Wendy Liberatore

Albany

Saratoga County reporter @timesunion. Dance fanatic, family cook, star gazer. https://t.co/DXXp8eoscJ blogger. Opinions expressed are mine.

Articles

Clifton Park considers ban on e-bikes in parks, preserves

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

CLIFTON PARK — In response to a growing number of complaints about e-bikes, the Town Board will hold a public hearing to consider banning the motorized bicycles in municipal parks and preserves. “This is a public hearing to consider making changes in our code that will address those complaints,” Deputy Supervisor Anthony Morelli said at the May 5 Town Board meeting.
Neighbors dislike condo proposal in quiet Saratoga Springs neighborhood

2 days ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A proposed six-unit, three-story condominium fashioned after one of the city’s lost historic hotels is being poorly received by its neighbors. At last week’s city Planning Board meeting, more than a dozen residents in the Park Place and Cottage Street neighborhood complained that the structure, proposed for the corner lot, is too large, too dense and would overwhelm their properties. John and Marlene Wood of 23 Park Place were among them.
Saratoga County ends probe into Saratoga Springs officials

3 days ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The on-call pay scandal that led to a State Police investigation of city officials is over.
Ballston Spa residents angry over cell tower in their neighborhood

6 days ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

BALLSTON SPA — Village residents who live in the shadow of a water tower now fear that an even taller structure will hover over their homes — a 180-foot cellphone monopole. With approval pending, residents are concerned that home values will plummet and are disturbed that the village never alerted most of them to the proposed John Street tower. They also allege the location is unsafe, as it is surrounded by several homes, and that the village is unwilling to find a different site.
Saratoga Springs residents urge city to fund homeless shelter

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Despite the threat of the city’s year-round homeless shelter shutting down one day before the Belmont Stakes Festival begins, the mayor would not commit to funding the Adelphi Street facility beyond 2025. In a City Council meeting on Tuesday night, Mayor John Safford said “we are open to it,” but he said he couldn’t promise anything because he’s uncertain what the city’s finances will look like by summer’s end, when the city will begin work on the 2026 budget.
Police: No substances found in baked goods that sickened BOCES class

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Springs police will close their investigation into a mysterious illness that overcame a group of students and staff on March 13 at the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES on Henning Road, according to the department. Two diners needed hospital evaluations and others were treated by paramedics after they ate food prepared in a culinary class at the local BOCES campus, police said at the time.
Robin Dalton pleads not guilty to petit larceny in Walmart theft

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

WILTON — Saratoga Springs’ former commissioner of public safety who was charged with petit larceny after alleging stealing merchandise from Walmart pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in Wilton Town Court. Robin Dalton, who was investigated by the state attorney general’s office for her treatment of Black Lives Matter protesters, including writing in a text to the city’s police chief “arrest those f___kers,” was arraigned with her attorney, George LaMarche, at her side.
Saratoga Springs homeless shelter may close in time for Belmont

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Citing the city’s shaky commitment to the 24/7 homeless shelter and a shift in federal funding, RISE Housing and Supportive Services notified the city that it will cease operating the Adelphi Street shelter on June 3 — one day ahead of the Belmont Racing Festival. In an April 29 letter, RISE’s Executive Director Sybil Newell told City Council members that unless the city votes to support the shelter through Dec. 31, 2026, the shelter will close.
Saratoga sheriff candidate files complaint against Justice James Walsh

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

BALLSTON SPA — A candidate for Saratoga County sheriff who was removed from the primary ballot has filed a complaint with the state Commission of Judicial Misconduct against the justice who made the decision, saying his ruling was political.
Lake Luzerne residents file suit against town, developer to stop 33-acre subdivision

1 week ago | timesunion.com | Wendy Liberatore

LAKE LUZERNE — Approvals for a controversial 18-home subdivision in the Adirondack Park has provoked a lawsuit that residents hope will stop its construction. Filed on April 24 in state Supreme Court in Warren County, the Article 78 suit seeks to reverse the town Planning Board’s blessing of single-family houses on 33 acres, claiming that the town didn’t take "a hard look" at many aspects of the design — including construction on steep slopes atop the town's principal aquifer.