LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 17
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Issue 24
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June 16 – June 22, 2023
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Proposed three-story addition on Broadway. Rendering: Dalpos Architects & Integrators. See Story pg. 8
Photo provided by Saratoga Springs City School District. See Story pg. 31
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24/7 Shelter Open by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS – A new homeless shelter opened on Adelphi Street this week, the first low barrier facility in Saratoga Springs to be open year-round. The shelter will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and house 30 beds. Monday, June 12 marked the first day of operation. It was filled to capacity. “It’s been calm,” Sybil Newell said Tuesday. Newell is the executive
Indoor Golf Coming to Broadway
director of RISE Housing and Support Services – the agency operating the shelter. “We have some people staying here who go to work, so we had a handful of folks who got up this morning, had breakfast, and went to work.” The shelter is located just west of South Broadway - in close proximity to the Saratoga County Mental Health Clinic building on South Broadway, and RISE’s main office on Union Street - and since 2020 operated seasonally on an See Story pg. 9
Photo by Dylan McGlynn. See Story pg. 13
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