League of Women Voters of Saratoga County PO Box 1029, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

League of Women Voters of Saratoga County PO Box 1029, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 www.lwvsaratoga.org

LWV Saratoga Records Archived at: M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives Science Library LE-352 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 Table of Contents:

. Box 1: Administrative Files – see page 1 below . Box 2: Administrative Files – see page 3 below . Box 3: Education, Advocacy and Projects - see page 11 below . Box 4: Video Tapes and Flattened Milk Cartons – see page 16 below . Box 5: Materials from the Collection of Betty Gallagher (founder) – see page 17 below . Box 6: Accretion: Scrapbooks, Bulletins, Pictures on CD - see page 44 below Box List:

Box 1 - Administrative Files . Name Change to LWV Saratoga County (from LWV Saratoga Springs Area) 2000 . Tax Status Determination 2005 . Bylaws and revisions 1965 – 2007 . Membership Lists 1965-2010 . Annual Meeting Booklets and Invitations: – 4-24-1979, Speaker: Laura Snell, “Wetlands and their Importance to the Saratoga Area” – 5-13-1980, Speaker: Alexander Aldrich, “City Government and the City Attorney” – 4-21- 1981, Speaker: Mayor Ellsworth Jones, “Planning for the new City Center” – 4-29-1984, Speaker: Viola Ilma, “Memories of Eleanor Roosevelt” – 5-5-1985, Speaker: M. Louise Stoney, “Women’s Issues and the State Assembly Task Force” – 6-1-1986, Speaker: David Wickerham, “Citizen Participation in County Government” – 5-3-1987, Speaker: None – 5-21-1989, Speaker: Todd Swanstrom, “The Crisis in Affordable Housing” – 5-5-1991, Speaker: Dr. Carmen Cornute, “Observations on the Status of Women in East-Central Africa” – 5-17-1992, Speaker: Patricia McGeown, “National Health Care” – 5-16-1993, Performance featuring The Mental Health Players – 2-21-1994, No Speaker – 5-21-1995, Performance, “The Stone that Started the Ripple”, by Patricia Nugent – 5-18-1997, Speaker: Blair Horner, “They Win, We Lose -Campaign Finance Reform” – 5-31-1998, Speaker: Jennifer Brady Connor, “Protecting Our Wetlands – Nature’s Wildlife Nurseries” – 5-23-1999, Speaker: Richard Kirsch, “Clean Money, Clean Elections” – 5-21-2000, Speaker: Patricia C. Salkin, “Building and Sustaining Quality Communities” – 6-3-2001, Speaker: Blair Horner, “Campaign Finance Reform” – 6-2-2002, Speaker: Scott Ritter, “What I learned as a UN Arms Inspector” – 6-3-2003, Speaker: Dennis Brunelle, “Affordable Housing in Saratoga County” – 6-6-2004, Speaker: Dolores (Dee) Sarno, “The State of the Arts in Saratoga County” – 6-5-2005, Speaker: Paul Conti, “The Influence of Media Reporting on News” – 6-4-2006, Speaker: Jay Gallagher, “The Politics of Decline: A chronicle of NY’s Descent and what you can do to Save Your State” – 6-9-2007, Speaker: Rey Koslowski, “A Balanced Introduction to Immigration” – 5-31-2008, Speaker: Ward Stone, “Your Environment, Your Health” – 6-6-2009, Speaker: Melissa Everett, “The Four E’s of a Sustainable Local Community” – 6-5-2010, Speaker: David Grandeau, “Ethics in Government”

. Minutes, including some correspondence, financial statements and Annual or President’s Reports – in chronological order: – Organizational Meeting 4-18-1965 to end of 1995

Box 2 - Administrative Files . Minutes, including some correspondence, financial statements and Annual or President’s Reports – in chronological order: – 1996- to end of 2010

. Miscellaneous: – Margaret Roohan -obituary- 1992 – Kathryn Starbuck – Press release with additional notes written on it, detailing relationship with LWVNY. 1928

. Bulletins – Bulletins are the newsletters that go to members and selected members of the public. Each Bulletin usually contains a message from the President and information about previous and upcoming events. During the course of the year bulletins contain information about the finance drive, contributors, membership recruitment, new members, Candidate events for fall and school board elections, Voter registration, LWVNY or LWVUS Conventions (alternate years), public membership meetings, studies and advocacy, and required notices for the Annual Meeting (nominating report, proposed budget, proposed Program).

– 1965: Topics include: Apportionment, City Charter, Know Your City Study, LWVNY Convention, Membership, National Citizenship Test, Tour of SS Water Supply Plant, United Nations, Voter Education via radio programs on Constitutional Amendments and Propositions, Voter Registration, Water Resources, Selection of Judges, Visit to the UN.

– 1966: Topics include: Annual Meeting, speaker is Mrs. Sophie Abdella, Betty Gallagher attends LWVUS Convention in Denver, Clean Water, DC Home Rule and literacy requirements to vote, Human Resources - Economic Opportunity Council, Finance Drive, Financing Education in NYS, Judicial Reform, Know Your State Government, Legislative Conference, Local SS government, Local school issues, the LWV and the Constitutional Convention, Observers, Permanent Personal Registration (Voter), Poll reporting for AB C-TV, Selection of Judges, State LWV Council, Voter Registration.

– 1967: Topics include: Barbara Jancar speaks on Red China, Consensus on Selection of Judges, Citizen’s guide completed by LWVSS, Consensus on City Charter was reached, Consensus on Water Resources, Finance Drive, Forms of City Governments, Legislative Conference, LWVUS study on U.S. – China Relations, Reception for Members, Study of the Saratoga Springs City Charter adopted, Survey of local Services.

– 1968: Topics include: Call to Action: Increase funding per pupil in NYS, “Choosing the President” & other LWV resources are available, Distributing 7,000 each of Facts for Voters and Voter’s Guides, Guidelines for Fair Housing Standards, Human Resources – OEO, Legislative Conference, Position on SS City Charter, Weighted Voting in County Legislature on the ballot.

– 1969: Topics include: County Sewer System- Position of Support, Electoral College Study, Fiftieth Anniversary of the LWV, Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, Position on Relations with China, Solid Waste Issues, State Aid for Education, Water Resources.

– 1970: Topics include: A.23 (Cook) leaving abortion as a matter between patient and physician, Annual Meeting Speaker is Louis Lax (CDRPC), Farm Bureau, Know your Schools Study, Lowering Voting Age to 18, Planning and Zoning, Position on Electoral College, Regular scheduling of SS commission meetings, Speaker on Water, Trade Bill, Welfare, Clean Air.

– 1971: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Prof. Erwin Levine on Revenue Sharing, Air Pollution, “Beauty in Planning”, County Sewer System (with Jaycees), Foreign Trade, Inter League Organization (ILO), Observer Corps, Party for new members, Solid Waste, Support for June Primary, Voters’ Service.

– 1972: Topics include: County Government, Election Procedures, Legislative Conference, Planning and Zoning, Solid Waste, Study of State Finances, Tour of Stonequist Apartments, Saratoga Housing Authority and Urban Renewal, Trade, Health Maintenance Organizations.

– 1973: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Virginia Cains Callan on the ERA, Ballot Issues, Campaign Financing, Education Financing Consensus, Focus on the Poor, Human Resources, Land Use Planning, LWV conduct of OEO elections, International Relations, Poll Watching, SS Master Plan, Transit Planning.

– 1974: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Scott Brown (chair, Board of Supervisors), Clean Air Act, First Male Member: Mayor Ray Watkin, Human Resources, Land Use, Legal Services to the Poor, Right to Know, Review of SS Charter, Television Opportunity, Transportation. – – 1975: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Congressman Ned Pattison, Bottle Bill, Clean Air Act, Energy Conservation, ERA, Human Resources, Consensus on SS Charter.

– 1976: Topics include: Environmental Quality and Land Use, CDRPC, “Save Harmless” not good for education, United Nations.

– 1977: Topics include: Con Con question, Candidates Night for School Board, Conduct of School Board Elections, Spring fundraiser is plant and book sale, UN update & consensus, Women’s Meetings.

– 1978: Topics include: No bulletins surviving.

– 1979: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Laura Snell on wetlands, Bottle Bill, Consensus meeting on the Property Tax, Capital District ILO, ERA, D’Andrea discusses legislative issues with LWV, Legislative Conference, LWVSS receives grant for work on a natural resources project, Open Meetings, Medicaid funding for Abortions, Nuclear Energy, Observer Corps, Voting Rights for DC, “The Wide-Eyed Bride” relating to Women and the Law.

– 1980: Topics include: Alexander Aldrich speaks at Annual Meeting, Earth Day, Garage Sale, Hospital caught fire as LWV formed, Open Sesame (Polling Place Accessibility), Position on the Property Tax, Capital District ILO, ERA, Legislative Conference, Medicaid funding for Abortions, LWV Supports Partisan Elections in SS, Slide Show on Water, SS City Charter, The UN at 35, Women and the Law.

– 1981: Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Mayor Ellsworth Jones, ARCO car clinics raise $, ERA, Florence Sussman dies, FOIL speaker is Robert Freeman, Hazardous Waste, Legislative Conference, List of contributors, LWV members earn money as facilitators, LWVNY adopts study of Ballot cross endorsement, Meet the School Board Candidates, Natural Resources – grants received for booklets on SS water, Observer Corps, Selection of Judges, State Education Financing, SS City Charter study, Statement in favor of Partisan Elections, Tour of Answers solid waste project, Voting rights for DC, Women and the Law.

– 1982: Topics include: Annual meeting speaker: A.C. Dake, County Supervisor, China, Clean Air, LWVUS Concurrence with position on Reproductive Rights, Education Finance – James Ruhl, Eleanor Roosevelt by Hilda Watrous, EOC Election Supervision, ERA, Garage Sale, Know Your School, Legislative Conference, LWV sponsors successful petition drive for Charter Change, LWV urges yes vote on new Charter, Margie Van Meter named Woman of the Year by BPW, Meet the Candidates, Nuclear Weapons (televised by cable TV), Observer Corps, Voter Registration, Water Awareness Week, Women and the Law.

– 1983: No bulletins surviving. LWV Publication with calendar and local, state and national issues to be addressed lists: Government, Holiday Party, Human Resources, Meet the Candidates, Planning and Zoning, Natural Resources, National Security, SS Charter revision, The City Center, Transportation, Urban Policy.

– 1984 – (Only November and December survive) Topics include: Citizen Information Service, Finance Drive, LWV is Nonpartisan, LWVNY Lobby Corps, Closing the SS Landfill, Meet the Candidates for the 24th Congressional District: Ed Bloch & Gerald Solomon, Recycling.

– 1985 – (Only November and December survive) Topics include: Candidates Night, Day Care, Grand Jury, Holiday Party, Judicial Study, National Security, Parks & Historic Preservation, United Nations.

– 1986 – Topics include: Acid Rain, Day Care, Environmental Bond Act, Ethics Legislation, Ethiopian Dinner Party, Finance Drive, How the LWVNY Legislature Works, Grand Jury Consensus, ILO phased out, Master Plan, Meeting Basic Human Needs, National Budget: more guns, less butter, Public Authorities, Voter Registration with SC Council on the Disabled, School Board Election, Solid Waste Management, Talent Harvest (from your seed dollar) Party, US Agriculture/World Hunger,

– 1987 – Topics include: Day Care, Does Saratoga County Need a Health Department?, Jury Duty, LWVNYS Supports restrictions on Smoking, Meet the Candidates, Natural Resources, Recycling Tips, Proposed bylaws change, SS Draft Master Plan, Social Policy, Tour of City Hall, Trial Juries.

– 1988 – Topics include: 21st Century Committee, Consensus on Saratoga County Health Care, Ballot Referendum to Change County Board of Supervisors to a Board of Representatives (with no Town duties), County Health Dept., Day Care, Fund Drive nets $1010, Information and Referral (Helpline) Phone Service, League supports voting for Skidmore students, League Sweatshirts, Legislative Conference, Letter to Gov. M. Cuomo in support of Medicaid Funding for Abortion and prenatal care, LWVNYEF benefit performance of Phantom of the Opera, NAACP Chapter forms, Poll reporting, Presidential Debates, Recycling, Reducing the Solid Waste Stream, U.S. Constitution Programs, Voter Registration at SPAC concerts, Water.

– 1989 – Topics include: Candidate Nights, Charity Bazar Fundraiser, Clean Indoor Air, Entertainment Book Fundraising, Finance Drive, Garbage Incineration, Health Care Financing in NYS Study, Hunger, Housing, Health and Human Services in Saratoga County, I & R Helpline Study, League Night at the Ballet, Legislative Conference, LWV Leadership Teleconference, Meeting Basic Human Needs, Proposed by-laws revisions, Recycling Plastics, Services for the Seriously Mentally Ill, Supreme Court Webster Decision, Tour of SC Dept. of Social Services, Voter Registration.

– 1990 – Topics include: $60,000 Grant to Saratoga County Information and Referral Consortium (SCIRC), Annual Meeting Speaker: SS Mayor A.C. Dake, Ballet Fundraiser, Court Monitoring, Environmental Bond Act, Expanded In Home Services for the Elderly (EISEP), Five League Solid Waste Position, Hazards of Lawn and Indoor Pesticides, Health Care Financing Study, Health Care Proxies, Long Term Care, LWVNY Legislative Priority is Reproductive Rights, LWVNY moves to Albany, Mediation Services, Phone Tree, Pro-Choice Rally in Albany, Rainforests, Saratoga County Coalition for Choice, School Board Elections, Solid Waste Management Options, Voter Registration, WeCare Helpline (operated by SCIRC).

– 1991- Topics include: Advocacy, Alternatives to Incarceration, Ballet Fundraiser, Cabin Rental Fundraiser, Campaign Finance Limits, Child Care, Hunger, Water, Fund Drive, Health Care Financing Study, Health Care Proxy, Motor Voter, LWVNY State Convention

in Saratoga Springs, Meet the Candidates, NYS Budget Process Study, Pesticides, Herbicides and You, Pro Choice March is SS, Registering Voters at SPAC & Supermarkets, Roe v. Wade, School Board Candidates Night, Students Inside Albany, WeCare Line in Trouble.

– 1992 – Topics include: Alternatives to Incarceration, Alternatives to Pesticides, Annual Meeting Speaker is Patricia McGeown, Ballet Fundraiser, Cabin Rental Fundraiser, Court Monitoring in SC Family Court, Homemade Theatre Fundraiser, Holiday Gathering, Household Hazardous Waste, League Moderates Event on First Amendment Rights, LWV request that Mayor appoint City Charter Commission, Meet the Candidates, Position on Financing Health Care, Pros & Cons of a Constitutional Convention, Support for Proposed PP Abortion Service in Glens Falls, Structure of Saratoga County Government, Take Back the System, Tours of Resource Recovery Facilities in NJ & Hudson Falls.

– 1993- Topics include: Affordable Housing in SS, Bar Association Law School for the People, Concurrence on Erie/Barge Canal Reconditioning, Domestic Violence, Financing Health Care, Five League Position on Land Burial of Solid Waste, Homemade Theatre Fundraiser, Longterm Care, LWVUS Crossroads Questionnaire & Project, LWVNY 75th Anniversary, Meet the Candidates, Mental Health Players Entertain at Annual Meeting, NYS Budget Process Position, Sexual Harassment, Support Gay Civil Rights Bill, Susan B Anthony List is an Anti-Abortion PAC, United Nations, Weighted Voting in Saratoga County.

– 1994- (Only two Bulletins) Topics include: Annual Meeting at Judy Coburn’s home, Domestic Violence, Empowerment for the 21st Century, Holiday Party, Meet the Candidates, New Board members, Population Coalition, Property Taxes.

– 1995- Topics include: 75th Anniversary of LWVUS & Special Cancellation Envelope, Advocacy, Candidate Event: Congressman Solomon & Mr. Lawrence on same platform, Domestic Violence, Mobilization for Children, Money in the Election Motor Voter Monitoring Day, Open Joint Conference Committees, Population, Property Taxes & True Value Assessment, Revamping the Jury system, School Financing Study, Students at Legislative conference, LWV in the Library Window, The Stone that Started the Ripple, United Nations at 50, Watershed Study.

– 1996 – Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Ron Seyb, Art of Advocacy, Breakfast with Your Legislators, Environmental Bond Act, Fairer Campaigns, Financing Public Schools, Member Profiles, One Vote Does Make a Difference, Proper Role of Federal Government, Student Essays on Voting, Study: Using and Paying for Libraries in Saratoga County, US should pay its UN Dues. Vote Posters in all Stewart’s Shops, Watershed Study, Women and Affirmative Action, Women’s Issues Network (WIN).

– 1997 – Topics include: Advocacy, Annual Meeting Speaker: Andrew Greenblatt on Campaign Finance Reform, Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment, Constitutional Convention?, Financing Education Position, Financing Libraries, Member Profiles, Meet the Candidates, Pataki’s Welfare Reform, State of the World’s Children by UN, Watershed Study Consensus.

– 1998 – Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: DA James Murphy, Kickoff of Study of Emergency Services in Saratoga County, Equitable Funding for Libraries in Saratoga County Consensus Results, Fair Campaigns, Holiday Celebration Pics, LWVNY Legislative Priorities, Meet the Candidates, Member Bio Sketch, Negative Campaigning, Recycling, School Board Election Procedures, School Tax Relief (STAR) and Reassessment, Transportation Issues.

– 1999 – Topics include: Balancing Justice, Breakfast with our Legislators, Decoding 911, Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, Financing Public Higher Education, Land Use, Urban Sprawl and NYS Law, “Merging” with the LWV of Southern Saratoga, Pay Equity, Redistricting, Richard Kirsch on Clean Money, Clean Elections at Annual Meeting, Smart Growth, Universal Pre-Kindergarten, Vote on Becoming the LWV of Saratoga County, Voters Guide with the TU.

– 2000 – Topics include: Balancing Justice, LWVUS Convention adopted studies of Drug Policy and Election systems, Meet the Candidates, PCBs: To dredge or Not to Dredge, Recycling Urban Sprawl, U.S. Drug Policy.

– 2001 – Topics include: Breakfast with Your Legislators, Creating Open Government (G. Latimer), Election Reform, Gender Neutral Constitution Question, Land Use Planning, Meet the Candidates, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Save Universal Pre-K, SIA Winner is Jennifer Jahoda, SS City Charter Commission, Urban Sprawl.

– 2002 – Topics include: Action on Election Reform and Budget Process, Breakfast with Your Legislators, Juvenile Justice, Meet the Candidates, NGOs on Sprawl, NYS Process, Racial Profiling, Redistricting Results for Saratoga County Russian Delegation Visit, Scott Ritter speaks at Annual Meeting, SIA winners are: Neil Rodrigo-Kelly & Samantha Roberts, Solomon Northup Day, World Trade.

– 2003 – Topics include: Affordable Housing in SC, County Governments in NYS Drinking Water, Ethics in Government, Expanding Access to Healthcare, Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Instant Runoff Voting, Legislative Breakfast, LWVUS Opposes Patriot Act, Meet the Candidates, Pay Equity and Comparable Worth, Program Planning, Report on the Russian Visit, UN Briefing on Status of Children, UN visit by Renee Moore, Update of LWVUS Position on Selecting the President.

– 2004- Topics include: Accessiblity of Polling Sites, Bus Trip to UN & NY Times with Russians, Campaign For Fiscal Equity, Death Penalty, Holiday Party, Leaguers March for Women’s Lives, Meet the Candidates, Monitoring SS City Charter Implementation, Patriot Act, Russian Delegation learns about Elections and the Media, Public Access Media, Selection of the President, Take Me To Vote.

– 2005 – Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Paul Conti on Influence of Media on the News, Paper Ballot/Optical Scan Voting Machines, Campaign to Reform Albany, Capital Punishment Position, Death Penalty (David Kaczynski), LWV Saratoga launches Website, Legislative Breakfast, LWV “Grumble …” T-Shirts, LWVNYS Convention Pictures, Meet the Candidates, Monitoring City Charter Implementation, Observer Corps Formed, Russian Delegation Report and Pictures, Promise of Community Media with George Stoney, Services for Children (and Gaps), Solomon Northup Day, Social Security, Study of IDA & SEDC, Take Me To Vote!, Update of Position on Financing of Education, Visit to Pittsfield Community Media Center, Wind Power.

– 2006- Topics include: Annual Meeting Speaker: Jay Gallagher, on the Politics of Decline, Advocating for Optical Scan with Supervisors, Affordable Housing, Charter Schools, Candidate Events, Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital District, Inc., First Famous Person Fundraiser: Breakfast with Eleanor (Roosevelt), Financing Our Public Schools, Global Warming, IDA & SEDC Study, Independent Voters, Instant Run-Off Voting, LeaderSpark, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, National Popular Vote, Observer Corps, Openness in Government – Let the Sunshine In, Polling Place Accessibility Surveying, Sundae Social on Thursday with Kay Maxwell a LWVUS past president , Sunshine Week Grant, Take Me To Vote! – Again, Voting Machine Previews and Timelines .

– 2007 – Topics include: Breakfast with Your Legislators, Candidate Events, Child Support in NYS, Environmental EXPO 350, First Vote Project in 3rd Year, Global Warming, Holiday Party IDA &SEDC, Immigration Study & Annual Meeting Topic of Rey Koskowski, LeaderSpark, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, National Popular Vote, Observer Corps, NY leads in Wrongful Convictions, Sundae Social on Thursday , Sunshine Week Activities Take Me To Vote!, Trafficking in Humans (LWV at UN & in Glens Falls) ,Universal Health Care – Single Payer, Voting Machine Demos, Walk and Talk with the LWV.

– 2008 – Topics include: Breakfast With Your Legislators, Constitution Day Celebration: We the People Question the Electoral College, County Chooses Sequoia, County Spotlight on Mental Health, Dawson gets LWVUS Convention to Adopt Study of National Popular Vote! Gloria Steinem Day for Fair Pay, Immigration Position, Is Nuclear Energy Green?, LeaderSpark, League Day at the UN on Global Warming, MLK Day, NY is Going to be a Paper Ballot/Optical Scan State!, Saratoga County Government, Sundae Social on Friday, Sunshine Week Observances, Universal Health Care – Single Payer,

Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections, Ward Stone on Environment at Annual Meeting.

– 2009 – Topics include: 211 Info Services, Bigger, Better Bottle Bill Passes, Breakfast With Your Legislators, Caring for the Environment, Consensus Meeting on the Compact for the National Popular Vote, Consolidation of Services LWVNY Study, Counting Every Vote, County Spotlight on Planning, Public Works, Social Services, Curbing Greenhouse Gases, LWV Membership Social, Famous Person Fundraiser: Susan B. Anthony, FCP, International Women’s Day: What Women Want & The Motherhood Manifesto, LeaderSpark, MLK Day, Marriage Equality, Observer Corps, Optical Scanners Worked, Pay Equity: Ledbetter and Beyond, Saratoga County Government, Sustainable Local Communities (Melissa Everett, Annual Meeting Speaker), Take Me to Vote!

– 2010 – Topics include: Celebrate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Birthday, Communicating with new Technologies, Comparing Healthcare Proposals, Consolidation of Services LWVNY Study, David Grandeau on Ethics in Government at Annual Meeting, Domestic Violence, Election Inspector, Greening Your Household, Fair Pay Summit, Famous Person Fundraiser: Abraham Lincoln, Hydrofracking, LeaderSpark, Pro’s & Con’s of the Proposed New SS City Charter, Redistricting, Reducing Poverty with Pay Equity, Strength Without Compromise by Terri Gay, Student Inside Albany, Take Me to Vote!, Voting System Pilot Study Results, Winter Party.

