.

State Police stopped Willsey for an alleged series of traffic infractions as he drove down State Route 9 in Malta.

According to state police, when the Trooper spoke with Willsey they could smell the odor of alcohol and observed signs of impairment. Willsey was administered the standardized field sobriety test which were indicative of impairment and he was taken into custody for suspicion of driving under the influence.

Willsey was transported to SP Saratoga where he refused to submit to a test to determine the alcohol content of his blood. He was arraigned in Halfmoon Town Court.

Jason Benson, 39, of Corinth, was charged Feb. 11 in

Saratoga Springs with aggravated unlicensed operationa misdemeanor, unlawful possession of marijuana, operating a motor vehicle without an inspection certificate, and exhaust system equipment violation.

James Altamirano, 39, of Ballston Spa, was charged Feb. 11 in Saratoga Springs with criminal trespass in the thirddegree, a misdemeanor.

Donald Clute, 57, of Saratoga Springs, was charged Feb. 12 with criminal possession of a firearm, a felony.

Jonathan D. Cain, 25, of the Bronx, was charged Feb. 14 with felony robbery, felony grand larceny, and misdemeanor attempted assault.

Cain is accused of using physical assault to steal a person’s mobile phone and attempting to cause physical injury to that person during an alleged incident that occurred in the town of Wilton, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff ’s Office.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Melinda Bucknam and Carissa Conley, certified public accountants specializing in tax matters, have formed a new CPA firm, Bucknam & Conley CPAs PLLC. The new firm offers tax and advisory services to businesses and individuals throughout New York State and across the country, both in-person and remotely. The firm’s focus is on income tax issues, tax planning and business operations.

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RACING MUSEUM ACCEPTING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR SARATOGA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS SARATOGA SPRINGS — The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is accepting applications for the 2021 Rodion Cantacuzene Scholarship, an annual award recognizing young leaders and volunteers throughout Saratoga County.

The scholarship, awarded in a one-time amount of $1,000, will be presented in June to a high school senior from Saratoga County who has demonstrated a record of academic excellence

and exemplary service to the community along with a strong interest in pursuing future studies in history and/or the arts.

Mr. Cantacuzene served on the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Board of Trustees for 30 years and contributed to the Museum in various capacities. Mr. Cantacuzene, a stalwart supporter of thoroughbred racing, the arts, and public service, passed away in 2016.

High school seniors interested in applying for the National

Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Rodion Cantacuzene Scholarship are asked to submit an essay of no more than 500 words detailing their community service and the rewarding aspects of the service. Applicants should also describe how the subjects of art and/or history have influenced their educational pursuits.

Questions pertaining to the scholarship should be directed to Lindsay Doyle, the Museum’s educator, at 518-584-0400, ext. 118

or ldoyle@racingmuseum.net. The entry deadline is April 9.

High school seniors in Saratoga County applying for the scholarship can pick up the application form at their school’s guidance office. The application and essay should be submitted to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, c/o Lindsay Doyle, 191 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866. The materials may also be emailed to ldoyle@racingmuseum.net.

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Ballston Spa Softball Booster Club Receives Generous Support

Ballston Spa Booster club representatives at Jersey Mike’s in Malta. Photo provided.

(Left to right:) Lynn Donnelly, Booster Club President; Kim Russell, Vice President; Jessica Skillings, Secretary; Hadley Donnelly; Julia Russell; Allie Piscitelli; Emily Skillings; Toby Youngblood, JV Coach; and Greg, Store Manager.

MALTA — The Ballston Spa Softball Booster Club recently accepted a generous donation at the conclusion of a fundraiser held in conjunction with the opening of

a new business in Malta.

As part of the grand opening kickoff of the new Jersey Mike’s sub shop in Malta, the Ballston Spa Softball Booster Club was

selected as the recipient of their local fundraising campaign.

Utilizing coupons provided by the shop, the club was able to raise $2,000 in just a few days.

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NEWS

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Two Village Trustee Candidates Tonko Announces Near $50 Million for Running as a Team Under Saratoga County, $440 Million for Capital Region in Proposed Federal COVID Rescue Ballston Spa Non-Partisan Line WA S H I N G T O N — Congressman Paul Tonko released local impact figures under the Fiscal Year 2021 Reconciliation Act currently moving through the House and Senate. The rescue package would deliver an estimated $440 million in direct federal COVID-19 relief funding to counties, cities, towns, and villages in New York’s 20th Congressional District—which is represented by Tonko—to maintain essential services and staff including teachers, nurses, firefighters, water systems managers and countless others in the Capital Region. Under this bill: Public services in Saratoga County - within the boundary lines of Tonko’s 20th Congressional District – would receive a total of $49,867,173. Albany County would receive a total of nearly $174 million, Schenectady County about $117 million, and Rensselaer County more than $82 million.

“Capital Region communities have showed incredible strength and resilience in the face of this dangerous pandemic, but this fight has weighed on our spirits and depleted our family, municipal, county and state budgets; our local communities may not all survive long months of further economic hardship without federal help,” said Tonko, in a statement.

“As more contagious new COVID variants continue to spread throughout the country, and with vaccinations still coming far too slowly and herd immunity still months away, we need bold leadership now to deliver that relief. Our COVID package does just that. This plan puts money in the pockets of millions of Americans, scales up vaccination production and distribution and delivers a lifeline to state and local governments to ensure local teachers, firefighters, police officers, nurses and

other essential workers are supported while they work to keep our communities going. The end of this pandemic is in sight, but we still have much work ahead to crush this virus and rebuild our economy. Advancing this legislation will give us a clear path to achieve these goals and save countless lives.”

The Reconciliation Act provision includes: $195.3 billion to states and the District of Columbia with $25.5 billion of that total equally divided among the states and $169 billion based on the state share of total unemployed workers, $130.2 billion to local governments, divided evenly between cities and counties, and $19.53 billion for municipalities with populations of less than 50,000. An additional $117 million in funds is targeted for oversight entities to promote transparency and accountability of all federal coronavirus relief funds.

BALLSTON SPA — Shawn Raymond and Ben Baskin are candidates for the two open trustee positions on the Village of Ballston Spa Board. The election will be held on Tuesday, March 16.

They are running as a team under the local, non-partisan A Better BSpa line.

Raymond, a civil engineer, has served as Village Trustee over the past four years and is running for

re-election. Baskin, a non-profit and public health professional, is a long-time community volunteer, is running with Raymond. The motto of the campaign is: Keep Moving Forward.

Baskin and Raymond’s four key campaign issues are: preserving village character; promoting smart growth; providing fiscal responsibility and protecting village services.

Assemblywoman Woerner: Transparency and Accountability Required of Governor’s Office SARATOGA — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pandemic on nursing home residents.

Local Democrat Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner said that the state Legislature must fully investigate the governor’s actions and take immediate steps to protect vulnerable populations.

In a statement released last week, Woerner, D-Round Lake, said: “like many of my constituents, I’m outraged by the revelations that the Cuomo administration purposefully withheld critical information about nursing home deaths because they were afraid of the Department of Justice.

Regardless of whether such an investigation would have been politically motivated, that doesn’t

justify what the governor did. At this moment of crisis, transparency and accountability are absolutely paramount. Without it, there can be no basis for trusting our government.”

Earlier this month, Woerner was one of only two Democrats who voted against a bill to rename Donald J. Trump State Park. The justification cited by the assembly measure for the renaming of the largely underutilized park on the border of Putnam and Westchester counties expressed that “the park should embody the goals of uplifting and unifying New Yorkers. For these reasons the Donald J. Trump State Park should be renamed.” Despite Woerner’s “nay vote,” the state Assembly opted to move forward with the bill in a 14-7 vote.

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SPAC 2021: WE’RE BACK ONE-ON-ONE WITH ELIZABETH SOBOL

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“This time last year – March, April, May – when it was clear what was going to end up happening – we started asking ourselves the question: Who and What is SPAC when you can’t use the amphitheater?” Sobol says.

Currently, there have been “regular and very fruitful conversations with all our resident companies,” she explains, referring to the New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. “There is a huge effort going across many different organizations, because we all know how important it is to have some presence by these companies up here. We’re committed to having all of them in Saratoga and they’re committed to being here in some way, shape or form.”

SPAC also plays host to the annual Saratoga Jazz Festival, Opera Saratoga, and a summerlong staging of pop concerts presented by Live Nation, as well as the annual Saratoga Wine and Food Festival and an additional slate of imaginative programming. Right now, what form they will take: “Nobody knows yet,” Sobol says. Still, preparations are underway. And there have been a multitude of things learned.

“We learned so much about so many things. It gave us time and quiet to contemplate things we

normally don’t have time to contemplate. The last year has honed our skills living with the jaws of uncertainty wide open, 24/7, and it’s forced us to not take anything for granted.”

Showing its merits beyond an oft-misplaced public perception as being solely a site for an amphitheater, SPAC exhibited its mettle as a holistic organization with a series of community collaborations alongside cultural agencies and the business community, as well as continuing its outreach in the world of education – where in 2019 alone it served 50,000 students around the Capital Region and worked with more than 120 local schools and non-profit organizations to present more than 400 unique classes, events, performances, and presentations.

“We started asking ourselves: How can we provide experiences that bring people together around beauty, rather than pushing them apart. That kind of informed everything we did: let’s look at our campus like a blank canvas and all the opportunities and possibilities we have here. So along with that question of who and what is SPAC when the amphitheater stage is dark, is also the question of how we can best serve art, artists and the community.”

On campus meanwhile, the organization last summer unveiled The Pines at SPAC. The new 4,000 square foot indoor/outdoor, yearround education and community

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events space features a pavilion and a terrace where some small gathering events may take place.

While it is a structure much of the public has not yet seen, The Pines has been used to host more than 200 events since late last summer, 50 people maximum capacity at a time, and the grounds have also featured things such as dance classes, wellness classes, a teaching space for healing arts practitioners, and the launching of Culinary Arts at SPAC events.

A “Soundwalk” project was also initiated, merging performance and programming that takes audiences more into nature.

“An embracing of our place in the

natural world in a much more direct and celebratory way is going to be a big piece for us moving forward,” Sobol says. “Anything we could do using our rigorous COVID protocols and procedures to create a safe space for people to gather outdoors and do the things they needed to do for their soul. So, we now have a blueprint for doing things on a very small scale, for being flexible and agile. It honed a lot of skills for us.”

SPAC’s summer ballet gala will be re-imagined in 2021. “It’s not going to be a massive event with hundreds of people at the Hall of Springs on the lawn, but now that we know we can replicate these events – let’s say it’s for 50

people - maybe we’ll do 5 or 10 of them. We now have that blueprint, and we can execute that pretty nimbly,” she says. A culinary concept that has to do with ballet history is also being put together for a limited capacity gathering in 2021, and possibilities of having “rolling audiences” – that is, a few hundred people being rotated into the grounds at any one time – are being considered as a way to stage the summer Jazz Fest.

“We’re looking at every possible option so that if things are still very restrictive, we can accommodate that, and if they are looser we can accommodate that too,” Sobol says. continued to page 10...

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NEWS

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

COVID UPDATES SPAC 2021: WE’RE BACK COVID Positivity Rate: 7-Day Average • New York State overall: 3.7% • Capital Region (eight regional counties including Saratoga): 2.3% • Saratoga County: 2.2%. * The total number of Saratoga County residents to date who have tested positive for COVID-19: 11,415.

Hospitalization Capacity: 7-Day average • Capital Region Beds available: 31%. New York Statewide average: 34%.

• Capital Region ICU Beds available: 22%.

New York Statewide average: 26%.

Vaccines Administered • Saratoga County residents - First Dose: 31,265. Both Doses: 15,713. * Statistics provided by Saratoga County Public Health Department and New York State Department of Health, as of Feb. 16, 2021.

Jobs - Saratoga County’s Department of Public Health currently seeking individuals: • CONTACT TRACERS - interviewing positive patients, identifying their close contacts, interviewing and alerting those contacts to the risk of infection, instructing those contacts to quarantine or isolate for 14 days. “Contract” positions at $25/Hour.

• LEAD CONTACT TRACER - lead a team of contact tracers.

Temporary, per diem-based position at $30/Hour.

• COVID SUPPORT PERSONNEL - work is primarily routine in nature, standardized clerical tasks, working alongside vaccinators, health care providers and public health staff engaged in the COVID19 vaccination effort. temporary, per diem-based position at $22/Hour.

• COVID RESPONSE COORDINATOR - under general supervision, responsible for performing a wide variety of administrative tasks required to ensure the efficient and effective operation of the Public Health emergency response effort. Temporary, per diem-based position at $25/Hour.

• ALL JOBS: No remote capability – onsite required.

