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Tea Party members or Obama fans are focused on the hubbub surrounding the National Security Agency’s world-wide phone tapping. When I first learned how disturbed German Chancello
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By Dick Healy Few early American historical sites can match the region in and around Lake George, New York, ideally nestled in the shadows of the Adirondack Mountains. So it seems
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By Dick Healy It was a long, snowy winter in Saratoga, New York. Some claiming the longest they’ve seen in many years. On this early April day, however, as I drive down tree-line
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By Dick Healy Opening day at Saratoga’s famous Race Course saw a crowd of 25,444 turnout to greet the Spa City’s 141st racing season. It was a 40-percent increase over last yea
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By Dick Healy A medley of Broadway and Hollywood music came to Saratoga’s Performing Arts Center last Thursday where Oscar winning composer, Marvin Hamlisch, no stranger to the S
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By Dick Healy Saratoga has always showered special attention on its famous ladies, dating all the way back to Lillian Russell. With the running of this coming Saturday’s Grade 1
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By Dick Healy Though summer visitors to Saratoga Springs, N. Y. find excitement and unparalleled thoroughbred racing at the famous Race Course on Union Avenue, attending the annual
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By Dick Healy Since thoroughbred racing opened on July 23, Saratoga Race Course has hosted several high profile Grade 1 stakes races, however, the big race day is Saturday, August
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By Dick Healy Skiers from downstate New York, particularly metropolitan New York City, will be repeating skiing history this winter by riding Amtrak trains to Saratoga Springs, 30
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By Dick Healy There is a small placard on the wall of Anna’s Pizzeria in Apex, North Carolina that reads “I wasn’t born in the South, but I got here as fast as I could.” An
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By Dick Healy Few places in the country can generate as much excitement and press coverage as historic Saratoga Springs, N Y when the oldest track in the nation is running. The 201
Saratoga Scene 3
It’s a bit early in the spring season to find thoroughbreds racing on Saratoga’s Race Course, yet today’s opening of the Oklahoma Training Track did officially get underway a
Saratoga Scene 4
By Dick Healy Travers Day in Saratoga, August 29, referred to as “The Mid-Summer Derby, will include some of the finest thoroughbred race horses in the world. According to NY
American Pharoah confirmed to run in the Travers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, August 23, 2015 Contact: John Durso, Jr. jdurso@nyrainc.com Jenny Kellner vkellner@nyrainc.com (718) 659-2244 American Pharoah confirmed to run in the
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By Dick Healy It looks like early spring is arriving in Saratoga Springs, New York. Budding trees along Union Avenue where the historic Race Course is located, and no snow on the g
Czech Republic
Easter Fair in Znojmo from March 29 – April 4, 2013. Easter Markets and Artisan Traditions April 1 – 5, 2013 in the UNESCO town of Cesky Krumlov www.znojmocity.cz/en
The Lighthouse Trail
If you’re a lighthouse fanatic Quebec should be on your list of travels. The Quebec Maritime has a neat little brochure-map identifying 43 lighthouses which separates them into
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If you’re traveling to Switzerland via Zurich request the continually updated compact Airport Guide, “Flughafen Zurich”…and if you don’t read German don’t b
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