. Other Publications – 1960’s – Community Guides – 1967 – Citizen’s Guide to Saratoga Springs – 1980 & 1983 – Voters’ Guides – 1984 – In League with Eleanor by Hilda Watrous, member of LWV Shenendehowa – 2004 – Saratoga Springs and Community Media – Miscellaneous Publications

Box 3 - Education, Advocacy and Projects (Arranged Alphabetically, then Chronologically)

. Alternatives to Incarceration Consensus (Nov, 1992)

. Balancing Justice (1998-1999)

. Clifton Park Community Study (1971)

. Constitution Day Celebration Sept 17, 2008 – Constitution Day Celebration- Evaluation Forms – Constitution Day Celebration – Grant Application – Constitution Day Celebration – Program – We the People Question the Electoral College – Constitution Day Celebration – Report

. Daycare (SS) Survey & Report (1969)

. Emergency Services Study (1998-2000) – Emergency Services- Consensus Materials and Position – Emergency Services-Meeting 11/18/1998 - Introduction – Emergency Services- Meeting 1/28/1999 – 911 – Emergency Services- Meeting & Study Materials – Emergency Services- Questionnaires – Emergency Services- News Clips of Relevance – Emergency Services- Saratoga County 911 Services Report – Emergency Services- Study Background

. Expanded In-Home Services for the Elderly Program (EISEP) 1989-1990 – EISEP – Advocacy – EISEP – Correspondence – EISEP – Descriptions of the Program – EISEP – Need - Health and Human Service Needs of Saratoga County Senior Citizens (June, 1989) - Report prepared Council of Community Services of Northeastern New York, Inc. at the request of the Saratoga County Inter-Agency Council. 55 pages, plus Appendices A-J. – EISEP – Newspaper Clippings

. Famous Person Fundraiser – Famous Person Fundraiser – 2006- Eleanor Roosevelt – Famous Person Fundraiser - 2009- Susan B Anthony – Famous Person Fundraiser – 2010- Abraham Lincoln – Famous Person Fundraiser – 2010- Abraham Lincoln coin sets

– Famous Person Fundraiser – 2010- Abraham Lincoln DVD of pictures – Famous Person Celebration of Women’s Suffrage – Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Birthday- 11-12-2010

. Focus on the Poor (1972-1975) – Focus on the Poor Study Materials and Correspondence (1972-1975) – Focus on the Poor in Saratoga County – a publication prepared by the League of Women Voters of Shenendehowa and Saratoga Springs, NY. (November 1973)

. Groundwater Protection Grant (1981- 1982) – Grant Application & Press Release – Grant Award & Reports – Grant – Public Education Activities

. Information & Referral Study and Grant (1989-1991) Summary: An Information and Referral Committees was established to determine if there was a need for an I & R service; to decide the most desirable way to provide the services in the County; to develop a request for proposals; to select the Community Agency to operate the program. The I & R committee was composed of the LWVs of Shenendehowa and Saratoga Springs, Human Service Agency representatives, the public and its officials. – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 1 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 2 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 3 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 4 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 5 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 6 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 7 – Information & Referral Study and Grant – folder 8

. Library Funding Study and Consensus (1996-1997)

. Media Center Committee (2003- 2005) – Media Center Committee – folder 1 – Media Center Committee – folder 2 – Media Center Committee – folder 3 – Media Center Committee – folder 4 – Media Center Committee – folder 5 – Media Center Committee – folder 6

. Nonpartisan Policy (1991-2000)

. Nuclear Arms Forum (1982)

. Polling Place Accessibility (1984 – 2007) – Polling Place Accessibility - 1984 – Polling Place Accessibility- 2003- Surveys and Action, Saratoga Springs – Polling Place Accessibility- 2004- Saratoga Springs Results of Action – Polling Place Accessibility-2004 – Skidmore Polling Place Letter – Polling Place Accessibility-2004 – Survey Form Blank 9-14-2004 – Polling Place Accessibility-2004-Surveys Ballston 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility- 2004-Surveys Clifton Park 3-2-04 – Polling Place Accessibility – 2004-Surveys Charlton & Galway 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Greenfield 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Halfmoon 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Malta 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Milton 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Northumberland 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Saratoga, Town of 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Stillwater 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility– 2004-Surveys Wilton 9-14-04 – Polling Place Accessibility – 2004 – Press Release – Polling Place Accessibility – 2006 – Arrangements for Training and Surveying – Polling Place Accessibility – 2006 – Survey Instrument Used – Polling Place Accessibility– 2006 – Training Materials – Polling Place Accessibility– 2006 – ADA Checklist for Polling Places – Polling Place Accessibility– 2006 – ADA Act – Polling Place Accessibility– 2006 – Survey Results – Polling Place Accessibility – 2007 – Retroactive Contract for Surveys Completed in 2006

. Racial Profiling (Consensus Report May, 2002)

. Russian Delegations through Open World Program, Library of Congress – 2002 Delegation: º Russians 2002 – Academy for Educational Development (AED) º Russians 2002 – Budget & Agreement Letter º Russians 2002 – Community Profile º Russians 2002 – Communications º Russians 2002 – Final Report and Schedule º Russians 2002 –Forms º Russians 2002 –Gifts º Russians 2002 –Host Packet º Russians 2002 – Invitation to Community Members º Russians 2002 – News clips º Russians 2002 –Open World Information º Russians 2002 – Participants º Russians 2002 – Photos 1 º Russians 2002 – Photos 2 13

º Russians 2002 – Photos 3 º Russians 2002 – Photos 4 negatives and contact sheets º Russians 2002 – Press Release and Media Advisory º Russians 2002 – Purpose º Russians 2002 – Schedule 10-28-02 º Russians 2002 – Schedule 11-2-02 º Russians 2002 – Services Arranged º Russians 2002 – Translators

– 2004 Delegation: º Russians 2004 – Arrangements for Community Visits º Russians 2004 – Budget, Agreement Letter, Expense Report º Russians 2004 - Communications º Russians 2004 – Cultural Handbook º Russians 2004 – Final Report and Schedule º Russians 2004 – News clips º Russians 2004 – Nuclear Problems º Russians 2004 – NY Times º Russians 2004 – Participants º Russians 2004 – Photos 1 º Russians 2004 - Photos 2 negatives and contact sheet º Russians 2004 – Photos 3 discs º Russians 2004 – Schedule 9-26-04 º Russians 2004 – Schedule 10-8-04 º Russians 2004 – Schedule 10-24-04 º Russians 2004 – Thank YOU’s º Russians 2004 - Translators

. Saratoga County Health Department Consensus (May 1988)

. Saratoga Springs City Charter Activities, Action, Study & Positions 1969 – – Saratoga Springs City Charter Activity 1968-69 – Saratoga Springs City Charter Activity 1970’s – Saratoga Springs City Charter Review of Charter February, 1975 – Saratoga Springs City Charter Text 1980 – Saratoga Springs City Charter Local Law of 1980 to Amend so that Elections are governed by State Law (eliminating non-partisan primaries). – Saratoga Springs City Charter - LWV urges ‘Yes” Vote in 1984 – Saratoga Springs City Charter Activity 1980’s

. Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVNY (1994) – Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVNY in Saratoga- Invitation Booklet, List of President’s – Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVNY in Saratoga – Publicity

. Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVUS (1995) – Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVUS (1995) – Special Cancellation 5-21-95 – Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVUS (1995) – The Stone that Started the Ripple – Playbill & Ticket – Seventy – Fifth Anniversary of LWVUS (1995) – The Stone that Started the Ripple – Script, by Patricia Nugent

. Student Voting Rights – Student Voting Rights – Court Case Establishing- 1985 – Student Voting Rights – Further Court Case Skidmore 1988 – Student Voting Rights – LWV Information Action – Student Voting Rights – Problems at Skidmore Poll site, Newspaper Clips 2003-04 – Student Voting Rights – Statements, LWV Saratoga 2003-04

. Sunshine Week – Openness in Government – Sunshine Week 2006 – Grant Application & Final Report – Sunshine Week 2006 – sample Packet – Sunshine Week 2006 – news clips – Sunshine Week 2007 - Forums

. Voting Machine Lobby Packet (2005)

Box 4 – Video Tapes and Flattened Milk Cartons . Video Tapes: – Constitution Day – 2008 – Death Penalty – David Kaczynski – 1-27-05 – Drug Laws 6-14-01 – Meet the Candidates Clifton Park 10-31-02 – Meet the Candidates Clifton Park 10-18-04 – Meet the Candidates Clifton Park/Halfmoon – Meet the Candidates Saratoga County Supervisors 10-16- – Meet the Candidates SS Area 10-29-01 – Meet the Candidates SS Area – Meet the Candidates SS Area 10-19-04 – Russian Visit 2004

Box 5 – Materials from the Collection of Betty Gallagher (Founder) [ Mrs. O. (Orville) Roger (Elizabeth, Betty) Gallagher was the founder of this League]:

. Bulletins from The League of Women Voters of the Saratoga Springs Area (The predecessor of the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County). These bulletins were originally mimeographed on 8 ½ X 11” sheets, stapled together, on very poor quality paper. The first ones were mailed (first class) with 4-cent stamps. Almost all include a Calendar of Events. Beginning with the May/June 1977 issue, and until May 1979, the back page of the bulletin carries business card ads from local business supporters. Beginning with the September 1979 issue and through December of 1985 the bulletin was printed on 8 ½ X 11 sheets, folded in half to make a 5 ½ X 8 ½ booklet. The business card ads moved to the middle page in this format. They were discontinued with the September 1980 issue.

– May 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Provisional League status attained; Betty Gallagher and Eleanor Galant to attend LWVNY Convention as observers; Apportionment; Charter Revision Hearings; 59 LWV members; Board of Directors of the Provisional League; Know your Local Government Survey; Membership Survey of Interests.

– June 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Progressing towards full League status; Know your Local Government Survey; Financing Education in NYS; Water Resources; UN and Foreign Economic Policy; Personal Permanent Voter Registration signed into law.

– September 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Calendar of Events for September and October

– October 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership Tea; Hospital Fire ended the Membership Tea; Proposed New City Charter; Tour of Water and Sewer Plant; United Nations; Voter Registration Drive; Finance Drive; Radio Series on WABC every Sunday in October re Ballot Questions; About LWV Unit meetings and General Membership Meetings.

– November 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: LWVNY Legislative News Service; Debby Cuyler will do LWV radio spot announcements; Item Chairmen appointed; Finance Drive Postponed; Peacemaking Function of the UN; Trip to the UN;

TV Citizenship Quiz; Drug Trafficking and the UN; D.G. Toleman & Betty Gallagher attend session on Budgeting; Facts For Voters distributed.

– December 1965 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Selection of Judges; Human Resource Development; Apportionment; Legislative Newsletter; UN peacekeeping; Trip to UN; Citizenship Quiz; LWV Budgeting.

– January 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Human Resources; LWV Budget revised; Home Rule for D.C.; Should literacy in English be a requirement for Voter Registration?; Consensus; Legislative priorities; Apportionment; moving divorce to the Family Court; Voter Registration changes proposed.

– February 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth , President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Finance Drive; BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services); WADA (weighted average daily attendance); Financing of Education; Local Government Survey; NYS Government; Observing governmental meetings; LWVNY Legislative Conference; Dinner with Gov. and Mrs. Rockefeller; LWVUS Position advocating apportionment of State Legislators be based on population; “one man, one vote’,

– April 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual Dinner Meeting; Collecting S&H Green Stamps for a LWV file cabinet; discussion leaders; Judical Reform; concurrent jurisdiction for courts; Saratoga Springs government; planning for a local study; UN narcotics bureau; Constitutional Convention scheduled for April 1967; Legislative conference; Betty Gallagher to be observer at LWVUS convention in Denver;

– May 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth , President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual meeting well attended; Local Government practices, taxes; List of Current Board Members; resignations from the board; equality of opportunity in employment and education; D.G. Toleman and Edna Goldstein will be delegates to State Council at Cornell; Board Training session at New Paltz; LWV file cabinet has been purchased with Green Stamps; four candidates for one school board position; James Carroll has GPP endorsement for Constitutional Convention(concon) delegate, June primary for concon delegates.

– June 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Board Changes; LWV members running for concon delegate; Human Resources; enforcement of non- discrimination; ObserverCorps; Water; Inter League Organization of the Delaware River Basin; State Council report; concon; Report from LWVUS Convention;.

– September 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership reception at the home of Mrs. Joseph (Anne) Palamountain; Election Reform; concon; Water Resources; Selection of Judges; Finance Drive; Permanent Personal Registration.

– October 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Facts For Voters; Voters Service; Finance Drive; CONCON: Poll reporting.

– November 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: CONCON; Facts For Voters; Voters Service; Selection of Judges; Candidate event sponsored by JC’s; 3- page fact sheet on judicial selection and removal.

– December 1966 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Water resources; Selection of Judges; Consensus; Finance Drive.

– January 1967 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Local Survey Committee; Choosing a Local Study Item; Report on local urban renewal, public housing, planning and zoning; Report on local recreation programs; report on SS City Charter; LWVNY position on the Judiciary; fund Drive Report; water resources.

– February 1967 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: LWVNY study on Evaluation of U.S. relations with the People’s Republic of China; election of nominating committee; selecting topics for local study; school and library bond election on February 15; Legislative Conference registration form.

– March 1967 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Red China; China and the World Community; LWV board recommends first local study of the SS City Charter; Proposed LWV budget of $1220; Citizen’s Guide to Saratoga Springs is ready for the printer; Legislative Conference report; Report on LWVUS continuing responsibilities

– May 1967 Editor: Mrs D. (Rita) Balmuth, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Provisional LWV of SS has been recognized as the League of Women Voters of the Saratoga Springs Area; Annual meeting; League publishes Know your School Board Candidates flyer and distributes; first publication of LWVSS; possible study to be discussed at LWVNY

Convention is a study of NY’s abortion laws; constitutional convention (concon) delegates speak to LWVNY positions; cake to celebrate becoming a local League.

– June 1967 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Action Alert in favor of the Foreign Assistance Aid bill of 1967; write to Representativ Carleton King, Jr.; LWVNY program items; City Charter Committee; Permanent Personal Registration arrives county-wide; Board member list for 1967-68.

– September 1967 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Citizenship Day; Membership Drive; Citizen’s Guide to Saratoga Springs is published; One Day Finance Drive; Permanent Personal Registration; Library Referendum set; 3-page fact sheet on types of City Governments

– October 1967 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: One Day Finance Drive; league’s position on the proposed Constitution; China Study; Voters Service committee preparing Election Guide; Questions about City governance; LWVNY opposes the proposed new Constitution; Rides needed; Members added, oriented, and involved. Insert: flyer from LWVNY urging NO vote on proposed Constitution.

November 1967 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Action Alert in support of Office of Economic Opportunity; LWVUS Program planning; Full representation for DC; Insert: 2-page flyer (in purple ditto) on the failed City Charter of 1965 and upcoming LWV meeting on the topic.

– December 1967 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Non-partisan vs. partisan elections for SS; Red China; SS City Charter Consensus position summary announced; Fund Drive a resounding success; Fund Drive raises $925.

– January 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Summary of Consensus on Saratoga Springs City Charter; Preference for a Mayor-Administrator- Council form of government.

– February 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Human Resources; programs for the educationally disadvantaged; Public Meeting on City Charter Revision; Action Alert on NY Education funding bills.

– March 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Recommended Local Study Item is Planning and Zoning in SS; Recommended Program is Support of the Mayor-Administrator-Council form of government; non-recommended items; LWV president Gallagher and Rita Balmuth meet with Assemblyman Fred Droms; Riots in our Cities; Crisis: The Condition of the American City for 75 cents; School Board election; nominating report.

– April 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual Meeting at Pennell’s; Statement from LWVUS president on assignation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr LWVSS supports the proposed new City Charter.; Water as a case study in Inter-governmental Relations; Boat trip to study pollution.

– June 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: New Board of Directors; Action Alerts; LWVUS convention adopts non-recommended item, a study of the Electoral College; Reasons for defeat of the proposed City Charter. Insert: National Program adopted at Convention

– August 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership reception; Choosing the President; New Family Court Judge Position in Saratoga County; Merit Selection of Judges. Insert: Flyer inviting everyone to membership reception.

– October 1968 Editor: Mrs Mark (Lynne) Gelber, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Human Resource Committee; Saratoga County Planning Board; Proposed comprehensive Sewer Plan; Water Resources; Ann Wait elected to School board; 50th Anniversary of the LWV in 1970; Mrs. Willard (Eileen) Grande to head 50th Anniversary Campaign; zoning ordinance for SS is available in Accounts office; S & H Green stamps for office shelving; Legislative News Service; New York State: A Citizen’s Handbook. Insert: LWVUS Facts & Issues on the subject of housing and discrimination. Guidelines for Fair Housing Standards.

– November 1968 Editor: Vacant, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Voters Services complimented by Saratogian; Electoral College; Charter Revision committee; Fund Drive approaching goal; Marie-Anne Honeywell will take over as editor of the Bulletin; Observer Corps; Referendum on weighted voting for Saratoga County Board of supervisors.

– January 1969 Editor: Mrs. J.A. (Marie-Anne) Honeywell, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Program planning; China’s Past in Her Present; Planning and zoning; Membership meeting on Electoral College cancelled due to flu epidemic; Consensus; Guidelines for Fair Housing Standards; Fair Housing Consensus; Betty Gallagher moving to LWVNY board. LWVNY 50th anniversary; Water resources; LWV publications on Pollution abatement. Insert: 2-page Summary Sheet of Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Sewerage Study of Saratoga County (prepared by LWVSS Water Resources Committee).

– February 1969 Editor: Mrs. J.A. (Marie-Anne) Honeywell, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Financing Education; Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Action Alert on Nuclear Nonproliferation; Action Alert on Budgeting for School Aid, correcting racial imbalance in schools, Urban schools,judicial salaries, judicial budget; Report on Solid Wastes Public Relations Symposium; dumps vs. landfills; garbage generated; waste collection and disposal; study grants for waste disposal; telephone committee will disband;50th anniversary committee members.

– March 1969 Editor: Mrs. J.A. (Marie-Anne) Honeywell, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual meeting, Nominating committee report; Directory of NYS Officers and Officials available; Environmental Planning; Electoral College; Local consensus on Relations with China; Proposed budget for LWVSS; Explanation of budget items; LWVSS supports proposed Saratoga County Sewerage System; Action Alert to oppose state cuts in Aid to Education.

– April 1969 Editor: Mrs. J.A. (Marie-Anne) Honeywell, President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Electoral College; Water Resources; County Sewerage System; LWVNY State Convention delegates are Sayra Nikoloff and Betty Gallagher;

– June 1969 Editor: Mrs. J.A. (Marie-Anne) Honeywell, Acting President: Mrs. V. (Lois) Bovee Topics: Board of Directors for 1969-70; Betty Gallagher appointed to LWVNY board; Primary Day; Membership Reception scheduled; New LWV filmstrip is Pick and Shovel Citizens; LWVUS Consensus on Relations with China; LWVNY Convention 1971 will be in SS; City Council approved joining the proposed County Sewerage System; Program adopted at Annual Meeting.

– September 1969 Editor: Mrs. G. (George) Lowis, Acting President: Mrs. V. (Lois) Bovee Topics: Study Committees will present at Unit meetings; Anne Palamountain will chair the next LWVNY Convention; Water Resources; Saratoga County Sewerage Plan; film, Clean

Water – It’s your Decision; China Policy; Suffragists in period costume attended Membership Reception.

– October 1969 Editor: Mrs. G. (George) Lowis, Acting President: Mrs. V. (Lois) Bovee Topics: Study committees; Finance Drive; Publications; Water Resources; Crusade for Clean Water; Carleton King will support appropriations for sewerage treatment plants; Proposed Saratoga County Sewer Plan still not voted on; Electoral College; LWV to co-sponsor Candidate night with Jaycees. Insert: 5 pages of information about the Electoral College, Pros & Cons and alternatives.

– November 1969 Editor: Mrs. G. (George) Lowis, Acting President: Mrs. V. (Lois) Bovee Topics: Consensus meeting on the Electoral College; LWV program Planning; New Schools for our District; projected student populations; school bond proposal; federal funding for clean water projects; Finance Drive results; Human Resources; Saratoga Springs Daycare needs survey; Local Candidate Guide distributed; Facts for Voters; LWV Publicatiions; Electoral College Consensus questions.

– March 1971 Editor: Mrs. V. (Lois) Bovee , Acting President: Marge Rogers Topics: Meeting on elementary and secondary school programs and special education in SS; compensatory education; adult education; student legislative interns to report; State LWV Convention Convention committee; LWVNY Convention in SS in May; Action Alert to increase welfare payments; Annual Meeting on April 21; nominating committee report; proposed local program (planning and zoning in SS, continue Know Your County study); Proposed local budget of $2,022.

– May 1976 Editor: not stated , President: Grace Miller Topics: Annual meeting and Dinner; Funds available for Urban housing in SS; affordable housing; Nominating Committee Report; Garage Sale.

– May-June 1977 Editor: Kathy Brevig , President: Grace Miller Topics: Annual meeting; Women’s Issues; Abuse; nominating report; increase in dues; Plant/Book sale; Universal voter registration; board orientation; Water Quality Committee; non-point source pollution; teasel; school board voters service.

– Summer 1977 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Improvements for School Board Elections; Portfolios for coming year; Josie

Pasciullo moving to Brockport; ERA; International dinner; 208 Water quality advisory committee; women’s issues.

– September 1977 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Fall calendar; International membership potluck; Cities-Urban crisis; Energy Study Committee; LWVNY Program Institute; Babysitting available; League and Saratogian cooperating on Voter’s Guide; Voters Have Pull; Golub Corporation pays for printing; voter registration deadlines; 208 Water quality advisory committee; siting power plants; long-range planning for utilities.

– October 1977 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Ballot Issues; Government Week; Voters Service planning; poll watching workshop; Candidates Night; Facts For Voters; Charity Bazaar; Pyramid Mall; Shenendehowa League; Urban Crisis; Finances of Urban area; urban ghettos; poverty in urban areas; affordable housing; lack of education and employment opportunities; distribution of tax revenues; Legislative News; ERA support.

– November 1977 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Evaluating voters service activities; Property tax assessment; full value assessment; Consensus questions on Energy; LWVNY action priority goals; maintenance of welfare benefit levels, returnable bottle legislation; reform of absentee ballot procedures and deadlines; absentee ballots for school elections; ethics legislation; initiative and referendum; Inter League Organization (ILO); Political Accountability Rating (PAR); Section 208 of the Federal Control Water Quality Act; Direct Election (of the president) Constitutional Amendment; Open Meeting Laws; Coastal Management in NYS.

– January 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: LWV celebrates 58th birthday; open meeting on county growth; land use and development planning; delicious desserts and discussions; poor attendance at meetings; LWVNY & US dues increasing; regionalism; environmental goals; LWVNY’s Legislative office opened in Albany; attorneys for Grand Jury witnesses.

– March 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: LWV to supervise Housing Authority Election; Action Alert to support Humphrey/Hawkins full employment act; Action Alert to oppose senate amendments to HR 7200, dealing with Assistance to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and SSI (Social Security Income); Family Planning Advocates; Medicaid funding for Abortion; Spouse Abuse; Support for Bottle Bill; 4 year terms for legislators; Sun Day; solar

energy; wind energy; 208 water quality; membership; ERA; bus tour of Albany; League of Women Voters of the Capital District.

– May 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Annual Meeting and dinner; Balloon Launch for ERA; Water Quality Problems; LWV Spring Institute at Shenendehowa; LWVUS position on energy; Energy Consumer Policy; Fundraiser at Pricechopper; Public Hearing on Zoning change; Capital District ILO elects officers; Capital District ILO to study the Health Systems Agency, regional planning and transportation; zoning change requested to build luxury apartments on Route 9, opposite Spa Park;

– June 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: 208 Water Quality Plan; Federal funding (85%) for private on-site sewer systems in rural areas; seepage from the Weible Ave. dump; LWVUS Convention report and adopted program; LWV of the SS Area opposes zoning change; LWV of SS Area (on invitation to speak) proposed a plank in the Republican Platform in support of the bottle bill. Karen Mencucci and Betty Gallagher report on LWVNY Council; LWVNY experienced a membership drop of 728 members; LWV lobbies for changes in way chief judge is nominated; Hyde Amendment; lobby to provide Medicaid funding for abortions; lobby for attorneys for grand jury witnesses; supportfunding for foreign aid.

– September 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Membership Dinner; Updating LWV of SS Area position on the City Charter; LWV to conduct elections for income eligible EOC board members; EOC election petitions; Finance Drive Day; Fall LWV Institute in Glens Falls; Property Tax Assessment; LWVNY position on Property Tax Assessment; Hudson River Cruise for ILO; 208 Water Quality and DEC; LWV Calendar for this year.

– October 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Garage sale; Reevaluation of LWV position on a June Primary; explanation of current laws regarding primaries; Pros and cons of a single primary; Meet the Candidate event for congressional and NYS Legislative seats, also for coroner; LWV study of whether a central Information and Referral telephone service should and could be established; LWVNY Lobby Corps is recruiting members; Observing meetings; Green Thumb meeting; Charity Bazaar; 11 candidates running for 10 seats on EOC board; only one contested EOC seat.

– November 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Environmental Problems; landfill regulations; Holiday Party; Position on Capital

District Transportation; Voting Rights for DC; Constitutional Amendment passes Senate for representation of DC. League certifies petitions for EOC election; Trip on Hudson.

– December 1978 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Fundraising; support for contributors; Program planning; Observer Corps; LWV lobbying; Inter League Organization (ILO); Health Systems Agency (HSA); Cohoes Music Hall fundraiser for LWV Troy; LWVNY Action Priorities. Insert: Membership List 1978-79.

– January 1979 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Program planning; Study of Information & Referral Line for Saratoga County; The Wide-Eyed Bride; skit by LWV Schenectady; Women & the Law.

– February 1979 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Women & the Law; The Wide-Eyed Bride; skit by LWV Schenectady; Report by League Lobbyists; Robert D’Andrea meets with LWVSS; Where D’Andrea stands on LWV positions; LWVNY Legislative Conference; Open Meeting Law affirmed; Questionnaire being developed on Information and Referral services; Action Alert on Representation for DC; Action Alert on Medicaid funding for Abortions; opportunity to participate in developing the State Master Energy Plan.

– March 1979 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Lobbying, How a Bill becomes a Law; What our League lobbyists do; Delegates to Legislative Conference; Bottle Bill bottled up in Commerce Committee; Update on LWVNY legislative issues; Annual Dinner scheduled; 208 Water Plan; draft State Water Quality Plan; Equity in School Finance; Education Aid; NY Women in History; proposed slate of officers for LWVNY includes Joan McKinley (SS) for 1st vice president; LWVSS nominating committee report; proposed budget 1979-80; LWV of the Capital District (ILO) Annual meeting notice.

