LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 16
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Issue 19
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May 13 – May 19, 2022
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BEST OF
NYS PARK POLICE RAISE CONCERN OVER DWINDLING NUMBERS THE SARATOGA REGION by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — More than 75 million people visit New York’s 180 state parks, 40 historic sites and numerous beaches every year. Less than 200 officers are charged with protecting those visitors, and in recent years the number of officers representing the N.Y. State Park Police has dwindled at an alarming rate. “They are truly ambassadors for New York’s parks,” said
Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake), leading a presser alongside members of N.Y. State Park Police from across the state, at the Hall of Springs this week. “But in the past few years, terrible things have happened,” said Woerner, citing employee promotions and transfers being frozen, investigative and detective positions eliminated and dispatch services removed altogether from the Saratoga Zone and placed instead with state police. See Story pg. 9
Saratoga Shredders New Bike Park Planned
Photo provided. See Story pg. 30
2022 RESULT S After weeks of voting and over 54,000 votes… THE RESULTS ARE IN! Check out the ‘Best of the Saratoga Region,' a 40 page pull-out section TODAY.
GUITAR LEGEND This Weekend in Spa City by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — It is Friday afternoon. A steel-silver sky dangles over a blacktop lot that cradles a motorcar blazoned in gunmetal gray. Inside the car, the beautiful tone fragments that flow from Richard Lloyd’s guitar gush from the speakers. The band is Television. The music is “Marquee Moon.” “I remember, how the darkness doubled. I recall, lightning struck itself. I was listening, listening to the rain. I was hearing, hearing something else…” Just at that moment, the ring of the phone cuts through all sweetness and melancholy, and bullies its way across the Bluetooth, sounding over the speakers of the car. “This is Richard Lloyd,” the voice says. “It looks like it’s going to rain here. Is it raining where you are?” Richard Lloyd performs at Putnam Place Saturday, May 14. Photo: PutnamPlace.com. See Story pg. 25
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