LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 16
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Issue 4
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January 28 – February 3, 2022
Saratoga Defeats Colonie, Honors ’72 Team
Saratoga Varsity Wrestling - Junior Gordan Murray. Photo by Super Source Media.. See Story pg. 39
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The Saratoga Electric Railway by James Richmond Sponsored by The Saratoga County History Roundtable
electric railway. However, the beginning of the trolley age was not without its birth pains.
Many are aware that one of the first steam railroads in the country was the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad, which began regular service in 1832. The coming of the railroad provided a great boost to the growth of the resort town of Saratoga Springs. Fewer may realize that sixty years later the resort and the surrounding communities benefited greatly by another transportation revolution, the
In 1880, Major John L. Butman moved to a home on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs. He was well known in railroad circles for his development of several railroads in New England, include the Fitchburg Railroad and the famous Hoosick Tunnel in western Massachusetts. His move to Saratoga may have been for the purpose of extending those railroad lines into New York State. See Story pg. 2
Schuylerville’s Sherman GREENFIELD Commits to RPI JUST GOT SAFER
Recently elected Greenfield Town Supervisor Kevin Veitch, at right, and former town Supervisor Dan Pemrick (to Veitch’s right), joined by EMT’s and paramedics at the town’s new ambulance/EMS facility on South Greenfield Road, Jan. 25, 2022. Photo by SuperSource Media. See Story pg. 9
Owen Sherman. Photo provided. See Story pg. 35
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