LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 18 • Issue 40 • November 1 - November 7, 2024 • saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com • 518- 581-2480
EVERYTHING Ballston Spa’s Strange Inventions
ELECTION by Timothy Starr | Saratoga County History Roundtable
• POLLING PLACES ......................pg 3
• REGISTERED VOTERS ON THE RISE
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• VOTER ENROLLMENT PARTY STATS
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• EARLY VOTER NUMBERS ......................pg 8
• VOTER INTIMIDATION: WHAT IT IS ......................pg 8
Ballston Spa has always been proud of its industrious and enterprising citizens. The wealthiest and most successful individuals such as George West, Isaiah Blood, and Nicholas Low receive the most attention, but there are many others who have been immortalized in local histories,
documents, and speeches. In his centennial address of 1907, village president Irving Wiswall summarized (and somewhat exaggerated) the accomplishments of some of the most famous residents: See Story pg. 2
COUNCIL SEAT FILLED Election Still ON Jan. 28 by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS — And now they are five. The four currently serving members of the Saratoga Springs City Council unanimously
approved the appointment of Hank Kuczynski as interim Commissioner of Public Works, during a pre-scheduled Finance Department budget workshop attended by about one dozen people at City Hall Oct. 29. See Story pg. 9
Saratoga Entrepreneurs Pitch Ideas Local entrepreneurs pitched and discussed their business ideas at the “Startup Saratoga” event at the Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs. Photo provided by the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce.
See Story pg. 12
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