LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 18
• Issue 39 • October 25 - October 31, 2024 •
PAID PARKING
Here Today or Gone Tomorrow? by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS — More than two dozen downtown business owners convened at City Hall last week to meet with city Mayor John Safford. The group of entrepreneurs largely expressed displeasure with the inaugural paid parking system the city implemented during the summer season, and pointed to the paid
parking plan as a cause for lost sales revenue while requesting its planned return for summer 2025 be terminated. How successful their plea was, has yet to be determined, however. “We are asking that the paid parking program in Saratoga Springs be halted,” said John Nemjo, owner of Saratoga Outdoors and Life is Good Saratoga, on Broadway.
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BEGINS
SARATOGA COUNTY — Early voting gets underway Saturday, Oct. 26 at six polling sites in Saratoga County. All voters may vote at any poll site. Early Voting is just like voting on Election Day. Early voters privately mark and scan their ballot. Early voting results are counted, tabulated and included in (unofficial) election night totals. Early voters are provided with nine days to vote in person prior to Election Day.
Early voting dates and hours of operation are provided by local County Boards of Elections. Voters who have applied for an Early Vote by Mail or Absentee Ballot are not permitted to vote on the voting machines, but may be issued an Affidavit Ballot. Voters who cast a ballot during Early Voting will not be allowed to vote on Election Day. To see a list of early voting polling site locations and times of operation, SEE PAGE 2...