LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 15
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Issue 10
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March 5 – March 11, 2021
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POPULAR PHILA STREET EATERY CLOSING DOORS
by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
Four Seasons Café which has been located on Phila Street since 1990, pictured on March 3, 2021. Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — After serving Spa City customers for more than a quarter-century, a popular Phila Street eatery has closed its doors for the final time. Four Seasons Natural Foods, which stood at the corner of Phila and Putnam Streets since 1990, is in the contract process of being sold to new owners. “In the restaurant business, it’s a crazy ride,” says owner Richard Frank. The store portion of Four Seasons was relocated in 2014 to 120
Henry Street – where it has and will continue to operate - and the Phila Street location was re-configured into the Four Seasons café. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country, and like many other businesses, the Phila Street venue was affected. “Everybody took a hit in sales, but as far as ours, last summer we were doing about 25% of what we had been doing the summer before,” says Frank, who grew up in Pennsylvania and was introduced to Saratoga when he began spending summers here at the age of nine. See Story pg. 12
Saratoga County 2 Shut-outs & Counting Street Outreach Model Guides Homelessness
TOGA HOCKEY
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Efforts are “systematic, coordinated, and comprehensive.” In plain language, this means that no agency or person goes it alone. This must be a community effort. Saratoga Springs Varsity Boys’ Ice Hockey Team. Photo courtesy of Tim Horst.
See Story pg. 31
See Story pg. 10
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