Capital Financial Group Inc., headquartered at 89 Saratoga Ave. in South Glens Falls, recently rebranded as the Employee Benefits Division of Upstate Agency LLC, its sister agency.
Both Upstate and Capital have been part of the Arrow Financial Corp. family of companies, which includes Glens Falls National Bank and Saratoga National Bank, for many years.
The joining of Capital under the Upstate brand seeks to deliver more value to the customer through efficiency and synergy.
This year a record year for Backpacks of Hope, a program of the Chamber of Southern Saratoga County’s Women in Business committee.
Over 400 new backpacks, with over 200 containing complete school supplies, were donated by the committee to Wellspring on Aug. 15. Every year since 2007, Women in Business Committee members have gathered in August to fill new backpacks to aid Wellspring, the domestic violence services resource for Saratoga County residents. The committee has donated over 1,300 new backpacks to Wellspring.
Baskets of Hope benefits local families who seek the assistance and refuge of Wellspring. As financial hardships only add to the burden of a family facing domestic violence issues and relationship abuse, providing a child with a new backpack filled with school supplies helps ease that burden at the start of the school year.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has issued a tool that provides guidance and resources for communities seeking to develop solar projects on underutilized properties such as landfills and brownfields.
What is called the Municipal Solar Procurement Toolkit supports recent revisions to the NY-Sun Megawatt Block Program which provides financial incentives for developing solar projects in those areas.
The NY-Sun initiative supports the mandate for 50 percent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable resources by 2030 to combat climate change.
Donna Ng, a senior financial and administrative executive with extensive experience in higher education and non-profit organizations, was appointed Skidmore’s next vice president for finance and administration and treasurer, effective Oct. 1.
Ng, who was selected after a national search, is currently the senior vice president for finance and administration at Simmons College in Boston and previously vice president for business affairs and treasurer at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.
At a time when the country is earnestly pursuing other-than-opioid options for pain, Saratoga Community Health Center’s Complementary Pain Management Program, located at 24 Hamilton St. in Saratoga Springs, has been credited by national experts for being among those on the leading edge of alternative pain management initiatives.
The three-year-old program has been named a winner of the 2018 Recognition of Excellence in Wellness by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Program to Achieve Wellness.
SAMHSA is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Community Health Center was one of only four recipients—and the only medical facility—winning this year’s national award.
Veterans & Community Housing Coalition will hold its third annual Veterans Ball from 5-9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4 at the Hall of Springs in Spa State Park.
Attendees will support VCHC’s mission to serve local Veterans and their families with affordable housing and support services while they transition to independent living.
The evening’s highlights will include Honorary Chairman Ray O’Conor, LaSalle Institute’s JROTC Cadets, live music by the Joey Thomas Big Band, Saratoga Photobooth, champagne, a chocolate fountain, food stations, a cash bar and a silent auction.
By Jennifer Farnsworth
Geppetto’s restaurant at 120 Broad St. in Schuylerville is now part of the downtown landscape and a place to have an authentic Italian meal.
The restaurant offers dishes like scampis, steaks, and chicken francaise. Owner Amelia Wistuk said since opening earlier this summer, they have already established a crew of regulars.
“The reception has really been great. We have been busy with both new customers and many who return,” said Wistuk.
The Board of Directors of the Adirondack Balloon Festival announced details of the 46th annual event to be held Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 20-23.
In celebrating 46 years, the festival’s logo and theme represent shared and celebrated traditions of the region—ballooning and hiking. The event is set to celebrate the majesty of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks.
The event kicks off Thursday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. at Crandall Park in Glens Falls. Events continue throughout the weekend at Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport in Queensbury.
The National Racing Hall of Fame and Museum announced a $20 million project that will create a multi-screen theater in the round inside the facility at 191 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs
The project was announced Aug. 3 by John Hendrickson, museum president, at the ceremony where new members of the Hall of Fame were inducted.
The theater is expected to be completed by 2020.
The Whitney family, long a friend and benefactor of the thoroughrbed racing industry, donated $1 million toward the project.
Lark Hotels, a boutique hotel collection with 21 properties in New England and beyond, has opened its first New York hotel—The Downtowner on Broadway in Saratoga Springs.
The site, at the corner of Broadway and Division Street, was known for years as the Saratoga Downtowner motel, dating back to the 1960s. It was sold last October to Lark Hotels, a Massachusetts-based company. The company paid former owners, the husband-and-wife team of Mary Cae and William Asay, $4.55 million for the motel.
It has been renovated and reopened as The Downtowner. According to the new company, it has 42 newly renovated guest rooms that “pay homage to the hotel’s past as a retro motor lodge and the surrounding area’s thriving creative community of writers, performers, and visual artists.”