LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 37 • September 22 – September 28, 2017
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The Saratoga Building Boom:
Too Much of a Good Thing, or Simply According to Plan? by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
Depicted at right, proposal of one of two new six-story hotels on Washington St.
Saratogian Inducted Into NYS Baseball Hall of Fame
To maintain and promote the “City in the Country” form that includes an intensively developed urban core, an economically vibrant central business district, and residential neighborhoods with well-defined urban edges and an outlying area of rural character. - Saratoga Springs Comprehensive Plan, adopted by the City Council June 16, 2015. Ever since Gideon Putnam began his early 19th century buildup in what would later become the
downtown core, there has been an ebb and flow to the architectural terrain of Saratoga Springs. Putnam’s original boarding house would give way to Union Hall and the Grand Union Hotel, and soon be joined in close geographic proximity by the massive structures of Congress Hall and the United States Hotel. The arrival of the steam locomotive in the 1830s made it easier for visitors to come to the then-village, and the first public street lighting with gas went up in 1853. By See Boom pg. 9
Hospital Creates New Addiction Team by Larry Goodwin Saratoga TODAY
Coach Mound on the field last season.
See Baseball pg. 43
The Saratoga Community Health Center on Hamilton Street. Photo by Larry Goodwin.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — For months, three doctors in the Saratoga Hospital Medical Group have been leading a team of medical professionals who are determined to offer solutions for the problem of drug addiction in local communities. The team operates a new program out of the Saratoga See Hospital pg. 11
Winners! See pgs. 18-26
Inside TODAY Blotter 5 Obituaries 6 Business 14-15 Education 16-17 Arts and Entertainment 36-39
Sports 42-47