SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (January, 2009) – Change seems to be a theme this year not only nationally, but locally as well. In the City of Saratoga, Saratoga Sotheby’s International Realty has changed its name to Select Sotheby’s International Realty. In addition, their Lake Placid Gallery will also take on the new name of Select Sotheby’s International Realty.

The name change, effective January 7, will better reflect the regional nature of the growing portfolio of properties for sale and clients served that Select Sotheby’s International Realty represents. It will also provide exposure of existing listings to a broader pool of buyers.

Select Sotheby’s International Realty was founded in 2007. Since opening, Select SIR has expanded into the Lake Placid region where a Gallery was opened in 2008, and plans to expand to Lake George in 2009.

“As a result of growth in regions [...]

January 6, 2009; Roohan Realty’s embattled horse TR (The Realtor) will be featured on TruTv’s show “Most Daring” on Wednesday, January 7 at 9:00PM on Time Warner cable channel 50.

Constructed of fiberglass, the gracious TR has been brutally attacked, beaten, punched, kicked and even roughly ridden on three separate occasions over the past year, sustaining serious injuries.

A video camera surveillance system was installed at the Roohan Realty building on Broadway and has captured the last two vicious crimes on tape. The vandals are very clearly seen in these videos and investigations are ongoing.

TR is a beautifully hand painted thoroughbred by artist Carol Abrams as part of the Spa city’s “Saratoga Style” equine art streetscape program.

Roohan Realty has been serving the community’s residential and commercial [...]

Frederick, Maryland: December 31, 2008 — Author, Ladean Warner, based her new suspense novel, The Keeper of Darkness in familiar territory, Saratoga County, New York. Using the backdrop of Saratoga and the end of track season, Ladean weaves a story born out of her love of suspense novels.

In The Keeper of Darkness, just outside of Saratoga Springs in a small town, two women are missing. Several years ago, four women disappeared in the same way, but Jake Peterson solved those cases and a man was convicted of their murders. Now, Jake just returned to Granelle as the new associate pastor for a small church. On the night that the senior pastor is hospitalized, Jake’s old boss asks him to return to his job as a detective and take over the case from his ex-partner/ex-fiance, Meg Riley, since there are similarities to the solved cases.

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