LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 12
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Issue 43
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October 26 – November 1, 2018
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saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com
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To Be, or Not to Be ... Armed by Lori Mahan Saratoga TODAY
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Saratoga Springs City School District voted NO, 5-4, to having armed School Resource Officers on the grounds after thirty years with their presence. On Tuesday, Oct. 23, hundreds of students, parents, and faculty filled the Meade Auditorium at the high school to voice their opinions on the vote. During board of education meetings, the board members will allow for a thirty-minute public hearing where the community can sign
up to speak for three minutes. At this meeting, however, the public hearing lasted for two hours. Kara Rosettie was the first to speak, and she is adamantly opposed to the board’s decision. So, opposed in fact, that she created Saratoga Parents for Safer Schools (SPFSC). SPFSC is “an organization built by parents and community members in the wake of the Oct 9, 2018 decision by the Saratoga Springs Board of Education to remove the historically proven armed security monitors from campus. The organization’s goal is to reauthorize the armed grounds monitor program.” See Story pg. 54
Fall Festivities:
FALL FEST
BOO2YOU
HEAD OF THE FISH
SATURDAY 11 A.M. - 4 P.M.
SATURDAY 2 - 4 P.M.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Photo by Deborah Neary. See pg. 60
Photo provided. See pg. 60
Photo by SuperSource Media, LLC. See pg. 68
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