LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 11 • March 24 – March 30, 2017
Parents Push Back
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Building a Better Robot Local Schools Excel at Regional Competition
Featured Stories
City Explains Immigration Policy
Members of Saratoga Conservative Chicks during their interview on “Fox & Friends.”
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by Thomas Kika Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS – After discovering what they saw as a questionably one-sided graphic in their childrens’ schoolwork, a local group of conservativeminded women decided to take action, and soon found themselves in the national spotlight on the popular morning news and talk program, “Fox & Friends.” “Saratoga Conservative Chicks” is a Facebook group that launched early on March 22, but prior to that, its members had been chatting daily through social media and sharing information since early last year. “The group has grown exponentially in the past 6 months,” said Amy, a member of the group who wished to be referred to only by her first name for the sake of her family. “We chat daily through social media, etc., and last week a concerned parent brought to our attention the assignment by a classroom teacher at Saratoga High School.”
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Charles Oakley in Town Saturday. See pg. 36
Inside TODAY Ballston Spa robotics team posing after winning the Chairman’s Award. Courtesy of Ballston Spa Central School District.) See Building pg. 18
Realizing the American Dream
by Larry Goodwin Saratoga TODAY
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Obituaries 6 Business 16-17 Education 18-19 Arts and Entertainment 28-31
Sports 35-39
MALTA — Zulfiqar Zulfi has come a long way since riding a bike to work at a Schenectady County gas station. The friendly immigrant from Pakistan now owns two stations of his own and is planning an expensive renovation to the one located on Route 9 in Malta. “I’m a true American dream guy,” Zulfi says. “This is a great country. You get what you work for.” The father of four settled in Clifton Park in 1993. Four years earlier, he had arrived in California from Pakistan, he says, “with $200 in my pocket.” A friend of his living in Albany at
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40|26 SUNDAY Zulfiqar Zulfi at one of his businesses. Photo provided.
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