LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 12
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Issue 27
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July 6 – July 12, 2018
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SARATOGA BASEBALL CAP: Sunday, July 22
season begins
Photo by Alan Edstrom. See Story pg. 39
SARATOGA UMBRELLA: Monday, August 6
CONQUERING CANCER Home & garden
by Marissa Gonzalez Saratoga TODAY
SARATOGA BLANKET: Monday, August 20
SARATOGA WINDBREAKER: Sunday, September 2 Photos provided. See more on pg. 36.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Richard Smith’s battle with kidney cancer began in 2012 and thanks to a drug called Opdivo + Yervoy, he’s around to tell the tale. Smith has lived in the Capital Region for 30 years, and moved to Saratoga Springs in 2012. He works as an engineer at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. “My story is a real roller coaster ride. It all started in December of 2012 when I noticed blood in my urine. I scheduled a visit with my general practitioner for two days later. But a day later I felt a sharp
See pgs. 18-20
insideTODAY Richard Smith and his family. Photo provided. pain like kidney stones and decided to go to the hospital where doctors found a tumor the size of a tennis ball in my left kidney. I had clear cell renal cell carcinoma, kidney cancer. Making a bad day even worse I was also told I had high
blood pressure and high blood sugar. A week later I had surgery at Saratoga Hospital to remove the kidney and I was told the cancer had not spread and I was deemed cancer free,” Smith said. See Story pg. 11
Obituaries
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Business
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Education
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Property Transactions 19 Arts & Entertainment 28-31 Sports
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