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Volume 7 • Issue 2 SaratogaPublishing.com
Back to Basics Low-Tech Education in a High-Tech World by Daniel Schechtman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS – At what point is technology appropriate to introduce to young, developing minds? As some schools rush to arm their students each with their own iPad, replace chalkboards with SMART boards and television screens to create an interactive, technologicallydriven educational experience, others
like the Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs favor interactions between teachers and students over interactive experiences between students and computer screens. The use of technology in schools, especially as such technology becomes cheaper and easier for districts to acquire, has become more commonplace with each passing day. But for parents like Douglas Reamer, who worked for the State
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Rottie Rescue! Saving Lives Four Paws at a Time by Christina James Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS- An innovative group of animal lovers is taking on a pretty daunting task: changing public opinion. Tina Hudson, Darryl Saunders, Tom Lange, Lori Fallon and Jami Nazzaro make up Rottie Empire Rescue (RER), an agency that is giving hope to hundreds of shelter dogs and shedding a new light on some public misconceptions.
RER adopts dogs that are typically hard to find homes for - dogs with physical limitations like amputated limbs; anxiety from a lifetime of abuse; or bad reputations, like a rottweiler or a pit bull. After receiving these dogs from area shelters, emergency rescue operations or unsatisfactory owners, RER does a lot more than toss them into a cage and cross their fingers. “We do not board dogs,” said RER
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Fire Station Burns Residents Malta Homeowners Protest Proposed Midtown Location by Barb Cook Saratoga TODAY MALTA – A proposed midtown fire station is the hot topic in Malta. The fire department has a list of reasons for choosing a Dunning Street location, but residents say they want to “live in a forest” and their forest is rapidly disappearing. Donna Kessler has lived in the Luther Forest neighborhood for 28
years. Her backyard abuts the fouracre parcel that the Fire Companies of Malta are eyeing for the midtown station. If built, the fire station parking lot would be 75 feet from her property line. She said that’s not enough of a buffer. “It just doesn’t fit in the environment there; it’s a residential area,” Kessler asserted. Richard Guerin, grant manager and
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Obituaries pgs 6-7 Business
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Education pg 9 Pulse
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