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Volume 6 • Issue 38 SaratogaPublishing.com
What A Weekend! This weekend, our region comes alive with some of the best events of the fall season. Check out our complete coverage of all these great happenings in Pulse: - Henry Street Harvest Festival – page 29 - Adirondack Balloon Festival – page 30 - Saratoga Springs Peace Fair – page 30 - Saratoga Polo Fall Festival – page 31 And, as long as you’re ‘out and about,’ our Local Gigs live music listings on page 28 will give you several great choices to supplement your fun. Enjoy! - Arthur Gonick
Local Grads Keep Downtown Growing by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY
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Harvey Fox with father Norman and son Jevan in front of the n.Fox Jewelers clock in August 1999.
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Like many of his classmates, Harvey Fox left Saratoga Springs in 1971 after high school graduation, and headed to college without any intention of moving back. He left behind him a city with very little career opportunity, and a dismal downtown business district. "Close to half the buildings were empty," Fox said. Of course, there were exceptions, including his father Norm's small appliance and odds and ends
shop, which opened in 1947 in the basement of 417 Broadway. At the time, Saratoga Springs was for many youngsters a place to run away from. But Fox never made his great getaway. He moved home four years later and helped out at his parents’ store, which had relocated to 404 Broadway. In 1977, he purchased the business, and opened it as n. Fox Jewelers - a store he still gratefully runs to this day in a much brighter city. Fox is just one of many local prerevitalization graduates that chose to stick around. Charles Wait, president
of The Adirondack Trust Company, also planned on leaving Saratoga after he graduated in 1969. "It's very different now from when I went to school," Wait said. "Very few people in my graduating class thought of coming back here to work. The reason for that being there weren't jobs in Saratoga." Now, he said, the landscape is
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Inside TODAY... City Council
Storing Radioactive Materials
Business
Public comment sought for proposed KAPL facility
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by Daniel Schechtman Saratoga TODAY WEST MILTON - A new storage facility designed to hold mechanical parts, equipment, and low-level radioactive materials has been proposed for West Milton at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Kesselring site. The public will have
until September 30 to make their opinions on the facility known. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is currently seeking input from local residents regarding its proposed storage facility, which will be designed to, "streamline radioactive material handling and storage operations, permit demolition of
aging facilities, and accommodate efficient maintenance of existing nuclear reactors," according to KAPL's notice of intent at www.NNPP-NEPA.us. KAPL is a government owned facility tasked with constructing, maintaining, designing and
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