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Election commissioners split on more early voting sites in Saratoga County
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1of6Buy PhotoVoters wait in a long line to cast their ballots in early voting at Gavin Park on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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Saratoga County Election Commissioners Roger Schiera, left, and Bill Fruci, right, look over a ballot during a count of absentee ballots on Monday Sept. 24, 2012 in Ballston Spa, NY. (Philip Kamrass / Times Union)Philip Kamrass/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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4of6Buy PhotoCongresswoman Elise Stefanik, foreground left, and her husband, Matt Manda, foreground right, wait in line to cast their ballots in early voting at Gavin Park on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)Paul Buckowski/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
Saratoga County compiles list of vaccine seekers
County also considers law to help restaurants
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Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Chair Todd Kusnierz speaks at a coronavirus update press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2020 at the Saratoga County Board room in Ballston Spa. Behind him, from left, is Wilton Supervisor John Lant, Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett and Saratoga Springs Supervisor Tara Gaston.Wendy Liberatore/Times Union
BALLSTON SPA – After an effort to vaccinate homebound residents went awry last month, Saratoga County leadership announced on Wednesday that the county is building a list of residents who want the COVID-19 vaccination.
County Board of Supervisors Chairman Todd Kusnierz said that residents who want to be vaccinated can sign up on the county website. The confidential information, to which only the county health department will have access, will help the county identify who wants the vaccination. It will also allow the de
Vaccine suddenly arrived, but Saratoga County didn t know who to give it to
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Saratoga County Supervisor Tara Gaston speaks at the Women s March and Rally on Saturday, Jan 18, 2020. Gaston regrets how the county handled getting word that 400 coronavirus vaccines were arriving last minute in January 2021. (Jenn March, Special to the Times Union )Jenn MarchShow MoreShow Less
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Moreau Supervisor Todd Kusnierz is Saratoga County s new chair of the Board of Supervisors. He speaks in a short speech on Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Saratoga County Board of Supervisor s room in Ballston Spa.Wendy Liberatore/Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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4of5Waterford supervisor John E. Lawler during the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors swearing in ceremony and meeting on Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012 in Ballston Spa, N.Y (Philip Kamrass / Times Union )Philip KamrassShow MoreShow Less
Saratoga County panel to weigh possible discipline over pandemic pay program
County also forgives overpayment to Partnership
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BALLSTON SPA – A 7-hour marathon meeting of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, much of it in closed, executive session, authorized Ballston Supervisor Eric Connolly “to decide and facilitate what, if any, action should be taken to any personnel as a result of the findings” about the county s pandemic pay program.
On Thursday, Connolly wouldn t say what steps he ll take to determine recommendations regarding the roundly criticized and discarded plan that paid some employees, administrators and elected officials time and a half for every hour worked during the early days of the pandemic.