LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 14 •
Issue 34
• August 21 – August 27, 2020
Jack Knowlton From Fairy Tale to Triumph
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Spa Catholic’s New Principal by Opal Jessica Bogdan Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Central Catholic School (SCC) is starting out the new school year with a new principal. Joe Kilmade has replaced former interim Principal Michael Kondratowicz as the head
administrator for the 2020-2021 school year. Kilmade is a former native of the Capital District, born and raised in Albany. He returns after most recently serving as Administrator and Principal in the Archdiocese of St. Louis for the past eleven years. See Story pg. 16 & 17
CHARTER CHANGE BACK ON THE BALLOT See Story pg. 9
SMALL TOWN,
Big League Experience by Joe Raucci Saratoga TODAY Earlier this week I was given the opportunity to interview Jack Knowlton and discuss his meteoric rise to the top of the horse racing universe. It all began twenty- five years ago. THE FORMATIVE YEARS In 1995 Jack and five pals of his formed Sackatoga Stable. The name was a play on words. A combination of letters from the crew’s hometown of Sackets
Harbor along with Jack’s residency in Saratoga Springs creating an amusing name for the enterprise. They chose the staid checkered colors of maroon and gray that matched those of their high school for the stable’s jockey silks. They liked the name so much that they named their first horse Sackets Six. Little did they know that eight years later lightning would strike them in the form of a three-year-old gelding with the name Funny Cide. See Story pg. 30
See Story pg. 10
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