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Just ahead of the forsythia and daffodil blooms, Sandwich business owners are taking the first steps toward spring openings. Plans for expanded outdoor seating, new signs and fences, and building renovations were among last weekâs presentations to the Sandwich Historic District Committeeâthe regulatory board that often is the first recipient of business news. Fishermenâs View, a hugely popular seafood restaurant on Freezer Road that opened in 2016, is seeking permissions and permits to expand an outdoor seating area overlooking the canal. Owner Robert Colbert told the HDC that he will add up to 36 more seats on a side patio covered with permeable pavers (to allow water to flow through, per a request from the conservation commission) and that the tables would be spaced at least six feet apart. ....
Closing three of the townâs freshwater ponds to nonresidents and postponing Fourth of July fireworks until the fall are among the recommendations made to the Sandwich Board of Selectmen Thursday, February 25. The suggestions for another COVID-safe summer came from the town department officials whose employees oversee summer activitiesâRecreation Director Guy Boucher, Natural Resources Director David J. DeConto and Harbormaster Michael Dunning. Mr. Boucher recommended that the public beaches at Snake Pond, Ryder Conservation Area and the townâs Oak Crest Cove property on Peterâs Pond be open only to Sandwich residents with stickers. âLetâs continue to help reduce the COVID numbers and help staff manage the smaller waterfronts,â Mr. Boucher said. ....
Life and Death of a Ballston Patriot By Matt Grumo | Sponsored by The Saratoga County History Roundtable | History Daguerreotype believed to be the image of Uriah Gregory near the end of his life. Image provided. The last week of the year 1843 was a difficult time for Ballston farmer Uriah Gregory. On December 29, Uriah lost his beloved wife, Tamer, his partner of more than sixty-five years, with whom he shared a life in the earliest days of the new nation. Uriah Gregory was not a man who would be remembered as one of the leading figures in Saratoga County but his story is noteworthy because he was no doubt typical of thousands of other men who lived in this remarkable period in American history. Thanks to the story told to one of his granddaughters on a cold, gloomy January day near the end of his life, along with pension records and other source material, we are able to preserve a view into life in the earliest years of the settling of ....