LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 12
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Issue 17
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April 27 – May 3, 2018
Boyhaven Deal Goes Sour by Larry Goodwin Saratoga TODAY MILTON — Months of delay have endangered carefully laid plans for Milton to finalize a contract with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for a purchase of the former Boyhaven property in the northwestern part of town. On Wednesday night, Milton Planning Board Chairman Larry Woolbright, who has worked diligently for a year in his free time to secure the real estate transaction, made clear his displeasure with the inaction by the Milton Town Board.
Woolbright explained that a donor, who pledged $500,000 toward the purchase insisting on strict anonymity, had decided to rescind that offer due to apparent attempts to reveal his identity. Plus, Woolbright said, the BSA Twin Rivers Council has communicated to him its intention to instead award a developer the Boyhaven property contract. Supervisor Scott Ostrander claimed that negotiations are ongoing between Milton Town Attorney James Craig and the Twin Rivers Council legal team.
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Photo by Pattie Garrett. See Story pg. 26
TRASH TO TREASURE by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
Memorabilia from the Saratoga Fair, and an old-school tape recorder, such as was used in the 1970s for recording interviews.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Garage sales. Flea markets. Estate sales. Tony Izzo has rummaged through the past on a scavenger hunt to uncover history for as long as he can remember. “I go to several of them a week and have been collecting things since I was a kid,” says the city resident, who works by day as a local attorney. “I especially enjoy collecting audio, and there is a lot of audio history out there - things that sat in someone’s attic or garage - but the problem is when people find this sort of
stuff they can’t find anything to play it on, so they throw them out without knowing what they are.” At one local sale he came upon a slew of boxes filled with audio tapes with no idea what they contained. “Nobody was paying much attention to them. I ended up buying five or six boxes and only paid a few dollars a box,” he recalls. “There were hundreds of tapes - 90 percent of them were re-recordings of commercial albums, but I learned there were also tapes from the estate of a man who was a local radio broadcaster and his collection had things he had accumulated throughout his career.” See Story pg. 9
OPIOID NATION TOUGH LOVE Part Three of a multi-part series addressing local and regional handling of the opioid crisis. See pg. 12
insideTODAY Obituaries
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Business
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Education
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Arts & Entertainment 30-33 Religion
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Property Transactions 35 Sports
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