| | | | Happy Tuesday!Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend and has a great short work week. Before you head out or enjoy that morning cup of coffee or tea, check out some of the top stories on our website. Be safe and enjoy the day. — Ron Rosner, Senior Editor
e-edition obituaries | | | | SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. — New York State’s third-largest fair held its final day on Monday, and though they didn’t have any definitive numbers, Fair Manager Carly Reyna said they may break records. “What I can tell you is we are certainly going to have had an excellent fair. The weather’s cooperated quite a bit,” she said […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Labor Day marked the end of the summer racing season at the Saratoga Race Course, and fans came out to enjoy closing day. While thousands of people have visited the race course each day throughout the meet, with some of the busiest being Travers Day, which had a paid attendance of 48,255, and Belmont Stakes Day, which had a paid attendance of 46,243, for some, this last day was the first time they were making it to the races this summer. Denise Defruscio noted that while it was her first day at the race course this […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown and Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher each posted 32 wins at Saratoga Race Course to share the H. Allen Jerkens training title at the 40-day meeting that ran from July 10 through Sept. 1. Brown entered Monday's Closing Day card with a one-win lead over Pletcher, who evened the score with a win from Only in America in Race 2. Pletcher took over in the standings when Ted Noffey stormed to victory in Race 9, the Grade 1, $300,000 Spendthrift Farm Hopeful, but Brown battled back with a win […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today concluded the 2025 summer meet at Saratoga Race Course, which generated paid attendance exceeding one million fans for the tenth consecutive year and more than $790 million in wagering handle from all-sources. The meet was highlighted by a record-setting Whitney Day and memorable DraftKings Travers Day where a paid crowd of more than 48,000 fans witnessed Sovereignty, the Godolphin-owned and Bill Mott-trained colt, become the first horse in 30 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets, and DraftKings Travers. Over the 49 days […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stars and Strides stalked and pounced to a 1 1/4-length victory in Monday's restricted Listed $135,000 Saranac, a 1 1/16-mile Mellon turf route for 3-year-olds and up which have not won a graded sweepstakes in 2025, to close out stakes action for the 2025 meet at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, the 3-year-old American Pharoah colt provided owner Pin Oak Stud with their third stakes win at Saratoga this year after they celebrated graded wins in the Grade 3 Belmont Gold Cup with the Mott-trained Parchment Party during the Belmont Stakes […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Stars and Strides stalked and pounced to a 1 1/4-length victory in Monday's restricted Listed $135,000 Saranac, a 1 1/16-mile Mellon turf route for 3-year-olds and up which have not won a graded sweepstakes in 2025, to close out stakes action for the 2025 meet at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, the 3-year-old American Pharoah colt provided owner Pin Oak Stud with their third stakes win at Saratoga this year after they celebrated graded wins in the Grade 3 Belmont Gold Cup with the Mott-trained Parchment Party during the Belmont Stakes […] | | | | | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — His name was inspired by a misspelling of his owner's Spendthrift Farm's general manager Ned Toffey, but Ted Noffey made a name for himself with an 8 1/2-length victory in Monday's Grade 1, $300,000 Spendthrift Farm Hopeful, a seven-furlong sprint for juveniles, at Saratoga Race Course. Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher sent out Spendthrift Farm's homebred Into Mischief filly Tommy Jo to win by 6 1/2 lengths in Saturday's Grade 1, $300,000 Spinaway here, and found more juvenile success with Ted Noffey, also by Spendthrift stallion Into Mischief. "The Hopeful is such a prestigious and […] | | | | | No one wants to spend time fighting their health insurance company. | | | | | Monday, September 1, 2025 FAMILY GAME NIGHT: At the Troy Public Library, 100 Second St. 5:30-7:30pm. Head to the library each week for family game night in the Young People's Room. Play our board games or bring your own! PEER SUPPORT GROUP: Hosted by Singles Outreach Services Inc. at 6:30pm. Nominal charge. Confidentiality respected. Plenty […] | | | | | Anjolina Bussing's pathway to a career in medicine has been made easier by multiple programs at Capital Region BOCES. The Mechanicville resident is a graduate of the BOCES Two-Year Sequence of Health Careers program, which she took while a student in Cohoes High School. She is currently enrolled in the part-time adult Practical Nursing program while also working at St. Peter's Hospital. The state-approved program at the Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical School encompasses 1,100 hours of classroom and clinical study and practice. Students earn their clinical experience in various local health care facilities. (Photo provided) | | | |
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