More information, go to: saratogacountyny.gov.

One-On-One With Elizabeth Sobol

continued from page 9... “‘All of these things are things we’re all working on together – how to bring companies to Saratoga, finding ways to perform that are safe for the audience and the performers and the crew, and also models that are financially viable for us and for them.”

Promoter Live Nation will have its own decisions to make regarding the summer pop season.

More than one dozen scheduled shows are slated to take place from mid-July through September, featuring artists such as Rod Stewart, Hall & Oates, Maroon 5, Backstreet Boys, and Alanis Morissette, among others. A phone call to Live Nation seeking comment for this story was not returned.

As far as capacity in the amphitheater, a 10% max limit recently imposed on large venues by Gov. Cuomo would keep the audience inside the pavilion to 500 people, although those percentage numbers could fluctuate depending on vaccine roll-out and COVID19 infection rates. SPAC being an amphitheater – a somewhat open building with an attached outdoor lawn – the stipulations specific to the venue are not clear.

“We are working on a regular basis with the governor’s office to talk about what amphitheaters look like, what that’s going to be,

but imagine if we’re still at 10%,” Sobol says. “Even if we do use the lawn, we’re still limited to 500 people in the amphitheater. If they don’t give us a percentage but say we have to limit according to the six-foot rule, then that would limit us to about 1,200 people. It has enormous financial implications.

And none of us knows right now.

Trying to plan for July and August when we don’t even know when vaccinations are going to be widely available is tough,” she added.

SPAC is a 501(c)3 charitable organization with an annual operating budget of about $10 million. To normally meet that budget, about $5 million in revenue is generated from ticket sales, rent paid by promoter Live Nation which stages the summer pop concerts, and other miscellaneous sources. The other $5 million must largely be raised through SPAC memberships, charitable donations and corporate underwriting.

When programs were first cancelled last May and June, SPAC projected a $1.3 million shortfall, “but the community really rose up and was so generous that we ended up able to end the year in the black, so there’s tremendous gratitude around the generosity of the community,” Sobol says. “But at the same time, 2021 is going to be a lot more perilous for us,

because we didn’t have the (high) costs last year. We are committed to major resident companies, so support at SPAC for this year is going to be even more important than it was last year.

“Most of our planning is done years in advance and right now what we have is about 50 plates juggling in the air waiting for a moment – which will probably be sometime in early April to say this is our best bet of what three months is going to look like, because we’ve got to basically have 90 days between the time we pull the trigger on something, and we have our first performances. That’s an absolute minimum,” Sobol says.

“It’s also about the perception.

There are more and more studies out there that ask, ‘Do I dare go out into an environment where there are hundreds or thousands of people?’ That’s the big quotient we can’t predict: behavior.”

Ultimately, SPAC is planning to actively showcase all its resident companies in 2021. “We just don’t know what that’s going to look like,” Sobol says. “Is it in the amphitheater at vastly reduced capacities? Is it in some other performance space – because if we’re seriously limited then we may have to look at some other spaces.

But, we are committed to having the musicians and the dancers here in some capacity.”

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

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Shingles & Seniors: Proactive Prevention

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ith the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine upon us, many are enthusiastic about taking a major step forward in ending the pandemic. But as seniors prepare to be inoculated against Covid19, there is a second vaccine they should also consider: the shingles shot. Shingles is a painful skin rash caused by a reactivation of the same virus that causes the Chickenpox. If you are one of the 99% of adults over 50 years old who have had chickenpox, the virus that causes shingles is already inside your body. It can reactivate at any time and your risk increases with age. And, shingles is common, with 1 out of 3 people in the US developing shingles at some point in their lives.

Shingles is a medical issue that seniors should take seriously.

Shingles typically produces a painful rash that blisters and scabs over in 7 to 10 days. People who get shingles often experience acute pain, and many describe the pain as aching, burning, stabbing, or shock-like. Due to the severity of symptoms often associated with shingles and the potential for longer-term complications, the National Institute on Aging recommends that people over the age of 50 receive the shingles shot.

As disconcerting as the prospect of getting shingles is, the shingles vaccination is good news for seniors who would like to protect themselves from the condition. The National Institute on Aging states, “The shingles vaccine is safe and easy, and it may

keep you from getting shingles.” In fact, one of the available shingles vaccines is proven to be up to 90% effective in clinical trials. With so many reasons to get the shingles shot, one of the major obstacles that may prevent seniors from doing so is cost—with shingles vaccinations potentially costing hundreds of dollars.

Seniors on Medicare may have to satisfy a deductible or be responsible for sizable copayments when receiving the shingles shot. And, the pricing of the vaccine may not be transparent

upfront, as insurances have vastly different pricing policies for the vaccination. These challenges can put the vaccine out of reach for many, but this does not have to be the case. Seniors on Medicare who are considering the vaccine should contact a knowledgeable expert before getting the shot to ensure they pay the lowest cost possible.

Please contact Blue Chip Financial in Saratoga Springs at 518-584-8057 for more information on how we can help you get the Shingles vaccine at an affordable price.

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BUSINESS

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

U.S. Department of Defense Partners with GlobalFoundries to Manufacture Secure Chips in Malta MALTA — GlobalFoundries announced this week a strategic partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide a secure and reliable supply of semiconductor solutions manufactured at the company’s Fab 8 in Malta. The semiconductor chips will be used in some of the DoD’s most sensitive applications for land, air, sea, and space systems.

The new supply agreement builds upon the longstanding partnership between the DoD and GlobalFoundries to provide chips for defense, aerospace, and other sensitive applications. The company currently supplies the DoD with chips manufactured at its other on-shore facilities, Fab 10 in East Fishkill, NY, and Fab 9 in Burlington, VT. “GlobalFoundries is a critical part of a domestic semiconductor

manufacturing industry that is a requirement for our national security and economic competitiveness,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a statement. New federal semiconductor manufacturing incentives were approved in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act. “I have long advocated for GlobalFoundries as a key supplier of chips to our military and intelligence community, including pressing the new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, to further expand the Department of Defense’s business with GlobalFoundries, which will help expand their manufacturing operations and create even more jobs in Malta,” Schumer said.

A supporting statement from the U.S. Department of Defense reported that the agreement with GlobalFoundries is a forward step

GlobalFoundries, in Malta. Photo: globalfoundries.com.

to ensuring the U.S. sustains the microelectronics manufacturing capability necessary for national and economic security. The first chips from the new agreement are targeted to begin delivery in 2023.

GlobalFoundries employs nearly 3,000 people at Fab 8 and says it has invested more than $13 billion in the facility.

The GlobalFoundries plant got its start in 2006, when

Advanced Micro Devices agreed to become the first company to build at the Luther Forest tech park.

Before that, county and state economic development officials had spent six years preparing and marketing the tech park as a site for semiconductor manufacturing. As the project advanced, Advanced Micro Devices spun off the manufacturing facility in a joint venture with the government of Abu Dhabi

to create GlobalFoundries.

The company recently announced a land purchase option to provide additional flexibility to expand Fab 8’s footprint to support growing demand from the U.S. government and industry customers. In total, GF employs more than 7,000 people across the U.S., and over the past 10 years has invested $15 billion in U.S. semiconductor development.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS 13

Cathy Gatta Named President of Discover Schenectady’s Board Of Directors SCHENECTADY — The Schenectady County Tourism and Convention Bureau, known as “Discover Schenectady,” announced last week the appointments of Cathy Gatta as President of its Board of Directors. Gatta has

been a member of the Schenectady County Legislature since 2011, where she serves as Chair of the Tourism, Arts & Special Events Committee and Vice Chair of the Education & Libraries Committee.

She has served on the Board of

Directors of Discover Schenectady since the organization’s inception in 2017 and replaces Jeff McDonald as Board President. Mona Golub will continue in her role as vice-president. For more information, visit www.DiscoverSchenectady.com.

Adirondack Trust Company Announces New Board Of Directors Marc Conner And Brian Straughter SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Adirondack Trust Company announced today that it has appointed Marc Conner, Ph.D., and Brian Straughter, Ed.D., as new members to its Board of Directors.

Conner is President of Skidmore College. He previously worked for more than 24 years with Washington and Lee University as the longest-running provost, is a well-published English professor, and an advocate for diversity and inclusion. He attended the University of Washington, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1989. He earned a Master of Arts degree in English literature in 1991 from Princeton University and became a Doctor of Philosophy in English literature in 1994 from Princeton University.

Straughter is President of Turf Hotels, a local hotel management company in the Capital District. As president, he is an active owner/operator of five local properties: Hampton Inn & Suites Saratoga Springs Downtown, Homewood Suites

by Hilton Saratoga Springs, Hampton Inn Western Avenue, Homewood Suites by Hilton Albany and Staybridge Suites Albany. Straughter and his wife co-founded Jake’s Help From Heaven in 2011, a nonprofit

Brian Straughter. Photo provided.

Marc Conner. Photo provided.

that is dedicated to supporting individuals with complex medical needs and disabilities resulting from congenital or childhoodonset diseases. He has been the Chair of the Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund’s Advisory Committee since 2020.

The Adirondack Trust Company Board of Directors consists of Charles V. Wait, Chairman, The Adirondack Trust Company; Guy Alonge, III, President, Amsure; Marc Conner, Ph.D., President, Skidmore College; Susan Law Dake, President, Stewart’s Foundation; Mary Gavin, Principal and Certified Public Accountant, Gavin and LaVigne, Inc.; John T. Hedbring, President, Fort Miller Group; Douglass M. Mabee, Vice President (retired), The Adirondack Trust Company;

Douglass T. Mabee, Project Environmental Specialist, Quanta Services, Inc.; J. Thomas Roohan, Jr., Owner/Broker, Roohan Realty; Stephen F. Sullivan, President, Longfellow’s Hotel, Restaurant & Conference Center and The Olde Bryan Inn Restaurant; Stephan R. von Schenk, Immediate Past President and CEO (retired), The Adirondack Trust Company; Brian Straughter, Ed.D., President, Turf Hotels; and Charles V. Wait, Jr., President and CEO, The Adirondack Trust Company.

The Adirondack Trust Company is an independent, locally-owned and operated, community bank offering a wide variety of business and personal financial services. The bank has more than $1.4 billion in assets and 13 branch offices. The bank’s website is AdirondackTrust.com

Consumer Directed Choices Partners with Community, Work & Independence, Inc. ALBANY — Consumer Directed Choices (CDChoices), a nonprofit corporation providing services for seniors and individuals with disabilities (“Consumers”) announces a partnership with Community, Work and Independence, Inc. (CWI) resulting in CDChoices expanding service area and membership.

The strategic relationship allows CDChoices to provide fiscal intermediary services to CWI’s Consumers who self-hire their own home care workers (“Personal Assistants”) through the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (CDPA) Medicaid program. This alliance creates efficiencies for both organizations while expanding opportunities for Consumers in the Adirondack region.

CWI, a nonprofit community rehabilitation provider, serving individuals in Warren, Washington, Saratoga, and Essex counties, offers a diverse array of innovative services to meet the needs of the medically frail, developmentally disabled, mentally ill,

brain injured, learning disabled and other individuals in need since 1963.

This new partnership will ensure the availability of fiscal intermediary services to CWI’s Consumers and their Personal Assistants as New York State continues to implement a redesign of the CDPA program this year.

Under this agreement, CWI Consumers will now have access to a variety of CDChoices services. Additionally, through the relationship, Personal Assistants will be paid weekly rather than biweekly, providing an alignment of work with earnings.

Headquartered in Albany, CDChoices has supported over 3,400 Consumers and over 10,000 Personal Assistants throughout New York State since 1997. In 2019, CDChoices was recognized for its innovation by the Capital Region Chamber as ‘Nonprofit of the Year.’ Learn more by visiting cdchoices.org.

To learn more about CDChoices, visit cdchoices.org.

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BUSINESS

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

NOTES from Chamber of Commerce

by Todd Shimkus, President of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce • for Saratoga TODAY

Kindness Matters Every Day Just one year ago today, we had no clue about COVID 19. We were not preparing for a pandemic.

I had never thought of social distancing or wearing a mask.

The Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, at that time, was preparing for Leap of Kindness Day, on February 29, 2020. We were trying to spread kindness across the world and brand Saratoga as one of the kindest places to live.

We invented Leap of Kindness Day in 2016. The idea was simple.

Every four years, there is a Leap Year. We all get one extra day that year. What will you do with your extra day is the question we asked.

In 2016 and again in 2020, our idea was to suggest that everyone in Saratoga County and beyond use their extra day to do something kind for someone else. The only constructive criticism we would ever hear was that we should

practice kindness every day, not just one day every four years.

