LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 50 • December 23, 2016 – January 5, 2017
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2016 Team of the Year
2016 Saratoga Springettes succeeding at the regional, state and national level! Photo Provided.
A Christmas Miracle by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY BALLSTON LAKE — They were told they were the lucky winners of a contest that granted them a three-day stay in a North Country hotel. For the Lefebvres – wife Kristin and husband Andrew and the kids Angelo, and Te’a, and Milana, and Anamaria - it was a respite for a family that could use a break. Yet, still, there was more. The family of six shares a home on Ballston Lake with Kristin’s father and her older
brother, Tommy, who suffers from severe autism and for whom Kristin is co-guardian. Sevenyear-old Milana suffers from daily seizures and unexplained fevers and requires 24/7 care. Shortly after the Lefebvres’ 4-year-old daughter, Anamaria, was born, Kristin’s mother was diagnosed with cancer. “She passed very fast,” remembered Kristin, whose life as a parent to four children not-yet-in-their-teens can be stressful enough, to say nothing of the additional role as caregiver. See Miracle pg. 9
See Team pg. 47
First Night ‘17 • Schedules • Stories • Interviews by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — The City Center was three years old, and First Night Saratoga not yet born when Pete Donnelly, Mike Gent, and Guy Lyons comingled their daytime studies at Saratoga Springs High School with their music at night to create The Figgs.
See First pg. 35
Year in Review See pgs. 10-11
Inside TODAY Blotter 5 Obituaries 6 Business 16-17 Education 19-20 Pulse 33-37 Sports 42-47