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Issue 50 • December 17 – December 23, 2021 • saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com
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Public Safety - Meet Spa HISTORY OF SARATOGA insideTODAY City’s New Commissioner Local Hero Changed the Obituaries 4 11-13 by Thomas Dimopoulos Outcome at Pearl Harbor Business Property Transactions 14-15
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Born in Brooklyn in the mid1950s, James Montagnino worked in the Bronx district attorney’s office in the 1980s, at the height of the crack epidemic, and then continued on in Westchester as a prosecutor with the district attorney’s and defense attorney with The Legal Aid Society. He’s been a visiting instructor at the police academy, principal court attorney for Supreme, County and Family Courts and court attorney/referee.
James Montagnino becomes Saratoga Springs’ Commissioner of Public Safety on Jan. 1. Photo provided.
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Saratoga Joins 13 Counties Refusing NY Mask Mandate by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced last week that masks would be required to be worn in all indoor public places statewide starting Monday Dec. 13. Businesses and venues could alternately implement a vaccine requirement, and the action was directed to address the “winter surge” with COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rising across the state, Hochul said.
On Monday morning, a great number of store windows fronting Broadway shops had been fitted with signs instructing all who enter to wear a mask. Late Monday, Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Chairman Theodore Kusnierz, Jr. released a statement to say the county’s Public Health Department and law enforcement agency would not enforce “New York State’s misguided and unrealistic mask mandate.” See Story pg. 10
Eighty years ago, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese forces launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and a local man played a big role in defending against that attack. Furthermore, his actions have been credited with shortening the war in the Pacific.
Education
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Get to Know Greenfield 24-25 Arts & Entertainment 34-37 Sports
Midshipman Lawrence Ruff. Photo Source: US Naval Academy, provided by The Saratoga County History Roundtable. See Story pg. 2
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FOUR ATHLETES NAMED ALL-STARS Four members of the Saratoga Springs Varsity Boys Soccer Team were selected to Suburban Council All-Star Teams: Vincent DeVito, Aidan Rosettie, Joe Radovic and Ryan Farr. Photo of Joe Radovic provided. See Story pg. 47
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