Saratoga Springs News

Saratoga Springs Police Officer Joseph Carey was awarded a Mother's Against Drunk Driving Recognition Award for his DWI enforcement efforts during 2008 at an awards ceremony in Albany on Friday, Nov.

There've been a lot of numbers thrown around in Saratoga Springs lately -- mostly from city leaders who will give pink slips to more than two dozen city employees.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play , the Sarah Ruhl play that bowed Nov. 19 at the Lyceum Theatre, wavers between comedy and drama over the trials and errors of Victorian sex therapy.

Wonders will never cease. Sarah Ruhl , whose previous work I execrated, has written a smart, charming, iridescently funny-serious jewel, a oeIn the Next Room or The Vibrator Play.a Presented on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater , it is about American women at a oethe dawn of the age of electricitya achieving sexual emancipation thanks to the ...

Once Thought Dead, The Albany Convention Center Authority in New York Unveils Proposed Design for 300,000 Square-foot Facility at a Cost of $220 million Nov.

Bettiea TMs Cakes a ' A Cupcakery CafA© has opened on the lower levelA of Downstreet Marketplace at 454 Broadway in Saratoga Springs, in a space formerly occupied by Spa City Cupcakes.

Time Warner Cable Sports channel 3 will televise three high school football state regional playoff games this weekend from Dietz Stadium in Kingston. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake is featured at 8PM on Friday while Saratoga Springs plays at the same time on Saturday.

A flurry of fancifully painted canoes could be on display throughout Lake George Village as soon as this summer, if a municipal trustee's brainstorm is realized.

Proposed changes made this morning to the city's 2010 budget would lower the projected property tax rate increase to 7 percent from 7.8 percent, but the plan would continue to depend on $1.35 million from a controversial plan to institute paid parking.

Former TV news anchorwoman Tracy Egan has a new job selling real estate at Pinnacle Realty Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Egan, a reporter and anchor for 14 years at WTEN-TV in Albany, is a familiar face to people in the region.

Old Friends, a racehorse retirement farm located near Georgetown, Ky., has opened its first satellite for retired Thoroughbreds. The new New York facility is in Greenfield Center, Saratoga County.

The Vermont brewer's combo includes three bottles each of Lucky Kat , a snappy IPA; #9 , a refreshing, very smooth "not-quite-pale" number; Winter Odd Notion 09 , a diverting sour ale; and Howl , a wintry brew.

The city will be hosting its 23rd annual Victorian Streetwalk on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., the Saratoga Springs Downtown Business Association announced Tuesday.

Drew Campbell put on the definitive driving clinic of the 2009 harness season at Scarborough Downs on Sunday afternoon, collecting seven wins from 11 programmed drives, while posting the most prolific performance of the season at the seaside oval. ... Meanwhile, Faith Ann posted a career best at Saratoga.

Well, now somebody else is going to get a chance. Monroe-Woodbury's four-year domination of the right half of the state came to an end Saturday night, and New Rochelle finally gained a long-awaited measure of revenge.

As the audience files into the colorful afternoon following the closing performance of "Curtains," the actors and production team stream into the green room of the Spa Little Theater.

The Saratoga Springs football team won the field position battle, and in the process won the Section II, Class AA title.

I write to take issue with Professor Roy Ginsberg, a friend and Skidmore colleague.

The good news is that the dog is OK. WNYT reports that the Saratoga County hunters discovered the 4-year-old beagle a couple of days ago in a remote section of the woods, off Drager Road in Providence.

Terry Stortz, the county's director of preventive health services, said the death of a 7-year-old Shenendehowa pupil earlier this month has not been confirmed as a case of H1N1 - or swine flu - but it is suspected.