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Volume 6 • Issue 48 SaratogaPublishing.com
Ifs, Ands & Butts Questions Loom Large Over Electronic Cigarettes by Daniel Schechtman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA COUNTY – Stewart’s Shops’ Marketing Director Tom Mailey called the offices of New York State Tobacco Control early this week seeking guidance on a new product the shops plan to carry in the near future: electronic cigarettes. What Mailey found was a surprising lack of regulations and guidelines from the state and federal government, leaving many companies to draw up their own policies on a product that is relatively new and unknown in the market. “We are going to be selling them in the near future, but our policy is that you cannot right now – and it’s a policy that we admit could change down the road – but right now we are not going to allow people to See smoke them inside the shop,” Electronic said Mailey. “We will also page 9 only be selling the products to adults,” he added. To many who are new to
Unpalatable Horse Slaughter Ban Lifted; Locals React by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA COUNTY – Congress lifted a five-year ban on horse slaughtering for human consumption on November 18, restoring funding for federal inspectors to oversee the highlycontentious operations that feed international demands for horse meat. The ban was established in 2006, closing United States horse
slaughter houses in an effort to encourage equine rescues. However, the measure did not restrict owners, breeders and “kill buyers,” who purchase equines to profit from their slaughter, from exporting live horses to operations outside the United States. In some countries, like France and Canada, horse is a delicacy; in the United States, where equines are considered “companion pets,” like cats and
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Broadway Shuffle by Yael Goldman Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS – This winter, when you head downtown for some local holiday shopping, you’re sure to notice a few changes in the landscape. Broadway is always changing, but the recent flurry of activity is somewhat unusual – there are boutiques,
Here Comes Santa (to Saratoga)!
restaurants and businesses moving in, out, and all around Broadway. “People around here downsize, upsize, move – everybody does that around here,” said Lorri Birmingham, owner of Raina’s, one of a few Broadway shops getting ready to relocate.
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Inside TODAY City Council
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Obituaries
pg 6-7
Spring Street Deli - 15 Years pg 11 First Night
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Medicare
pg 18
Holiday Gift Guide pgs 19-22
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Photo by Cathy Duffy for MarkBolles.com
Restaurant Week pg 30
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