– April 1979 Editor: Margaret Roohan , President: Karen Mencucci Topics: Annual meeting speaker is Laura Snell; Environmental Management Council; continued study on the SS City Charter; 2nd year of study of Information and Referral Services; compile a directory of Human Service Agencies; School Board Meet the Candidates Night; League Applying for Environmental Education Grant; National Humanistic Education Center; study of landfill needs in Saratoga County; Proposed LWVNY program for 79-80; Delegates to LWVNY Convention; LWVNY announces travel service; Health Systems Agency (HSA) needs volunteers; LWVNY supports model indirect state initiative bill.

– May 1979 Editor: Susan Wiley, President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Board Organizational meeting; LWV board positions; list of LWVSS committees; progress on application for Environmental Grant; Spring LWVNY Institute report; Gretchen Zeh appointed to Community Housing Resources Board; SC Board of Realtors signs affirmative marketing agreement; equal opportunity housing; Three Mile Island incident; nuclear energy; public participation in siting of nuclear power plants; LWV list of components required in legislation regulating nuclear power; ERA (Equal Rights Amendment); ERA unlikely to pass this year.

– September 1979 Editor: Susan Wiley, President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Covered Dish membership meeting; LWVNY lobbyist Carol Wallace; Observer Corps; Betty Gallagher resigns from LWV board to run for Wilton Town Clerk; Finance Drive Day; Fall Institute; League sells UNICEF cards and gifts;

– October 1979 Editor: Susan Wiley, President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Real Estate Tax Assessment; full value assessment; acid rain; air pollution; LWV orientation coffees; Meet the Candidates; Candidate forum; Voters Guide; Charity Bazaar; car care clinic; Observer Corps; Transportation Bond Act; Inter League Organization (ILO); LWV participating in TV program; local ballot issues on TV; Committees on Women and Law, natural resources, human resources.

– December 1979 Editor: Susan Wiley, President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Potluck Supper; Meet LWVUS Board & Staff members; Consensus on state finances; Holiday party; Concurrance; filling legislative vacancies; car care clinics; pre- session interviews with legislators; new edition of A Citizen’s Handbook; ERA; Community Directory.

– January 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, President: Margaret Roohan Topics: ERA; filling legislative vacancies; car care clinics; pros & cons of tax on heating fuel; heating fuel tax; citizenship training for 4th grade; lobby training; LWVNY opens Albany office; Capital District ILO Convention.

– February 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Marge Zucchino President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Survey of fourth grade local government education; The UN; Medicaid funding for abortion; Legislative Conference; lobbying;

Travel with the League; bus trip to the UN; water resources study; tour of water plant; Geyser Crest water; Women and the Law; alimony; equal pay; gender discrimination; D’Andrea supports indirect initiative.

– March 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Marge Zucchino President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Women & Work; divorce settlements; laws applying to women; 60th Anniversary of LWV; Fringe Benefits; Membership rises; full value assessments; Superfund; hazardous waste releases; History of LWV Saratoga Springs; SS drinking water; action alert to increase funding for foreign aid; registering for the draft; women and the draft; collecting signatures to support indirect initiative; political accountability; ratings of SS congressional members on votes; Garage Sale.

– April 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Marge Zucchino President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Earth Day; Saratoga County Environmental Management Council; toxic waste sites; Government of Saratoga Springs, SS Election Law; nominating committee report; School Board Candidates Night; Annual Meeting and Dinner; Open Sesame; polling site accessibility; Saratoga Springs Housing Authority election; Bottle Bill; Travel with the League; Garage Sale.

– May 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Marge Zucchino President: Margaret Roohan Topics: City Government; City Attorney; vote on car care clinics; Voters Guide for School Board Election; City Water; State Council meeting delegates; Capital district Planning Commission evaluation; recycle newspaers for the LWV; recycle glass at Skidmore; List of Fund Drive contributors; garage sale; proposed LWV Budget 1980-81; Spring Institute; board orientation.

– June 1980 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistants: Marge Zucchino, Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan – Topics: SS water supply; slide show of water infrastructure; LWVSS to host Fall Institute; Garage sale results; LWV to take action on Open meetings violation; LWV Directors listed with portfolios; community directory nearing finish.

– September 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Fall Institute in Saratoga Springs; local government; water in SS; Candidate event for US Senate; LWVSS gets bulk mail permit; car clinics start in September; membership pot luck; SS Charter revision; election law section of charter; proposed charter change to partisan elections; .community meetings on SS water supply; Shenendehowa LWV meeting; schedule of car care clinics; Meet the Candidates for 29th Congressional District, 41 & 44 S.D., 108 A.D. and County Clerk & Treasurer.

– October 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Unit meetings; opportunity to serve on State Ed Boards; dues are due; Brief Guide to City Hall.

– November/December 1980 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Charter Revision; Supervisors now elected under NYS election law; partisan elections; consensus to amend charter for partisan election of Supervisors; Voter registration campaign; Facts for Voters distributed; Voters Service; poll watch report on Candidate forum; Adirondack Trust and Stewart’s underwrite Facts for Voters and Voters Guides; school financing; consensus on equity for students and taxpayers; June 1978 court ruling on financing schools; NY school financing unconstitutional; lobbying; water system repairs; systematic repair of entire water system; Observer corps; open meetings; Energy; historic preservation; energy conservation; recycling; LWV Calendars; conference at Sagamore Institute; Holiday Party.

– January 1981 Editor: Susan Wiley, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Women and the Law; matrimonial law; divorce law; equitable distribution of property; Florence Sussman obituary; Legislative Conference; So You’re Going to Albany; Child custody factors; best interests of the child; preference of the child; consensus on child custody; presumption of joint custody pros & cons; “tender years”; disability insurance for momemakers; pros & cons ofdisability insurance for homemakers; Pension plans & survivor benefits;state finances; equalizing educational opportunity; Observer Corps summaries; Board of Education; Board of Supervisors; SS City Council; County budget adoption; supervisors split on appointment; Libby Smith presents slide show on water at SS City Council meeting; list of contributors; Women and the Law, a look at some of the laws that effect women in NYS, Interview with Assemblyman Robert D’Andrea; D’Andrea opposed to raising welfare payments; D’Andrea opposed to full value assessment; LWVSS receives grant to publish booklet about drinking water in SS.

– March 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Nominating committee report; Fair School Finance; study if the SS Civil Service Commission proposed; A Fair Shake for Kids; Levittown decision; measuring school district wealth; educational quality; tour of ANSWERS waste disposal project; regional waste disposal; Capital District ILO; proposed 1981-82 LWV budget; bottle bill advances; Observer Corps; ILO nominating committee report; LWVSS dues; Trips to Canada; LWVNY slate includes Joan McKinley (SS); Annual dinner; Betty Gallagher delegate to LWVNY Convention; ARCO car care clinics.

– April 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Margaret Roohan Topics: Annual Dinner; LWVSS finances; school district statistics ILO meeting and election; hazardous waste quiz; National budget cuts; Legislative Conference attended; School Board Candidate Forum; tax-deductible contributions to LWVSS; Household memberships in LWV; per member payments (PMP).

– May 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: LWVNY Convention; Re-evaluation of position on financing education; Domestic Violation; ballot cross-endorsement; PMP; Walk for the ERA; school study committee; Open meetings; Freedom of Information; LWVSS Board List; ILO meeting; Observer Corps.

– June 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Dues; Spring Institute: LWV members facilitate workshops; Conference on Aging; Equal Rights Amendment; Saratoga Springs Water Resources slide show; Freedom of Information; Open Meetings; Federal Budget Cuts.

– September 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership dinner; Facts for Voters; Voters Guide; Study of school financing; Saratoga Springs City Charter; Commission Form of Government; Natural resources; groundwater protection; UN Conference on Energy; Planned Unit Developments (PUDs); Bottle Bill; Clean Air Act; voter registration.

– October 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Meet the Candidates; LWV supports Clean Air Act and Voting Rights Act; Protecting Groundwater; Finance Drive; City Charter Study; Election law; non-partisan elections; Bottle Bill; Know Your School report; Observer Corps Schedule; absentee ballot applications.

– November 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Solid Waste; landfills; Graphic communication; ILO representative needed; Saratoga Lake Study; Consensus on Charter Changes; separation of legislative and administrative duties; LWV Saratoga Springs supports partisan elections; Fund drive contributors; Women & the Law;domestic violence; career opportunities for women; labor laws affecting women; groundwater protection grant; Voters Service report.

– December 1981 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher

Topics: Groundwater; slide show on groundwater; bottle bill; day-care incentives; voting rights for DC; opposition to presumption of joint custody; Fund Drive Donors; LWV statement on Charter Change; A Fair Shake for Kids presentation; Holiday Party.

– January 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Nominating Committee; Budget Committee; Groundwater questionnaire; attempts to weaken the Clean Air Act; League Buttons; Women & the Law; career opportunities for women; Observer Corps schedule.

– February 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: LWVNY Legislative Conference; LWV publications on display at Montana Book; Education Finance in NYS; Levittown court decision; Consensus questions on Financing Education; foundation aid; equalization rate; guaranteed tax base; save harmless; Economic Opportunity Council (EOC) elections; Legislator lobbying visit report.

– March 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Report of school study committee; consensus on financing education; consensus; A.C. Dake annual meeting supervisor; LWV Spring Institute; Fund Drive solicitors; Charity Bazaar; LWVUS Convention in Houston.

– April 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Garage sale; Citizen Information Service; Annual meeting; petition drive for Charter changes; Meet the Candidates for school & Library Board; reason for supporting partisan elections; Water Awareness Week; Growth/Development/Water resources; Charity Bazaar volunteers; ILO representative; Citizen Action Committees; ILO election nominees.

– May 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Nuclear Weapons; LWVUS Convention topics; Spring Institute Workshops; Water Awareness Week.

– June 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Report from LWVUS Convention. Water Awareness Week.

– September 1982 Editor: Pat Fox, Editorial Assistant: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership Pot Luck Dinner; Action Packed Politics; Petition Drive was successful; Charter Change to appear on ballot; partisan elections supported; LWVNY to

hold TV debates for state-wide offices; study of security policies; Water Week summaries available.

– October 1982 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Ann Hebert President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Meet the Congressional Candidates; Meet Assembly and local Candidates; Membership grows by more than 10%; Finance Drive; Support Charter Change; Senatorial Debate; Inside Albany; Election ’82 TV shows; LWVNY Know Your Town Activity Packets; national security; Voting Statistics by sex; Eleanor Roosevelt; Observer Corps schedule.

– November 1982 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Helen Mercer President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Finance drive; WATS line; Spotmaster; NYS Legislative info line; SS City Charter changed to partisan elections; Consensus; Concurrence; Lecture on China; Women and the Law; development rejected at Exit 14; SS Master Plan; Holiday Party. Insert: Financing Education background information and Consensus questions, prepared by LWVNY.

– December 1982 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Helen Mercer President: Betty Gallagher Topics: BPW honors Margie Van Meter; Non-partisan Holiday Party; List of LWV contributors; LWVSS concurs on reproductive rights; Charter committee continues; Per Centage of Lottery money to education; LWV Calendar at Montana Book.

– January 1983 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Helen Mercer President: Betty Gallagher Topics: League Day at the UN; national security; election law; domestic violence; Cross- Endorsement background and Consensus Questions; fund drive contributors.

– February 1983 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Helen Mercer President: Betty Gallagher Topics: International Trade; LWVNY legislative priorities; League Members appointed to SS Charter Commission; Environmental issues; proposed Land use changes at Seward & Clement Street; solid waste energy recovery plant; Charity Bazaar; Women’s History; Saving Power; LWVNY Consensus on Financing Education; Joan McKinley (LWVSS member is nominated for LWVNY president; DC representation.

– March 1983 Editor: Libby Smith Editorial Assistant: Helen Mercer President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual Meeting; School Board Candidate Night; Legislative Conference; Domestic Violence; Nominating Committee report; ILO Activities; WATS Line; Spotmaster; Citizen Information Service; Legislative Bill Action line; Comparable Worth.

– April 1983 Editor: Libby Smith President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Annual Meeting; League Program; Proposed LWVSS Budget; Samantha ‘Rassles the Woman Question.

– May 1983 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: LWVNY Convention delegates; Consensus Question on SS Charter; International Trade; ILO; National Security; LWV publications at Montana Book; Study of Planning and Zoning; SRO for Candidate Event; Judicial Study; Annual Meeting report; McKinley on Lobbying; Interview with Congressman Gerald Solomon. Insert: Dues notice and coupon.

– June 1983 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: SS Charter Reform; McKinley elected president of LWVNY; Healthcare Study; LWVSS honored for membership increase; public financing of elections; Position on SS Charter reaffirmed.

– September 1983 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Membership Pot Luck; Developing Convention Business for SS; new LWV brochure; Martha Stonequist Concert; Stoneqist bio; No LWVNY consensus on Cross- Endorsement (Fusion); questions for National Security consensus; Finance Committee; Judicial Study Committee; Hazardous Wastes; Voter Registration; Meet the Candidates Night.

– October 1983 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: National Security Consensus; Stonequist Concert; finance drive; new member orientation; ILO seminar on grantsmanship; 22 Candidates at Forum; Underwriters of Voters Guides, Facts for Voters, How to Register, Quote from Carrie Chapman Catt on disarmament. Inserts: ILO Seminar; National Security Consensus Questions and Answer sheets.

– November 1983 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Hazardous waste disposal; Finance Drive Sponsors; Candidates night drew 400+; Christmas Party.

– January 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Local Courts; LWVNY legislative Priorities; Governor gives list of Job openings so women will be encourages to apply; LWV member appointed to Committee on Low

Level Radioactive Waste Disposal; LWV interviews Robert D’Andrea; Leadership Development for Women; Saturday morning workshops on Long Range planning and the Master plan, subscribe to Report from the Hill. Insert: LWVUS program planning sheet.

– February 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: National Security Phase II; Local Program Planning; Viola Ilma to speak about traveling and working with Eleanor Roosevelt; Congressman Solomon cancels planned LWV talk on National Security; Phase I of the National Security Consensus Position; LWVNY Lobby Corps; List of contributors.

– March 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Planning and Zoning; Proposed Budget; ILO Convention features Karen Johnson; 9 polling places in SS are inaccessible; nominating committee report; proposed local studies.

– April 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Betty Gallagher Topics: Meet the School Board Candidates; School Board Vote on May 1; Counting ballots at SSHA election; Observes scheduled; Citizen’s Information Service; Annual Meeting; Planning and Zoning Board Presentations, Volunteer to help revise the Master Plan; Spring Institute.

– May 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Healthcare Acronyms; LWVUS long – range plan to reorganize the LWV; LWVUS Convention delegate; New Board List; Voter Service jobs available; Dues are due; LWV Leadership Training Institute.

– June 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Citizen Information Service; Report on Board Orientation Session; LWVSS priorities; Report from LWVUS Convention; Social Policy/Women’s Issues; ILO Board retreat at Three Brothers Island, Lake George; newspaper recycling continues at 4-H center (please remove glossy inserts); names of six LWV members sent to Master Plan Committee; 84-85 board responsibilities. Insert (missing): was evidently a member interest form.

– September 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Membership Dinner; LWV nonpartisan Policy; “Make your Mark on Politics”; Social Policy/Women’s Issues may focus on comparable worth pay equity; volunteer for

Voters Service activities; Local Leagues planning televised Congressional Debate; Fall LWV Program Institute; Making a Difference – Women in Electoral Politics; 3 state Leagues and Harriman Institute hold conference on National Security at Columbia; tour of Vicon resource Recovery Plant in Pittsfield; Channel 13 van and publicity for Voter Registration; lobby for Clean Water Act; Pesticide clean-up; Survey of pesticides for disposal.

– October 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Solomon v. Bloch debate; registration with Channel 13 van; Charter Change on ballot; 4th Annual Consumer Awareness Conference; Membership Dinner a success; Questions about the costs of medical care; Who should get medical care?; Report on trip to Vicon Resource Recovery Plant; Maki Jacknowitzinterviewd on Vicon trip; LWVSS registers 503 voters; One vote makes a difference; Solomon against ERA; Bloch for ERA; Vote: Make your Mark on Politics.

– November 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Recycling; Landfills; price of scrap; clarify non-partisan policy; explain LWV advocacy for positions; Think Globally – Act Locally; Barriers in Recycling; Christmas Party; List of Fund Drive Contributors; Helen Mercer to sit on Saratoga Solid Waste Agency; recycling logistics difficult;5 steps to preserve the environment; Solomon v. Bloch debate report.

– December 1984 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Holiday Party delightful; LWVSS and LWV Shendehowa both testify at Saratoga County Budget hearings in support of reinstating funding for Southern Adirondack Planned Parenthood; LWV workshops; Lobbying with LWVNY.

– January 1985 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Know Your Local Government Day; Taking Action on LWV Issues; Health Care Issues; Healthcare consensus questions; League member A.C. Dake becomes Chair of County Board of Supervisors; County-wide Solutions for Solid Waste; LWVUS tries consensus by mail; Consensus on Financing Federal Government; Appeal for Donations to LWVNY; Clarifying the LWV dues year; LWVNY priorities; Superfund; Court Reform; Sex equity in Education.

– February 1985 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Women’s Issues; Sex Equity in Education Divorce Reform; Comparable Pay for Comparable Work; Day Care; Planned parenthood crisis; monitoring access to family

planning information for low income women in the County; 65th anniversary of LWVUS; Citizen Information Service.

– March 1985 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Healthcare Consensus meeting; LWVSS moves to computer age; Healthcare consensus questions and vexing scenerios; Legislative Conference delegates; Consensus on Local Solid Waste Management; ILO Annual meeting; Women’s Issues; divorce legislation; Sex equity in education; pay equity; monitoring county money diverted from Planned Parenthood; need for after-school Daycare; subsidized day care.

– April 1985 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Elizabeth Smith Topics: Landfills; Solid Waste Management; Proposed budget (missing) includes and increase in dues to $25 individual,$35 household.

– May 1985 Editor: Leslea Kunz President: Libby Smith Topics: Saratoga County Daycare needs; LWV supports subsidized daycare; Panel on Daycare; Survey of Membership interests and volunteer jobs; Legislative fellowship at Center for Women in Government; Action needed for civil rights Restoration Act of 1985; Consensus position on Solid Waste; ILO reorganized.

– October1985 Editor: June Leeman President: Libby Smith Topics: Membership Pot Luck; Board of LWVSS; Geoff Borneman speaks on Master Plan; voter Registration sites and dates; National security Committee; League Sponsored Committee for Daycare; LWV proposes Saratoga County apply for state funds for subsidized Daycare; League Day at the UN. Inserts: League Calendar; Membership survey.

– November 1985 Editor: June Leeman President: Libby Smith Topics: Board of Directors; Facts for Voters; nonpartisanship; Ground rules for Candidates Night; Candidates Night; Calendar Nov-July; ILO president is Libby Smith; Nationa Security Issues; Action on Daycare; Court merger; study of Grand Jury.

– December 1985 Editor: June Leeman President: Libby Smith Topics: America in the Third World; Consensus on U.S. Relations with developing Nations; Grand Jury Study; District Attorneys’ association; Natural Resources Committee developing recommendations for Master Plan; LWV calendar for year; Sheet of business card advertisements; LWV Holiday Party; Successful Voter Service

Events; Take Action by calling your supervisors to support subsidized Daycare; Report on League Day at the UN.

– Annual Meeting Invitations and Programs: First Annual Meeting was 5-3-1967, following April recognition as a League Annual Meeting Booklets, Programs and Invitations 1979- 2010 are located in Box #1 of the Collection – 5-3-1967, Speaker, Mrs. Ruth Binder, LWVNY Lobbyist, “Lobbying for the League in Albany” – 4-24-1968, Speaker: Mrs. George Ames, Pres, LWVNY, “Let’s be Practical About Politics” – 4-24-1969, Speaker: Roger Hallenbeck, Architect & Planning Consultant, “Planning Urban Environments” – 4-8-1970, Speaker: Louis Lex, Executive Director, Capital District Planning Commission, practically illegible – 4-21-1971, Speaker: Dr. Erwin L. Levine, Skidmore, “Revenue Sharing, Cure-All or Band- Aid?” – 4-10-1972, Speaker: Mary Ann Krupsak, Assemblywoman, A.D. 104, “New York State Finance” – 5-9-1973, Speaker: Virginia Cairns Callan, Women’s Unit, Office of the Governor – 4-23-1974, Speaker: Scott W. Brown, Jr., Chair of Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, “Government in a Growing Community” – 5-22-1975, Speaker: Congressman Ned Pattison, “Legislative Reform” – 5-11-1976, Speaker: Mary Ann Starbuck, Planner, “Availability of Federal Funding for Housing” – 5-23-1977, Speaker: Carolyn Kobrynski., “Energy Conservation” – 5-16-1978, Speakers: Carol Wallace & Joan McKinley, LWVNY Lobbyists,“Where the Action is – Lobbying in Albany”

– Annual Meeting Minutes: – 4-8-1970 – 4-21-1981 – 4-20-1982 – 4-19-1983 – 4-29-1984 – 5-6-1985

. Board Lists – 1969-70 – 1969 October – 1970 -71 – 1981 – 1982 – 1982-83 – 1983 37

– 1985-86, with membership – 1987 – 1987-88 ILO Board list – 1988-1989

– Budgets ( usually showing current budget, actual spending, proposed budget) : – April 1965-1966 total is $375 – April 1967-1968 total is $1220 – April 1968-1969 total is $1400 – April 1969-1970 total is $1969 – April 1970-1971 total is $1975 – April 1971-1972 total is $2022 – April 1972-1973 total is $2020 – April 1973-1974 total is $2026 – April 1974-1975 total is $1794 – April 1975-1976 total is $2058 – April 1976-1977 total is $2445 – April 1977-1978 total is $2205 – April 1978-1979 total is $1880 – April 1979-1980 total is $1880 – April 1980-1981 total is $3290 – April 1981-1982 total is $4420 – April 1982-1983 total is $4109 – April 1983-1984 total is $5051 – April 1984-1985 total is $5158 – April 1985-1986 total is $4804 – April 1986-1987 total is $4468 – April 1987-1988 total is $4542 – April 1988-1989 total is $5490 – April 1989-1990 total is $6138

– Calendar of Events for upcoming year (often with membership info): – 1968-1989

– City Charter Saratoga Springs (six folders): 1968, 1968, 1980-1981, 1982, 1982 news clippings, 2006

– City Charter Saratoga Springs Referendum – Partisan Elections – 1968 Includes voter’s Guide, clippings – referendum defeated 2464 to 2121.

– City Charter Saratoga Springs Referendum – Partisan Elections – 1979-1982 Includes clippings, Voter’s Guide, proposed Charter Charter was defeated, but question on partisan elections passed 4,250 to 1,259.

– Committee Lists: – Around 1966 – September, 1981

– Correspondence: – 1972-76 – 1978 – 1979 – 1980 – 1981 – 1982-1988

– Day Care: Advocacy for Subsidized Day Care in Saratoga County – 1985 – 1986 – 1987 – 1988 – 1989-1991

– Economic Opportunity Council (EOC) Elections conducted by the LWV: – 1973 Election – publicity; districts; candidate handouts; sample petitions, ballots &, tally sheets; results and reports – 1982 Election – districts, letters and reports

– Expanded In-Home Services for the Elderly Program (EISEP)

– Finance Drives: 1968-1974, 1975-1979, 1981-1983, 1984-1990

– Information & Referral Survey 1979

– Letters on Advocacy Issues: – 1967-1968: Re: modernization of the courts; federal funding for Economic Opportunity Organizations To/From: Editor of the Saratogian, Congressman Carleton King, US Senator Jacob Javits, US Senator Robert Kennedy, Assemblyman Fred Droms,Jr., Betty Gallagher

– 1969: Re: nuclear non-proliferation treaty; NYS budget cuts, NYS judicial budget, school desegregation, school education aid formula. To/From: US Senator Jacob Javits, on behalf of President Nixon, on behalf of Governor Rockefeller, Assemblyman Fred Droms,Jr., NYS Senator Douglas Hudson, Betty Gallagher

– 1973: Re: Open meetings, seniority system in congressional committees, welfare reform, judicial issues in NYS, court reform, abortion, education, increasing Aid to Dependent Children and Home Relief Grants, Statement to NYS Senate Committee on Election Law by Betty Gallsgher To/From: Congressman Carleton King, Mrs. Robert (Josie) Pasciullo, NYS Senator Douglas Hudson, Assemblyman Fred Droms,Jr., Assembly member Constance Cook, Frederick Hequenbourg, Editor of the Saratogian.

– 1974: Re: Federal Legal Aid Services, Public financing of elections, disclosure of campaign contributions, NYS funding of education, judicial reform. To/From: US Senator Jacob Javits, Mrs. Robert (Josie) Pasciullo, US Senator James Buckley, Assemblyman Fred Droms,Jr.