Just two weeks later, we would go on PAUSE. We were told to Stay Home. We saw friends and neighbors lose jobs or be forced to close their business. Our children were sent home from school. Our local nursing homes went on lockdown with in-person visits prohibited. Our healthcare workers and first responders were our heroes on the frontlines of this war with COVID 19.

With so much turmoil and trauma, we also saw kindness here in Saratoga!

FLAG Saratoga was launched last March. In just a couple of weeks, the volunteer leaders behind this effort raised $30,000. They bought 3,000 meals from struggling local restaurants and delivered these meals to the heroes on the frontline.

We Are Brewnited was

formed in April. This collaboration between local breweries led to the creation of a new beer. The proceeds from the sale of this beer and other donations were used to help local folks impacted by COVID 19. The organizers give actual cash donations to help with specific requests and needs.

The Saratoga County IDA and Clifton Park IDA both created a small business grant program this summer. They’ve now distributed tens of thousands of dollars to local small businesses to help them with expenses related to personnel protective equipment. They are still awarding grants today.

Saratoga Hospital purchased Downtown Business Association gift certificates for all of their employees. Now as these heroes use these gift certificates, it is putting cash in the registers of our local shops and stores downtown.

Driscoll Foods and Saratoga Eagle underwrote a Split the Bill program last week. 2,300 local people spent more than $180,000 on one day at local restaurants.

During the month of February in 2021, Curtis Lumber is inviting customers to purchase a 2 x 4 for $6. All purchases will be given to Habitat for Humanity for a new home build project locally this summer. This initiative was created last year as one of our Leap of Kindness Day activities. This past summer, I stood in the new home where the 2 x 4’s were used and the family was just so excited.

We may have invented Leap of Kindness Day. I’m more impressed, however, with the fact that our community has invented so many ways for all of us to be kind during this past year. We said all along that we’d be Stronger Together. What we really were was kinder together.

We’re going to need to continue to be kinder together. It can be as simple as wearing a mask. It can involve making sure you get the vaccine when it is made available to you. It can be continuing to make all of your purchases from local stores, shops, restaurants, contractors and professional firms.

It can be by making a donation to a local nonprofit.

We don’t have to wait for February 29, 2024, to celebrate Leap of Kindness Day. We can do something kind for someone else every day. It will always make a positive difference.

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS

Richard Knott sold property at 7 Ashlor Dr to Nicholas Pedrick for $440,000.

1 Pine Knoll Dr., Wilton • $293,447

BALLSTON Cheryl Gratton sold property at 27 Sherwood Lane to Jonathan Whitley for $165,000.

Robert Currie sold property at 37 Forest Rd to Robert Currie for $127,500.

Richard Dottle sold property at 391 Middleline Rd to Wayne McCormick for $200,000.

BDC Cornerstone LLC sold property at 13 Cornerstone Dr to Lauria Rockwell for $265,500.

Tricia Chizek sold property at 10 Red Barn Dr to Christopher Edwards for $525,000

CORINTH Ronald Baldwin as trustee sold property at 4 and 9 Freight House Rd to White Oak Acres LLC for $145,000.

Palma Property Management LLC sold property at 121 Oak St to Jessica Woodcock for $164,300.

Raymond Bellon sold property at 407-409 Oak St to James Bovee for $137,694.

GREENFIELD Barbara Ashbee sold property at 3083 NYS Rt 9N to Tyler Lybolt for $237,000.

David Evans sold property at Lot 7 Sky Ranch to William Miller for $135,100.

MALTA Adam Corbin sold property at 88 Thimbleberry Rd to Christopher Reilly for $225,000.

Patrick Mahar sold property at 22 Sierra Trace to Sophia Reynolds for $395,000 Sophia Reynolds sold property at 32 Plum Poppy South to Daniel Justice for $472,000 Michele Kells sold property at 15 Anna Lane to Eduardo Concepceion for $265,500.

Matthew Hockenos sold property at 5 Eighth St to Rachel Galloway for $249,900.

SARATOGA SPRINGS Edward Kowalewski sold property at 20 Underwood Dr to Justin Barber for $500,000 Walter Goddard sold property at 70 Tamarack Trail to Kimberly Castelluccio for $215,000.

Bella Home Builders sold property at 125 Jackson St to Stephen Bell for $200,000.

Vincent Laterra sold property at 62 Van Dam St to Richard Dicenzo for $435,000.

Teresa Schehr sold property at 7 Fredrick Dr. to Andrew McDonough for $250,000.

Neal Green sold property at 43 Outlook Ave to Kevin Mattox for $395,000.

Sajed Chowhdury sold property at 8 Magnolia St to National Residential Services for $675,000.

John ORourke sold property at 189 Thimbleberry Rd to Nicki Salamida for $219,900

National Residential Services sold property at 8 Magnolia St to Alexandra Morgan for $675,000.

Robin Rix as co-trustee sold property at 27 Round Lake Rd to 27 Round Lake Realty LLC for $2,410,000.

James Agius sold property at Arrowhead Rd rear lot to Henrietta Moore for $475,000

SARATOGA Paul Griffen sold property at 37 Spook Hollow Rd to Randi Armstrong for $300,000 Amanda Sanders sold property at 9 Herkimer to Vincent Bennett for $265,000.

Michael Macica sold property at 106 Old Schuylerville Rd to Tammy Rucigay for $560,000 Patrick McGowin sold property at 39 Trottingham Rd to Michael Lorka for $292,000.

Elizabeth Gormley sold property at 78 Walton St to Kenneth

McGrath for $605,000.

Excelsior Park LLC sold property at 15 Gibson Ct to James Rosa for $506,192.

Deborah Uhrich sold property at 8 Leeward Way to Jason Sheldon for $740,000.

WILTON Country Club Acres Inc sold property at Gurn Springs to Michael Tholin for $114,000.

Robert Schafer sold property at 9 Joseph Lane to Caroline Conboy for $325,000.

Matthew Farry sold property at 10 Peabody Place to Brian Winter for $450,000 Karen Jorgensen sold property at 17 Farmington Ave to Louise McAndrew for $200,000.

Mary Ann Digiovanni sold property at 12 Moonglow Rd to Alycia Roux for $260,000.

Steven Winslow sold property at 20 Woodward Rd to Richard Winslow for $150,000.

15 Sonoma Grove LLC sold property at 3 Monterey Ct to Kenneth Davis for $605,461 JC Penney Corp sold property at 3065 Route 50 to Penney Property Sub Holdings LLC for $1,735,000.

US Bank National Assoc. As trustee sold property at 54 Fieldstone Dr to Bradley Kervin for $290,000.

Frederick Pieper sold property at 15 Taylor Rd to Bayly Rittmiller for $442,000.

McPadden Builders LLC sold property at 11 Easton Ct to Kevin Rucinski for $566,439.

Roy Stevens sold property at 1 Pine Knoll Dr to Charles Locke for $293,447.

Kathy Eddy sold property at 10 Lonesome Pine Trail to Jacob Mooney for $418,000.

Richard Rucigay sold property at 20 Foxhound Run to Cassidy Sedacca for $690,000.

Kevin Meltzer sold property at 50 Cherry Tree Lane to Jeanne Fountain for $380,000.

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Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

challenge accepted.

Non-Profits and Faith-Based Organizations Partner on Proactive Solutions to Prevent Homelessness

F

or many Saratoga County residents, turning to a trusted faith-based organization (“FBO” = church, synagogue, mosque, temple etc.) is a natural inclination when they find themselves struggling to make rent, pay for car repairs, put food on the table, or keep their lights on. After all, it is these organizations, and their parishioners who provide invaluable guidance and support during times of hardship. Unfortunately, the capacity of any one FBO to provide monetary assistance is limited, and their knowledge of applicable government funded resources may be insufficient to support long-lasting change.

A formal partnership of non-profits and faithbased organizations in Saratoga County leverages traditional modes of support by FBOs by facilitating a “crowd-sourced funding” type approach to meeting community-member’s immediate needs AND connects them with established services and financial assistance needed to reach and maintain self-sufficiency. Operating under the acronym FEASST (Family Emergency Assistance of Southern Saratoga County), the partnership

was founded by CAPTAIN Community Human Services and several Clifton Park area FBOs. With the help of seed funding from our local Habitat for Humanity, the FEASST program now encompasses the northern area of Saratoga County, including the City of Saratoga Springs.

Who does FEASST help?

Meet Rachel:

Rachel is a single mom who works at your local gas station. Her son Steve is in 3rd grade. One of Steve’s classmates contracted COVID, necessitating him to quarantine for two weeks. Rachel needed to stay home with Steven, and thus was unable to work for two whole weeks. Although Rachel typically works 40+ hours per week, she lives paycheck to paycheck.

She uses about 40% of her income towards rent and is nervous about missing her next payment.

Rachel reached out to her church seeking advice and help with making rent.

Individuals looking to support the mission of community-wide housing solutions can donate at glensfallshabitat.org or captaincares.org.

What used to happen?

Rachel’s church would provide her as much financial assistance as they could, though not quite enough to fully cover her lapse in rent.

Spiritual support and group prayer for an improved situation would be facilitated, as well as some “light-touch” budgeting guidance.

Why FEASST is a great solution: Rachel’s church connects her with CAPTAIN CHS. CAPTAIN CHS screens Rachel and realizes she only needs a short term solution to make this month’s rent. CAPTAIN CHS then reaches out to the local FBOs and nonprofits seeking $400 to cover ½ of her rent. Two churches give $100 each and one agency gives $200. Rachel’s church provides her with integral spiritual and community support during this difficult time. Alone, Rachel’s church would have struggled to meet her needs, but FEASST solves the problem!

Meet Mike: Mike is the bartender at your favorite restaurant. Sadly, he lost his job due to the COVID pandemic. Mike had $3,000 saved in his “rainy day” fund. Mike’s back at work but his income, which is predominantly from tips, is down over 50%. Even with supplemental unemployment and his stimulus check, his rainy day fund is nearly depleted and he is concerned about making rent. Mike reached out to his synagogue seeking advice and help with making rent.

What used to happen?

Mike’s synagogue would provide him as much financial assistance as they could, though not quite enough to fully cover his gap in rent.

Spiritual support and group prayer for an improved situation would be facilitated, as well as some “light-touch” budgeting guidance.

Why FEASST is a great solution: Mike’s synagogue connects him with CAPTAIN CHS. CAPTAIN CHS screens Mike and realizes that due to COVID there is government funding available to help him. Problem solved!

How can I help?

FEASST is a proactive housing solution that is executed by discovering the root cause of the issue and providing a collaborative holistic approach that provides a long term solution. If this type of strategy resonates with you, please consider making a donation to your local Habitat for Humanity at glensfallshabitat.org or CAPTAIN CHS at captaincares.org.

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Valentine’s Day

at Home of the Good Shepherd Although this is not the typical Valentine’s Day for anyone, thanks to the Saratoga Senior Center, all of our residents at Home of the Good Shepherd in Saratoga Springs received a handmade Valentine’s Day card, which brought smiles to their faces. A special thanks to the Leadership Council at the YMCA Saratoga for providing individual crafts to keep them busy. Even with social distancing and masks you can see their smile, it made their Valentine’s Day very special.

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Changing the

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EDUCATION

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

CONVERSATION

by Megin Potter for Saratoga TODAY | Photos provided.

“‘The time is always right to do what is right.’ You could (and should) start right now by doing a small part to treat people with dignity, courtesy and respect.” – Carol Daggs We are a multicultural nation. Instead of being something that divides us, our diversity can be a great source of strength - broadening our knowledge, expanding our resourcefulness and our resilience when faced with the demands of our changing world.

February is Black History Month and MLK Saratoga is using this time to honor diversity through a variety of educational offerings stemming from the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King and others.

“What many people may not understand or appreciate is the reality of how race can impact our experience at school and in the workplace,” said author Carol Daggs.

Daggs was born and raised in Saratoga Springs, and her book, Saratoga Soul Brandtville Blues traces her family’s history in the area.

It’s the Saratoga Public Library’s Saratoga READS! adult book selection for the Read Woke Challenge, just one of the many activities happening this month.

We Shall Overcome MLK Saratoga will not be deterred from spreading their message, even by the unusual challenges of the past year. Co-chairs Lezlie Dana, Holly Hammond, and Garland Nelson overcame them and activated their 2021 theme, “Let’s Talk, Saratoga! - Changing the Conversation.”

Carol Daggs

In January, MLK Saratoga spearheaded a fourday Dr. King Celebration Weekend. By partnering with more than 15 local organizations, the weekend showcased 25 regional artists, performers, and writers covering a broad range of social justice topics. More than 200 participants registered for the events, and many more watched live on Facebook and YouTube.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR OUR NEXT ROUND OF CANDIDATES FOR

Athlete of the

1 Week

They can be a STAND-OUT or STAND-BY, a SUPERSTAR, or a SUPER TEAMMATE. Send us your suggestions. Any and all sports welcome.

