Final no-phone summer night is a hit. DEC asks for input.
Worker woes: Store cannot open without them.
Welcome to the “Lunch Break” email from the editors of Saratoga Dispatch.
Three stories in today’s lunch break:
Top: No worker woes for local market.
Mid: Ending on a high note, the Screen-free Summer Series.
Bottom: DEC asks for input on wildlife.
No worker woes
Finding workers is tough, owner says
The Old World Gourmet Market storefront at 514 N. Broadway in Saratoga Springs remains a work-in-progress, owner Maria Biagini told the Dispatch. The main issue: finding the right employees. She said they have solid employees at their main store in Wilton but they just cannot find the right people here. She did not know when the Broadway store might open. The store was last the Beef Jerky Experience. Their main store at 3078 Route 50 in Wilton opened in June. “Come and visit,” Biagini said.
—Steve Thurston
Screen-free summer series ends on a high note
Pitney Meadows’ no-phones Sunset Socials brought back real connection, old-fashioned games and golden-hour joy — and paved the way for similar future events.
By: Abby Tegnelia
Chalk drawing, running in the grass, using the sunset as the tell-tale sign that it’s almost dinnertime…As it turns out, leaving all cell phones in the car for an old-fashioned neighborhood bash at Pitney Meadows felt a lot like taking a trip down memory lane.
And those childhood memories of running free without being tied to a handheld device? They lived up to the hype.
The final digital detox Sunset Summer Social went down last night, and it was as idyllic as I had hoped. On the surface: no interruptions for pics (no makeup needed!), no constantly checking your phone (there were plenty of hilarious “phantom” vibrations that elicited a twitch of the hand though), and no looking something up “really quickly.” This triggered a chat about if our “let me think; it’s on the tip of my tongue” muscle had actually atrophied.
Then we dug into a competitive game of War, shoes off, and the evening began.
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