From The Saratogian (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.)::

Articles on downtown revitalization in the village of Schuylerville:

• Businessman plans school revamp and commentary: School, village still have hope
• Local brings new life to old building
• Schuylerville residents spruce up village
• Byron's Market keeps loyal following
• Parade of pride

Articles on planning in the city of Saratoga Springs:

• Tour gives planner's-eye view of Saratoga Springs
• Developing Excelsior Park and Plans sell anti-sprawl, about a proposed new urbanist development (now under construction)
• Brause plans addition to Congress Park Centre, about infill development on land cleared by urban renewal

In other planning news: Wilton Zoning Board says Curves for Women is a "club/lodge": ZBA approves health club

Articles on Saratoga Springs:

• The changing face of Congress Park and The 'people's park' through the years
• City Dems, GOP call it a draw and Blame it on Skidmore: The impact of college students on local elections
• Growing old in Saratoga Springs
• Looking for a seat in City Hall: Only 35 can sit for City Council meetings

Regional profiles:

• All-American Route 4
• I-87 brings town of Malta together
• Corinth: The town International Paper will leave behind

Series on the impact of New York State's budget on local schools:

• Part I: Aid halt scares school officials
• Part II: 'They changed the rules'
• Part III: School budget proposal due today

From the series West Side Rising, awarded second place for In-Depth Reporting by the New York State Associated Press Association, September 2002:

• 'I was very optimistic about the West Side'
• West Side property is getting hot, hot, hot

Music reviews:

• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Dave Matthews Band

From The Community News (Clifton Park, N.Y.):

Solar town hall future cloudy, awarded second place for best environmental coverage by Suburban Newspapers of America

Articles on the 1897 Mechanicville Hydroelectric Plant designed by General Electric engineer Charles Steinmetz:

• Companies battle over historic power plant
• Water powers village of Green Island

Series on public transportation in suburbia:

• Mobile society stalls those without wheels
• Jobless, families in crisis further stalled by lack of public transportation
• Transportation a problem for area disabled
• Bus riders hit dead end in Clifton Park

Series on the history of Clifton Park's seven hamlets:

• Clifton Park Center
• Clifton Park Village
• Grooms Corners
• Elnora
• Jonesville
• Rexford
• Vischer Ferry

From National Geographic News:

• Discoveries breathe new life into human origins debate
• National Geographic Society honors Arctic explorer
• A turbulent era captured in black and white
• Extreme Africa: A trek through the Heart of Darkness
• Megatransect: 1,200 miles through the African forest
• Do animals have an innate sense of music?
• Downtown ballparks offer taste of the past
• Towns fight U.S. plan to clean up Hudson River
• Out of adversity comes a hardy, 'cheeky' bird
• An equine revolution: Taming the wild horse
• Tomb of 'giants' unearth in Peru
• UN scientists warn of catastrophic climate changes