Send: Athlete Name | Sport | Brief Description to: cbeatty@saratogapublishing.com Put ‘Athlete of the Week’ in the Subject

Offered remotely and free to the public, these workshops, performances, trainings, and keynote address from Professor Loretta J. Ross, who spoke on Calling Out Culture, were made possible through the generosity of MLK Saratoga supporters, including their primary underwriter, Skidmore College, as well as through the work of Soul Session Edu-tainment, Inc., the Spring Street Gallery, and others.

Building Bridges Education, discussion, and greater awareness creates the bridges that connect people to each other.

Illuminating, sharing, and elevating the lesserknown stories (that include both suffering and triumph) – give each of us the opportunity to see ourselves in others. This knowledge is the bridge that can heal our communities.

It also inspires action, including MLK Saratoga’s Day of Service during which a variety of remote independent projects were encouraged. Collections were taken to benefit the Franklin Community

Center, Code Blue, Shelters of Saratoga, and SNACpac. Temple Sinai received 1,700 children’s books to promote literacy through The Red Bookshelf project.

Opening Doors, Minds & Hearts As parents, teachers, mentors and community members, we are responsible for bringing richer, fuller experiences to our children that put us on common ground.

To open doors, minds, and hearts, and to teach children their voices are valued today, free copies of Wishtree by Katherine Applegate are available for Saratoga Springs students in grades 4 through 6. To receive a copy, email saratogareadsjr@gmail.com On Tuesday February 23, at 7 p.m., the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation is hosting a ZOOM presentation with Carol Daggs to talk about her book Saratoga Soul Brandtville Blues.

MLK Saratoga is promoting happenings by organizations including The Underground Railroad Education Center of Albany, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, All of Us, Northshire Bookstore, NYCLU, Saratoga Book Festival, the Urban Park Rangers, and others.

For a full calendar of events and opportunities go www.mlksaratoga.org, and follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

EDUCATION BRIEFS

Saratoga Hospital Volunteer Guild Offering College Scholarships SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Hospital Volunteer Guild is accepting scholarship applications from Saratoga County high school seniors interested in pursuing careers in healthcare. The deadline to apply is March 31.

Saratoga Hospital Volunteer Guild has provided scholarships since 1990 to help educate future healthcare providers. This year, the Guild will offer up to five $1,500 scholarships. To be eligible, students must be accepted to college for September 2021, have a GPA of at least 3.0 and submit an application by the deadline.

In the past, the Guild has also required a documented record of community service, especially in a healthcare environment.

Given the impact of COVID-19, including the lack of volunteer opportunities, the Guild has revised its requirements to include an essay focused on how applicants have been affected by—and have responded to—the pandemic.

Applications and more information are available at local high school guidance offices and online at www.saratogahospital.org/ classes/volunteering. Scholarship recipients will be contacted by Scholarship Chairperson Irma Somich by April 16.

For more information contact Betsy St.Pierre, Director Volunteer Services Saratoga Hospital at estpierre@ saratogahospital.org or go online to www.saratogahospital.org or facebook.com/SaratogaHospital.

The Old Saratoga Historical Association Scholarship Available SCHUYLERVILLE — The Old Saratoga Historical Association will be awarding two scholarships to Schuylerville Central High School seniors who will be attending a two- or fouryear college in the fall. The winner will receive the Francis Ostrander Scholarship of $500. A $350 scholarship will be awarded to the runner-up. Announcements of the scholarship recipients will be made at commencement.

Applicants must complete a 600-word essay on one of two topics: The role Philip Schuyler played in the development of Old Saratoga, OR How living in an historic village or area has influenced my life. A short statement with the name, address, and career plans of

the applicant and the college that the applicant will attend should accompany the essay.

Frances Ostrander was a charter and life member of the Old Saratoga Historical Association who worked diligently for nearly fifty years to raise funds and secure furnishings for the Philip Schuyler House, and to assist in giving tours of this historic landmark. The Association provides programs and activities that help people understand and appreciate the historical significance of the Schuylerville area.

Submit applications by May 1 to Patricia Peck, 178 Wagman’s Ridge, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. For more information call 518-584-4129.

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Skidmore College Health Services Assist with Vaccine Rollout SARATOGA SPRINGS — In addition to being at the forefront of Skidmore’s COVID-19 pandemic response, members of the College’s Health Services staff have been helping to administer coronavirus vaccines to front-line health care workers, educators and other eligible vaccine candidates in the local community.

The College has worked closely with Saratoga County Public Health Services (SCPHS) — and in accordance with the latest New York state and Centers for Disease Control guidance — in developing and implementing comprehensive health and safety measures on campus.

The Skidmore Health Services team has been vital to organizing COVID-19 surveillance testing, quarantine and isolation, and contact tracing efforts.

Six members of the Health Services team also serve in the county Medical Reserve Corps, which supports disaster relief groups, community safety organizations, emergency medical services and community public health efforts.

Michelle Lapo, a registered nurse with Skidmore College has helped at several point-of-dispensing (POD) site drills for vaccines or antibiotics in the past. Photos provided.

Skidmore Health Services Director Patty Bosen boxes up donations of PPE that Skidmore donated to Saratoga Hospital in March 2020, early on in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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S U M M E R C A M P D I R E C T O R Y

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

r e m m Su CAMPS

2021

SRYMCA 2x3

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

SUMMER CAMP SPOTLIGHT

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As one of our Ninjas, your child can expect our skilled coaches to guide them through increasingly challenging obstacles, resulting in increased strength and stamina.

Ninja Lab Summer Camps run Monday through Friday in one-week, half-day sessions.

Ninja Campers can choose between the morning session: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. or afternoon session: 1- 4 p.m. Campers will be put into groups of similar ability.

Age-appropriate drills will always be used, with a heightened emphasis on skill and longterm athlete development. Every child will be engaged and having fun, while building strength and self-confidence and finding their inner-ninja! Class ratio is 8-1 (8 campers to 1 coach), and all our coaches at The Ninja Lab are CPR certified and background screened.

Make sure your ninja gets a good night’s sleep, because every child will be engaged, moving, smiling and coming home tired!

Sample Camp Day Schedule: 8:45-9 a.m. • Arrival and Registration 9-9:10 a.m. • Welcome and Warm-up 9:10-10:20 a.m. • Station-based Ninja Training 10:20-10:40 a.m. • Break 10:40-12 p.m. • Course Runs and Challenges 12 p.m. • Pick up

Summer Camp Pricing $50 for single half day and $220 for half day full week

Register online at SaratogaNinjaLab.com or call the Lab with questions: 518-289-5942.

$80 for single full day and $340 for full day full week

9 Stonebreak Road, Malta • 518-289-5942

SARATOGANINJALAB.COM

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RELIGION

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Places of Worship

*Wheelchair Accessible

Adirondack Christian Fellowship

Christian Restoration Ministries

Galway United Methodist Church

8 Mountain Ledge, Wilton Contact: 518-587-0623 | acfsaratoga.com Services: Sunday 8 and 10 a.m.

Saratoga Senior Center: 5 Williams Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-796-4323 | Pastor Pat Roach Services: Saturday 7-9 p.m.; Bible Study: Friday 7-8 p.m.

2056 East Street, Galway Contact: 518-882-6520 | galway-united-methodist-church.com Services: Sunday 9:30 a.m. (9 a.m. in July and August)

Adirondack Friends Meeting

Christian Science Church

Grace Church

27 Saratoga Avenue, South Glens Falls Contact: 518-793-3755 | adirondackfriendsmeeting.org Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

107 Circular Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-0221 | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Assembly of God Faith Chapel

250 Pruyn Hill Road, Mechanicville Contact: 518-670-3005 | cliftonparkchurchofchrist.com Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

34 Third Street, Waterford Contact: 518-237-7370 | gracewaterford.com Rev. Kathy Alonge-Coons Services: Sunday 7:30 and 9:30 a.m.

Adult Christian Education Program: 8:30 a.m.

6 Burgoyne Street, Schuylerville Contact: 518-695-6069 | Rev. Scott Cutting Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Assembly of God Saratoga

Church of Christ at Halfmoon

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

118 Woodlawn Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-6081 | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

1 Glenmore Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-587-4796 | churchofjesuschrist.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m

Bacon Hill Reformed Church*

Community Alliance Church

560 Route 32N, Bacon Hill Contact: 518-695-3074 | Rev. Janet Vincent Services: 10 a.m.; Sunday School: 10 a.m.

257 Rowland Street, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-6524 Services: Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Baha’i Community of Saratoga Springs

Congregation Shaara Tfille*

Contact: 518-692-7694 | 518-885-0876 | 1-800-22UNITE bahai.org | Public Meetings: 1st Tuesdays 7 p.m.

84 Weibel Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-2370 | saratogasynagogue.org Services: Monday 7:30 a.m., Thursday 7:30 a.m., Saturday 10 a.m., 3rd Friday Shabbat 7:30p.m.

Ballston Center Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church 58 Charlton Road, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-7312 | ballstoncenterarpchurch.org Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Ballston Spa United Methodist Church* 101 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-6886 | ballstonspaumchurch.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Barkersville Christian Church 7200 Barkersville Road, Middle Grove Contact: 518-882-6437 | barkersvillechristianchurch.com Pastor Pat Atwell | Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Bethesda Episcopal Church*

Corinth Free Methodist Church 20 Hamilton Avenue, Corinth Contact: 518-654-9255 | 518-792-0271 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Corinth United Methodist Church 243 Main Street, Corinth Contact: 518-654-2521 | cfumc@cnyconnect.net Services: Sunday 11 a.m.

Cornerstone Community Church 100 Saratoga Village Boulevard, #8, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-664-5204 | mycornerstonechurch.org Pastor Frank Galerie | Services: Sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

26 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-5980 | bethesdachurch.org Rev’d Charles Wallace | Mid-day Prayer: Monday - Friday 12 p.m. | Services: Wednesday 12 p.m. Saturday 5p.m.

Sunday 8a.m. & 10 a.m

Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Community

Burnt Hills Baptist Church

349 Eastline Road, Ballston Lake Contact: 518-212-7845 | xcsavior.org Services: Sunday 9:30 a.m.

193 Kingsley Road, Burnt Hills Contact: 518-399-5740 | burnthillsbaptistchurch.org Pastor Mark Dorr | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Adult Bible Study: Sunday 9 a.m.

Burnt Hills United Methodist Church* 816 Route 50, Burnt Hills Contact: 518-399-5144 | nybhumc.com | Pastor Holly Nye Services: Sunday 9 and 10:30 a.m. | Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Calvary Capital District 5 Williams Street, Saratoga Springs | Contact: calvarycd.com Pastor Andrew Holt | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Charlton Freehold Presbyterian Church

2001 Route 9, Round Lake Contact: 518-877-8506 | office@corpuschristichurch.net Services: Saturday: 4 p.m. Sunday: 8 and 11 a.m.

Eastern Orthodox — Christ the Savior

Faith Chapel 6 Burgoyne Street, Schuylerville Contact: 518-695-6069 | faithchapelschuylerville.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

First Baptist Church of Saratoga Springs 45 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-6301 | fbcsaratoga.org Services: Sunday Noon First Baptist Church of Ballston Spa

768 Charlton Road, Charlton Contact: 518-399-4831 | charltonfreehold.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

202 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-8361 | bspabaptist.org Services: 10:30 a.m. (9 a.m. in July and August) Sunday School: 9 a.m. (all ages)

Christ Community Reformed Church

First Presbyterian Church of Ballston Spa

1010 Route 146, Clifton Park Contact: 518-371-7654 | ccrc-cpny.org | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

22 West High Street, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-5583 | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Christ Episcopal Church*

Full Gospel Tabernacle

15 West High Street, Ballston Spa | Contact: 518-885-1031 Services: Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m., and 5 p.m.

207 Redmond Road, Gansevoort Contact: 518-793-2739 | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Grace Fellowship Saratoga* 165 High Rock Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-691-0301 | gracefellowship.com Pastor Isaac Denton Services: Sundays 9 and 11 a.m.

Greater Grace Community Church 100 Saratoga Village, Building 17, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-899-7777 | thechurch@ggccmalta.org Pastor David Moore Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Greenfield Center Baptist Church 30 Wilton Road, Greenfield Center Contact: 518-893-7429 Services: 11 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. (all ages) Highway Tabernacle Church 235 Hudson Avenue, Mechanicville Contact: 518-664-4442 Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Hope Church 206 Greenfield Avenue, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-7442 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.; Sunday School: 9 a.m.

