Saving the Adks. Springs' Garland Nelson

Saratoga Springs celebrates July 4.

Jul 04, 2025

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A little late this morning with the “Morning Call.” I went to the Lumineers last night to a sold-out, standing-room-only, takes 45-minutes-to-park show. —Steve Thurston

The Lumineers play to a packed SRO crowd at SPAC, July 3, 2025.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!

Please be safe out there while you’re having fun. Read up on Red, white and raceday, our coverage of today’s festivities in Saratoga Springs.

Speaking of July 4: Gazette has pix of Naturalization Ceremony Thursday

Here’s think link to the pictures of the ceremony at Mabee Farm

Speaking of music, the Gazette has an interview with Garland Nelson

The Skidmore grad, musician, activist and spiritual leader in Saratoga Springs sits down for an interview with the DG. He opens up about many topics surrounding his life in music. It’s in the Gazette.

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DEC negotiates with potential owner of Whitney estate in the Adks.

The head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation tells the Adirondack Explorer that her office is in talks with developer Shawn Todd, chairman of Texas-based Todd Interests, to keep him from over-developing the 36,600-acre property that he is pursuing, the Adirondack Explorer reported earlier in the week. Whitney Park had been owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and his wife Marylou Whitney, Saratoga Springs’ most famous couple. Marylou Whitney’s widower John Hendrickson inherited the estate.

Another Adirondack tract protected

The Adirondack Land Trust and Paul Smith’s College have agreed to a $4.1 million easement that will permanently preserve nearly 3,000 acres of the college’s visitor’s center property. The lands in north-central Adirondacks have served as an outdoor classrooms for students and visitors, a story in the Adirondack Explorer says.

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At this hour: Traffic, weather and the markets

Weather

A warm and sunny Fourth of July, according to the National Weather Service’s Albany office. Enjoy it!

Traffic

According to Google Maps, traffic is largely clear in the Dispatch’s readership area.

Premarket trading

The NASDAQ is up by 1% in premarket trading (U.S. markets are closed today), and the S&P500 and Dow are up by about 0.75% each, according to numbers from Marketwatch, but President Donald Trump is threatening countries with 70% tariffs, putting jitters in a market that saw strong employment numbers (jobs up by more than 140,000 and unemployment steady) earlier this week. According to the WSJ, fewer people are looking for work (which drives down the unemployment rate) while U.S. companies are pushing to increase domestic manufacturing (an effect of the widespread, high tariffs that Trump has implemented).

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