– 1976, 1981, 1982: Re: SS City Charter, Regan budget proposals, LWV erred about Congressman Gerald Solomon’s support for the Clean Air Act, federal cuts in social and environmental programs. To/From: Grace Miller, Editor of the Saratogian, Increasing Public Assistance Levels, Gretchen Zeh, US Senator Alphonse D’Amato, Betty Gallagher. Forum on Federal Budget Cuts 1981

– 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986: Re: SS City Charter, Public financing of elections, opposing parental consent for contraception, Your Vote is Secret, County funding for Planned Parenthood, need for regional environmental and solid waste planning, NYS funding for family planning, voter lists for school board elections, polling place accessibility. To/From: Deslyn Manniello, Betty Gallagher, Editor of the Saratogian, NYS Senator Hugh Farley, Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink, Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, Victoria O”Reilly, Libby Smith, Maki Jacknowitz, Thomas Wallace.

– 1987, 1988: Re: Subsidized child care, Public Assistance, Health Department for SC, Medicaid funding for Abortion. To/From: Robert Hathaway (Chair, SC Bd of Supervisors), Barbara Parke, Betty Gallagher, Editor of the Saratogian (Barbara Lombardo), Patrick Bingham (Chair, SC Bd of Supervisors), Russell Priester (Commissioner of Social Services), Wilbur Trieble (Chair, SC Bd of Supervisors), Libby Smith, Joyce Wheeler, Governor Mario Cuomo.

– Membership Lists: – 1966 January – 1966 December 40

– 1970-71 – 1975-76 – 1979-80 – 1980-81 – 1981-82 – 1983-84 – 1984-85 – 1989 February – 1991 January

– Observer Corps

– Minutes of the League of Women Voters of the Saratoga Springs Area (Agendas are included for most meetings) – 1969 - September 10 – 1970 – March 5, March 26, April 21, May 11, June 2, September 2, October 6, Nov. 3, Dec. 1 – 1971 – Jan 5, May 4, May 19, June 1, Sept. 7, Oct 12, Nov 2, Dec 7, Calendar 71-72. – 1972 – Jan 4, Feb 1, March 7, April 4, April 10, May 10, June 7, Sept 6, Oct 4, Nov 1, – Dec 6 (agenda only). – 1973 – Program for 73-74, Jan 3, Feb 7, March 7, April 4, April 30, May 9, June 6, July 25, Sept 10, Sept 25, Oct 30, Nov 26, Dec 6. – 1974 – Jan 3, Jan 23, Feb 27, March 27, April 23, April 24, June 1, July 17, Aug 21, Sept 25, Nov 26. – 1975 – Jan 3, Jan 28, April 29, Sept 4, Oct 2. – 1976 – Jan 8, Feb 5, March 4, May 11, Sept 2, Oct 7, Nov 4, Dec 4. – 1977 – Jan 6, Feb 8, March 3, April 6,May 23, August 18, Sept 8, Nov 3. – 1978 – Aug 30, Oct 5, Nov 9, Dec 7, Dec 13. – 1979 – March 6, April 5, April 24, June 4, June 25, Sept 4, Oct 1, Nov 5. – 1980 – Jan 8, Feb 4, March 3, May 5, May 13, June 2, June 24, Sept 2, Oct 10, Nov 11, Dec 2. – 1981 – Jan 6, Feb 3, March 3.

– Publications of LWVSS: – A Brief Guide to City Hall, undated – A Brief Guide to City Hall, 1974-75 – A Brief Guide to City Hall, September 1980 – A Brief Guide to City Hall, 1985 – A Brief Guide to City Hall- February, 1987 – A Citizen’s Guide to Saratoga Springs, 1967 – Directory of Elected and Appointed Officials, City of Saratoga Springs -1970 – Does the U.S. Need (More) Nuclear Weapons? 1983 – Focus on the Poor in Saratoga County, 1973 – Saratoga Springs Community Directory (undated, 1980? ) 41

– Things You Always Wanted to Know about City Charters – Who’s Who in Politics and Government? (Jan., 1968) – supplement to a Citizen’s Guide to Saratoga Springs (1967)

– Study of Saratoga Springs School District 1986

– Study of Water Issues 1982

– Treasurer’s Reports (Monthly): – 4/1/1977 – 12/31/1977 – 1/1/1978 - 12/31/1978 – 1/1/1979 – 12/31/1979 – 1/1/1980 – 12/31/1980 – 1/1/1981 – 12/31/1981 – 1/1/1982 – 12/31/1982 – 1/1/1983 – 1/31/1984

– Voter’s Services: Candidate Events: – 1970-1973 – 1974-1976 – 1977-1986 – 1989

– Voters Guides by LWVSS (in chronological order): – Election Information on Candidates - 1967 – Facts for Voters- City Charter Referendum – May 21, 1968 – Proposed Charter for Special Election- May 21, 1968 (prepared and published by City) – Things You Always Wanted to Know about City Charters – Voters Guide - Referendum Question re: partisan elections – 1970 – Students – Register and Vote in 1974 – Voter’s Guide – 1975 – mock up with corrections – Voters’ Guide - 1976 – Voters’ Guide – 1977 – Voters Have Pull (LWVNY publication with local imprint) – 1977 – Voters’ Guide – 1978 – Voters Guide (LWVNY publication with local imprint) – 1980 – Voter’s Guide - 1980 – An Improved Election Law for Saratoga Springs- Vote Yes - November, 1982 (re: partisan elections) – Voters Guide – 1983

– Voter’s Guide Candidate Responses: – 1973 – 1974 42

– 1975 – 1977

– Voters Service Committee: Letters of Invitation for Candidate Events (many with lists of candidates): 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1989

– Voter’s Services – Registration Event & Survey – Emphasizing Disabled Registration - 1986

Accretion: Box 6 – Scrapbooks, Bulletins, Pictures on CD . Scrapbooks 1969-2010 Scrapbooks Archived by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County (1969-2010). The original scrapbooks, containing newspaper clippings, other documents and color photographs are located in the Saratoga Room of the Saratoga Springs Public Library. Black and white photocopies of the clippings, documents and photographs are located in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University of Albany Science Library LE-352, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY. Clippings prior to 1969 are lost.

– 1969: Topics: China, selection of League study topics, city charter change, planning an Urban Environment, Community Directory, NYS Fiscal Policies, People: Mrs. Irving (Marcia) Metzger, Mrs. Erwin (Gerry) Siwek, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Dr. Yu Kuang Chu, Roger F. Hallenbeck, Mrs Aaron J. (Sandra) Silver, Floyd Simmons, Jean Stamm, Mrs. Bernard (Lauretta) Onachilla, Mrs. Edward McMahon, Mrs. Sam Gluckow, Mrs. E.O. (Jeannette)Terrell, Jr., Mrs. Carl E. Zienert, Mrs. M. Thomas Porter, Mrs. Victor (Lois) Bovee, Mrs. David (Alice Weeks), Mrs. J.C. (Antoinette) Bearden, Kathryn Van Etten, Doris Armstrong

– 1970-1971: Topics: League’s 50th Anniversary, Abolishing the Electoral College, LWVNY Convention People: Mrs. Bruce Benson, Mrs. William Rogers, Mrs. Oliver Nikoloff, Mrs. Paul (Judith) Coburn, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher,

– 1972: Topics: voter registration for 18 year olds, Urban renewal and housing, fundraising, air pollution, election procedures People: Mrs. Robert (Josie) Pasciullo, James Collins, Donald Veitch, Mrs. E.O. (Jeannette)Terrell, Jr.,Everett V. Stonequist, Dave Carr, Mrs. Cecilia Spellman, Russell Train, Linda Sibley, Francine Rodger, Phyllis Kennebeck, Blanche Kelly

– 1973: Topics: financing education, voting by 18 year-olds, planning and zoning, city Master Plan, US trade policy, Elections for Economic Opportunity Council to be conducted by LWV, League withheld EOC vote count, Focus on the Poor: Study of Human Services in Saratoga County, People: Mrs. Robert (Josie) Pasciullo, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Mrs. David (Alice Weeks), Mrs. J.C. (Antoinette) Bearden, Mrs. Victor (Lois) Bovee, Mrs. Bernard (Lauretta) Onachilla, Edward Levine, Pat Dalrymple, Dorothea Brownell, Pat Deitsch, Ellen Tabor, Kenneth King, Thomas McTygue, Joan Brooke Russell, Robert D’Andrea, Dante Orsini, Robert Pasciullo, Stuart Witt, Betsy Davis, Linda Sibley, Barbara Thomas, Robert Mayette,

Barbara Murphy, Joseph V. Gemmiti, Mary Cassady, John Farone, Leo Ryan, Leo Priester, Marilyn Berger, Phyllis AuCoin, Nancy Rivkin, Melanie Spadafora, Gretchen Plotkin, Phyllis Smith, Ellen Cagle, Bernice Abromowitz, Rita Balmouth, Marcia Watson, Grace Miller, Mary Jane Ellis, Alice McMahon, Judy Stevens, Laura Chodos Judy Gooley, Catherine Haynes, Donna Rudzinski, Susan Yemen. Fred Hequemburg

– 1974, 1975: no clippings surviving

– 1976: Topics: Saratoga Springs Master Plan, School board candidates Robinson and Lynch, City Government Brochure, Full Employment Week People: Edward Levine, Dr. Arthur Ellis, Robert Bristol, Lawrence Gordon, D. William VanBunschoten, Margaret Roohan, Karen Mencucci, Jan Rosen-Serafini, Ruth Anderson, Rose Daniels, Gary Kenyon, Bonnie Massey, Mary Ann Starbuck, Ellie Cagle, John Hay, Robinson, Lynch, Ruth C. Clusen, Mary Ann Pierpont, Betty Cable, Kathy Brevig, Mrs. Alex Sussman, Mrs. Richard (Grace) Miller, Judy McGaughey, Jeff Kimmer, Raymond Watkin, Robert Cronin, Linda Tarr-Whalen.

– 1977: Topics: Goverment Participation Week, new election district, more polling sites for school district elections, poll watching, surveying polling sites for required features, domestic violence, energy conservation, Federal Funding, public transportation, Candidate Forum for City and County Offices, People: Betty Cable, Grace Miller, Raymond Watkin, Donald Connolly, Karen Mencucci, Marion Waring, Dr. D. Louis Christensen, F. Donald Meyers, Jan Rosen-Serafini, Alexander Aldrich, Sarah Beth Canaday, Alice Fleming, Corrie Bishop, Carolyn Kobrynski, Dorothy Rosenthal, John P. “Jack” Shepherd, Donald F. Connelly, Andrew Keblisky, Remiga Foy, G. Philip Waring, Lawrence McGourty, Thomas G. McTygue, Brian Dwyer, Lawrence J. LaBelle, Frederick J. McNeary, Henry J. “Hank” Kuczynski, James J. Tarantino, David A. Wait, Paul B. Coburn, Robert F. Doran, Robert Bohlke, Kermit G. Plummer,Jr., William H. Sutton, Jr., Chauncy D. Cole, David H. Keister. Gerald Francis, Robert Morris, Sherri Hennessey, Joseph Gemmiti, Carl Zilka, Edward Sauter, Lawrence S. Gordon, Lewis Benton, Robert Mitchell, Margaret Mochon, Grace Miller, Eileen Verheeg.

LWV Voters Guide: Published by the Saratogian Tri-County News on October 30, 1977 on full sized sheets of Newsprint, using questions prepared by the Leagues of Women Voters of Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs and Shenendehowa. Pictures of most of the candidates are included. Saratoga Springs Candidates: Mayoral (Raymond Watkin, Jack Shepard); Public Works (Thomas McTygue, Brian Dwyer); Finance (Remigia Foy, G. Philip Waring); Accounts (Donald Connolly, Andrew Keblinsky); Public Safety (Lawrence McGourty); 2 Supervisor positions (Frederick J. McNeary, Hank Kuczynski, James J. Tarantino); City Judge (Lawrence LaBelle). County Supervisor Candidates: Henry J. Ryan & William Sewall (Ballston); Frederick W. Hequembourg (Charlton); Harry J. Waring, Jr. (Corinth); William Bensley (Day); Paul

Robinson; ; Charles C. McCloskey & Fred Droms & John Scoles & Edward Jackson (Clifton Park); Marshall D. Robinson & Jacob Mark & Elwin Ginter (Edinburg); George Mattice (Galway); L. Taylor Smead (Hadley); Robert Smero (Greenfield); Gene T. Cook & John Dudeck (Halfmoon); David R. Meager (Malta); Louis R. Bouchette & Christopher R. Sgambatti & Joseph A. Riley (Mechanicville); Paul F. Brown & Chester Hoataling (Milton); R. Gardner Congdon & Joseph S. Sikora (Moreau); Floyd Rourke (Northumberland); Judith Bell Dowdall & Michael Nolan & Alphonse Defabio (Saratoga); Frederick J. McNeary & Hank Kuczynski, & James J. Tarantino (Saratoga Springs); Lynn Goodrich & Andrew Mohan (Stillwater); Joseph Biss & George Green (Wilton); Dr. Paul Gratton & Robert Leonard & J. Richard Breen (Waterford); Surrogate Court Judge Candidates: Robert F. Doran, John D. Meader, Paul B. Coburn District Attorney Candidates: David A. Wait County Clerk: Ralph Bohlke, Kermit G. Plummer County Treasurer: Chauncy D. Cole, David H. Keister, William H. Sutton, Jr. Town Offices: Ballston Tax Collector (Joan Halgren v. Barbara Mitchell); Charlton Justice: (Harold E. Gilmore v. Barbara H. Renaud); Halfmoon Tax Collector: (Constance Foley v. Anna Santspree); Malta Tax Collector: (Ann Cooper v. Sylvia Siefers); Saratoga Conservative Candidates: (Alice M. Smith, William E. Williamson, James Fitch, A. Bruce Cornell, Timothy D. Forbes, Michael Mitchell); Stillwater Tax Collector (Jean Potter).

– 1978: Topics: Government Week, Assembly Candidate Forum, Congressional Candidate Forum, Water Quality, PCBs, LWVNY Council Meeting, LWV Annual meeting, Spouse Abuse, LWV International membership dinner, I & R hotline, City Charter, ERA, Master Plan, Land Use People: Robert A. D’Andrea, Mary Ann Bruchac Lynch, Brian Dwyer, Edward “Ned” Pattison, Gerald Solomon, Marcia Hopple, Margaret Roohan, Karen Mencucci , Betty Gallagher, Lorri Carr, Karen Jones, Erica and Natalie Bollerud, Ethel Meyer, Marlene O’Brien, Nancy Law, Joan McKinley, Carol Wallace, David Mathis, Carla Thomas, Natacha Dykman, Lewis J. Benton, Geoff Bornemann, David R. Meagher, George Hodges

– 1979: Topics: Meeting with Congressman, foreign policy, Wilton Democratic slate & LWV nonpartisan policy pot luck, applications to register to vote by mail, People: Gerald Solomon, Marjory Moeller, Katherine Cornwell, Mary Ann Lynch, Francine Rodger, Fred Zurmuhlem, Roy McDonald, George Green, George Patton, Kenneth LePage, Ricky Zwijacz, Wilma Woodcock, Karl Woodcock, Robert Chevalier, Patricia Miller, Betty Gallagher, Margaret Roohan, Nancy Law, Lawrence McGourty, Joseph N. Corsale, Jr., William R. DiCenzo, Ellsworth Jones, Joseph Casey, Bert C. Smith, Donald F. Connolly, Brian Dwyer, Frederick J. McNeary, Raymond Watkin, A.C. Dake, Marian Waring, Robert Mitchell, Robert Gratton, Joseph L. Bruno

– 1980: Topics: LWV’s 60th Anniversary and history, filling vacancies of state legislature, Women and the Law (divorce, child custody, credit, insurance, pensions), School Board Candidate

Forum, China, Earth Day, indirect initiative, the United Nations, Directory of Community Services, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), full value reassessment, People: Greta Fleming, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maude Wood Parke, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Ifigenia Brown, Robert Doren, Donald A. Mercer, Kenneth L’Hommedieu, Libby Smith, Harry Cooper, Dr. Miles Kletter, Jacqualine Marcelle, John Picinich, Harry Wade, Lawrence White, Mimi Ciancio, Carmen Cornute, Margaret Roohan, G. Gardner Congdon, George Hodgson, Dr. Jean Stern, Jean Stamm, Linda Ford, Barbara Griffen, Nancy Law, Mary Ann Lynch, Natalie Bollerud, Margie Van Meter

– 1981: Topics: The Reagan Budget, Proposed Civic Center, Title IX of Education Law, Wilton and County Candidate Forum, sales tax, Women and the Law (divorce, child custody, credit, insurance, pensions), People: Margaret Roohan, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Barbara Lombardo, Bernice Steckl, Sally Secombe, Sandy Hutchinson, Rev. Robert Bunnell, Dr. Byron Evans, Kenneth Larken, Rev. James Murphy, Libby Smith, Brian Dwyer, Joseph W. Daltton, Jr., Charles V. Wait, Jim Bonilla, Walter E. Zeh, Manuel H. Johnson, Frank Ackerman, Alan S. Chartock, David Wait, Charles Randall, Thomas E. Mercure, Roy J. McDonald, Robert C. Shaw, Louis Yellen, Karl K. Woodcock, Jane Capello, Margaret Roohan

– 1982: Topics: Candidate forums attendance, Partisan SS Elections approved by voters and LWV, , LWV wants to change SS city charter to eliminate commissioner form of government, People: Glenn Harris, Maureen Connors, Joan McKinley, Libby Smith (Holmes), Daniel R. Fahy, Robert A. D’Andrea, Carolyn Millis, Gerald B. Solomon, James D. Bowen, Roy Esiason, Roy J. McDonald, Leo F. Boland, Katherine Skelton-Caban, Hugh Farley, Joseph L. Bruno, James Robinson, Arnold Bruno, Carol Green, Arthur Johnson, Robert Chevalier, Maryjane Parry, Melvin Klingenbeck, Ray Fowler, Margie Van Meter, Deslyn Manniello, Margie Van Meter, Raymond Watkin, Ellsworth Jones

– 1983: Topics: nonpartisanship, partisan primaries, piano recital fundraiser, Hazardous waste, freedom of information and open meetings, Republican caucuses, change to partisan elections, Bottle Bill People: Barbara Parke, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Martha Stonequist, Edith and Everett Stonequist, Jean Hennigan, Joe Scranton, Mary Lou Baker, Libby Smith (Holmes), Karen Mencucci (Klotz), Maki Jacknowitz, Helen Mercer, Margaret Roohan, Robert Freeman, Ellsworth Jones, Frederick J. McNeary, Robert A. D’Andrea, Joan Hague, Lew Lehrman, Mario Cuomo, James Bowen, Hugh Farley, Neil Kelleher, Glen Harris, Gerald B. Solomon.

– 1984:

Topics: Youth in government program of Cooperative Extension, planning and zoning, city manager type of government, absentee voting for SS school district, voter apathy, City Master Plan, voter registration, SS City Charter, LWV elections. People: Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Pat Peck, Bill Schwerd, Bill Cummings, Sam Brown, Garrett Smith, Jim Martinez, Gerald Carozza, Harry Wade, Dr. Benjamin Berry, Jacqueline Marcelle, Richard Bonnabeau, Vallee Albert, Elton Balch, Raymond Watkin, Richard Mullaney, Morris Aronson, Dr. Robert Pasciullo, Dr. Henry F. Galant, Gretta Clements, Margaret P. Rogers, Elio Del Sette, Robert A. Stokes, Joseph S. McCarthy, James B. Gaffney, Jane Weihe, Robert S. Mayette, Katherine Cherry, Dr. Bernard Donovan, Dr. Jacob Feynman, Audrey Ziss, Thomas G. McTygue, Libby Smith, Peg Markert, Vickie O’Reilly, Ann Hebert, Mary Lou Baker, Mary Jane Keeler, Jyl Sullivan, Barbara Parke, Viola Ilma, Eleanor Roosevelt.

– 1985:- Topics: Holiday Party, LWV elections, LWV fundraising, groundwater and development, People: Libby Smith (Holmes), Peg Markert, Vicki O’Reilly, Ethel Meyer, Marjorie Martin, Dorothy Hammond, Richard Beresford, Barbara Parke, Mary Jane Keeler, Jyl Sullivan, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Margaret Brand, John Scherer, Ellen Foster, Betty Jones, Richard Beresford, Langdon Marsh

– 1986: Topics: abortion, grand jury, solid waste, Fundraising, Ethiopian Dinner, LWVNY Legislative Conference, LWVUS Convention, Tour of City Hall People: Betty Gallagher, Libby Smith, Richard Beresford, June & Charles Leeman, Grace G. Hardenbrook, Alice Mack, Betsy Porter, Alice Weeks, Grace Miller, Frank Williams, David Wait, Dean Coon, A. C. Dake, Bobbi (Roberta) Nelson, Robert A. D’Andrea, Ellsworth Jones, Joseph Bruno, Honor Holland, Zim Smith, Joan and Bob McKinley, Dorothy Hammond, Larry Oswald, Adrienne Caruso, Ghabriella and Wally Donnelly, Viola Ilma, Jane Wait, Deslyn Manniello, Ted and Cynthia Corbett, Ann Hebert, Donald and Ricki Derk, Stu DeVoe, Tommy Luhn, Phil Watson, Judy Stevens, Jyl Sullivan, Marcel and Marge Zucchino, Jay and Jean (Stamm) Portnoy, Nancy Neuman, Grant Thompson, Maki Jacknowitz, Eugenia Luhn, Peter Crouse, Julia Stokes,, Langdon Marsh, Barbara Parke, Betty O’Brian.

– 1987: Topics: consensus on solid waste management, judicial and bond act amendments for NYS, LWV run presidential debates, smoking ban, candidate forum, Day Care People: Nancy Neuman, Frank Farenkopf, Dorothy S. Ridings, Paul Kirk, Maki Jacknowitz, Betsy Porter, Morton P. Hyman, Dr. David Axelrod, Dr. Francis Hoffman, Frederick McNeary, John Tedesco, Remigia Foy, Edward Valentine, Jane Weihe, Ellsworth Jones, John A. “Ted” Butler, Jean Hennigan, Thomas G. McTygue, Ernest Gailor, Lawwrence McGourty, Lewis Benton, Bruce Berhide, Philip Klein, A.C. Dake (Riley), William, Zorn, Jan Plumadore, Russell Peacock. Marjorie Wren, Betty Gallagher

– 1988: 48

Topics: SS water system, waste reduction and recycling, LWV election, Car Care Clinic for Women, People: Joseph O’Neill, Edward Valentine, Thomas Mc Tygue, Ellsworth Jones, John A. “Ted” Butler, Chris Callaghan, Mike Pratt, Joseph Ritchey, Thomas Cuniff, Diane Reilly, David Wallingford, Richard Beresford, Maki Jacknowitz, Alice Mack, Grace Hardenbrook, Adrienne Caruso, Ron Harrower, Karen Klotz, Barbara Thomas, Eleanor Galant, Dorothy Hammond, Phyllis Ratte, Jim Monroe, Dawn Borden, Loretta Onachilla, Margaret Roohan

– 1989: Topics: LWV election People: Richard Beresford, Maki Jacknowitz, Betty Gallagher, Barbara Thomas, Grace Hardenbrook, Nan Plantier, Pam Culver, Fran Kelly, Sora Friedman, Honor Holland, Ron Harrower, Adrienne Caruso.

