Tag: Saratoga Springs

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    Lively service, vital flavors

    Fryer foods showcase cousins’ sauces, spice blends By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.   Jude Goldberg and Reuben Schwartz tend the Vital Eats booth on Sundays at the Spa City Farmers Market. Stacey Morris photo On a summer Sunday afternoon, a line is beginning to form at the Vital Eats booth at the Spa read more

    Lively service, vital flavors
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    Alliance boosts a fledgling arts temple

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    Performing arts venue in former church joins forces with Proctors By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.   Universal Preservation Hall, a performing arts center in a former church in downtown Saratoga Springs, has formed a new operating alliance with Proctors, the historic theater in Schenectady. Joan K. Lentini photo A long-running effort to transform read more

    Alliance boosts a fledgling arts temple
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    Developers push to change Saratoga’s outer greenbelt

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    In golf club’s plans, some see threat to Saratoga’s greenbelt By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.   The landscape around Exit 14 of the Northway, on the east side of Saratoga Springs, remains largely wooded as a result of open-space protections the city adopted more than 20 years ago. Critics fear that could change read more

    Developers push to change Saratoga’s outer greenbelt
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    Changing the ground rules for Spa City development?

    We live in an era when zoning and planning laws supposedly give communities the power to shape their own destinies, where the public has a chance to shape the ground rules for their town’s development and an ability to scrutinize the specifics of each new project. The reality in many communities, however, is a planning read more

    Changing the ground rules for Spa City development?
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    Parking garage plan raises ire in Saratoga

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    By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.   The Saratoga Springs City Center, seen above from Maple Avenue, is proposing to build a 511-space parking garage to replace a surface parking lot across the street. An architect’s rendering, left, shows the garage and a new pedestrian bridge over Maple Avenue that would link it to read more

    Parking garage plan raises ire in Saratoga
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    Local video adds to debate over police tactics

    A Saratoga County sheriff’s sergeant resigned last month and was charged with official misconduct and harassment after a video that went viral on the Internet showed him berating and apparently slapping a young man who was refusing to allow his car to be searched. The video, which quickly became part of a growing national debate read more

    Local video adds to debate over police tactics
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    Two cities, two tales of managing growth

    By coincidence we have two stories in this issue about small cities in the region that are grappling with how best to preserve their character and shape their future development.Pittsfield and Saratoga Springs are separated by a state line and have quite different economic and political traditions, so it may not be entirely fair to read more

    Two cities, two tales of managing growth
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    In Saratoga, juice bars proliferate

    By STACEY MORRISContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. From behind her table at the Spa City Farmers Market, Sydney Peyser presides over three moonshine-sized jugs of her just-squeezed juices. Each is a different color, reflecting the differing ratios of fruits and vegetables. Peyser pours 8- and 16-ounce servings to her regulars, many of whom amble up read more

    In Saratoga, juice bars proliferate
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    For struggling cities, lessons from Saratoga

    The construction cranes that have been moving around the downtown skyline for the past 15 years have made Saratoga Springs the envy of other small cities across the Northeast.As our cover story this month details, downtown Saratoga is booming, with new multi-story buildings springing up regularly on what had been empty or underused lots. These read more

    For struggling cities, lessons from Saratoga
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    In Saratoga Springs, a construction boom keeps going

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    By THOMAS DIMOPOULOSContributing writer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.   Long before the Saratoga battles of the Revolutionary War, before the grand hotels of the Victorian era or the opening of the horse-racing track that would draw thousands of visitors to the region every summer, the 28 square miles that would become the city of Saratoga Springs read more

    In Saratoga Springs, a construction boom keeps going