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Issue 50 • December 14 – December 20, 2018 • saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com
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Ballston Spa Hannaford Approved Proposed elevation of the Hannaford store in Ballston Spa submitted to the Town for site plan approval. Photo provided by Hannaford.
by Marissa Gonzalez Saratoga TODAY BALLSTON — After a tumultuous 15 years for the Rossi family, and their 76-acre property in Ballston, it was decided that their land will finally see a Hannaford supermarket. At a Nov. 28 planning board
meeting, Hannaford Supermarkets received approval to build on the Rossi’s property, off Rt. 50/67 (Church Avenue) in Ballston. Construction is expected to begin in the spring, according to Frank Rossi II. Rossi is the son of property owners Frank Rossi, Sr. and Rose Marie Rossi. “The entire history of the
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first Walmart project through the approval of the Hannaford project has been about 15 years in the making. Obviously, with my parents celebrating their 80th birthdays in the past couple years, it’s been a very tough on them during the lows, but they are optimistic that they’ll finally see something built on the property
in their lifetime,” Rossi said. Fifteen years ago the initial plans were to build a Walmart on the property, but in Nov. 30, 2016, Walmart had walked away from the project. According to Rossi, that same day just hours later he received a phone call saying Hannaford was interested. See Story pg. 12
Local Woman Reflects on Border Crossing Then and Now by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY Diana Barnes has been a regular visitor to the US-Mexico border since the time she was a child, a half-century ago. She plans to return by month’s end, this time with her own daughter by her side. “As a young child, I regularly crossed into Mexico at Tijuana,” says Barnes, who teaches US/ Mexico border studies and Spanish language and Literature at Skidmore College and is a member of the Saratoga Immigration Coalition. Tijuana is the busiest land border in
the Western hemisphere, if not the entire world. The purpose was to visit her grandfather, a U.S. citizen who emigrated from England to Canada, then to the U.S., and then later in life, to Mexico. “We would pack up our red VW bus and head south for an adventure in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico. At the border, I loved the sounds, the lights, the colors, the smells, the bustle, and the important-looking uniformed men ushering the cars through to one side or the other,” Barnes recalls. See Story pg. 11
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