– 1990: Topics: Expanded In-home Services for the Elderly Program (EISEP), We CARE Hotline, Homelessness, Health Care Options, Solid Waste Disposal People: Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Frank Demarinis, Meghan Johnson, Bernice Burns, Jean Raymond, Russell Priester, Barbara Thomas, Kathy Briaddy, Cheryl Pollock, Sora Friedman, Frederick McNeary, Thomas G. McTygue, Tom Boghosian, David Danks, Bill Alwell

– 1/1991 – 6/1991: Topics: We CARE Hotline operated by Saratoga County Information & Referral Consortium (SCIRC), EISEP, Students Inside Albany, School Board candidates, Pesticides & Herbicides & alternate control methods, League elections People: Bill Sewell, Barbara Ahner, Raymond Callanan, Kevin Riley, Barbara Thomas, Mrs O. Roger (Betty/Elizabeth) Gallagher, Bryan Curtis, Kristy McKnight, Lawrence Zinn, John Dale LeClare, Todd G. Popham, Henry C. Trombley, Maureen Godlewski, Timothy J. Provost, Robert D. Short, Jean F. Dominelli, Robin Yarinski, Kenneth Merchant, Louise Thompson, Robert W. Walton, III, Willard Grande, II, Diane Yurkewicz, Kenneth Bollerud, MarilynM. Dubois, Nancy Kim, Tracy Frisch, David Domozych, Carol Green, Mary Jane Ellis, Mrs. Paul (Judith) Coburn, Frances Kelly, Marilyn Randall, Gretchen Zeh, Karen Mencucci (Klotz), Adrienne Caruso, Sora Friedman, Honor Holland, Grace G. Hardenbrook, Maki Jacknowitz

– 7/1991 – 12/1991: Topics: LWV pot luck supper, homelessness & food programs, universal healthcare, consensus on health care financing, candidate forums, support for “motor voter”, Alternatives to Incarceration, solid waste disposal. People: Emily Muller, Barbara Thomas, Mario M. Cuomo, Lewis Benton, Bill Carey, J. Michael O’Connell, Joseph Riley, Marvin LeRoy, Sean Martin, Jean Hennigan, Fred McNeary, Phil Klein, Edward Valentine, Remigia Foy, Mrs. Paul (Judith) Coburn, Libby Smith (Holmes), A.C. Dake (Riley), Thomas Boehlert, George Mulvaney, William Ralston, Donald Evans, Glenn Jones, Melvin McWhorter, Robert Webster, Joel Bonhote, Dianna Graham Eggleston,

Thomas Buckley, Edward Augstein, Gordon Aubrey, John Tedesco , Russell Peacock, Robert Hathaway, Barbara Weed, Philip Griffen, Michael Nelson, Anna Macica, Jean Casey, Grant O. Seymour, Catherine DeFelice, John Hall, Carmen Periard, Muriel M. Salls, Kevin Grupe, Kenneth Klotz, Sandra Hunt, Karyl Camardo, Patricia Caputo, Douglas Mills, James Seymour, David Peck

– 1/1992-3/1992 Topics: Free Speech, household hazardous waste, county landfill, Structure of Saratoga County Government, People: Joe Tolliver, A.C. Dake, Kenneth Klotz, Robert Silverstein, Pamela Katz, Helen Bailey, David Diigent, Barbara Thomas, Michael Sullivan, Bstty Gallagher, Phil Klein, Susan B. DiDonato, Mario Cuomo

– 4/1992-6/1992 Topics: School Board Candidates forum, Solid Waste Management, Students Inside Albany, LWVNY Advocacy Conference (access to healthcare, waste management, opposition to parental notification for a minor’s abortion), LWV elections, SS Charter Change, County funding for Social Services Inadequate. People: Robert Mains, Libby Smith (Holmes), Glenn Rose, Peter Glansberg, Marilyn Rollison, Robert Shorb, Joan Fleing, Jeffrey Neilen, Louise Thompson, Carol Fleming, Sally Webb, Jeffrey Siegel, Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Amy Manns, Dean Fox, Sara Dwornik, Barbara Thomas, Assemblyman James R. Tallon, Jr., Assemblyman Maurice D. Hinchey, Mary Jane Ellis, Judith Coburn, Marie Morrison, Sandy Hunt, Frances Kelly, Marilyn Randall, Gretchen Zeh, Karen (Mencucci) Klotz, Adrienne Caruso, Sora Friedman, Grace G. Hardenbrook, BettyGallagher, Maki Jacknowitz, Mayor A.C. Dake, Commissioner Lew Benton, Commissioner J. Michael O’Connell, Commissioner Thomas McTygue

– 7/1992- 12/1992: Topics: Types of City Governments, History of Charter Change is SS, candidate forums, voter registration, Gay Rights, healthcare Access, People: Mayor A.C. Dake, John Pierpoint, Commissioner Thomas McTygue, Commissioner Lew Benton, Commissioner J. Michael O’Connell, Commissioner Ed Valentine, Martha Stonequist, Mayor James Murphy, Mayor Ellsworth Jones, U.S. Rep. Gerald B. Solomon, David Roberts. Assemblyman Robert D’Andrea, David Higby, Senator Joseph Bruno, Kevin M. Dailey, Senator Hugh Farley, John Ward, Herbert Chesbrough, Barbara Thomas, Anna Law, Maki Jacknowitz.

– 1993: Topics: Saratoga County Landfill, Landfill economics, recycling, gay rights, School board candidate forums,Weighted voting in County Government, Healthcare, People: Donald Adamowski, Betty Little, John McKeon, Richard Morse, Raymond Callanan, Joseph Richey, Richard Weber, Carol Fleming, Barbara Thomas, Philip Gargan, Richard Bonnabeau, M. Sandra Lewis, Denise M. Morehead, Janet Ostrov, Louise Thompson, County Attorney Courtenay Hall, Supervisor David Meagher, Supervisor Roy McDonald, Supervisor

Barbara Ahner, Supervisor Marvin LeRoy, Supervisor Joyce Wheeler, Sheriff James Bowen, Frances Kelly, Christopher Morelle, Brian Dwyer, Thomas McTygue, Cheryl Smith, Irene Ropelewski, Supervisor Philip Klein, Anthony Scirocco, Janet Hassett, Susan Letvak, Vicki J. Bachmann, Marcy Taylor, Daniel V. Tagliento, Jr., Louis A. Yellen, John Cannone.

– 1994: Topics: School Board candidate forums, LWV elections, full value assessment and reevaluation, healthcare access, Greenfield candidate forum, Thank you to LWV, LWV fundraising, Saratoga LWV’s 30th Anniversary, 75th Anniversary of LWVNY . People: Timothy J. Provost, Henry C. Trombley, M. Sandra Lewis, Alfred J. Neveu, David H. Spingarn, D.O., Robert DeMarco, Michael E. Valla, Barbara Thomas, Therese Lowenthal, Carol Green, Dorianne Hunt, Patricia Nugent, Susi Ritzenberg, Robin Yarinski, Mally Sue Hennig, Patrice Spingarn, Robin Lyle, Judy Coburn, Phil Watson, Anne Palamountain, Rita Balmuth, Libby Smith (Holmes), Betty Gallagher.

– 1/1995-6/1995: Topics: congressional tax cuts to social services, balanced budget amendment, school board candidates, national voter registration act, play – the stone that started the ripple, Saratoga county landfill. People: Ebbie Brown, Patricia Croop, John “Jasper” Nolan, Barbara K. Thomas, Dr. Paul Ames, Michelle Falardeau Michael Valla, Warren Gemmill, Scott Moberg, Gerald Carozza, John MacFadden, Richard Jackson, Patricia Nugent, Cliff Amon, Debbie Acker-Cole, Deslyn Manny Wllow (Maniello), Bill Fraley, Dorian Hunt, Amy Dorn, Libby [Elizabeth] Smith, Margot Amon, Peggy Jo Wallis, Sarah Davenport, Michael McKeon, Edward I. Buhrmaster, Michael Zagata, Richard Weber, Jr., Edward Lindner, Thomas F. Zimmie

– 7/1995- 12/1995: Topics: Candidates forums, LWV history, Suffragette’s family and the 19th amendment, cartoonists exhibit/19th amendment, LWV celebration of UN 50th anniversary, National Voter Registration, Act, local politics, A.C. Riley leaves office, Budget Issues People: Tom L. Lewis, Judith Seidel, Helen Bayley, Evelyn St;ck, Sally Muphy , Kathryn Rich, Alice D. Harvey, Tracy Warren, Barbara Johnson, Miriam Gurko, Karen B. Johnson, Rena Lapham Dodd, Maren Stein, John Harold Murphy, Jr., Stacey Draper, Lou Rodgers, Nina Allender, Blanche Ames, Alice Sheppard, Priscilla Linn, Dr. Roy Ginsburg, Thomas W. Wade, David Flanagan, , Thomas R. Wilkey, Aimee Alloud, Jean M. Ford, Kenneth Klotz, J. Michael O’Connor, Thomas G. McTygue, Edward Murphy, Edward E. Valentine, James E. Lambelot, L. Clifford Van Wagner, Thomas J. Curley, Frederick, Cliff Ammon, Philip W. Klein, Remigia A. Foy, Michael F. Arnush, Michael Messenger, Joseph . Peck, Jennifer A Leidig, A.C, Riley, Lewis J. Benton, lll, George E. Pataki, Gregory Fowler, Jane Weihe, Christiane Newton, Barbara K. Thomas, John L. Riley, Josie Pasciullo, Linda Curley

– 1/1996- 4/1996:

Topics: study - -protection of local drinking water, watershed protection, alternatives to funding education, student essay contest on importance of voting, campaign spending reform, raising the minimum wage, candidates’ forums BR People: Warren Lavery, Michael Burke, George Hodgson, Elizabeth [Libby] Smith, Barbara K. Thomas, Charles Cook, Mario Cuomo, Margie Van Meter, Assemblymen: Robert A. D’Andrea, James N. Tedisco, Robert Prentiss; Joseph L. Bruno, George E. Pataki, James G. Doyle, Philip C. Gargan, Peter L. Glansberg, Ronald Kim, Janet Ostrov, Scott H. Moberg, Robert D. Shorb, Edward R. Sipay, Louise Thompson, Sandra Lewis, Joseph Muse 5/1996- 12/1996: Topics: Obituary – Honor Holland, study – funding public libraries, new LWVSC officers, pocketbook issues and the election, voter registration information, school financing changes People: Honor Holland, Timothy Holmes, Barbara K. Thomas, Bev LaGarge, Carl Dana, Carol Green, Mally Sue Henning, Millie Green, Cliff Ammon, Maki Jacknowitz, Patrice Spingarn, Patricia Nugent, Joan Whitford, Dan Lynch, Remigia Foy, Margie Van Meter, Barbara Bartoletti, Karen Bonventri, H. Carl McCall, Hugh T. Farley, Robert A. D’Andrea, John E. MacFadden

– 1/1997 - 6/1997: Topics: Pataki’s Welfare Plan and Saratoga County (co-sponsored with Saratoga NOW) 2 pages, panel on funding for county libraries, school board Meet the Candidates, Annual Meeting - NYPIRG presentation 3 pages People: Heidi Siegfried, Janice Burns, Harry J. Dutcher, Edward M. O’Connor, Richard Halsey, William G. McLellan, Cheryl L. Keyrouse, Robert D. Shorb, Florence Andresen, Scott H. Moberg, M. Sandra Lewis, Lisa Callahan, Louise E. Thompson, Blair Horner.

– 6/1997 - 12/1997: Topics: Constitutional Convention question on the ballot, Meet the Candidates announcement, Meet the Candidates coverage - 4 pages, LWV Holiday party - 3 pages. People: Josie and Bob Pasciullo, Libby Smith, Bob Honnig, Betty Gallagher, Janice Burns, Bev LaBarge, Lynne and Phil Klein, Rita Balmuth, Selma and Gil Harwood, Barbara Stamas, Skip Scirocco, Pat Fox

– 1/1998-6/1998 Topics: School Tax Assessment Relief Program (STAR), SS Property Reassessment, Widewaters Home Depot proposal, LWV comprehensive land use planning position, SS master plan, National Voter Registration Act (motor voter law), “voter fraud” legislation, Voting Rights Act protections, Privacy Act protections, School Board candidate forum, LWV forum on transportation, SS truck bypass task force, Commuter railroad service, Target distribution center, North Road closing, Snook Kill stream, Voter registration forms. People: David Miller, Robert Roberts, Edward Valentine, Richard Mullaney, Barbara Thomas, Geoffrey Bornemann, Gerald Solomon, Joseph L. Bruno, Eugene Corsale, Glen Face, Russell Danforth, Edward Stano Jr., Paul Stevens, William McLellan, M. Sandra Lewis, Dean Wenger, Curtis Petteys, Raymond F. O’Conor, Roy J. McDonald, Marsha Reed, Michael Carnevale.

– 7/1998-12/1998 Topics: LWV role in public issues, LWV county-wide study of emergency medical services/Public forum, National Voter Registration Act, Development plans around Northway Exit 9, LWVNYS state college tuition study, League’s grassroots foundation, Male membership, Candidates Night, Importance of voting. People: Barbara Thomas, Mary Lou Classen, Jean Bordewich, Francis Giroux, John Sweeney, Robert “Bobby” D’Andrea, Michele Paludi, Robert Prentiss, Richard Gross, Jerry Evans, Robert Rybak, Courtney Hall, Edward Lindner, Douglas Mills, Albert Dewey, Robert Stokes, Mike Thrailkill

– 1/1999-12/1999 Topics: League breakfast with local assembly members, Universal Pre-K Educational Panel Discussion, Meet the School Board Candidates Night, Proposed 1999-00 school year budget, Fostering better communication within the community, Proposed district-wide reorganization, “George, Joe and Shelly’s Law”, Passing timely State Budget, Meet the Candidates Night, New City Master Plan, Operation of the mayor’s office, City budget increase, South Broadway rental apartments proposal, Sidewalk ordinance, SS youth, SS district-by-district results: Mayor and Accounts Commissioner, Election Night reporting, LWV volunteers, Proposed Saratoga Spa State Park golf course, Environmentalists vs developers/business community, LWV recommends the state do a master plan or inventory of Spa Park’s natural resources prior to a decision. People: Pat Casale, Robert D’Andrea, Robert Prentiss, James Tedisco, Philip Gargan, Mary Elizabeth “Mia” Pfitzer, Frank Palumbo, Jeffrey Piro, James Doyle, Edward Sipay, Fred Longe, Kurt Jaeger, Barbara Thomas, Barbara Bartoletti, George Pataki, Joe Bruno, Sheldon Silver, Kenneth Klotz, Mayor J. Michael O’Connell, Bernard “Ben” Mirling, Edward E. Valentine, James Kunstler, Thomas McTygue, Michael Lenz, Philip Klein, Anthony J.“Skip” Scirocco, Barbara Lombardo, Rick Gargiulo, Ed Burke, Deanna Amore, Warren Alber, Peter Sheehan, Kevin J. Franke, C. Michael Ingersoll, S. Jeffrey Anthony

– 1/2000-6/2000 Topics: LWV Urban Sprawl and Land Use open discussion, LWV breakfast with legislators, Justice in Saratoga panel discussion, State justice system, Alternatives to incarceration, Reforms to Rockefeller Drug Laws, State budget reform, Campaign finance reform, Education affordability, LWV Public forum on land use planning, GOP leaders warned about banning abortion rights, LWV Election Night results service, Northumberland District 3 a Voter News Service sample district, 47-foot high Clifton Park hotel proposal, LWV urges following of CP Planning Board guidelines, CARE citizens group, Saratoga County Bar Association Law Day, Liberty Bell Award to LWV, Meet the School Board Candidates Night. People: Barbara Thomas, James A. Murphy III, Linda Campion, Kathy Kuznia, James “Jim” Tedisco, Rudolph Giuliani, Pat Casale, Robert “Bob” Prentiss, Margie Van Meter, A.C. Riley, Mary Ayers, Emily Soffin, Edgar King, Bill Bradley, Roy McDonald, Robert Miller, Ann Cargile,

US Rep. John E. Sweeney, Amy E. Hanigan, Esq., Rabbi Jonathan L. Rubenstein, Gillian A. Hirsch, Esq., Ann C. Crowell, Esq., Henry Trombley, M. Sandra Lewis, Will Martin, John MacFadden, Kurt Jaeger, Carl Danna.

– 7/2000-10/2000 Topics: PCBs in the Hudson River, Fair Campaign Practices Committee of the Capital Region, Fair Campaign Pledge, Balancing Justice and Community Healing, Meet the Candidates Night, North Country economy, Dredging pro and con demonstrations. People: Marion Trieste, John Haggard, Betsey Swan, Laura Chodos, Anthony McMann (McCann?), Barbara Thomas, Pat Trosclair, Reverend LaMont Robinson, John Sweeney, Kenneth McCallion, Hugh Farley, Brian Stratton, Robert D’Andrea, Dennis Gravelle, Bruce Trachtenberg, James Tedisco, Elmer Bertsch, Pat Casale, Mark Dunlea, Andrew Esperti, Gerald Evans, Norah Brennan, Andrew Bishop, David DeMarco, Martha Winston, Ed Valentine, William McCabe, Melvin Hauptman, Chris and Katie Ballantyne.

– 11/2000-12/2000 Topics: GE’s anti-dredging PR campaign, Pro-dredging campaign, “Candles for a Clean Hudson”, LWV voters’ services, District-by-district breakdown of SS voting. People: John Haggard, Ann Rychlenski, Manna Jo Greene, Maurice Hinchey, Marion Trieste, Lech Dolata, David Higby, Roger Gray, Barbara Thomas, Mary Lou Classen, Barbara Stamas

– 1/2001-5/2001: Topics: election reform, Rockefeller drug policies, urban sprawl, Comprehensive Plan, Saratoga Landfill, SS Mayor’s race, open space, school board elections People: Barbara Thomas, Mary Lou Classen, margot Ammon, Susan Burton, Amy Durland, Barbara Fuchs, Susan Zapen, Ben Mirling, Mary Song, Mayor Kenneth Klotz, Tom L. Lewis, Jack Fleming, Kevin O’Brien, Russell Danforth, Glenn Face, Paul Stevens, Robert D’Andrea, Ageo Frizzera, Geoff Bornemann, Andrew and Gail Anderson, Christine Parillo, Jeff Pheil, Terry Lowenthal, Charles C. Morrison, Nancy Butcher, John Witt, Sam Brewton

– 6/2001-9/2001: Topics: Drug policies, LWV volunteer, no candidate event for primary, Creating Open Government in the County Legislature, People: James A. Murphy,III, Dan Salvin, Michael Roona, Barbara Thomas, Mary Lou Classen, George Latimer

– 10/2001-12/2001: Topics: Need for League sponsored candidate forums, SS Charter Change, Gender Neutral Constitution, candidate forums, use of Saratoga Lake as a water source, SS election results, Holiday celebration People: Kenneth Klotz, Glenn Jackson, Bennet Driscoll, Scott Pauquette, Barbara Thomas, Richard Ogden, Douglas Strodel, Larry Cleveland, Robert Regan, Daniel Martindale, Kay Saunders, Ellen Oudekerk, James Marshall, Martha Devaney, Libby Smith (Holmes), Barbara Thomas, Mary Lou Classen, Ben Mirling, Stephen Towne, Michael Lenz, Thomas Curley, Lou

Schneider, Robert Davis, Thomas McTygue, George Cannon, James Bowen, Alan Hills, Philip Klein, Lewis Benton, Anthony J. “Skip” Scirocco, Mario DiSiena, Bob Hall, Jean Casey, Joyce Shaver, Catherine Pechette, Bruce Cornell, Ronalee Meyers, Michael McLoughlin, Fred Dake, Sr., Josephine (Josie) Pasciullo

– 1/2002 – 2/2002: Topics: candidates forum, discussion of world trade policy, special election slate for Assembly seat, Wilton development, PCBs, drinking water for Saratoga Springs People: Bobby D’Andrea, Roy McDonald, Terry Seeley, Peter Looker, George Pataki, Larry Bulman, William Cook, Ken Klotz

– 3/2002 – 6/2002: Topics: Legislative breakfast, gerrymandering, LWV scholarship, Students Inside Albany, urban sprawl, Friends of Clifton Park Open Space, school board candidates forum, voting booth for Skidmore College, state budget tardiness People: Pat Casale, Roy McDonald, Robert Prentiss, James Tedisco, Mary Lou Classen, Elise Wager, Joseph Bruno, Hugh Farley, Elizabeth Little, Neil Rodrigo-Kelley, Betty Gallagher (photo), Barbara Bartolletti (photo), Barbara Thomas, (photo), Mary Lou Classen (photo), Francine Roger (photo), Diane Whitburn (photo), Graham Cox, Capital Audubon Society, Tim Schlacter, Land Trust of the Saratoga Region, Raymond Seymour, Friends of Clifton Park Open Space, Martha Strohl, Open Space Project, Teri Ptacek, American Farmland Trust, Mia Pfitzer, Francis G. Palumbo, Jeffrey W. Piro, Kurt Jaeger, David Bronner, Deborah Harper, Shawn Thompson, Stephen Towne, Tom McTygue, Hank Kuczynski, Andrew Kirshenbaum, Ken Klotz, Jeffrey Wait, Michael Lenz, Thomas Curley, Juan Martinez, Margie VanMeter, David Thayer, Ben Mirling, Andrew Kirshenbaum, Ron Morris, Catherine Norra, Mark Lawton, Renee Moore, Bob Prentiss, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), American Civil Liberties Union

– 7/2002-10/2002: Topics: candidates forum, time limits at meet-the-candidates forum, Iraq war, state budget, unfunded mandates hospice legislation, working conditions for correctional officers, 109th, 110th and 112th Assembly Districts, 44th Senate District, Rockefeller drug laws, death penalty, public campaign financing, health care, suburban strip clubs and juice bars People: Hugh Farley, Robert K. Sanders, John Sweeney, Frank Stoppenbach, Roy J. McDonald, Patrick J. Phillips, James Tedisco, Barbara Mauro, Peter E. Looker, Niskayuna Board of Education, Gerald B. Solomon, Kathleen A. Curtis, Philip Klein, Mark Luciano, Margaret Lewis, Robert Prentiss, Tom Myers, Ken Champagne

– 11/2002-12/2002: Topics: Open World Russian Leadership Program, American democracy, voting in state and local elections, United Nations, Vladimir Putin People: Vladislav Vorobyev, Oleg Vladimirovich Shamonayev, [names reversed in one Saratogian article – Shamonaev Oleg], Yelena Yuryevna Nikitina, Olga Antatasovna Lazauskayte, Natasha Yefimova, Saratogian staff, Sheelagh Baily, Barbara Thomas

– 1/2003-4/2003: Topics: LWV positions, Working with the United Nations, domestic violence, LWV Legislative Breakfast, NYS Budget Process, Community Media Center, Students Inside Albany People: Carol Fleming, Mary Lou Classen, Barbara Thomas, Roy McDonald, Jim Tedisco, William Magee, Tom & Pat Fox, Pat Friesen, Lori Dawson, Teresa Sayward, Metta Hooker, Barbara Bartoletti, Bob Prentiss, Ken DeCerce, Kim Copenhaver, Skip Scirocco, Mia Mouzon, Elaine Schick, Margie Van Meter, Jim Tedesco, Ken Schick, Mary Jane Ellis, Judy Beckman, Cliff Ammon, Bob Thomas, Carol Blowers, Audrey Thomas, Renee Moore 12 photos: from 3/2/03 Legislative Breakfast: Tom & Pat Fox, Pat Friesen, Lori Dawson’ Teresa Sayward, Metta Hooker, Barbara Bartoletti, Bob Prentiss, Ken DeCerce, Kim Copenhaver, Skip Scirocco, Mia Mouzon, Elaine Schick, Margie Van Meter, Jim Tedesco, Ken Schick, Mary Jane Ellis, Judy Beckman, Cliff Ammon, Bob Thomas, Carol Blowers, Audrey Thomas, Renee Moore

– 5/2003-9/2003: Topics: Students Inside Albany, Assemblyman James Tedisco, Saratoga Springs drinking water supply study, Saratoga County water project, School Board Candidate Forums, Amy Durland birthday party, political party endorsements, health coverage, health care bill, LWVSC Annual Meeting. People: Christian vom Lehn, Steve Madarasz, Elsie Wagner, Rich Straut, William Connolly, Anita Gabalski, Ray Callanan, Thomas McTygue, Nancy Bellamy,Barbara Thomas, Amy Durland, Rob Mains, Ken Klotz, Karen Klotz, Jeff Wait, Marylou Wait, Nancy Butcher, Jens Ohlin, Dana Rosenstreich, Keith Brennan, Don Davis, Sue Davis, Jay Rogoff, Penny Jolly, Pernille Dake, Jim Kuntsler, Jennifer Armstrong, Bob Thomas, George Walker, Lucienne Walker, Rob Davis, Denise MacDonald, Bob Giordano, Michelle Erceg, John DeMarco, Jan DeMarco, Larry Levine, Janet Levine, Lynn Bacher, Larry Toole, Nancy Sutin, Tom Federlin, Mike Roohan, Margaret Roohan, Mike O’Brien, Ann O’Brien, Bill Hammond, Meg Gallien, Raoul Gosselin, Millie Gosselin, Jim Martinez, Nancy Martinez, Janice Burns, Bob Hassenger, Linda Hassenger, Martha Strohl, Tom Cannon, Eric Weller, Lew Benton, Eric Schreck, Dorothy Mitchell, Fred Acunto, Lee Kolesnikoff, Joy Gould, Peter Tulin, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Max Baucus, Senator Charles Schumer, Margie Van Meter, Audrey Thomas, Helen Crawshaw, Susan Burton, Francine Rodger, Lori Dawson, Darnell Rohrbaugh, Margot Ammon, Renee Moore, Kim Copenhaver, Diane Whitburn, Jackie Pardon, Mary Lou Classen, Bob Pasciullo

– 10/2003: Topics: Saratoga Springs drinking water, Candidates Forums, Saratoga Springs parking, housing, tax; League voter services and brochures; growth in southern Saratoga County. People: Philip Klein, Anthony :Skip” Scirocco, Barbara Trypaluk, Cheryl Keyrouze, Robert Stokes, James Rosano, William Peck, Gregory Connors, Paul “Butch” Lilac, Kathy Marchione, Kenneth DeCerce, A. James Bold, Regina Parker, Melinda Wormuth, Mary Pearson, Kevin

Tollisen, Lee Buck, Dan Devane, David Saunders, Bernadette D’Alessandro, John D’Alessandro, Keith McCauley, Ed Pearson, John “Jasper” Nolan, Shawn Schreck, Stephen Towne, Eric Weller, Thomas Curley, Dan Hurwitz, Susan Burton, Andrew JaroshJoyce Cook, Barbara Thomas, Kim Copenhaver, Kelly Reidy, Robert Prentiss, Robert Rybak,, Philip Barrett, Beth EdelmanAdam Kramer, Jan Lemon, Sean Finnerty, Tom Paolucci, Tom Siragusa, Sue Gardner, Carol Osborne, Al Janik.