Jonesville United Methodist 963 Main Street, Clifton Park Contact: 518-877-7332 Services: Sunday: 8:30 and 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Living Waters Church of God 4330 State Route 50, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-587-0484 | livingwaterscog.us Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Malta Presbyterian Church 118 Dunning Street, Malta Contact: 518-899-5992 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Malta Ridge United Methodist Church 729 Malta Avenue Extension, Malta Contact: 518-581-0210 Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Middle Grove United Methodist Church* 429 Middle Grove Road, Middle Grove Contact: 518-581-2973 Pastor Jason Proctor Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

Mt. Olivet Baptist Church 100 Cresent Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-9441 | Rev. Dr. Victor L. Collier Services: 10 a.m.

New Life Fellowship* 51 Old Gick Road, ­­Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-580-1810 | newlifeinsaratoga.org.

Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021 RELIGION

Places of Worship

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*Wheelchair Accessible

Next Level Church

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Schuylerville United Methodist Church

Comedy Works: 388 Broadway, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-306-7133 | nextlevel.church/saratoga-ny-church Pastor Joe | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

51 Church Street, Schuylerville Contact: 518-695-3101 | sumethodist.org Services: Sunday 11 a.m.

Northway Church

912 Route 146, Clifton Park Contact: 518-371-6351 | stgeorge@csdl.net | stgeorgescp.org Services: Saturday 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 7:30, 9, 11:30 a.m.

St. Isaac Jogues

770 Pierce Road, Clifton Park Contact: 518-899-1200 | northwaychuch.tv Services: 9:30 and 11 a.m.

716 Route 9P, Saratoga Lake Contact: 518-813-5090 | Father Patrick Rice Services: Sunday 10 a.m. (Open Memorial Day to winter)

971 Route 146, Clifton Park Contact: 518-371-7964 | Services: Sunday 9 and 10:45 a.m.

Old Saratoga Reformed Church*

St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church*

48 Pearl Street, Schuylerville Contact: 518-695-3260 | old-saratoga.rcachurches.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

3159 Route 9N, Greenfield Center Contact: 518-893-7680 | stjosephschurchgreenfieldcenter.org Services: Saturday 4 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Old Stone Church (American Baptist)

St. Luke’s on the Hill

159 Stone Church Road, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-583-1002 | Services: 10:30 a.m.

40 McBride Rd., Mechanicville Contact: 518-664-4834 | stlukesonthehill.org Dave Haig, Rector Services: Saturday 4 p.m., Sunday 8 & 10 a.m.

For Summer Worship Schedule please visit our website.

Olde Liberty Baptist 600 Route 67, Malta Contact: 518-885-4211 | oldelibertybaptist.com Services: Sunday 10, 11 a.m., and 2 p.m.; Wednesday 7 p.m.

Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church* 73 Midline Road, Ballston Lake Contact: 518-399-5713 Services: Saturday 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Perry Road Baptist Church* 150 Perry Road, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-587-0711 | Pastor David Worcester Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Pine Grove Community Church* 59 Pine Road, Saratoga Springs Contact: 860-942-7359 | Thegrovess.com Pastor Mark Kehrer | Services: Sunday Worship 10 a.m.

Porter Corners United Methodist Church* 512 Allen Road, Porter Corners Contact: 518-893-2289 Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

Presbyterian-NE Congregational Church* 24 Circular Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-6091 | pnecchurch.org Services: Sunday 10:45 a.m.

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church (ELCA) 4 Northcrest Drive, Clifton Park Contact: 518-371-2226 | poplutheranchurch.org Services: Sunday 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Contemporary Worship: 1st and 3rd Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:15- 10:15 a.m. (Sept.-June) REACH- Christian education for adults: 9:30-10:15 a.m.

Quaker Springs United Methodist Church* 466 Route 32, Schylerville Contact: 518-695-3101 | qsumc.com | Pastor John Iseman Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

River of Hope Fellowship 100 Saratoga Village Boulevard, Malta Commons, Suite 3 Contact: riverofhopefellowship.com Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter* 241 Broadway, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-2375 Services: Saturday 5 p.m.; Sunday 7:30, 9 and 11 a.m.

St. Clement’s Roman Catholic Church* 231 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-6122 | www.stclementschurch.com Services: Weekdays 8 a.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.; Sunday 8, 10, 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church* 167 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa Contact: 518-885-7411 | stmarysbsta.org Services: Saturday 4 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 p.m.

St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church* 771 Route 29, Rock City Falls Contact: 518-885-4677 | sjoegctr@nycap.rr.com Services: Sunday 8:30 a.m.

St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church* 149 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-0904 | office@spalutheran.org Services: Saturday 5 p.m.; Sunday 8:30 and 11 a.m.

St. Peter Lutheran Church* 2776 Route 9, Malta Contact: 518-583-4153 | Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 1 Grove Street, Schuylerville Contact: 518-695-3918 | ststephens-schuylerville.com Services: Sunday 8:30 a.m.

St. Therese Chapel (RC)

Shenendehowa United Methodist

Simpson United Methodist Church 1089 Rock City Road, Rock City Falls Contact: 518-885-4794 | Services: Sunday 10:45 a.m.

Soul Saving Station for Every Nation Christ Crusaders of America 62 Henry Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-3122 | soulsavingstationchurch.com Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Starpoint Church 410 21st Century Park Drive, Clifton Park Contact: 518-371-2811 | starpoint.church Services: 9, 10:30 a.m. and Noon Stillwater Christian Fellowship Meeting at Liberty Ridge Farm: 29 Bevis Road, Schaghticoke Contact: 518-288-8802 | Services: 10 a.m.

Stillwater United Church (Presbyterian U.S.A.) 747 Hudson Avenue, Stillwater Contact: 518-664-7984 | stillwaterunitedchurch.org Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Temple Sinai* 509 Broadway, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-8730 | saratogasinai.org Shabbat Services: Friday 6 or 8 p.m. (rotating schedule); Saturday 10:30 a.m.

Terra Nova Church* 45 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-833-0504 | terranovachurch.org Services: Sunday 9 a.m.

The Salvation Army/ Worship, Service & Community Center

1 Wilton-Gansevoort Road, Gansevoort Contact: 518-792-2276 | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

27 Woodlawn Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-1640 Services: Worship 11 a.m. | Sunday School: 10 a.m.

St. Thomas Anglican Church

Trinity United Methodist Church

242 Grooms Road, Halfmoon Contact: 518-348-0842 | thomasanglican.com Father John Bassett | Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

155 Ballard Road, Gansevoort Contact: 518-584-9107 | tumcwilton.com | Rev. Jeff Stratton Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Saratoga Abundant Life Church

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Saratoga Springs*

2 Hutchins Road, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-885-5456 | salchurch.org Services: Sunday 8:20 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

624 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-1555 | uusaratoga.org Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Saratoga Chabad

Unity Church in Albany

130 Circular Street, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-526-0773 | saratogachabad.com

21 King Avenue, Albany Contact: 518-453-3603 Services: Sunday 9 and 11 a.m.; Sunday School: 11 a.m.

Saratoga Friends Meeting (Quaker) 571 Route 32, Quaker Springs Contact: 518-587-7477 | 518-399-5013 Services: Sunday 10 a.m.

Saratoga United Methodist Church* 175 Fifth Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-584-3720 | saratogaumc.com Services: Sunday 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Saratoga Seventh-Day Adventist Church 399 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-587-6951 | saratogasda.org Services: Worship 11 a.m.; Sabbath School: 10 a.m.

West Charlton United Presbyterian Church 1331 Sacandaga Road, West Charlton Contact: 518-882-9874 | westcharltonupc.org | Rev. Thomas Gregg Services: Sunday 10:30 a.m.; Sunday School: 10:30 a.m.

Wilton Baptist Church 755 Saratoga Road, Wilton Contact: 518-583-2736 | wiltonbaptistchurch.com Services: Sunday 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Zen Buddhist Sitting Group Wilson Chapel, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs Contact: 518-421-2155 | Services: Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.

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Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Puzzles Across 1 It’s happening now 6 Controversial reading 10 Circumstance partner 14 Brain center associated with speech 16 ‘60s pop singer Sands 17 Borders of old, e.g.

18 First name in jazz 19 Abbr. on an invoice 20 Tech boss 21 Relating to the arrangement of atoms in space 23 Mealtime alert 26 Magic competition?

27 Give rise to 28 Rap’s “Puffy” Combs 29 Head of Parliament?

30 ‘40s-’50s paranoia 32 Bud’s bud 33 Judge in stripes 36 Anago or unagi 37 “__ that been done?”

39 2019 Uber landmark, briefly 40 Brought under control 43 Soup sometimes served with banh mi 44 Eastern brew 45 Bass-baritone Simon 48 “Time to move on” 50 Co-star of Cox and Kudrow 52 “No worries” 53 Behave 54 Co-star of Ethan in “Gattaca” 55 Without rocks 56 Mexican fare 60 “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died” writer Bombeck 61 Latin American fare 62 Enervates 63 Certain farm, or one of its residents 64 Pesto ingredient Down 1 Arafat’s successor 2 Ads, e.g.

3 Pull from the ground, in Plymouth 4 Disgusted remark 5 Much of “Deck the Halls” 6 “The Python Years” diarist 7 Janis’ comics mate 8 Casual brand 9 Milky Way cousin 10 Crony of Captain Bildad, in “Moby-Dick” 11 Construction sight 12 Quick getaway for newlyweds 13 Hipster’s “Later”

15 Vote to support 22 “Between the World and Me” National Book Award winner Coates 24 Henry VIII’s sixth 25 Affirms 26 Author Zora __ Hurston 28 Director’s unit 31 Quartz watch innovator 33 Rainforest explorers’ aids 34 Transient things 35 Military training site 38 Red stingers 41 Bald babies?

42 Most of a tooth 46 Liszt’s “Paganini __” 47 Mogadishu native 49 Little bits 50 Needed a massage 51 Like “m” or “n,” phonetically 53 Org. co-founded by Helen Keller 57 Surfer’s setting 58 Alley-oop pass 59 Actress Gardner

Writing the Right Word

by Dave Dowling

Accuracy in word choice is a key to effective communication. In your daily writing and speaking, try to make sure you use the right word in the right place with the right spelling. By doing so, its effect will affect your communication in a positive way. This quick weekly tip will help you filter the confusion in some of our daily word choices.

This Week: Titillate, Titivatet Titillate means to stimulate, tickle, or arouse pleasantly.

The spicy chicken wings always titillate our taste buds.

Titivate means adorn or spruce up.

Hand-painted murals of famous jazz musicians titivate the walls.

Dave Dowling is the author of The Wrong Word Dictionary and The Dictionary of Worthless Words. Both books are available from many book retailers, and signed copies can be obtained by contacting Dave at dave.dowling65@gmail.com

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Food

Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Take-out food offers

a Journey Around the World

(and a break from cooking)

SATURDAYS 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Wilton Mall | Food Court

by Madison Jackson for Saratoga TODAY Roasted chicken pita pocket at Petra's Pocket Pies. Photo by Madison Jackson My Dacha Slavonian & European Cafe. Photo by Madison Jackson

Fried arancini and mac & cheese at Giovanni Fresco.

Photo provided.

F

rom Europe to the Middle East, the Saratoga Farmers’ Market has authentic foods from around the world available for take-out every Saturday. So even though we all had to cancel our travel plans this past year, you can still get a taste of your favorite international foods. What’s better is that you can take a break from cooking and enjoy delicious meals prepared by people who love sharing their native cuisine.

EURO DELICACIES offers various flavorful Mediterranean dishes like stuffed grape leaves (dolma), baklava, and stuffed peppers. Try their moussaka; a casserole layered with potatoes, ground sirloin, and caramelized vegetables with bechamel sauce. Or spanakopita; a Greek pastry filled with chopped spinach, cheese, onion, olive oil, and seasonings. Euro Delicacies began in Sarajevo by the Hrelja family, now sharing their Eastern European heritage with the Upstate New York community.

GIOVANNI FRESCO has a selection of freshly made pasta, homemade sauces like alfredo and meat sauce, and entrees such as penne alla vodka and eggplant parmigiana. Some items can be purchased frozen as well so that you can stock up and enjoy fresh Italian food whenever you want. Giovanni Fresco was started in 2017 by Giovanni and Francesca, an Italian couple who moved to America with the hopes of bringing authentic and traditional Italian dishes to their new community.

PETRA’S POCKET PIES makes savory pita pies, a dough stuffed with combinations of vegetables, meats, and cheeses. Owner Sabreen Samman was inspired to share flavors from her home country of

Jordan and began selling her savory pastries at the farmers’ market in 2018. Samman uses a blend of Mediterranean seasonings for her food and offers American style options, like buffalo chicken and Philly cheesesteak.

