The Saratoga Regional YMCA has come to the aid of Franklin Community's emergency food pantry. The YMCA van delivered nonperishable items to replenish the empty shelves at the perfect time, officials said. According to the community center, it was...
SaratogaArtsFest Gives Grants As Groups Gear Up For June’s Citywide Arts Festival
The Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra is among local arts organizations to receive a grant from SaratogaArtsFest to help fund a performance during the 2014 arts festival in June SaratogaArtsFest awarded grants to nine local arts organizations to help them...
Rape Crises Services Get Help From Grant
The Mary Kay Foundation awarded $3 million in grants to 150 domestic violence shelters across the U.S., including $20,000 to the Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Services of Saratoga County (DVRC). DVRC officials also reported that the The Times...
Local Caterers Find Themselves Dressing Up Festivities During The Holiday Season
Michael and Heidi Hoyt at Black Diamond Catering gear up for a busy holiday season By Lisa Balschunat The winter holiday season is a bustling time for food service businesses, and area caterers are in the thick of it....
Belmonte Builders Starts Wilton Housing Project Dubbed ‘The Mill At Smith’s Bridge’
This is a rendering of one of the styles of homes that will be part of a 63-home development in a subdivision on the north side of Smith's Bridge Road, east of Davison Drive By Jill Nagy "Affordable luxury"...
My Turn: How Do You Picture Retirement?
Stephan Scribner, financial consultant, BSNB Financial Services By Stephan Scribner How do you picture your retirement? Traveling the country in a motorhome or staying at resorts several times a year? Perhaps it is finally being able to travel to...
Retirement Straight Talk
Stephen J. Augstell, senior vice president for Key Private Bank By Stephen J. Augstell , MS, CFP Americans are not saving enough for retirement. This is hardly breaking news. When measured against accepted benchmarks-- 85 percent replacement of preretirement...
Raceway Foundation Gives Out 23 Grants
The Saratoga Casino and Raceway Foundation awarded 23 grants to local nonprofit organizations last month. Grants totaled $28,204. Over the nine years the foundation has been in existence, 152 organizations in Saratoga County have received over $267,000 in grants,...
Web Calculator Helps Retirement Planning
AARP in late November launched a free online Health Care Costs Calculator, a major addition to its Ready for Retirement suite of planning tools. In a survey accompanying the release of the calculator, AARP found that just 36 percent of...
My Turn: Casinos in NYS: A New World Is Here
Robert J. McLaughlin, head of Hodgson Russ law firm's Gaming Law Practice Group By Robert J. McLaughlin On Election Day in November, a new day dawned in New York. By answering Proposition No. 1 "yes" voters authorized commercial casinos...