– 11/2003-12/2003: Topics: Business Journal, League Voter Services; State, County and City Elections, Pay inequity, handicapped access, Poll sites, Saratoga Springs High Track Team People: Kelly Ann Reidy, Ken Klotz, Mike Lenz, Lois Haignere, Margot Ammon, Senator Joseph Bruno, Barbara Thomas, Debbie Harper, Linda Kranick.

– 1/2004-3/2004: Topics: Patriot Act, Help America Vote, polling places, accessibility, HAVA, students, Skidmore College, affordable housing, black history, Solomon Northrup Day, breakfast with legislators, gambling, public financing of elections. People: Glenn Suddaby, Grant Jaquity, Melanie Trible, Barbara Thomas, Debbie Harper, Teena Willard, Aimee Allaud, Stephen Towne, Phili Glotzbach, Pat Oles, Harry Dutcher, Bill Fruci, Diane Wade, Kim Copenhaver, Shawn Thompson, Wilma Koss, Bob Pasciullo, Renee Moore, Derrick Legall, Sean D. Barrett, Warren Dart, Stuart Byrne, Karen Stanley , Jahvtz Blanton, Joseph Bruno, Hugh Farley Barbara Bartoletti, Ronald Canastrari, Roy McDonald, Robert Prentiss, Teresa Sayward, James Tedisco, George Pataki, Sheldon Silver, Libby Smith- Holmes, Janice Burns, Cliff Ammon, Margot Ammon, Carl Dana, Susan Barton, Darnell Rohrbaugh, Kelly Reidy, Betty Gallagher, Skip Scirocco, Mari Gnardi, MaryLou Classon, Jackie Pardon

– 4/2004-9/2004: Topics: March for Women's Lives In Washington, D.C., Meet the candidates for Saratoga Springs School District, Meet the Democratic Primary Candidates, Candidates forum for 20th Congressional District, Media Center, People: Beth LeGere, Janice Burns, Barbara Thomas, Hillary Clinton, Ana Gasteyer,, Carol Mosley Braun, Darren Cosgrove, Mark Roberts, Pat Freund, Celeste Broyles, Melissa Pronto, Jamee Powers, Susan Van Raalte, A. C. Riley, Sheelagh Bailey Pat Friesen, Russell Danforth, Glen Face, Paul Stevens, John, Whittel, John Sweeney, Doris Kelly, John Coleman, Libby Smith, Gov. Howard Dean, Frank Stoppenbach, Margaret Lewis, Morris N Guller, Jackie Pardon.

– October 2004 Topics: Candidate forums for 20th Congressional,& NYS Assembly & NYS Senate & SS City Council, Parking Deck, site plan, media center, Voter ID People: James Tedisco, Lawrence Ratcliff, Roy McDonald, John Sweeney, Maj. Chris Douglas,

Doris Kelly, Morris Guller, David Marhis, Micheal John Phillips, Joe Bruno, Hugh Farley, Mayor Micheal Lenz, Tom McTygue, Paul Male, Attny. Pat Dorsey, Jacky Pardon, Steve Pierce, Ray Kuchesky, Bob Pascciullo, Jackie Pardon, Ron Canestrari, Bob Prentiss, Bob Rielly, Ken Klotz, Bob Pascuillo, John Van der Veer, Mary Lou Classen, Cindy Corbett, Paul DeGregorio, Holly Swartz Lawton, Eric Waller, Ralph Pascucci, Camilla Daniels, Roger Wyatt, Arnold Byrd, Adam Lewis. Advisory Panel: Dee Sarno,Jerry Lubin, Hilary McLellan, Garret Smith, Kathy Corbett, Bev Mastrianni, Marie Glotzbach, Dan Irizarry, Dale Willman, Louise Wheelock, Eliot Spitzer(AG), Barbara Thomas, Leon Halpert, Lee Daghlin, John A. Gregiono, Aimee Allaud

– 11/04 - 12/2004: Topics: Election report on process, photo of voting assistance at general election, report of voting count by district in Saratoga Springs (2 pages), visit of Russian group hosted by LWV, report of Russian visitors learning about US election process (2 pages), article and photos about Russian visit (4 pages), report on study results indicating that later voter registration results in larger turnout, announcement of League of Women Voters discussion “Should New York Have a Death Penalty?” People: Victoria Dunleavy, Supreme Court Judge Joseph Teresi, Supreme Court Judge Stephen Ferradino, Supreme Court Judge Thomas Nolan, Myles Danielsen, Barbara Bartoletti, Lee Daghlian, Anne Rockwood, Christine Anderson, Michael (Anderson), Margaret Simonds, Bob Wade, Carl Danna, Chris White, Filarit F. Salikhov, Oleg Grishayev, Oleg Korotin, William Fruci, Barbara Thomas, Grigoriy Olegovich Yarygin

– 1/05 - 2/2005: Topics: Public Report: “Evaluation of the Public Process Toward Implementation of the New City Charter” presentation announcement, Concerned Citizens for Implementation of the City Charter meeting, co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters( 2 pages), report about slow implementation of new City Charter, David Kaczynski talk against the Death Penalty, announcement of panel “Should NYS Have a Death Penalty (two days’ notices), report on Kaczynski talk opposing the Death Penalty, local woman leads at Clinton Global Initiative in NYC, coverage of City Council meeting (topics - funding for Cable service, zoning change), photo of Pittsfield Public Access TV, article about Pittsfield Public Access TV (3 pages), article about Pittsfield Public Access TV, article about request for provision of studio space for public access tv (3 pages) People: Mark Lawton, Christine Gillmett-Brown, Lynne Bachner, Finance Commissioner Matt McCabe, Mayor Mike Lenz, Marcy Brydges, Deputy Mayor Alicia Wardell, Lee Nelson, David Kaczinski, Ted Kaczinski, Francine Rodger, Linda (Kaczinski), Matt Funicello, Patricia Nugent, former President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, former Vice President Al Gore, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Thomas Jefferson, Jackie Pardon, Accounts Commissioner Stephen Towne, Public Works Commissioner Tom McTygue, Steve Ethier, Shawn Serre, Cheryl Keyrouse, Bernard Avalle, Steve Pierce, Peter Taubkin, Aimee Allaud, Ernie Tetrault, George Morrell, Larry

Dudley, Howard Dean, John Mucha, Anne Dalton, Carol McTague, Moreau Supervisor Harry Gutheil, Eric Lewis

– 3/2005 - 5/2005: Topics: listing of City Council agenda/Public Access TV included, LWV Voter Fourm announcement for Schuylerville, Town of Saratoga Republican Committee to interview candidates, announcement of Schuylerville LWV Voter Forum, Saratogian editorial encouraging change to optical scan voting machines, LWV Panel about wind power as alternative power source, announcements about LWV panel on wind power (3), article about LWV panel on wind power, community spelling bee, recognition of Francine Rodger for volunteer service in Clifton Park (2 pages), LWV meeting notice, LWV Meet the Candidates in Ballston Spa (3 pages) People: Jackie Pardon, Mayor Michael Lenz, Jim Meirs, John Sherman, Brian Bayly, Margaret Ditch, Mike Hughes, Brad Warner, Barbara Thomas, Marion Trieste, Rick Benas, Douglas Ward, Bob Israel, John Martin, Valerie Straus, Nickole Mook, Florence Andresen, Francine Rodger, Clifton Park Supervisor Phil Barrett, Clifton Park Councilman Tom Paolucci, Frank Townley, Jeanne Obermayer, William Burnham, Douglas Young, Mary (Townley), Patricia (Burnham), Ballston Spa School Larry WoolbrightSuperintendent Dr. John Gratto

– 6/05 - 8/2005: Topics: LWV Board Organizational Meeting photos, LWV cocktail party at Good Times (3 pages), Dinner Meeting notice, charter revision progress report meeting announcement, LWVNYS Convention - Albany photos (2 pages), coverage of charter progress meeting People: Renee Moore, Susan Burton, Kim Copenhaver, Margot Ammon, Audrey Thema, Mary Lou Classen, Carol Fleming, Janice Burns, Diane Whitburn, Lori Dawson, Jackie Pardon, Mayor Michael Lenz, Mark Lawton

– 9/2005: Topics: Saratoga Springs Meet the Candidates notice, Meet the Candidates coverage, local cable television (2 articles, 2 pages), support for local cable (2 letters to editor), SSHS Media Center photo, LWV meeting about Emergency Services announcement People: Valerie Keehn, Hank Kuczynski, Mayor Michael Lenz, James Bowen, Allen Hills, Jr., Lawrence Britt, Tom Curley, Barbara Thomas, Jackie Pardon, Jeff Piro, Cheryl Keyrouse, Bev Mastrianni, Joanne Yepsen, Jenny Mirling, Dennis Brunelle, John Van der Veer, Pamela Lonergan, Charles Kuenzel, Sally Pfitzer, Ryan Dobler

– 10/2005: Topics: Meet the Candidates events, coverage of local election, Clifton Park Republican refusal to participate in forum, City Council meeting (cable franchise renewal, larger meeting space for meetings, Saratoga Lake as water source, funding for police radio equipment), Saratoga Springs Republican children’s event. People: Daniel Pemrick, Peter Coseo, Thomas Kinsella, Thomas Siragusa, Albert Janik, Jack Engel, Barbara Thomas, Gordon “Mickey” McGrath, Walter Barss, Valerie Keehn, Michael Lenz, Phil Klein, Anthony (Skip) Scirocco, Cheryl Keyrouse, Joanne Yepsen, Roy McDonald,

Thomas Keyrouse, Michael Lisuzzo, Todd Kerner, Jan Lemon, Asst. Police Chief James Cornick, Chief Edward Moore, Mark Lawton, Lee Nelson, Matt McCabe, Susan Burton, Regina Parker, Jasper Nolan, Ted Turner, John Strough, Jeff Haber, Chris O’Connor, Tammy Gagnon, Molly Gagnon

– 11/05 - 12/2005: Topics: Meet the Candidates events, Fair Campaign Practices complaint, political letters to the editor, ward system for Clifton Park, election outcome in Saratoga Springs, City Council action (City Center lease, Leash Law, Code of Ethics), new voting machines People: Valerie Keehn, Michael Lenz, Anderson family, Mary Ann Macica, Matthew McCabe, Shawn Thompson, Jenny Scarano, Thomas Curley, Larry Britt, Ron Kim, Stephen Towne, John Franck, Thomas McTygue, Joanne Yepsen, Cheryl Keyrouse, Erin Dreyer, Hank Kuczynski, Dave Bronner, David Stern, Raymond Callanan, Betsey Swan, Aimee Allaud, Joan Elliott, Elizabeth Smith-Holmes, Eugene Rowland, James Conroy, Andrew Cuomo, John “Jasper” Nolan, Paul Farnan, James Briaddy, Pat Southworth, J. Wood, Barbara Thomas, (Michael) Lisuzzo, Susan Burton, David Ganje, Robert Hoffman, Rob Turner, Todd Kerner, Glenn Valle, James Hughes, Sandy Roth, Linda Walowit, Herb Alfasso, Kim Jones, Stacy D’Andrea Goodman, Michael O’Connell, Mary Beth Flanagan, Valerie Di-Giandomenico, Robert Jacon, Patricia DeAngelis, Cathy Lewis, Gary McCarthy, Gordon Boyd, Mike Toohey, Edward Lenz, A.C. Riley, Lew Benton, Diane Wade, Bill Fruci, Stephen Williams, Charles Blunt

– 1/06 – 2/2006: Topics: Martin Luther King Day, Take Me To Vote – visit from assemblymember, Help America Vote compliance, Financing Public Education, Breakfast with Your Legislators, LeaderSpark, “Breakfast with Eleanor Roosevelt” People: Garland Nelson, Valerie Keehn, Bishop Arnold Bird, Jahvtz Blanton, Joseph and Shiloh Wilson, Chief Jake Swamp, Timothy Harper, Ken Klotz, Ron Kim, Bob Reilly, Denise Adams, Melanie DiBari, Barbara Murphy, John McBride, Betsey Swan, Michael Rebell, Jane Weihe, Elena Dodd, Maggie Fronk, Barbara Thomas

– 3/06 – 5/2006: Topics: Voting machines, Openness in Government / Sunshine Week, LeaderSpark, “Breakfast with Eleanor Roosevelt,” Financing Education, Students Inside Albany, Saratoga Springs School Board Candidate Event, Lake George School Board Candidate Event, Growth in Saratoga County, Saratoga Economic Development Council, Saratoga County Industrial Development Council, Audrey Rima August Thomas Obituary, People: Donna English, Bill Fruci, Lee Daghlian, Barbara Thomas, Wan Kim, Elliott Spitzer, J. Michael O’Connell, Robert Freeman, Barbara Lombardo, Blair Horner, Garrett McCarey, Joanne Yepsen, Jane Weihe, Jaye Kuczynski, Carol Reynolds, Barbara Thomas, Audrey Thomas, Harry Gutheil, Gina Rossi Marozzi, Fred Hequembourg, Diane Kennedy, James Madison, Stan Hudy, Elena Dodd, Jamie Parillo, Josephine Lane, Mike Fueston, Pattie Garrett, Connie Jenkins, Margie Van Meter, Rose Fonseco, Ken Klotz, Derrick Legall, Monica Ayala, Amy Baker, Amanda Barbour, Zoe Bartholomay, Alexandra Beauchamp, Alex Karsky-

Bush, Neil Callahan, Taylor Dempsey, Sarah Durocher, Sydney Gliserman, Sabrina Green, Elissa Hatlee, Stephanie Ida, Caitlan Kane, Daniel Kartotsky, Vonzel Legall, Taylor Montayne, Alice Moon, Laura Morehouse, Chris Pearce, Jessica Poulin, WillMartin, Jay Rifenbary, Stephen Rodriguez, John Whittel, Lee Nelson, Terry Lowenthal, Wendy Matthews, Robert Bolen, Patrick Esmond, Janie Green, Kenneth Green, Lawrence Benton, Art Johnson

– 6/06 – 12/2006: Topics: Voting Machines, Primaries, Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Take Me To Vote, Meet the Candidates Events, SS City Charter Forum, Politics of Decline, Financing Education, Voters Guides, No Show Candidates, Open Government, Mari Howard Gnarde Obituary, People: Arleen Noonan, Evelyn Paddock, Andrew Cuomo, Mark Green, Diane Wade, Lee Daghlian, Barbara Thomas, Maggie Smith, Bennett Timmerman, Helen Crawshaw, Kay Maxwell, Beth Hershenhart, Patrick Kane, Gordon Boyd, Raymond Watkin, J. Michael O’Connell, Ken Klotz, Jay Gallagher, Michael Eidens, David Carter, James Tedisco, Roy McDonald, Kirsten Gillibrand, John Sweeney, Mary Beth Hynes, Patti Southworth, Terry Lowenthal, Cynthia Amrhein, John A. Fantauzzi, Bob Turner, Allison Price, Shawn Thomson, John “Jasper” Nolan, John Faso, Christopher Callaghan, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Rudolph Giuliani, Laura Bush, Ruth Dinowitz, Gary McCarthy, Jeffrey Stark, Hugh Farley, Joseph Bruno, Maureen Donovan, Bob Geddes, Bob Reilly, Paulette Barlette, Kathy Marchione, Russell Brettholtz, Sam Pitcherelle, Preston Jenkins, Eileen Finneran, John Frank, Ron Kim, Matt McCabe, John Franck, Tommy McTygue, Joanne Yepsen, Mari Gnarde

– 1/07 – 5/2007: Topics: Martin Luther King Day, Open Government, Sunshine Week, Voting Machines, Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Community Media Center, Public Access TV, Immigration, Global Warming, LEED certified Library, People: Kathy Sephas, Kenneth Sephas, Lori Dawson, Ashley Williamson, Mariah Monteville, Marian Sephas, Johnathon Rubenstein, Dan Wilcox, Carol Graser, Sarah Craig, Deborah Williams-Muhamad, Shamshad Ahmad, Tyrese Jabot, Joanne Yepsen, Valerie Keehn, Robert Freeman, J. Michael O’Connell, Barbara Lombardo, Barbara Thomas, John Franck, Jackie Pardon, Molly Short, Carol Daggs, Holly Nye, James Madison, Mark Lowery, Heather Mallozzi, Ian Murray, Alane Ball Chinian, John Behan, Kenneth Green, Paul Sausville, Tom Wood, Bill Chamberlain, Tim Mahoney, Robert Hawley, Rachel Leon, Walter Ervin, Kevin Connelly, John Ashcroft, Patrick Leahy, Judith Miller, Valerie Plame, Otis L. Sanford, Rick Boucher, Dick Lugar, Al Janik, Barbara Weatherwax

– 6/07 – 9/2007: Topics: LWVSC Annual Meeting, Immigration, Meet the Candidates Events, SS Public Safety Building, Source for SS water, zoning, LWV Ice Cream Social, People: Rey Koslowski, Valerie Keehn, Gordon Boyd, Scott Johnson, Thomas McTygue, Patrick Garrett, Martha Kennedy, Devon Brannagon

– 9/07 – 12/2007:

Topics: Meet the Candidates Events, Immigration, Fair Campaign Practices, LWV Non Partisan Practices, SS Water Source, Recreation Center, political endorsements, public restrooms in Congress Park, SS Public Safety Building, Saratoga County Water Project, trails, transportation, economic development needs of Mechanicville, improving tax collection, tax foreclosure sales, open space, growth and sprawl, traffic, duck hunting, highway tax monies, Minerva Maki Jacknowitz Obituary, Take Me To Vote, Election Results, Martin Luther King Celebration, Student Essay Contest, People: Kathy Marchione, Eliot Spitzer, Alan Grattidge, Barbara Thomas, Andreas Kriefall, Valerie Keehn, Scott Johnson, Gordon Boyd, Ken Ivins, M. Jane Weihe, Matt McCabe, Frank McGivern, Thomas McTygue, Anthony “Skip” Scirocco, Ron Kim, Richard Wirth, Cheryl Keyrouze, Matthew Veitch, Joanne Yepsen, Thomas Richardson, Chris Boyark, Mark Seber, Stacie Salvi, Philip Barrett, Scott Hughes, Tom Paolucci, Arthur VanderVoort, Margaret Catellier, Nancy Bellamy, Patricia O’Donnell, Theresa Izzo, Robert Rybak, Erika Riebel, Anita Daly, Rick Kukuk, Maki Jacknowitz, Jack Jacknowitz, Clea Markman, Hilja Jacknowitz, Kira Markman, Anne Niegsch, Elizabeth Hanson, Ron Canstrari, James Tedisco, Marian Bigelow, Pat Design, Skip Scirocco, William “Billy” McTygue, Tom Curley, Hank Kuczynski, Michael Lenz, Harriett Finch

– 1/08 – 2/2008: Topics: Martin Luther King Celebration, gun control, Voting Machines, Help America Vote Act (HAVA), Take Me ToVote, Global warming, green energy, nuclear energy, People: Betty Cassidy, Margaret French, Amy Doern, Denny Finneran, Sadako Sasaki, Scott Johnson, Joan Taub, Ike Pulver, Gordon Boyd, Robyn Ringler, Faust D’Andrea, Dora Lee Stanley, Elliot Spitzer, Gerald Jennings, Kendall Jeter, Johnathon Rubenstein, Joe Bruchac, Kumiki Gibson, Jose Vanderburgh, Erin Doolin, Lamont Washington, George Seror, Matt Behan, Alyssa Carison, Batrick Donworth, Emitt Hollyer, Amanda Lampmon, Candy MacAvoy, Dan Rittenhouse, Walt Roger, Wesley Wander, Barbara Thomas, Bill Fruci, Bo Lipari, John Cordo, Neil Kelleher, Helena Moses Donohue, Douglas Kellner, Kevin Chung, Robert Witko, Lee Daghlian, Roy McDonald, James Tedisco, Ms.Melander, Helen Crawshaw, George W. Bush, Samantha Duff, Judge Sharpe, Patricia O’Donnell, Mary Pearson, Diane Wade, Sastry Sreepada, James Smiley, Jessie Carr

– 3/08 – 7/2008: Topics: Sunshine Week, Open Government, Uncounted (film), election integrity, Students Inside Albany, Soroptomist Awards, Election Inspectors, LWV inspects polling sites for accessibility, LWV Sustainers Awardee, Voter registration at Farmers’ Market, People: Robert Freeman, Barbara Thomas, George Latimer, Joanne Yepsen, James Madison, Diane Kennedy, Madeline Montemayor, Stephanie McDermott, Jenna Leskovec, Jaye Kuczynski, Scott Johnson, Ken Klotz, Diane Wade, Bill Fruci, Carol Turney, Rachel Holbrook, Donna Gunderson, Cindy Wade, Dave Sexton, Larry Bulman, Kevin Bowman, Nancy Bellamy, Gerald Longo, Gretchen Marcelle, Justine Denison, Steve Otrembiak, Suzanne Cannell, Becky Christner, Roy McDonald, Joseph Bruno, Joy Heyman, Diana Hart

– 8/08 – 12/2008: 62

Topics: Candidate Events, Sunday Social, LWV Youth Programs, Take Me To Vote, First Vote, LeaderSpark, Ghost Candidate, Opening County Government, Voter Registration, Fair Campaign Practices Committee, Russian Sister City Delegation, voting systems, Electoral College, County Budget Items, People: Joseph Bruno, Christopher Consuello, Roy McDonald, Brian Premo, Mike Russo, Ray Seney, Melanie Trimble, Janice Burns, Barbara Thomas, Dan Levitan, Bob Mirch, Jack Casey, Robert Brehm, George Hargrave, Bill Peck, Tony Jordan, Ian McGaughey, Roy McDonald, Adam Kramer, Hugh Farley, Fred Goodman, James Tedisco, Betty Little, B.K. Keramati, Robert Reilly, John Waslelewski, Mark Blanchfield, Kurt Maussert, George Amedore, Courtenay Hall, David A. Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Sheldon Silver, Jeffrey Bagnoli, Elena Razenko, Svetlana Ipatova, Sergeii Ivanoff, Marina Pakratova, Iurii Tarkanov, Barak Obama, John McCain, Dmitri Popov, Phil Diamond, Laura Chodos, Andrea Cotter, Alan Davis

– 1/09 – 2/2009: Topics: New County Committee Chairs, Martin Luther King Celebration (Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”, Healthcare, Soroptomist Grant Applications available, LWVSC celebrates Susan B. Anthony’s Birthday, Only the Message Mattered CD, Anthony in Washington County, Candidate forums for 20th Congressional District Race, Breakfast with Your Legislators, People: Art Johnson, Paul Sausville, Dick Rowland, Joanne Yepsen, Anita Daly, Jeanne Raymond, Pattie Southworth, Arthur Wright, Matthew Veitch, Barbara Thomas, Tina Raggio, Earlene Carter-Payne, Kathy Sephas, Waldorf A Cappella Group, Francelise Dawkins, Jim Karge, Laura Clark, Terri Robbens, Joe Bruchac, Barbara Blaisdell, Bob Warren, Daniel Anthony, Brittany Rivers, Rebecca Rogers, Monica Roach, Jim Tedisco, Scott Murphy, Ryan Rudominer, Eric Sundwall, Joshua Fitzpatrick, Sherman Baldwin, Angela Neal, John Penny, Katie Hooper, Kim Green, Amy Doern, Jim Fulmer, John Kirk, Frank Lombardo, Mary Nell Morgan, Kristen Legere, Hugh Farley, James Tedisco, Tony Jordan, Teresa Sayward, Robert Reilly, Pattie Garrett, Margaret Prough, Kirsten Gillibrand

– 3/09 – 4/2009: Topics: Candidate Forums for 20th Congressional Seat, healthcare, retirement savings, environmental protection, rights to unionize, renewable energy, Social Security, International Women’s Day, Career vs. Family Issues, The Motherhood Manifesto, Sunshine Week, Open Government, Are We Safer in the Dark?, Televising Legislative Sessions, FOIL, lottery for seats at candidate forum, economic stimulus package, removing troops from Iraq, job creation, Map of 20th Congressional District, Election results for 20th, Voter relieved that race is over, Bigger, Better Bottle Bill Passes, Financing Healthcare, LWVSC, LeaderSpark, Youth training for leadership, Take Me To Vote, Visit from Assemblyman, SS supports single payer healthcare, People: Scott Murphy, James Tedisco, Kirsten Gillibrand, President Barak Obama, Kathy Marchione, Kevin Connelly, Jennifer Hogan Murphy, Margot Ammon, Linda Ashline, Remigia Foy, Helen & Bill Crawshaw, Nancy Roman, Eric Sundwall, Kristen Overholt, Leslie Mills, Barbara Thomas, Joanne Yepsen, Malcom Smith, Robert Freeman, George Lattimer, Barbara