MY DACHA SLAVONIAN CAFE makes various entrees like pierogies, lasagna, beef stroganoff, and cabbage stuffed with ground beef, tomato sauce, parsley, and rice. They offer a variety of homemade Slavic foods from Eastern Europe. Aladdin and Nataliya Kamel, from Egypt and Ukraine, blend their unique backgrounds to make classic dishes that reflect their home countries and their Italian cuisine knowledge.

If you’re looking for fresh and tasty take-out food, try the melting pot of cuisines every Saturday. For complete menu options, online ordering, and delivery, check the businesses’ websites or retail locations.

The Saratoga Farmers’ Market is open Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Find us online at saratogafarmersmarket.org and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. For online pre-ordering and curbside pickup, visit localline.ca/saratoga-farmers-market.

EDITOR ’ S EDITOR’ PICKS: Favorite dishes not to miss at the market!

Euro Delicacies’ sweet potato salad is probably the best we’ve ever had. It’s made with steamed sweet potatoes and topped with walnuts, cranberries, and scallions, and tossed in an olive oil dressing. This dish is also vegan.

Giovanni Fresco has fried snacks that are a must-try.

They make Italian-style arancini (fried rice balls) that are stuffed with cheese, meat, or vegetables. They also make American-inspired fried mac & cheese.

Petra’s Pocket Pies has a roasted chicken pita pocket with garlic aioli; a tasty comfort food that includes aioli sauce from Saratoga Garlic Company.

My Dacha’s lasagna is a Ukrainian take on traditional Italian comfort food.

Don’t forget the dessert!

Euro Delicacies has baklava, a Turkish dessert made from a sweet pastry of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey. Their famous apple strudel is a version of a Mediterranean apple pie made with filo dough.

Giovanni Fresco makes traditional and Nutella tiramisu; an Italian dessert made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa.

My Dacha Slavonian Cafe’s sweet crepes are filled with raisins and cheese, or poppy seeds. They are the perfect dessert to follow any of their savory dishes. They also offer Neapolitan cake, tiramisu, and baklava.

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My Mezzaluna Hello my Foodie Friends !

We are definitely spending more time in our kitchens. Food prep has become an essential step in creating the spectacular dishes we are now creating for ourselves, family, and friends.

There is one tool that has become an “essential” in the kitchen: enter the mezzaluna. The mezzaluna is the meal prep tool that you never knew you needed. Meaning “half moon” in Italian, this old-fashioned workhorse will cut your chopping time in half—and it’s actually fun to use. Why chop or mince when you could rock? The mezzaluna, with its half-moon-shwaped blade and knobby handles at each end, possesses the simplicity of a tool like the hammer. Its design recalls an earlier

by John Reardon time, before the food processor, and before home cooks had knife skills for Saratoga TODAY worthy of a restaurant kitchen. Operating a mezzaluna is simple: Grab the two handles and rock back and forth while the curved blade does its thing, gliding over the board. It makes a pleasing whooshing sound when seesawing—somewhere between a rocking chair and a samurai’s sword. Your fingers will be tucked safely away too, as you use both hands to grasp the sturdy handles instead of guiding the blade as you might with a conventional knife. In other words, they are foolproof—which is useful when you want to keep all your fingers intact. The crescent-shaped curved blade is often used in Italy for pesto and soffritto, the small dice of carrot, onion, and celery that is the base for so many soups and stews or to dispatch herbs, garlic, ginger, nuts, and anything else that needs to be roughly chopped (done in seconds) or finely minced (more like a minute.

Mezzalunas come in a variety of sizes (if you want to impress your mates by slicing up a pizza like a pro, opt for a larger one), with one or two parallel blades. The latter will give you twice the number of chops in the same amount of time, but you risk getting bits of food stuck between the blades. Many will find that the traditional single-blade ones are best.

Stop by Compliments to the Chef, your Neighborhood Kitchen and Cutlery store, to find those cool tools that can help you as you plan out your menus and get chopping. Make a mezzaluna a part of your culinary “go to” collection. Remember my Foodie Friends, “Life Happens in the Kitchen.”

Take Care, John & Paula

i n i h c c u Z d e Roast s b r e H h s e r With F INGREDIENTS • 3 large zucchini

• 10 basil leaves

• 3 Tbsp olive oil

• 1 sprig oregano, stems removed

• 8 mint leaves, stems removed

• ¼ cup nuts (walnuts, almonds, pine nuts)

• ⅓ cup loosely packed parsley leaves, stems removed

• 1 garlic clove

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Cut zucchini into ¼-inch slices and toss in olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.

2. Place on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake for 8-10 minutes, stirring once halfway through.

3. Pile the remaining ingredients into a mound on a wooden cutting board and coarsely chop.

4. Combine chopped mixture with warm zucchini, tossing well, and serve.

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events Direct Care Volunteers Needed The Gateway House of Peace, and end of life home that provides hospice care and emotional support to families managing with the last few months of life, is in great need of licensed or retired health care volunteers capable of providing direct care.

Other volunteers are needed as well, for facility management and event planning support. Please contact Executive Director, Bethany Gonyea at bgonyea@ gatewayhouseofpeace.org for more information.

Volunteer for VITA LifeWorks Community Action, formerly Saratoga County EOC, is looking for volunteers for its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

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(VITA) program, which brings hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax returns to the community every year. The VITA program offers free tax help to eligible lowand moderate-income taxpayers, including assistance filing their taxes electronically without fees.

No experience required; training is provided. We’ll work around your schedule. We also have a critical need for VITA volunteers who speak Spanish. To get started, call 518-288-3206, email volunteerdesk@lifeworksaction. org or visit lifeworksaction.org/ volunteer.

Food Drive The Summit at Saratoga Senior Living Community located at 1 Perry Road, Saratoga Springs, is holding a food drive the month of February for local veterans through the Veterans & Community Housing Coalition.

Please drop off dry nonperishable food items and canned goods in our front vestibule.

Lake George Winterfest During February, enjoy the socially distanced safe outdoor events such as cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, winter “fat tire” mountain biking and more while dining and relaxing in the Lake George area. Your wristband will unlock the activities you have signed up for in advance online and will also be your ticket to horsedrawn carriage rides around Lake George and hot cocoa stations.

The website where wristbands will be on sale is coming soon: www. lakegeorgewinterfest.com.

Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair On Saturday, March 6, from 10 a.m. -4 p.m., the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Fair, hosted by Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment will be held virtually. The Fair will have an exhibition hall, speakers, workshops, and affinity groups. Free to the public.

Exhibitors and attendees register

at: www.caseonline.org. Contact Becky Meier at: beckyjmeier@ gmail.com or 518-781-4686.

Virtual Horse Symposium CCE Equine is excited to host our 2nd Virtual Horse Symposium for three weeks in March beginning on March 16 and ending April 1. This program is offered for adult horse owners, business owners, and horse enthusiasts in the Capital Region and beyond. Topics include: Sound Development of Young Horses, An introduction to Liability Risks: New York’s Agricultural Tourism Act and Negligence in the Horse Industry, Equine Law: Legal Issues for Participants in the Horse Industry, and more!

Each session will be hosted virtually via zoom at 7 p.m.

Educational packets optional.

Following the symposium, there will be a virtual family-fun equine trivia night on April 2. Contact Brieanna Hughes with questions at bh548@cornell.edu, 518-8858995, or visit our Facebook page

atwww.facebook.com/cceequine.

Registration for both of these events can be found online at: pub.cce.cornell.edu/event_ registration/main/events_landing. cfm?event=CCEEQUINE_241.

Southern Saratoga Art Society SSAS member Carol Winterton will feature her art in a onewoman show during the month of March 2021 in the Gallery of the Clifton Park Senior Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Blvd., Tel.# 518-383-1343. Carol has been painting for over 30 years, originally starting in pencil, chalk pastel and watercolor. She has since branched out into acrylics and water-soluble oils, occasionally using more than one medium on a piece. She states that painting gives her joy, satisfaction, and relaxation. Stop in and see this exhibit and support the arts in Southern Saratoga County. For more information about SSAS please visit the website at: www. southernsaratogaartist.com.

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This Week’s Events: FEB. 19 - 25 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 Fish Fry Friday Fish Creek Rod and Gun Club 121 NY-32, Schuylerville | 4 – 7 p.m.

We have expanded our club house and invite you to come see our new addition. You are welcome to eat in or call ahead for take-out: 518-695-3917. Menu for dinners: Fish Fry, Chicken Tenders, Clam Strips, Popcorn Shrimp, Coconut Shrimp, Shrimp Scampi, Scallops and Chowder. Ask about our extras and specials and beverages. Everyone is invited. Covid 19 rules will apply. Every Friday through April 10.

Fundraiser Takeout Fish Fry Knights of Columbus, 50 Pine Rd., Saratoga Springs 5 – 7:30 p.m. | Menu: Fried or baked haddock $14; fried clam strips $12 (includes French fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce, and cocktail sauce); shrimp salad special (includes French fries and coleslaw), homemade macaroni and cheese $5; New England and Manhattan clam chowder $7 (pint) or $13 (quart); side of French Fries $3; and dessert $2. Orders will be taken by calling 518-584-8547 each week prior to the event on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., except for Fridays, which will continue right up until the event or we run out of food. Pickup starts at 5 p.m. and every 15 minutes thereafter. Pick-up inside the building with a mask, or call from the parking lot with a description of your vehicle and your meal will be brought out to you. The event will be held each Friday during Lent through April 2.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Indoor Flea Market TreePad Fun Center, 2381 US 9, Mechanicville 9 a.m. | Find your next treasure at the indoor flea market. Something for everyone! COVID restrictions in place. No admission without a mask, social distancing enforced. Free admission.

Matt McCabe Memorial A Virtual Celebration, Caffe Lena | 7 p.m.

This event is a virtual celebration of the life and

family friendly

legacy of Matt McCabe, longtime owner of Saratoga Guitar and dedicated member of the local music scene. Friends and family have submitted tributes, photos, and performances dedicated to Matt, which have been compiled and will play as a live stream hosted by Matt’s close friend Rick Bolton. Matt was always a kind and generous neighbor, and supported many individuals and organizations, including Caffe Lena, through his mentorship and his donations of instruments and equipment. Caffe Lena is proud to share this celebration of Matt’s life with the community, on what will be officially declared Matt McCabe day in Saratoga Springs.

Watch the live stream here: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QHkWbgo7h_0

are recommended. Five classes from February 22 – March 22 for $30.

Participants may register at www.nationalmuseumofdance.org/calendar with a credit card or PayPal. Contact Fantauzzi at tours@dancemuseum. org for questions or more information.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Free Vegetable Growing Series Online Zoom Program | Join Jessica Holmes, Consumer Horticulture, for Container and Raised Bed Gardening to learn about which vegetables grow best in containers and how to start a raised bed garden. Go to the events page on ccesaratoga.org/ for more details and register. You will receive a zoom link within 24-hours of the class.

If you would like more information, please contact Jessica Holmes at jmh452@cornell.edu or 518-885-8995.

Storytelling Night Live Stream from Caffe Lena via YouTube | 7 – 8:30 p.m.

The fourth Tuesday of every month is storytelling night at Caffe Lena. Tonight’s show will feature some of the finest storytellers from around the Capital Region who often serve as the featured artists for these monthly open mics. This month our featured tellers will be Jesse Bruchac, Karen Glass & Gwenne Rippon.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

America Sings

Ageless Dancer Series

Live Streamed from Caffe Lena via YouTube | 7 p.m.

Zoom Presentation | 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | On Wednesdays, Sharyn Kalinkewicz will teach Beginner Pilates Mat. This class will focus on the six principles of Joseph Pilates: breath, concentration, focus, control, flow, and precision. No experience is necessary. Pilates is known to improve the overall health of its participants especially by activating the deep core muscles for stabilization. Participants need a resistance band and yoga mat. Fitness attire and bare feet are recommended. Five classes from Feb. 24-March 24 for $30.

Participants may register at www.nationalmuseumofdance.org/ calendar with a credit card or PayPal. Contact Fantauzzi at tours@ dancemuseum.org for questions or more information.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Winter Wellness Walks Camp Saratoga North, Wilton Wildlife Preserve 80 Scout Rd., Gansevoort | 10 a.m.

