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LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11  •  Issue 48  •  December 9 – December 15, 2016

Five Decades

Saratoga Hospital’s 1st 50-year Employee SARATOGA SPRINGS — More than fifty years ago, when the Civil Rights movement was in full swing and Medicare was in its infancy, the national median household income was $7,143, and Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court Justice, Thelma Williams studied at Manpower and started a career in nursing at University Hospital in Syracuse. Shortly afterwards, she began working in the operating room at Saratoga Hospital, and stayed there for 45 years, single-parenting her five children. Now a surgical liaison, the See Decades pg. 10

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Ranked # 1 in State

by Kiersten Racela Saratoga TODAY

SCHUYLERVILLE — This week’s Athlete of the Week was nominated by wrestling head coach Erik Johanson. Junior Orion Anderson is currently a junior on the school’s wrestling team. As a mere freshman Anderson made quite the impression on the Mighty Horses, by finishing as a runner-up at the New York State competition. The very next year he was crowned the New York State champion. He is currently ranked as the top wrestler in

Photo provided by Erik Johanson, head coach, Schuylerville High School Wrestling See Ranked pg. 55

Tear Down:

Historic Building Couldn’t be Saved

by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY

Thelma Williams is celebrating the 50th anniversary of her nursing career at Saratoga Hospital. Photo by Cathleen Duffy.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The demolition team arrived from Schenectady alongside the Thursday morning sun and began the delicate disassembly of a fragile 19th century building on Caroline Street ravaged by fire on Thanksgiving Day. Efforts to salvage the structure, which included securing a third engineering opinion late Tuesday, proved unsuccessful. “The result is not what we hoped,” said Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation Executive Director Samantha Bosshart, in a statement issued Thursday morning.

Gift Guide

See pg. 34-37

Inside TODAY Blotter 5 Obituaries 6 Business 16-17 Education 20-21 Pulse 46-49 Demolition begins at 26 Caroline Street Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos.

See Tear pg. 8

Sports 52-55


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