Bartoletti, Sherman Baldwin, Brian Taffeof, Marcia Hopple, Timothy Smith, Joe Seeman, Jennifer Leidig, Jim Di Gioia, Jean Creaman, Beverly Patterson, Lois DelSette, Mike Demento,,Renee Rosebrook, Chuck Van Wie, Pat Wakefield, Margot Ammon, Robert Moore, Susan Lawrence, David Haight, Pete Sobol, Elizabeth McLaughlin, George Jolly, Patricia Reed, Jane Weihe, K.C. Bianco, Casey Schnakenberg, Cassie Yettru, Angelo Curto, James Tedisco, Kerry Morris, Linda Motzkin, Jane Weihe, Wilma Koss, John Franck, Kenneth Ivins

– 5/09 – 9/2009: Topics: LeaderSpark, Sustainable Community, Milton candidate event, Unsigned political flyer, Dirty politics, Milton taxes, Milton Planning, LWV Membership Social, Fanning the Flames of Democracy, Peace Fair, Candidate Forums People: Karen Kunzia, Susan Mollard, Rose Fonseca, Derrick Legall, Sherry Hoffman, Nicole Sumner, Luc Hoffmans, Michael Barbarich, Shauna Sutton, Kenneth Klotz, Cliff Ammon, Lou Schneider, Joanne Yepsen, Carl Danna, Kristen Overholt, Janet Kuczynski, Jane Weihe, Barbara Thomas, Frank Thompson, Jim O’Brien, John Frolish, Meg Stevens, John Olenik, Wayne Howe, Rick Miller, Marty Pozfsky, Therese Lowenthal, Lori Dawson, Frank Lombardo, Patricia Nugent, Christopher Booth,Kathy Hardin, Bob Warren, Elizabeth Meehan, Mary Lou Classen, Ann Kril

– 10/09 – 12/2009: Topics: Candidate Events, Mechanicville Dems don’t show, Esplanade Project, SUCCESS cancels candidate event, lay-offs, paid parking, indoor rec center, Stillwater Candidates, open govennment, Marriage Equality, Online Voters Guide, pre-marked photo-copy of absentee ballot, sustainable local community, Hunting in the Vischer Ferry Nature Preserve, People: Barbara Thomas, David Higgins, Anthony Sylvester, Peter Chauvin, Timothy Hipwell, Daniel Pickett, Michael Coleman, Kevin Robert, Michelle Duell, Remiga Foy, Ron Kim, Skip Scirocco, Kevin Connolly, Peter Martin, Scott Johnson, Kenneth Ivins, John Franck, Richard Wirth, Mary Lou Classen, Ed Miller, Jason Longton, Jr., James Bowen, Shawn Connelly, Ed Kinowski, William Marshall, Donald Harder, Valerie Keehn, Matthew Veitch, Joanne Yepsen, Mike Lyons, Ross Levi, Kathleen Manley, Mary Beth DeLarm, Michael O’Sullivan, Barbara Lombardo, Betsy DeMars, Steven Shoemaker, Andrew Bernstein, Michael Goldman, Bill Sprengnether, Tom Romano, Lynda Walowit, Dick Cheney, Lorna Kircher

– 1/10 – 2/2010: Topics: Ethics Reform, Medicare for All, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Peace, non- violence, LWV celebrates 90 Years, Lincoln, Liberty and Liberation, Letter of Congratulation to LWV People: David Paterson, Joseph Bruno, Roy McDonald, Pat Reed, Mike Douglas, Phil Jessen, Kristin Overholt, Betsey Swan, Lance Ingmire, Scott Murphy

– 3/10 – 7/2010:

Topics: State Budget, LeaderSpark, leadership training, conflict resolution, Take Me To Vote, Shenendehowa Fifth Grade classes visited by Assemblymember Jordan, Greening Your Household, Fair Campaign Practices, Domestic Violence, People: Roy McDonald, Barbara Thomas, Steve Ball, Joseph P. Dragone, Peter Aust, Willard Peck, Richard Rowland, Warren Hauert, Jane Weihe, Emily Lamm, Jessica Bradley, Kelley Florence, Michael Barberich, Sam Laiacona, Stephanie Thomas, KellyPruskowski, Ken Klotz, Derrick Legall, Rose Fonseca, Victoria Murdock, Elizabeth Besozzi, Kristin Overholt, Cynthia Barbagelata, Barbara Thomas, Cynthia Sodher, Deb Murphy, Tony Jordan, Bob Reilly, Dee Sarno, Sherry Hoffman, Michelle Van Wagner, Darcy McDonald, Keith Stewart, Kimberlee and Andrew Williams, Brenna Johnson, Michael Barberich, Lou Schneida, Shaundra Penny, Paul Sausville, Dave DeLozier, Karen Totino, Bob Turner, Lynn Murphy

– 8/10 – 9/2010: Topics: Campaign Signs, First Women, Groundbreaking Women, Iron Jawed Angels, Low percentage of elected women, LWV membership social, Saratoga Springs Charter Changes proposed, Candidate Forums, Charter Change Forum, People: Kirsten Gillibrand, Gil Abramson, Kevin Veitch, Barbara Thomas, Ida Sammis, Nora Bredes, Hillary Clinton, Bella Abzug, Sue Montgomery-Corey, Susan Savage, Joanne Yepsen, Pedro Espada, Hugh Farley, Roy McDonald, Mary Wilmot, Robin Wilt, Kathleen Joy, James Alesi, Joe Robach, John DeFrancisco, Bill Samuels, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Emma Willard, Louise Slaughter, Sarah Slingerland, Norman Rockwell, Deborah Kolsrud, Lillie Blake, Courtland Palmer, Theodore Williams, Thomas Fulton, Matilda Gage, Berheide, Louise K. Sira, Betty Little, Betsy McCaughey, Paula Mahan, Lori Dawson, Robert Turner, Jane Weihe, Patrick Kane, Stephen Ferradino, B.K. Keramati, James Tedisco, Francine Rodger, Dan DeFedericis, Kyle York

– 10/10 – 12/ 2010: Topics: 44th Senate & 110 A.D. Candidate Event, Property tax cap, Redistricting, Gerrymandering, 43rd S.D Candidate Event, Family Court Judge race, Racing in Saratoga, Upstate/Downstate, 20th Congressional District Candidate Event, Healthcare, taxes, Online Voters’ Guide, Secret Campaign Cash, the Disclose Act, Take Me To Vote, 90th Anniversary Celebration of Women’s Suffrage, The Declaration of Sentiments, Hydro Fracking, Water Quality, Sustainability People: Hugh Farley, Susan Savage, James Tedisco, B.K. Keramati, Kirsten Gillibrand, Scott Murphy, Brian Stratton, Blair Horner, Bob Reilly, Carl Palladino, Roy McDonald, Joanne Yepsen, Robert Ryback, Jennifer Jensen-Bergan, Andrew Cuomo, Richard Wirth, Scott Murphy, Chris Gibson, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Thomas, Marian Potter, Angelina Boyd, John Boyd, Mike Hotchkiss, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Coline Jenkins, Diane Whitburn, Bob Warren, Katherine Nadeau, Bill Sprengnether

. Bulletins - Archived Bulletins 4/1995 – 12/2015

Bulletins are the newsletters that go to members and selected members of the public. Each Bulletin usually contains a message from the President and information about previous and upcoming events. During the course of the year bulletins contain information about the finance drive, contributors, membership recruitment, new members, Candidate events for fall and school board elections, Voter registration, LWVNY or LWVUS Conventions (alternate years), public membership meetings, studies and advocacy, and required notices for the Annual Meeting (nominating report, proposed budget, proposed Program). Note: Bulletins were indexed by year (not issue) in Box 2, so it isn’t clear which issues are missing. Bulletins were also indexed, by issue, in Box 5, Materials from the Collection of Betty Gallagher, for issues between 1965 and 1985 (some missing).

– April 1995: Bulletin Editor: Dorianne Hunt President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Annual Meeting (5/21/95)Agenda, Property Tax Study proposed, Student Legislative Conference (Meghan Hunt and Kristen Irwin), 75th Anniversary Special Cancellation envelope, LWV window at Library, The Stone that Started the Ripple (play by Patricia Nugent), Population Impacts, Slate of Officers and Directors for 95-96.

– April 1997: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Funding of Libraries in Saratoga County, Meet the School Board Candidates, Annual Meeting (5/18/97) Agenda, Slate of Officers, Proposed Budget ($ 7,502), Member bio-sketch of Bob and Josie Pasciullo, New Project is to create a Fair Campaign Practices Committee.

– September 1997: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Membership Potluck Dinner (Barbara Bartoletti to speak against a constitutional Convention), Meet the Candidates, Member Bio-sketch of Richard Beresford, LWVNYS Position on Financing Education, Calendar for 1997-98, Membership List, Registration & Voting deadines, LWVNY position against Constitutional Convention,Classifieds.

– October 1997: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet the Candidates Saratoga Springs, Funding of Libraries in Saratoga County, Holiday Reception for Elected Officials, Member Bio-sketch of Eleanore Galant, Barbara Bartoletti lists reasons to vote against Con Con, LWVNY position on Education Bond Act, Recipe from the September PotLuck (Pissaladiere), Classifieds.

– September 1998: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Membership PotLuck Dinner, Recent Developments in the D.A.’s office (DA, James A.Murphy, III), Meet the Candidates Night for 22nd C.D., 43 & 44 S.D., 100, 103, 107, 108 A.D., Bio-sketch of Margot Ammon, LWVUS Action Alert to support Campaign Finance Reform. P. 3,4,5,6, missing.

– January 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: 911 System (Ed Sachman & Mike Valentine), Breakfast with Our Legislators, Time-Warner stops video taping Candidate Events, Thanks to Contributors, Member Bio- Sketch of Rae Rohfeld, Panel on Financing Higher Education, Redistricting and reapportionment, Information on emergency services from 11/18/96 meeting, Legislative Priorities. In memorium: Tom Stamas.

– April 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Universal Pre-Kindergarten (Warren Gemmil, David Hunt, Karen Franchi, Marie MacPherson), Breakfast with Legislators in the snow, Thanks to Contributors, Member bio-Sketch of Betty Gallagher, Welcome New members (9), In memorium: Alec Thomas.

– May 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet the School Board Candidates, Clean Money & Clean Elections (Richard Kirsch), Annual Meeting Agenda, Welcome New members (2), Smart Growth, Green Gardening, Proposed LWVSC budget ($9,447), Nominating committee Report, Pre-K, Recycling colored glass.

– September 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Changing name from LWV of Saratoga Springs Area to LWV of Saratoga County and merging with LWV of Southern Saratoga County, PotLuck Supper (Lee Serravillo, LWVNY exec), Position on Financing Public Higher Education, Bio- Sketch of Margie Van Meter, Classifieds, Study Circles: Balancing Justice in NYS.

– October 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas

Topics: We’ve Merged & are LWV Saratoga County, What Do working Women Want?, Meet the Candidates, Bio-Sketch of Libby Smith, Emergency Service committee members needed, PBS Special: Not for Ourselves Alone (ECS & SBA).

– December 1999: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Land Use, Urban Sprawl & NYS Law; Breakfast with Your Legislators; Report on Balancing Justice Study Circles; Fair Campaign Practices Group in formation; Francine Rodger profile, Grace (Jerri) Hardenbrook obituary; Walter Zeh obituary; Schenectady County Diversity Study Circles; Beverly LaBarge is Victim Advocate; Barbara Bartoletti; Emergency Coalition to Save Pre-Kindergarten; Clean Air Policies; Mally Sue Hennig receiving Hospice Care.

– March 2000: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Justice in Saratoga County; Services for Crime Victims; Emergency Services in Saratoga County; Action Alert on access to reproductive services for the poor; Southern Saratoga County LWV officially disbanded; Mary Lou Classen profile; Recycling Styrofoam peanuts; LWV books audited; Reports on Legislative Breakfast; Canadian Correction Commissioner says parole keeps us safe; Urban Sprawl; Smart Growth; Campaign for Fiscal Equity (lawsuit for fair education funding); Consensus questions Re: Emergency Services.

– April 2000: Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: School Board Candidate Forum; Urban Sprawl; Smart Growth; Sustaining Quality Communities; Patricia Salkin; LWVSC Annual Meeting proposed budget, slate, etc.; Mally Sue Hennig obituary; LWVSC wins Liberty Bell Award from Bar Association; Carol Fleming profile; Maureen Moffett attends Students Inside Albany; Tips for influencing government decisions; Position on County Emergency Services (adopted 4-3-20000; Increasing Ballot Access); Take a Friend to Vote; Meeting with /DSS Commissioner to follow up on Action Alert on access to reproductive services for the poor; Ann Crowell; Barbara Stamas is delegate to LWVUS Convention.

– August 2000 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Membership Pot Luck Supper; U.S. Drug Policy; Diane Whitburn profile; Report on LWVUS Convention; National Study adopted on Election System; League Meetings in the Works: Balancing Justice Panel and Film; Meet the Candidates; PCB’s,

To Dredge or Not to Dredge; International Trade Issues, Local groups on Urban Sprawl; Increasing Membership; LWVUS Adopts Study of National Drug Policy; Costs of Drug War; Stewart’s Milk cartons carry our ad to Get Out the Vote.

– October 2000 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet the Candidates for Congress, Senate and Assembly; PCB’s, To Dredge or Not to Dredge; Balancing Justice Panel with Father Peter Young, Peg Tacardon, Terri Derikart; Obituary for Edward Valentine; Audrey Thomas profile; LWVNY Positions in Brief; the War on the War on Drugs panel (Bill Hebert from DEA & Mike Roona from ReconsiDer); Recycling Tonnage and Revenue Increase; www.dnet.org; Holiday Party (and recipes). Also includes inserts: membership list 2000-2001, LWVNY Facts for Voters.

– January 2001 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Program Planning; Member Input; Need for Active Members; Breakfast with Your Legislators; Saratoga Springs City Charter Commission; Saratoga County Water Quality Committee; Urban Sprawl; Susan Burton profile; Environmental Studies Scholarships; Elizabeth (Betty) Thomas obituary; Election Reform; Raffle tickets for 6th Lake.

– March 2001 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Land Use Planning in Saratoga County; Urban Sprawl; NYS Task Force on Quality Communities; Carl Danna acts at NYSTI; Volunteer to help at LWVNY Convention; Jennifer Jahoda writes winning essay and goes to Students Inside Albany; Carl Caruso obituary; Drug Policy Study; Legislative Breakfast; mandatory minimum sentences; Election practices; DNet online voter guide; Saratoga Women’s Conference; LWVNYS supports bill to honor Susan B. Anthony, Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman;Save Universal Pre-Kindergarten; Pesticides in Schools.

– April 2001 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Land Use Planning, Urban Sprawl (single sheet newsletter)

– May 2001 Bulletin Editor: Carl Danna Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: School board Candidate Forums for Queensbury, Lake George and Saratoga Springs; Annual Meeting Campaign Finance Reform; Reforming the Rockefeller Drug Laws; A.C. (Dake) Riley profile; Diversity Day; Solomon Northup Day; DNet; Recycling Electronics; Reform of Election Systems; Criminal, Balancing and Restorative Justice; Trade Policy.

– September 2001 Bulletin Editor: Margot & Cliff Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Open Government; Westchester County Legislature; Public financing of Political Campaigns in NYC, Carol Fleming wins Susan B. Anthony Award; Rockefeller Drug Laws; Family Court Monitoring; Poll reporters needed; Justice from arrest to sentencing. Insert of membership list 2001-02.

– October 2001 Bulletin Editor: Margot & Cliff Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet the Candidates for the Town of Clifton Park and Halfmoon; Meet the Candidates in Saratoga Springs; Holiday Celebration; Report from LWVNY Convention; Equal time for Candidates; Dealing with Media; Getting Publicity; Drug Law Reform; Alternatives to Incarceration; Opening Government; Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region; City Charter referendum; Student Intern; US Trade Policy; Kelly Reidy profile; Fact Sheet on the Saratoga Springs City Charter by Libby Smith Holmes; LWV webpage; LWVNY supports question #1 (a gender neutral State Constitution).

– January 2002 Bulletin Editor: Margot & Cliff Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Soup for Supper; World Trade; Meet the Candidates for the 100th Assembly District; Justice Study; Juvenile Justice; Rockefeller Drug Laws; Proposed LWVUS position on Trade; Consensus Process; Selma Harwood profile; Special election for 100 Assembly District; Statewide Redistricting; Holiday Party; Racial and Economic Profiling; study of profiling; Program Planning.

– February 2002 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Justice in our County; Racial and Economic Profiling in the Justice System; Soup for Supper; Breakfast with Your Legislators; Justice to Sentencing; Issues Affecting

the Judiciary; NGO’s Combatting Urban Sprawl; Urban Sprawl; Legislative Agenda; Vote in Special Election; Russians are Coming; Flyer for Legislative Breakfast.

– April 2002 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Annual Meeting; Scott Ritter on Disarmament in Iraq; Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq; What I Learned as a UN Arms Inspector; NGO’s on Sprawl; NYS Budget Process; Plea for help with LWV work; Public Forum on Racial Profiling; Drug Court; prison system provides employment; complaint driven arrests, police driven arrests; School Elections; League Day at Chautauqua; LWVNYS Convention; Grassroots Lobby Corps; Pay Equity Advocacy in 2002; DNet online voters guide; Students Inside Albany: Neil Rodrigo-Kelly & Samantha Roberts; Helen “Bunny” Roberts obituary; Solomon Northup Day; Legislative Breakfast pictures.

– September 2002 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Election Reform; Library of Congress Open World Leadership Program; Hosting Russian delegation; Bus Trip to NYC; Membership Challenge; Redistricting; New Election Districts; Agenda for Russian Delegation; Black Legislators vote Green: Hazardous Waste Collection Day; Meet the Candidates on the ballot in Saratoga Springs, Wilton,Waterford, Halfmoon and Clifton Park. Insert: Membership List 2002-2003.

– October 2002 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet the Candidate event in Corinth for: 113th Assembly District Cndidates and 44th Senate District Candidates; Uncontested County-wide candidates; Uncontested local candidates; Saratoga Springs Candidate Forum for 110 & 112 A.D. & 43 & 44 S.D., 20th Congressional District; Clifton Park Candidate Forum for 106 & 109 A.D. and 43 S.D. and 20th C.D.; Welcome dinner for Russians; Farewell Potluck Dinner for Russians; Bus trip to NYC with Russians; Women’s Health and Wellness Act passes; Questions to ask candidates; Your Legislative Priorities. Insert: LWVNY Facts For Voters.

– November 2002 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Justice Consensus Meeting on racial, economic and geographic factors influencing sentencing; Thanks to the planning committee for the Russian Delegation; Voters Service Committee volunteers; Capital Punishment facts; Holiday Celebration.

– January 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Program Planning; LWVNY Positions in Brief; Soup Supper; The Russians were here; Profiles of the Russian delegation; our host families; Trip to NYC with Russians; Photos of activities with Russian Delegation; Briefing on the Status of Human Rights for Women Around the World as reported by Renee Moore; Kim Copenhaver profile; Selecting students for Students Inside Albany will be coordinated by Jane Weihe; War on Drugs;

– February 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Flyer: Breakfast with Your Legislators, invited speakers, LWVNY legislative priorities

– April 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Drinking Water in Saratoga County; water resource management; War in Iraq; HAVA (Help America Vote Act); Election Irregularities; Updating LWVUS position on Selection of the President; Water Facts; Big League Raffle; Pay Equity; Comparable Worth; PBS documentary: Race- the Power of an Illusion; Birth Announcement: Alexandria Lillian Reidy; Campaign for Fiscal Equity; Underfunded Schools:Discounted Dreams; Problems of the 2000 Presidential Election; A Citizen’s Guide to Global Economic Policymaking, by LWVUS; Pictures and report on Legislative Breakfast; Meet the Lake George School Board Candidates; Extending Healthcare to More People; Access to Healthcare; Affordable Housing Study.

– May 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Mary Lou Classen & Barbara Thomas Topics: Affordable Housing in Saratoga County; Expanding Health Coverage; Annual Meeting; Dennis Brunelle; Joyce Gould; Solomon Northup Day; Meet the School Board Candidates in Lake George & Saratoga Springs.

– September 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: county government in NYS; Pot Luck Supper; Meet the Candidates City of Saratoga Springs, Meet the Candidates Clifton Park and Halfmoon; Meet the Candidates Ballston Spa, Stillwater, and Saratoga County Supervisors; Definition of a County; governance models for County government; Study of Capital punishment; League Opposes Patriot Act; Study on Election of the President; Ethics in Government; Pre-arrest

profiling; Statement of Position on Racial and Economic Profiling; Instant Runoff Voting; League Day at the UN; Briefings on the Status of Human Rights for Children. Insert: Membership List 2003-04

– November 2003 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: Pay Equity; Comparable Worth; Soup Supper; Holiday Party; changes in LWVNY Executive director; HAVA, Web cam for LWVNY president Marcia Merrins; Blackouts, renewable energy; poll reporters needed; DNet.org; NAACP Freedom Fund Celebration with Shirley Jackson, Phd; UN briefing on the Staus of Human Rights for Children; Affordable Housing Report.

– January 2004 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: the Patriot Act with Glen Suddaby and Melanie Trimble; Selection of the President; Breakfast with your Legislators; Hazardous Waste sites; accessible polling places; election Administration Commission (EAC); Ex-LWV President to serve on EAC; Value of LWV positions; Summit on Quality Education; Campaign for Fiscal Equity; First Vote Registration for HS Seniors; Democratic Primary Debate to be run by LWVUS; Students Inside Albany, Death Penalty Study; LWV Co-Sponsors March for Women’s Lives.

– February 2004 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Flyer: Legislative Breakfast

– March/April 2004 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: The Empty Chair; Murder Victims Families; Restorative Justice; Death Penalty; Hazardous Waste Sites in Saratoga County; poll reporting; pollingplace accessibility; Electronic Voting Machines; Voter Verified Paper Trails; March for Women’s Lives; Students Inside Albany Contest; Pictures from the Legislative Breakfast; Patriot Act Follow-up; Affordable Housing; Diversity Policy Adopted by LWVSC;

– April 2004 Flyer: Hazardous Substance Sites in Saratoga County; Brownfield Law

– May 2004 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon

Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: Making Every Vote Count; Eliminating the Full Face Ballot; Security from Vote Tampering; Voter Verified Paper Trails; Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines (DREs); Annual Meeting, The State of the Arts in Saratoga County; State Farm give $3500 grant to Get Out the Vote (GOTV); Voting Rights of the Incarcerated; Polling Place Accessibility in Clifton Park; Death Penalty; HAVA; First vote; Presidential Primary Poll Reporting in SS.

– Summer 2004 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Co-Presidents: Kim Copenhaver & Barbara Thomas Topics: Marching for Women’s Lives in DC, Take Me to Vote!, Co-President’s Annual Report: Voting Rights, Stalemate on Drug Law Reform, Welcome New Members (10), Your rights while campaigning, Kim’s Report on the LWVUS Convention, Monitoring the new SS City Charter, New rules on Voter Registration and Identification, LWV Media Center Committee, Primary Forum, League Day at the UN, Funding for Help America Vote Act(HAVA), Regional Training Workshops.

– January 2005 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: City Charter Implementation, Should NYS Have a Death Penalty?(David Kaczynski), Legislative Breakfast, The Promise of Community Media (George Stoney), Visit to Pittsfield Mass Media Center, Thanks to Contributors, Welcome New Members (15), Program Planning, Take Me To Vote Results, Report on our Russian Visitors, Campaign to Reform Albany.

– May 2005 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Annual Meeting: Influence of Media on Reporting of the News (Paul Conti), Meet the School Board Candidates, Forming an Observer Corps, New Member Orientation, Nominating Committee Report, Proposed Budget ($14,510), Thanks to Contributors, Media Center Committee Presentations, Wind Power in NY, Services and Gaps in services for children (Joan Ostrow & Deb Tomaso), Committee for the Implementation of the City Charter, lwvny Convention, Improving Community Justice.

– Summer 2005 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Choosing the Best Voting Machines, Letter to Election Commissioners re choosing paper ballots and optical scanners, Optical Scanners and Direct Recording Electronic machines (DREs).

– September 2005 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Membership PotLuck Supper: State of Emergency Communications in Saratoga County (Ed Tremblay). Thanks to Contributors, Support Community Media!, Welcome new Members (8), Charter Implementation Committee.

– November 2005 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Roles and Effectiveness of the SEDC and the IDA, Vote Yes on Proposal #1 re: NYS Budget Process, Community Media, Controversy over LWV Candidate Events in Clifton Park, Financing Education Study, Observer Corps, In their Will.

– January 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Independent Voters (Cathy Stewart), How to Provide an Adequate Education in NYS (Michael Rebbell, Frank Mauro), Study on the Roles & Effectiveness of the IDA & SEDC, Legislative Breakfast, Sunshine Week, Breakfast With Eleanor, Martin Luther King Day, Thanks to our Contributors, Fair Campaign Practices, Advocating for Optical Scan Voting system, Welcome new members (6).

– February 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Financing Our Public Schools, Breakfast with Eleanor (Elena Dodd), Roles & Effectiveness of the IDA & SEDC, Symposium on Open Government, Independent Voters, Observer Corps, Welcome new member (1), Winning Take Me To Vote Students with Helen Crawshaw and Bob Reilly, Martin Luther King Celebration, LeaderSpark.