Get outdoors biweekly to enjoy the beauty of winter with likeminded people. Wilton Wildlife Preserve’s Winter Wellness Walks cover 1.5 miles of gentle terrain. Snowshoes will be available for rental 30 minutes before the program. If there is no snow, the program will take place without snowshoes. Registration is required to meet COVID requirements. To register call 518-450-0321 or email info@wiltonpreserve.org

Ageless Dancer Series Zoom Presentation | 1:30 – 2:30 On Mondays, Mary Anne Fantauzzi will teach Ballet Barre & Balance. This class will include a modified classical ballet technique class with emphasis on the improvement of balance, core and pelvic stabilization, fluidity of movement, coordination, and musicality. Participants need a barre or sturdy high back chair. Fitness attire and ballet slippers

Stuffed Shell Dinner Saratoga Wilton Elks, 1 Elks Lane, Saratoga Springs | 4:30 – 6 p.m.

For curbside pick up only. Call Monday and Tuesday between 10 a.m. and Noon to place an order 518-584-2585 Menu: stuffed shells, meatballs, sweet sausage, tossed salad, garlic toast. Dinner for 2 is $25. (cash only).

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Folded Book Art: Making a Heart Zoom Web Presentation | 2 – 3 p.m. | Take an old book and transform it into a work of art! In this program, Amy Hughes demonstrates upcycling a book into a piece of art by folding the pages into the shape of a heart.

Known as folded book art, this craft can be done by anyone with just a ruler, a pencil and a book. Please register online at www.sspl.org.

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Week of February 19 – February 25, 2021

Capital Repertory Theatre Welcomes Four New Associate Artists ALBANY —­Capital Repertory Theatre (theREP) welcomes four talented individuals into the 2021 class of Associate Artists – Gordon Greenberg, Barbara Howard, Stephanie Klapper and Jean-Remy Monnay. These four individuals join the members of the 2019 Class of Associate Artists, Kevin McGuire, Yvonne Perry, Freddy Ramirez and Josh D. Smith.

Associate Artists serve threeyear terms where they act as ambassadors for theREP in the local and national theatre community.

As part of the program, Associate Artists will participate in at least one production per season.

Gordon Greenberg is a director and writer living in New York, who has directed 11 productions at theREP. He has directed on Broadway, OffBroadway, in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America.

Barbara N. Howard was born and raised in Albany and is currently the Storyteller of theREP’s virtual STORY HOUR program for elementary children and a teaching artist for the theatre’s education programs at Arbor Hill Elementary School.

Stephanie Klapper is a New York based award-winning casting director who has served as theREP’s Casting Director for almost three decades. Her work is frequently seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, on television, and film.

Jean-Remy Monnay is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY, Inc. Monnay produced the regionwide collaboration, 8:46, in which theREP participated.

To learn more about all of the Artistic Leadership team visit capitalrep.org/artistic-leadership.

New Exhibit, Live Online Talk Featuring Artist Scott Brodie Saratoga Arts is hosting its February PechaKucha on Saturday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Do you have a project, goal, topic or adventure you’re dying to share? Saratoga Arts is currently seeking speakers for its February PechaKucha. All you have to do is prepare a six-minute talk on the topic of your choice and submit 20 images.

Saratoga Arts will do the rest.

From the Japanese word for “chit-chat,” PechaKucha is a storytelling format where anyone can talk about their work,

passion, adventure or ordeal with the help of 20 images. Note: all scheduled PechaKucha’s will be taking place remotely, which means all presenters will need a strong internet connection. The organizer will test your access in advance if there are any concerns.

To register for the February 20 PechaKucha Night email cowens@saratoga-arts.org or register at www.pechakucha.com/ events/saratoga-springs-vol-1

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LAKE GEORGE — The Courthouse Gallery will present a Live Online Talk with artist Scott Brodie at 4 p.m. on March 6.

Brodie will be featured in an exhibition of his most recent work, observations of daily life, ranging from still life to landscape, and all created within the last year.

Through the immediacy of his loose brush work, the deftly painted works capture the intimacy of meditative moments of observation of light and color.

Depending on his subject, Brodie alternates his palette from bold saturated colors to warm soft light, accentuated with flecks of a warm ground color peeking through. Any object, such as a glass, a can, a chair, a plant, or a lawnmower, can be transformed into a celebration of painting.

“The series titles, ‘Plague Spring,’ ‘Beached in the Backyard,’ and ‘The Waiting’ do refer to the pandemic, or more precisely to the state of existing during the pandemic, but they are openended and don’t dictate the subject matter… In terms of subject, there is only a tangential connection. I generally don’t favor ‘topical’ work, it tends to be newsy, literal, and has a short shelf life. But the staying-at-home and the waiting-for-it-to-pass

The Waiting Part 1 (d), 16”x12”, oil on canvas, 2020, new work by Scott Brodie.

have had an effect. For one, it got me out of the house to do some plein air work, but alas, only as far as my back yard,” Brody says.

The exhibition takes place March 6-April 9. For more information, go online to: lakegeorgearts.org.

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Yaddo Virtual Variations:

An Evening of Conversation

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Yaddo hosts an evening of conversation featuring writer, artist, and filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam, in discussion about her new book, “Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence,” with acclaimed writer Andrew Solomon. The event, free via Zoom, takes place 7 p.m. Tuesday. Go to: yaddo.org.

“Making and Unmaking” Spa City Filmmaker Chronicles Life in Documentary SARATOGA SPRINGS — From creative and personal highs to extreme lows, the documentary “Making and Unmaking” chronicles several years in the life of filmmaker Shaun Rose.

Born in Saratoga Springs and currently a resident of Ballston Spa, Rose co-directed the 60-minute documentary with partner Andrea Stangle.

“It took four years to make,” Rose says. “It’s a detailed film covering the difficulties making my previous film ‘Upstate Story.’ It has won 8 awards at festivals/ award venues thus far and I’ve just been trying to get it out there more.”

You can view the 60-minute doc on YouTube, and find it via a search for “Making and Unmaking.”

Photo: Saratoga Springs-born filmmaker Shaun Rose has codirected a 60-minute documentary, “Making and Unmaking.”

Saratoga Jewish Community Arts Presents

The Matthew M. Neugroschel Annual Jewish Storytelling SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Jewish Community Arts, in partnership with Temple Sinai and with a grant from the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, presents its seventh Annual Jewish Storytelling Event featuring both local and regional storytellers at 7 p.m. on Feb. 21.

Experience the storytelling program by Zoom this season.

For the Jewish people, “Storytelling has been a means of defining the Jewish identity, the ethnic distinctiveness as a Jew,” said Phyllis Wang, Coordinator of the Saratoga Jewish Community Arts. “To hear a Jewish story is to share the humor, wisdom and angst, earthiness and Spirituality of an ancient and thoroughly modern, diverse, and irrepressible group of people bearing an extraordinary history.”

Included in the storytellers for the event are Shawn Banner,

artist, teacher of art, and educator; Sylvia Bloom, educator, professor of voice, actress, opera singer, and recitalist; Jeanine Laverty, teacher of ESL and Storytelling; David Liebschutz, management consultant, life coach, and college professor; Beth Sabo Novik, facilitator, teacher, and transformational speaker; Sandy (Sandor) Shuman, storyteller, musician and educator; and Martina Zobel, Jewish educator.

This Annual Saratoga Jewish Community Arts Storytelling program has been renamed in memory of Matthew M. Neugroschel, a frequent contributor to Community Arts and the Saratoga Jewish Cultural Festival, and whose life was cut short this past year.

To register and access the Zoom link, email sjca.sjcf@gmail. com. Follow us on Facebook and www.saratogajewishculturalfestival.org or www.saratogasinai.org.

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Northshire Live Deadline March 1 to Submit Your Presents: This Week Work to 2021 Peoples Pixel Project LAKE GEORGE — The Peoples Pixel Project was created to provide live audience exposure to professional and emerging videographers, and to foster local interest and growth in the medium.

Deadline to submit is March 1.

Who can submit work? New York State-based middle school, high school and adult artists - the

Peoples Pixel Project is open to new, emerging and established artists.

How many videos can artists submit? Up to three.

Do video submissions have to have a specific theme? No. How do I submit work? Fill out the submission form on the website lakegeorgearts.org, upload your work to YouTube or Vimeo and

send Lake George Arts the links.

Awards & Recognition: 20 select videos will be available for viewing on our website and YouTube channel; 2 Honorable Mention Awards. The Peoples Choice Award Winner will have their video screened at the prestigious Adirondack Film Festival in October of 2021.

Comics Against Domestic Violence: Autographed Comics Raffled for A Cause SARATOGA SPRINGS — Domestic violence and abuse is so prominent in cosplay culture and comics, especially in the origins of Harley Quinn.

Some fans and readers look past the abuse she has gone through and choose to ignore it, because ignoring it is better than facing the reality of violence. As a Harley Quinn cosplayer who is a survivor of domestic violence, I would be doing the character an injustice if I turned the other cheek.

Twenty people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner and over 10 million people yearly suffer from domestic violence.

To bring awareness to the issue, I am holding a raffle to raise funds for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence which helps people escape tormented situations as well as rehabilitating to stop the cycle of violence.

Stephanie Phillips, the current Harley Quinn Future State and Infinite Frontier author, donated signed issues of DC Presents: Harley Quinn Future State.

There will be two raffle winners, each receiving issue 1 and issue 2 of Harley Quinn Future State signed by the author.

The raffle runs until 11:59 p.m. EST on Feb. 28, and $10 is 10 entries. Link to raffle: go.rallyup.com/ comicsagainstdomsticviolence

The Smash-Up. One of two Northshire Live events presented this week.

Image of Janna aka Sweetheart.Harley, holding copies donated and autographed by author Stephanie Phillips, that are being raffled to benefit the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

For more information about the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, go to: ncadv.org Whether you know someone who has suffered or you yourself have suffered, this is one step to helping stop the cycle so no one has to live through what survivors have.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Northshire Bookstore Saratoga presents two Northshire Live events this week.

At 6 p.m. on Feb. 23, Ali Benjamin presents The Smash-Up in a conversation with Steve Sheinkin, to celebrate the publication of “The Smash-Up,” celebrating the debut adult novel Ali Benjamin in a wide-ranging literary conversation with NYTimes bestselling author Steve Sheinkin.

Benjamin is the author of the young adult novel “The Thing About Jellyfish,” an international bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. This is her first adult novel.

At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, Theo Padnos presents Blindfold: A Memoir Of Capture, Torture, And Enlightenment.

Northshire Bookstore to celebrate the publication of Woodstock, Vermont author and award-winning journalist Theo Padnos’s revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture,

Torture and Enlightenment, the searing, extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years.

Joining us for this conversation is New Yorker staff writer and author John Seabrook.

In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, fluent in Arabic, Russian, German, and French, traveled to a Turkish border town to write and report on the Syrian civil war. One afternoon in October, while walking through an olive grove, he met three young Syrians—who turned out to be al Qaeda operatives—and they captured him and kept him prisoner for nearly two years. On his first day, in the first of many prisons, Padnos was given a blindfold—a grimestained scrap of fabric—that was his only possession throughout his horrific ordeal.

Both live events will be on Zoom, and a link is available upon Eventbrite registration. For more information on the events, go to: northshire.com.

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LEGALS AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 58 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, ENTITLED “ALARM SYSTEMS’ BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Saratoga Springs, NY, as follows: SECTION 1: Chapter 58 of the Code of the City of Saratoga Springs, NY, entitled “Alarm Systems” is hereby amended as follows: 1. Section 58-4 is amended to read (new material underlined, old material in brackets); 58-4 ALARM USER PERMIT; FEE; PENALTY A. No person or legal entity shall install an emergency alarm upon premises under his or her control without first obtaining an emergency alarm permit from the Commissioner of Accounts.

A one-time fee [of $25] shall accompany the application. Said fee shall be established from time to time by resolution of the City Council. Each application shall contain a signed statement by the Alarm User that the City shall not be responsible in any way for the operation of the alarm system, or for any failure to respond to a transmitted alarm or for entry upon the premises by City personnel in response to a transmitted alarm.

B. Violations of this Chapter shall subject the Alarm User to a penalty of not more than $250 per violation.

2. Section 58-8 is amended to read (new material underlined, old material in brackets): 58-8 FALSE ALARMS; ADDITIONAL FEES A. [The following fees in addition to the fees specified in Section 58-4 shall be due from any emergency Alarm User who transmits more that two false alarms within any period of 365 days, whether caused by

human error or malfunction of equipment:] (1) [For each of the third and fourth alarms transmitted: $50.]

(2) [For the fifth and each additional alarm transmitted: 250.]

B. [If any Alarm User shall transmit more than 10 false alarms within a twelve-month period, the Commissioner of Public Safety may, in his or her discretion, either revoke that Alarm User’s permit or require that the alarm, if it has been thereto maintained by a property owner or lessee, be thereafter maintained by personnel of an alarm supplier licensed by the City pursuant to Section 58-3.]

