LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 34 • August 26– September 1, 2016
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Food Network Glass, Grass, and Pillows Names Local Eatery as a Top Mom & Pop
by Megin Potter Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA — A positive recommendation from an unknown source resulted in a lifelong dream coming true for one local restauranteur this week. The Country Corner Café earned national recognition when it was included in a list of the Food Network’s Taste of Homes Top 24 Mom & Pop Restaurants in the U.S. “It was really quite a surprise,” said owner Roseann Hotaling about receiving the call that she’d been selected. The marvelous power of word of mouth had spread to the article’s Chicago-based writer Samantha Lande about their hearty breakfast and lunch items. “It really is a bit of a mystery, but with us also celebrating our 25th year in business, it’s an especially prestigious honor for us to be included, and really a dream come true,” said Hotaling. Perhaps it is that The Country Corner Café serves a large selection of distinctively Northeastern home-cooked favorites from recipes that Hotaling learned growing up on a farm See Food pg. 25
Photo by MarkBolles.com
Shadowing a Giant Heart Through Hidden Homes
by Norra Reyes Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Meeting Deanna Hensley for the first time is like meeting an old friend, a great quality in a homeless outreach coordinator. Her giant heart shows in her welcoming smile and gentle, fierce protection of Saratoga Springs’ homeless neighbors. On Friday, August 12, Hensley invited me, Congressman Paul Tonko (NY-20), and congressional staffer Marilyn Smith to ride along with her during her outreach work for Shelters of Saratoga (SOS). We began in Congress Park, meeting at the park’s north entrance in front of her white van. “I usually have the RV, but it’s in the shop,” See Glass pg. 12-13
Congressman Paul Tonko and SOS Outreach Coordinator Deanna Hensley discussed the needs of Saratoga’s homeless population during a recent homeless outreach ride-along. Photo by Marilyn Smith.
Whoa! Cuomo: Down the Stretch
by Maureen Werther Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — With only hours to go before racing fans stream through the gates at historic Saratoga Racetrack, Governor Cuomo has not RSVP’d to his invitation to attend the 147th running of the Travers Stakes Saturday [as of print time of this paper]. According to an assistant in the Governor’s Invitations office, the invitation was received but is “still under review and a response is still
forthcoming.” In July, Concerned Citizens for Saratoga Racing, a committee formed through the Saratoga County Regional Chamber of Commerce, sent the governor an invitation to visit the Saratoga racetrack and see firsthand why it is such a special place. The goal of the invitation was to change the governor’s mind about delaying re-privatization of NYRA for yet another year. In 2012, after several years of declining revenues, a bankruptcy filing and scandals related to excessive See Cuomo pg. 15
Travers Full Coverage See pg. 45-52
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