– March 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Openness in Government Symposium, Financing Our Public Schools, Thanks to Contributors, Welcome new members(2), When Boards Go Wrong (Film), IDA &SEDC report, Consensus Questions for Financing Education, Letter to the Editor, Affordable Housing, LeaderSpark, LWVNY Legislative Agenda.

– April 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas

Topics: Financing Our Public Schools, Voting Machine Try-outs, Sunshine Week, LeaderSpark, thanks to our Contributors, School Board Elections, LWVNY sues NYS over failure to implement HAVA (Help America Vote Act), Instant Runoff Voting, Welcome new Members (3), Testing out Voting Machines, In Memorium: Audrey Thomas.

– May 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Annual Meeting (Jay Gallagher), Roles of IDA & SEDC, proposed LWVSC Budget ($18, 200), Thanks to our Contributors, Welcome New Members (4), Nominating Committee Report, Moderator Training, Solomon Northup Day, Freihofer Run for Women, LWV T-Shirt, Famous Person Fundraiser: Eleanor Roosevelt, LeaderSpark, Thanks for the Food!

– September 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Sundae Social on Thursday (Kay Maxwell, LWVUS), Financing Education: Charter Schools, Compact for the National Popular Vote, 2006-07 Calendar, Polling Place Accessibility, Thanks to our Contributors, Saratoga County BOE buys one AutoMark voting machine, Stamas soliciting food for Suppers, League Opposes Death Penalty, Candidate Events, Report from National Convention, Annual Meeting photos including the new board, resources from convention, Audrey Thomas receives Catt Award posthumously, Observer Corps, Global Warming: what you can do, Regional Workshops. Insert: Membership List

– October 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Voters Service Events, Moving forward with HAVA, Compact for the National Popular Vote (part 2), Election Night Poll Reporting, Take Me to Vote!, Thanks to our Contributors, News from LWVNY.

– November 2006 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Consensus on IDA & SEDC, Observer Corps, Photos and report on Sundae Social on Thursday, LWV at Farmer’s Market, League Day at the UN, Take Me to Vote, National Popular Vote: Part 3.

– January 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon

President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Martin Luther King Celebration, Breakfast with Your Legislators, LWVNY Program Planning, LeaderSpark, Trafficking In Humans- UN Day, Assembly Members visit Take Me to Vote Winners, Thanks to Our Contributors, Promo for Elegant Evening with Jackie Onassis re-enactor (never held), Welcome new members (6), In Memorium: Mari Gnade (GF LWV),

– February 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Promo for Elegant Evening with Jackie Onassis re-enactor (never held), Timeline for the 3-year Immigration Study, Electing the President by National Popular Vote – Part 4, Walk & Talk with the LWV, Charter School Position, Position on roles and Responsibilities of the IDA & SEDC, Legislative Breakfast, LeaderSpark.

– March 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Sunshine Week – Your Right to Know & Opening Government to Citizen Participation, Global Warming, Thanks to those who fed us, Voting Machine Demonstration, Voting Machine Update, Electing the President by National Popular Vote – Part 5, Promo for Elegant Evening with Jackie Onassis re-enactor (never held), Hidden Crime of Human Trafficking (Nola Theiss), Birth Announcement: Henry & Erin Kelleher, First Vote Project, Observer Corps Report, Walk & talk with the LWV, Welcome new members (5).

– March 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Universal Health Care-Single Payer, Report on Sunshine Week, LWVUS position on Heathcare, LeaderSpark, Paying Childcare Providers, LWVNYS Convention, Welcome new members(2), Saratoga Environmental Expo, Electing the President by National Popular Vote – Part 6, Child Support in NYS, Annual Meeting: Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand on Immigration, Open House at new LWVNY office on Grand Street, Supporting Global Cooling, thanks ot our Contributors, Proposed By- Law Changes, Single Payer Healthcare (Rebecca Elgie & Bernie Fetterly).

– September 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Sundae Social on Thursday (Martha Kennedy, LWVNY President), Candidate Events, Immigration Study, Report on Annual Meeting (Rey Koslowski spoke on Immigration), Margot Ammon wins Catt Award, Picture of 2007-08 Board, LWVSC

Calendar, Gloria Steinem speaking on Comparable Worth, LWVSC to host Regional Workshop, Take Me to Vote, Walk & talk with the LWV resumes, Thanks to our Contributors, welcome new members (2), Facts about Immigration, Membership List Insert.

– October 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Immigration Meeting, Candidate Events, Report on the Ice Cream Social, League Day at the UN, Regional Workshops.

– November 2007 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Immigration Consensus Meeting, LWV Holiday Party, Welcome new members(3), thanks to our contributors, League Day at the UN, Regional Workshops, Innocence Project,Compact for the National Popular Vote in April, Revised LWVSC Calendar.

– March 2008 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Sunshine Week: FOILed Again (Robert Freeman) & Opening Government (George Lattimer), Voters Service Report for 2007, Welcome new members (2), thanks to our Contributors, Gloria Steinem Day for Fair Pay, County Government, Is Nuclear Energy Green Energy?, County Chooses Sequoia Voting Machines, LWVUS voting Record Tool, Integrated Domestic Violence Court. Insert: Membership Roster.

– April/May 2008 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Uncounted (film) how votes are counted in the US, Annual Meeting: Your Environment/Your Health (Ward Stone), proposed LWVSC budget ($22,040), Nominating Slate, LWVUS Immigration Position, LeaderSpark, Reform NY Lobby Day, Single Payer Healthcare Lobby Day, Sunshine Week report, Gloria Steinem Day for Fair Pay, Walk & Talk with the LWV, Welcome new members (2), Rededicating the LWVNY building on Grand Street, Pictures of Breakfast with our Legislators, County Study.

– September 2008 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas

Topics: Constitution Day (Dr. Norman Enhorning & Chris Pearson) at ACC, Sundae Social on Friday, Candidate Forums, LWVSC Calendar 2008-09, Thanks to ADK Trust for underwriting our Voters Guides for 40 years, Thanks to our Contributors, Report on County Governance, Observer Corps, Emergency Services in SC, Mary Lou Classen received the Carrie Chapman Catt Award, Barbara Thomas received the Sustainer’s Plaque,Picture of 2008-09 Board.

– October 2008 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Single Payer Healthcare (George Jolly, Pat Reed, Courtney Burke), Walk & Talk with the League, Spotlight on Recycling and County Landfill, Questioning the Electoral College on Constitution Day, Vote using the Ballot Marking Device (BMD), County Committees, Candidate Forums.

– November 2008 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Compact for the National Popular Vote, Holiday Party, Spotlight on Mental Health in Saratoga County, County Committees, Welcome new members (6), League Day at the UN, Sundae Social Report, Universal Healthcare.

– February 2009 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Meet Susan B. Anthony (Barbara Blaisdell; Bob Warren & his Band), Legislative Breakfast, International Women’s Day (The Motherhood Manifesto), Spotlight on County Social Services, Take Me to Vote, Welcome new member (1), Thanks to our Contributors, Pictures from Martin Luther King Day 2009.

– April 2009 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Saratoga County Government, Annual Meeting (the 4 E’s of a Sustainable Local Community with Melissa Everett), Curbing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Spotlight on County Dept of Planning, Report on Legislative Breakfast (pictures), Welcome new members(3), International Women’s Day, Lobby for Pay Equity, Universal Healthcare (Jolly, Reed, Moran).

– May/June/summer 2009 MISSING

– October 2009 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon

President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Marriage Equality (Ross Levi), Ballot Proposals, Fair Campaign Practices Committee, Actions to Combat Global Climate Change, Healthcare Issues, Spotlight on the County Budget Process, Welcome new member (1), 211 Info & Referral Service, LWVSC adopts Privacy Policy, State Study on Consolidation and Shared Services, Candidate Forums, Pictures from the League membership social, Optical Scanners Work.

– January 2010 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Lincoln, Liberty & Liberation (Phil Jessen as Lincoln), LWV Program Planning, LWV Winter Party at home of Chris Alexander & Peter Martin), Welcome new members (5), Campaign finance reform, Pilot of ImageCast Voting System in 6 towns and 14 districts in Saratoga County (Fruci & Wade), Reading by Teri Gay from Strength Without Compromise, Updated LWV Calendar, Thanks to our Contributors, Picture from October Marriage Equality Meeting, Environmental Sustainability.

– February 2010 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Celebrating the LWVUS 90th Birthday with LWVNY President Betsey Swan & Abraham Lincoln, Redistricting Reform Ideas, Definitions for State Study on Consolidation and Shared Services.

– March 2010 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Consensus on State Study on Consolidation and Shared Services, Thanks to all our donors to Lincoln, Liberty & Liberation, More Definitions for State Study on Consolidation and Shared Services, Healthcare Reform Proposals Compared, Welcome New Members (4), Redistricting, Pictures from Lincoln, Liberty & Liberation.

– April/May/June 2010 MISSING

– September 2010 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Electronic Communication – New Choices (Alexander & DellaRocco), Pros & Cons of proposed new City Charter (Kane & Weihe), Circus Themed Party for new & prospective members, In Memorium: Marie Morrison, welcome new members (2), Voter’s Service Events, Picture from Farmer’s Market Voter Registration, Annual Meeting & new board pictures, LWV Calendar for 2010-11, Pat Nugent’s Report from LWVUS Convention, Medicare for All.

– November 2010 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Celebrate Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Birthday & 90 years of Women’s Suffrage and the LWV, What’s the Fracking Fuss? (Katherine Nadeau),Candidate Event successes, Thanks to our Contributors, Welcome new members (3), Redistricting, End of Life Issues.

– Jan/Feb 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Martin Luther King Day of Doing, Program Planning, Meet Theodore Roosevelt (Paul Stillman), Thanks to our Contributors, Pictures from 90th birthday of Women’s Suffrage, Take Me To Vote (Angelina Boyd), Legislative Breakfast, HydroFracking.

– March 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Breakfast with Your Legislators, Sunshine Week: How transparent is our Government? (Robert Freeman), Pictures from the Teddy Roosevelt Event, Lobbying for Gun Control, Keeping Civil Discourse Civil, Report from Review of LWV financial Records (Nancy Bellamy).

– April 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Keeping Civil Discourse Civil, Volunteer Opportunities in the League, Earth Day: A Billion Acts of Green & EDF, Barbara Thomas receives Jefferson award Medalist Designation for volunteerism, Martin Luther King Day Update, LeaderSpark 2011: pictures and Report, Made in Dagenham: A Case for Pay Equity, LWVNY Convention.

– May/June 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Barbara Thomas Topics: Guns ‘N Roses (Robyn Ringler), Annual Meeting: Who Speaks for Me? Free Speech, the Constitution and Corporations (Ron Seyb), President’s Farewell Message, LWV Saratoga receives $4,000 grant from State Farm, LeaderSpark, School Board Meetings (Terry Lowenthal), LWVUS study of the role of the Federal Government in Public Education, By-Laws committee Report, Proposed Budget ($26,480), Nominating Slate, Launch of LWV Book Club (studying Impact on Issues).

– September 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: What is the role of the Federal Government in Public Education?, SS City Council Candidate Event, Message from the New President (Pat Nugent), Welcome new members (3), Gift of Empowerment (League Membership), League Victory: Marriage Equality in NYS, Annual Meeting Pictures and new board, In Memorium: Barbara Batten, League Lobbies for Equitable Representation at the County Level, LWV Saratoga Gets State Award for Voters Service, thanks to our Contributors, VOTE411 launched, thanks to our contributors.

– October 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: What is the role of the Federal Government in Public Education?, Member Recruitment Drive, Common Core Standards, LWV Book Club, Corporate Financing of Elections, Reverse 911, OnLine Voters Guide: VOTE411.

– November 2011 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Organizing Against Hydrofracking, Holiday Party, Role of the Federal Government in Public Education, Study of Privatization of Governmental Services, VOTE411, Candidate Forums, The Future of Healthcare, LeaderSpark, Lori Dawson speaks for LWV at Peace Fair, Book Club, Take Me To Vote, Pcture from SS Council Candidate Forum.

– January 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Efforts to Restrict Voting Rights (Tim O’Brien, LWVUS), Martin Luther King Day: Dignity for All, Observer Corps, LWVNY Lobby Day, Legislative Agenda, OnLine Guide successes, Voters Service Report for 2011, Take Me to Vote winner is Dorothy Nolan school, Pictures from Holiday Party, LWV co-sponsors Gasland with Film Forum, Book Club.

– February 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Privatization of Government Services, Famous Person Fundraiser: Mother Jones, Pictures from Martin Luther King Day, Pat Nugent’s MLK Day address, Report on meeting on Voter Suppression, Notice re: Barbara K. Thomas Award, Book Club, In

Memorium: Robert W. Thomas, Observer Corps (Margie Van Meter), Thanks to our Contributors, Welcome new members (6).

– March 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Privatization of Government Services Consensus, Famous Person Fundraiser: Mother Jones, Welcome new members (5), Kudos to Pat Reed, In memorium: Mary Marsicano, Redistricting Quandry (Barbara Murphy), LeaderSpark grad Jacob Devasagayam attends Students Inside Albany, Observer Corps Report, Book Club, Thanks to Contributors.

– April 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Increasing Voter Participation, Annual Meeting (Tracey Brooks): politics on Women’s Healthcare, Welcome new member (1), Observer Corps Report, Pictures and Report on Mother Jones Famous Person Fundraiser, Local Suffrage video by students, Progress on redistricting, Book Club, In Memorium: Willis White, Supervising Housing Authority election, Interagency Day, Thanks to our contributors, School Board Candidate Events, Impediments to Voting.

– May/June 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: School Board Candidate events, Annual Meeting (Tracey Brooks): politics on Women’s Healthcare, Observer Corps, Park cars at the Saratogian, proposed budget ($24,512), Nominating Committee slate, Vote411 Guide for School Board Elections, Voter Services, Housing Authority drawing for apartments, Three primaries this year!, LWVSposition on the Federal Role in Public Education, Map of new Senate Districts in Saratoga Springs, Listing of other new districts in Saratoga County, Barbara K. Thomas Scholarship Awardee selected, Big League Raffle, Book Club, LWVUS Convention, thanks to Stewart’s Shops.

– September 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Primary Candidate Event (Marchione/ McDonald/Gilbert), Voter registration at Farmer’s Markets, SS City Charter Forum, Vote411, Secret Money in Elections (Barbara Murphy), Citizenship Ceremony (Crawshaw), LWVUS Convention report (Golub/Neenan), Picture of 2012-13 Board of Directors, Barbara K. Thomas Scholarship Awardee is Kristi Krulcik, Update on Emergency Services Position, Book Club, Thanks

to our Contributors, Marriage Equality: Lori Dawson & Mike LaBelle wed, Student Inside Albany.

– October 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Forum on SS City Charter rescheduled, Effect of Technology and Campaign Finance on the 2012 election, Candidate Events, Comparison chart for SS Charter proposal, Voter Registration pictures and report, Observer Corps Report on Maplewood Manner Privatization, Thanks to our Contributors, Book Club.

– November 2012 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Member Appreciation Breakfast, Effect of Technology and Campaign Finance on the 2012 election (Robert DeSieno, Barbara Murphy, Kathy Koebrich, Vote411, Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, Updated position on IDA &SEDC, Ssupreme Court Judicial Event, Concurrence on Great Lakes position, Take Me To Vote, Book Club, Observer Corps, Candidate Forum pictures, LeaderSpark paused.

– January/ February 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: Updating two position: IDA & SEDC and Emergency Services, Martin Luther King Day of Service and Celebration, Program Planning, Breakfast with Your Legislators, Voter Fraud?, Thanks to our Contributors, Gun Violence, Maplewood Manor Privatization, Book Club, Campaign Finance Reform, Take Me To Vote Winners, Famous Person Fundraiser: John & Abigail Adams in The Marriage of Two Minds.

– March 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent Topics: LWV Saratoga get $5890 Grant from Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust, Famous Person Fundraiser: John & Abigail Adams in The Marriage of Two Minds. Women’s Equality Agenda, Agricultural Forum, Keeping Our Children Safe from Gun Violence in Schools, Be a Videographer, LWV Volunteer opportunities, Thanks to our Contributors, Welcome New members (3), Assemblymen visit winning Take Me To Vote Classes (Tedisco & Jordan), Book Club.

April/May 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Patricia Nugent

Topics: Down on the Farm (Issues facing family farms), Stormy Weather (Climate Change), Bus Trip to Seneca Falls, Annual Meeting: Salute to Activism (SPYA, Saratoga’s Performing Youth Artists), LWVNY Convention, Videographer Training, Barbara K. Thomas Award goes to Julia Krupski, Students Inside Albany, Women’s Equality at Book Club, Nominating Committee Slate, Proposed Budget ($20, 949), Report & picture from Famous Person Fundraiser: John & Abigail Adams in The Marriage of Two Minds, In Memorium: Florence Harshe & Joyce Savage & Dan Balmuth, A Seat at the Table (celebration of Women who have held Public Office in SS – Barb Thomas gets Citizen Laureate Award), School Board Candidate Events.

– Summer 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Naturalization Ceremony, Sundae Social on Sunday, LWVNY Convention, Study of Ballot Access Issues shepherded thru by Lori Dawson, Study of Term Limits and Update of constitutional Convention Position, Voters Service Update (Ann Kril), Picture of 2012-14 Board, Salute to Activism (SPYA, Saratoga’s Performing Youth Artists), Carrie Chapman Catt Award goes to Pattie Garrett, Concurrence on Human Trafficking Adopted, Agriculture Study, Book Club, Thanks to our Contributors, Welcome New members (3), Pictures from trip to Seneca Falls, LWVSC records archived at UAlbany.

– September/ October 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Sundae Social on Sunday, Using Social Media for Social Change (Patterson, Wilkins), Voter Registration, Candidate Events, Videos of Down on the Farm, Fair campaign Practices for the Capital Region, Vote on the BMD, Book Club.

– Nov/Dec 2013 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: State of American Democracy (Robert Turner), Holiday Party, Recap of Sundae Social on Sunday with pictures, Youth Programs, Joe Peck at Book Club/Farming discussion, Candidate Events, Voter Registration at PeaceFair & Farmer’s Markets, Farm Bill/Agriculture Study, UN Day picture, Book Club, Vote411, The Stone that Started the Ripple at Filene, Welcome new members (2).

– Jan/ Feb 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris

Topics: The Stone that Started the Ripple at Filene, Martin Luther King Day: Who was he? How is his message relevant today?, Money in Elections, Clifton Park Coffee Hour, Agriculture Study Consensus, Welcome new members (2), Fall Candidate Forums Report, Book Club, Legislative Agenda & Lobby Day, Holiday Party pictures.

– March 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Famous Person Fundraiser: Sojourner’s Truth (D. Colin as Sojourner Truth), Agriculture Consensus Part 2, Book Club, LWV Saratoga members at Lobby Day, LWVNY Studies, Call for nominations, In Memorium: Robert J. Pasciullo, Ag Study questions, Report on The Stone that Started the Ripple, Voters Service & Housing Authority Election, Thanks to our Contributors. Also: Invitation to Sojourner’s Truth.

– April 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Ballot Access Study Committee, Term Limits Study, LWVNY Regional Workshops, Thanks to our Contributors, Lobby for Equal Pay, LWVNY Roundtables, Pictures from Sojourner’s Truth, New Membership Brochure, Book Club, Students Inside Albany, Single Payer Lobby Day.

– May/June 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Gardening in a Changing Climate (Marcia Allen & Kathy Koebrich), Annual Meeting, School Board Candidate Events & Vote411, Book Club, Welcome new Members (3), Interagency Awareness Day, Proposed Budget ($21,899), Nominating Slate, Energy/Frackin news, Bus Trip to Val Kill, Presidential Library Beekman Arms, Equal Pay Day Proclamation & pictures, Compact for the National Popular Vote passed in NYS.

– September 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Ice Cream Social, Picture of 2014-15 board, LWVSC Annual Meeting: Report & pictures: Money, Politics and the Constitution – Time for a Change (Anthony Cresswell), Carrie Chapman Catt Award presented to Ann Kril by Pattie Garrett, Welcome new member (1), Pictures from trip to Hyde Park, Calendar for 2014-2015, In Memorium: Anne Magnuson, LWVUS Convention Report and picture, Take Me To Vote, Voter Registration Opportunities, 20th Congressional Disrict Candidate Event (Fischer/Tonko), Redistricting Amendment on ballot, Primary Voter Guide on our website.

– October 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Candidate Forums, Redistricting Amendment pros & cons, Vote411 online Guide, Voter Registration, Book Club, Ice Cream Social Pictures & report, thanks to our Contributors, Welcome new Member (1), Definitions for Ballot Access Study, Term Limit Study Info. Flyer: Redistricting Amendment Forum.

– November / December 2014 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Two Consensus Meetings: Ballot Access & Term Limits, Holiday Party, CDTA bus with our shrink-wrap message about Vote411, Report from the Redistricting Amendment Forum, Voter Services, Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, Welcome New Member (1), Thanks to our Contributors, Take Me to Vote Packet Party, Pictures from Redistricting Forum, Letter to the Editor re: letting a single candidate answer questions, Famous Person Fundraiser: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Richard Stamms) coming in March. Also: Voters Guide 2014, Program for Sojourner’ Truth, Program for the Stone that Started the Ripple, Take Me To Vote Handout for students.

– January/February 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes (film), The Unfinished Business of Martin Luther King, Jr – five days of activities, In Memorium: Michael Kril, thanks to our Contributors, League Day at the UN, Take Me To Vote (Asher & Nick Thomas), Holiday Party pictures, Program Planning, Book Club, Famous Person Fundraiser: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (5 Women – 5 Influences).

– March 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Famous Person Fundraiser: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (5 Women – 5 Influences), Adirondack Climate Reality, Oceans & Climate Disruption, LWVNY Convention in June, The NYS Grand Jury, In Memorium: Anne Palamountain, Dine for the League, LWVUS supports a Living Wage, Take Me To Vote visit from Assembly member Carrie Woerner, LWVSC Youth Programs, Pictures fro MLK Celebration, Book Club.

– April/May 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon President: Donna Dardaris Topics: Famous Person Fundraiser: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (5 Women – 5 Influences), Oceans & Climate Disruption, Annual Meeting: Leadership in our Communities, In Our Organizations (Pete Bardunias), LWVNY Lobby Day, Nominating Slate: League moves to Steering Committee model, Proposed budget ($21,745), Proposed Bylaws, Women’s Equality Agenda, Thanks to Our Contributors, Book Club, Dine for the LWV.

– Summer 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Steering Committee: Mary Lou Classen, Nancy Martinez, Donna Dardaris, Darnell Rohrbaugh Topics: Steering Committee and New LWVSC Board, Famous Person Fundraiser: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (5 Women – 5 Influences), Adirondack Climate Reality, Oceans & Climate Disruption, Students Inside Albany (Isaac Smith, Kelly Zelaya), Local Study of Local Governments, Naturalization Ceremony, In Memorium: Denny Finneran, Welcome New Members (8), Organ & Tissue Donations, Thanks to our Contributors, The Stone that started the Ripple on Women’s Equality Day, Single-Payer Healthcare, voter Services, Peace Fair, Position on NYS Constitutional Convention Updated, LWVNY Convention Report.

– October 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Steering Committee: Mary Lou Classen, Nancy Martinez, Donna Dardaris, Darnell Rohrbaugh Topics: Candidate Events, U.S. Constitutional Amendment Study, Leagues Quit Fair Campaign Practices Committee, Deadlines for Presidential Primary Party Registration, Book Club, Vote411, Welcome New Members (4), Thanks to our Contributors, In Memorium: Frank Rhyner, Ice Cream Social Report & pictures.

– Nov/Dec 2015 Bulletin Editors: Barb Thomas & Cliff Ammon Art Director: Margot Ammon Steering Committee: Mary Lou Classen, Nancy Martinez, Donna Dardaris, Darnell Rohrbaugh Topics: Raise the Age for Prosecuting Teens as Adults? (Paige Pierce, Karin Carreau), Money in Politics, Holiday Party, Proposed Juvenile Justice Position, Eight parts of the Women’s Equality Agenda Signed into Law, Paid Family Leave Insurance (PFLI), Book Club, Welcome New Members (3), Consensus on Evaluating a US Constitutional Amendment or Convention, Voters Services pictures & Report, Help Wanted. Also: Program from The Stone that Started the Ripple on 3-26-2015

. Annual Meeting Booklets 2011-2015 [Prior Annual Meeting Booklets are in Box 1 of this collection.]

– 6-5-2011, Speaker: Professor Ronald Seyb, “Who Speaks for Me? Free Speech, the Constitution and the Corporations” – 6-2-2012, Speaker: M. Tracey Brooks, “political Influences on Women’s Healthcare” – 6-8-2013, Saratoga Performing Youth Artists (SPYA), “Salute to Activism” – 6-22-2014, Speaker: Dr. Anthony Cresswell, “Money, Politics, and the Constitution: TIME FOR A CHANGE”. – 5-30-2015, Speaker: Pete Bardunias, “Leadership In Our Communities, In Our Organizations”

. BARBARA K THOMAS, hardcover book presented in 2011, on the occasion of her retirement after 21 years as President or Co-President of the League of Women voters of Saratoga County.

. CD-ROMs with pictures of events from 2006 -2016

[List updated 2/28/2017]