C. [Notice of additional fees due shall be sent to each alarm user by regular mail at the address specified in the permit application. The notice shall state the dates of each false alarm and the amount of additional fees due. It shall also state that payment of the additional fees shall be due 30 days from the date of the notice.]

D. [If any additional fees duly noticed shall remain unpaid for longer that 30 days from the date of the notice, such non-payment shall constitute a violation of this Chapter and shall subject the alarm user to penalties as stated in Section 58-4.]

Fees in addition to those specified in Section 58-4, and other fees and charges pertinent to this Chapter shall be established from time to time by resolution of the City Council.

3. Section 58-9 is amended to read (new material underlined, old material in brackets): 58-9 ENFORCEMENT Both the Police Department of the City of Saratoga Springs and the City [Fire Inspector] Code Administrator shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this Chapter and

to issue appearance tickets for violations thereof. Such authority shall be in addition to and not in limitation of any other authority or power conferred by law.

SECTION 2: This ordinance shall take effect the day after publication as provided by the City Charter of the City of Saratoga Springs, NY. ADOPTED: February 17, 2021 CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK By: John P. Franck, City Clerk 02/19. 102754 LEGAL NOTICE Please take notice that the City Council of the City of Saratoga Springs, New York, will conduct a public hearing, by videoconference, on March 2, 2021 at 6:55 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the below matter can be reached, in the City of Saratoga Springs, New York, to hear all those persons who wish to speak in regard to the following proposed amendment to the current Capital Budget and Capital Program: Amend the Capital Budget and Capital Program to add the sum of $40,000.00 to the item designated as School Capital Recreation Improvements.

The City of Saratoga Springs and the Saratoga Springs City School District have renewed their agreement for use and maintenance of the East Side and West Side Recreation facilities.

The additional funds would pay for improvements to the East Side and West Side fields as deemed appropriate by the City and the School District.

Dated: February 17, 2021 CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK By: John P. Franck, City Clerk 02/19, 02/26. 102746

NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Purchasing Department of Saratoga County will receive sealed bids until 11:00 a.m. on the following dates at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud: March 11, 2021 Leased Copiers/Maintenance, specification 21-CML-1 March 11, 2021 UV Disinfection System Maintenance, specification 21-UVDM-1 March 18, 2021 Brook & Rainbow Trout, specification 21-BRT-1 Bid forms and instructions are available at the Purchasing Office, 50 W. High Street, Ballston Spa, NY between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday (telephone - 518-8852210) or at the Empire State Purchasing Group website (www. empirestatebidsystem.com).

Saratoga County, through its Purchasing Department, reserves the right to reject parts of any or all bids.

JOHN T. WARMT, Director of Purchasing Saratoga County 02/19, 102744.

Notice of formation of RVH Logistics, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/04/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 434 Sodeman Road Middle Grove NY 12850. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19, 3/26. 102716 Notice of formation of CVH Metals, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/04/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated

as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 434 Sodeman Road Middle Grove NY 12850. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19, 3/26. 102727 Notice of formation of Fix My Diet LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 02/04/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 475 Broadway, #133, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19, 3/26. 102715 Notice of formation of Honest and Well, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/19/2021. Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 26F Congress Street, Suite 368, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19, 3/26. 102703 Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC): Name: LIFE CLARITY LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of State of New York (SSNY) on 12 / 08 / 2020.

Office location: Saratoga County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mal a copy of process to: C/O LIFE CLARITY LLC PO Box 238, Ballston Spa, NY 12020. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date. 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19, 3/26. 102697

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Office: Saratoga County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail copy to: P.O. Box 123, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

Purpose: Any lawful. 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19. 102642 Notice of formation of PFW CONSTRUCTION LLC Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/17/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, LEGALCORP SOLUTIONS ,11 BROADWAY SUITE 615 NEW YORK, NY 10004. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12, 03/19. 102599 Notice of formation of Rich & Jody Holdings LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 11/08/2019 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at 19 Atwell Rd, Porter Corners, NY 12859. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12. 102543 Notice of formation of STEVEN S. HEYMAN CONSULTING, LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on 01/19/2021. LLC office location: Saratoga County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served to LLC, 18 Saratoga Farm Road, Ballston Spa, New York 12020. Purpose: any lawful activity. 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12. 102394

Notice of formation of BS AVIATION LLC Art of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/10/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Brian Howard Strange 11 ROLLING HILLS DRIVE GANSEVOORT, NY 12831 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05, 03/12. 102387 Notice of formation of Dream Builders Handyman Services, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/26/21. Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at 104 Burke Rd., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102359 Notice of formation of Red Barn 1933, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/19/2021. Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at 881 Murray Road, Middle Grove, New York 12850. Purpose: to engage in any lawful purpose permitted under the laws of the State of New York. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05.

102353 Notice of formation of Convoy Fund B LLC. LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/24/2020. Office location: Saratoga County. SSNY is designated as agent upon

whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1044 Totten St, Whitestone, NY 11357. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 1022221 Notice of formation of The Wood Hill Gallery, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/05/2021. Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at 23 Ruggles Road, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102215 Notice of formation of ArmorSafe. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 12/14/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 488 Big Oak road, Yardley PA, 19067. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102174 Notice of formation of Jennifer Doud Nutrition LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/13/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 34 Cedarwood Drive, Ballston Lake, NY 12019. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102168 Notice of formation of Brackett House Group, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with

the Secretary of State of New York on 01/19/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 210 Regent St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102160 Notice of Qualification of OutcomeRx Insurance Management Services, LLC. Authority filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 1/20/2021 Office: Saratoga County. LLC formed in MD on 6/26/2020. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 36 Long Alley, Second Floor, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26, 03/05. 102153 Notice of formation of PISCES OUTDOOR TRADING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 01/08/2021 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 42 Sycamore St, Ballston Lake, NY 12019. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26. 102106 Notice of formation of Thin Red Line Pressure Washing LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 11/12/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at:

10 Marcel Rd Unit A Halfmoon, NY 12065. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26. 102064 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: G and C Tree Service LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 22, 2020. Office location: Saratoga County. SSNY designed as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 7 Prestwick Ave., Clifton Park, NY 12065.

Purpose: any lawful purpose.

01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26. 102058 Notice of formation of PIES AND TACOS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 11/12/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: 14 Adirondack Circle, apt G, Gansevoort, NY 12831.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26. 102050 Notice of formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC), MICHAEL MARTIN MOVERS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/20. Office: Saratoga County, SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Michael V. Martin, 99 1/2 Walworth St, Saratoga Springs NY 12866.

Purpose: Local moving. 01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19, 02/26. 102044

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LEGALS Notice of formation of Free Bird Customs LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 12/29/2020 Office: Saratoga County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC’s agent upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #086, Buffalo,

NY 14221. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 01/15, 01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19. 101990 Notice of Formation of 17 HSD, LLC. The name of the limited liability company is “17 HSD, LLC” (the LLC).

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and as determined from time to time by its members. 01/15, 01/22, 01/29, 02/05, 02/12, 02/19. 101981 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC). Name: Sani Industries 2, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/05/21. Office location: Warren County. SSNY designated as

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SPORTS BULLETIN Girls Basketball: Stillwater Bests SCC Twice, SCC Wins Against Waterford STILLWATER — The Stillwater Girls Varsity basketball team pulled out back-to-back wins against Saratoga Central Catholic this weekend. On Friday, Feb. 12, Stillwater excelled in the

first three quarters, resulting in their final score, 41 to 33. Molly Sheehan was the top scorer with 22 points. A close game followed on Saturday with Stillwater coming out ahead of SCC, 40 to 38.

On Tuesday, Feb. 16, SCC won against the Waterford-Halfmoon girls, 57 to 34. SCC’s high scorer was Ashley Upson, with 15 points.

Piper Morris was Waterford’s top scorer, earning 8 points.

Toga Gymnasts Seal Season SARATOGA SPRINGS —Saratoga buttoned-up the season when they won the Suburban Council Championships on February 14 at the World Class Gymnastics Academy. They won the title by earning five out of the top 10 allaround scores in competition against Bethlehem, Guilderland

and Shaker. Ava Dallas: 1st, Sophia Damiano: 2nd, Carly Ruschak: 5th, Charlie Gleeksman: 9th, Maddy Austin: 10th.

Last week in the annual AllAround Meet, Saratoga placed four gymnasts in the top 10.

Seniors Sophia Damiano and Ava Dallas placed first and

second, respectively, with allaround scores of 37.45 and 36.35.

Teammate Maddy Austin (8th grade) placed seventh in the allaround with a score of 32.55 and Senior Megan Wishart was ninth with a score of 32.125.

As a team, Saratoga went undefeated this dual meet season (6-0)

Saratoga Little League Registration Open SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Springs students ages 4 to 13-years-old can now sign up for the Spring 2021 season of Saratoga Springs Little League (SSLL).

Little League games will be played twice a week from late April

through early June at West Side Recreation in Saratoga Springs.

SSLL is also looking for volunteer field assistants, coaches, and managers. No experience necessary. A background check is required.

Registration is open until March 20. Sign up by Feb. 28 and save $10 (offer does not apply to TBall).

To register your child or to signup as a volunteer, go online to www.saratogaspringslittleleague. org/2021-registration

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Cheer for High School Sports at Home Don’t miss the game just because spectators aren’t allowed in the stands. Cheer on your school’s team by subscribing to their YouTube channel.

For example: Blue Streaks hockey will be livestreamed on the Saratoga Springs City School District channel, and basketball, wrestling, and cheer will be on the SSCSD Athletics channel. As the JV game ends, the stream will stop

before starting the varsity stream.

The Schuylerville Black Horses JV/Varsity Basketball home games can be viewed at the Schuylerville Athletics channel.

For others, the host team is responsible for streaming the games. Find schedules and links at www.schuylervilleschools.org.

Find them online to follow along with your favorite teams this season.

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MICHAEL LARKIN

“Basketball has always been a part of my life growing up.

Through the years, I have put lots of time and effort into this game. I am currently a guard on the varsity team and have been playing basketball for over 10 years. My love and passion for basketball has always been a big part of my life.

I look forward to pursuing a career in digital media in the future!” On Instagram: michael.larkin2

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Blue Streak Boys Ready For Season. Meet the Team: Varsity Basketball Seniors

TOM GOODEMOTE

“I’m a dual citizen of the US and Denmark. I plan to attend university in Denmark and study Business. I’ve played Varsity basketball and soccer these past two years and with the situation with COVID, I plan to play Volleyball and Lacrosse in the spring in order to become the first four sport athlete at Saratoga High.”

On Instagram: thomasgoodemote

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CARL O’CALLAGHAN

“My passion is basketball; I play all year round and hope to further my career at the collegiate level. I can play many positions on the court, including guard and forward.

My most memorable career moment is as a member of the Varsity team that won the Section 2 championship in 2018-19. In my spare time I like to ski and help out at SNACpac. My academic goal is to pursue a career in sports medicine.” Instagram: carl_ocallaghan. Twitter: Carl_OCallaghan

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WITT PATTON

“Next year I will be attending Penn State University where I will be studying finance. Growing up playing basketball I always loved it from the start. This being such a difficult year, I would like to thank my coaches for keeping us on track for a great season. My lowlights outweigh my highlights on the court but nothing beats being with the boys.” On Instagram: wittcpatton

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LUKE BRITTON

“Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been in love with basketball. It is something that runs deep in my family and something I’m proud of. I have committed an extreme amount of time and effort into this game solely because I love it so dearly. I’ll be going to prep school next year at Bridgton Academy joining the class of 2022 before making my jump into my college athletic and academic careers!”

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KALEB LEWIS

“I am graduating high school with a B+ average. I work on the weekend at a local sports bar and work full-time during the summer. I have been accepted into Utica college and plan to study physical therapy there. I play guard. I came off the bench last year, now I start and average around 14 points a game. I have lived in Saratoga for almost my entire life.”

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CHRISTIAN DUFORT

“I’ve been playing basketball for Saratoga since I was in 3rd grade. One of the highlights in my time playing basketball so far is winning the section 2 title in the 2018-19 season when I was a sophomore. It was a great group and we had fun working hard during practice and pushing each other which led to our success. Though I’m still deciding where to attend, I’ll be playing college basketball next year.”

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Saturday, Feb. 20: Saratoga Springs Celebrates Matt McCabe SARATOGA SPRINGS — Caffe Lena presents a free live stream at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20 in a celebration of the life and legacy of Matt McCabe, longtime owner of Saratoga Guitar and dedicated member of the local music scene.

Friends and family have submitted tributes, photos, and performances dedicated to McCabe, which will play as a live stream, hosted by Matt’s close friend Rick Bolton.

The city has officially declared Feb. 20, 2021 as Matt McCabe day in Saratoga Springs.