Saratoga Flash News

08/24/2025

Note: a deep dive of this trial --- before or after --- will not be available here. For obvious reasons.

08/24/2025

Yes, the Travers itself was a disapppointing and non competitive lineup and contest.

But boy oh boy: what an undercard! Fantastico.

08/23/2025

Picky-Picky:

It's not "The Graveyard of Champions" it is "The Graveyard of Favorites."

08/23/2025

Exit 14 ramp finally cleared. It had been backed up overnight with beer truck deliveries.

08/22/2025

Being deemed by a local candidate as irrelevant because of having an insignificant number of followers...

Sounds an awful lot like you-know-who and his "Ratings! Ratings!" dumfukery.

To think, it comes from a candidate spinning as a 'progressive"!

08/22/2025

RIP Ron Turcotte.

08/22/2025

All We Ask For Is:

Will a single local official / policymaker / politician / thinker in this town take the lead and engage the community in this type of convo?

(Note: not us, esp after just being told by a candidate that we do not really matter)

But we WILL help anyone else that does take this lead, regardless of party, political views, likelihood of voting for you or not... even that candidate that just threw shade!

Excerpt:

"Every place teaches us what — and who — matters. Does the sidewalk invite us to linger or expect us to move along? Does the street say “this is yours” or "you’re in the way”?

Design doesn’t just reflect our values — it forms them. If we want citizens who are engaged, generous, and resilient, we need places that cultivate those virtues.

08/21/2025

(Courtesy: "West Sider") - WHY ON EARTH?

- Is Mayoral candidate Madigan getting involved in two races that are not hers?

- Is she 'dissing two loyal Dem's in the process?

- Is her de facto spokesperson using a fake account that has already been exposed -- and been served to stop??

- Is she defending the DEM COMMITTEE's despicable decision not to give MS TROISI a primary vs Mr Moran?

- Suggesting that Rep Tonko would not join two constituents in a photo?

- Opening herself up to (deserved) ridicule -- as per the "Ooop's; I guess i WAS a Republican ally at one time" photo)

Oh, Oh
Questions that Bother Me So....

08/21/2025

We love the jumpers here at SFN. Stop over?

08/21/2025

Weird Saratoga: Kooky Yaddo Factoids
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1. Spencer Trask was a major opponent vs gambling. That position was his purpose for forming the town's daily newspaper.

2. Spencer Trask died (the only fatality) in a train crash from NYC. The purpose of his visit there: lobbying to protect Saratoga's water supply from commercial interests that were robbing the carbonation from the ground.

3. After that death, widow Katrina married Spencer's best pal,best man, confidante and lawyer George Foster Peabody, who had long professed a romantic affection in her. (Including to the happy couple on their wedding day!)

4. After Katrina's death, Peabody took up with the young (18yo) aide Marjorie Waite. As was common practice in that era, the relationship was obscured by his legally adopting her.

5. Ms Waite's sister Elizabeth Ames's arrived on the scene soon thereafter; showed her skills in running various aspects of the building and institution to the point where she became its first Director in 1924. She held that role until the late 1960's.

6. Yaddo was considered a Communist hotbed in the 1940's, with the FBI opening investigations and files. There was even the palace intrigue of internal spies and informers reporting to the Bureau. Records show there was some merit to that "hotbed" claim.

7. Ms Ames, in association with frequent guest and advisor Aaron Copland, created Yaddo's 'American Festival of Contemporary Music' in 1932. It is credited as being the first music festival in the USA and lasted until 1952.

Photo: c 1905
Factoids Source: New York Public Library archives

08/21/2025

Hope for Saratoga's arts scene: this guy proves that aging communities can have an edgy subculture.

08/20/2025

Our favorite event of the year!

UNADILLA, N.Y. — A manure injection field day will be held from 10:30 AM to 3:00PM, August 29, 2025 at Joleanna Holsteins, 309 Covered Bridge...