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LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 41 • October 20 – October 26, 2017

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Restaurant Owner Targets Former Lillian’s Location by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY

Front view of proposed Cantina restaurant, at 408 Broadway, the former location of Lillian’s Restaurant.

$18,117 Raised

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A new eatery, albeit one known to Saratogians for a decade, has targeted the location formerly housing Lillian’s restaurant at 408 Broadway. Plans call for the two-story development of a new Cantina restaurant at the vacant space bordered by The Washington building to the north and Gardner Lane to the south. First floor designs show a kitchen, bar and dining area with a staircase that leads to the

See Great Pumpkin pg. 37

See Lillian’s pg. 12

Longtime Wilton Supervisor Challenge by Larry Goodwin Saratoga TODAY

Saratoga Bridges raised $18,000 at this year’s Annual Great Pumpkin Challenge.

second floor which features a catering kitchen and approximately 2,700 square feet of “open seating,” indicating an event space. Changes include new lighting and signage, windows installed along Gardner Lane alley, and upgrades to the front exterior façade. Lillian’s restaurant closed on Jan. 1, 2016 after more than 40 years on Broadway. Two months later owner Ray Morris sold the building to 408 Broadway Realty LLC for $2.45 million. The buyer, reported the Albany Business Review in 2016, was technology

part of campaigning,” says Nancy Dwyer, who started a new line on the Nov. 7 election ballot called WILTON — Since the first week Public Servants. A sample ballot of June, a real estate broker and for the Town of Wilton provided former math teacher has knocked by the Saratoga County Board of on hundreds of doors at homes Elections also lists Dwyer on the Democratic in Wilton to “As far as I’m concerned, the line for garner suptown is open and transparent and supervisor. port for her accountable to the residents.” “I love campaign to meeting the unseat longtime Republican Supervisor people of this town and the one thing that stresses me the most is Arthur Johnson. “Knocking on doors ener- the time constraints prohibiting See Wilton pg. 11 gizes me and is my most favorite