BALLSTON SPA – Local foodies have a full plate of exciting events to sample in the coming weeks, and it all begins Monday, March 12 with the first-ever Ballston Spa Dishcrawl. The third annual Saratoga County Restaurant Week follows right on its tail, beginning Friday, March 16.

MALTA – As the staff at GlobalFoundries grows, so does the team at Bentley’s Tavern on Dunning Street, where business has increased 20 percent in the past 18 months – and restaurant owner Wayne T. Beale knows exactly why.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – As public schools across New York State begin their preliminary budgetary planning, private schools are quietly struggling to survive in a down economy.
While private schools do receive a small portion of state funding for mandated programs (typically under 5 percent of the total budget), a majority of the budget is made through tuition and fundraising. But in a down economy, these dollars are all but certain.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – The month of March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness month, and to help raise awareness some of Saratoga Springs’ downtown streets and businesses might be looking a little blue - literally. The Cancer Services Program of Saratoga County, in conjunction with Saratoga Hospital, is coordinating a campaign called Main Streets Go Blue (MSGB.) MSGB is a month-long awareness campaign encouraging people to stay proactive in their health, while bringing attention to the threat of colorectal cancer. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Saratoga Tree Nursery’s annual spring seedling sale is underway, and the 250-acre site is buzzing with activity as a small team prepares to distribute more than 1.2 million trees for conservation plantings.

Think about your family’s ancestors for a minute. What do you really know about where you came from? While most of our parents would never mislead us about where our ancestors came from, perhaps they themselves were misinformed.  A family’s oral history can get twisted and tweaked as the legends are passed from generation to generation. One detail changed here, another there, and soon you’re more than a few degrees away from the truth. Without the proper documentation, you may never know otherwise.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is getting a much needed update and renovation in time for the 2012 season thanks to a generous donation from an outgoing board chairman and his wife, Bill and Susan Dake.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is getting a much needed update and renovation in time for the 2012 season thanks to a generous donation from an outgoing board chairman and his wife, Bill and Susan Dake.

SARANAC LAKE – From the side of Mount Marcy, where he spent nearly 20 hours enduring frostbite, hypothermia and dangerously cold weather, Steve Mastaitis survived what many would consider their worst nightmare.

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Las Vegas-style gambling could be coming to New York State, and nine of New York’s existing casinos, including Saratoga Casino and Raceway, argue that only existing licensed facilities should be allowed to host the expanded operations.