Lilac walk is in full bloom
(Courtesy Saratoga Chamber of Commerce, 2022)
The walking tour map of lilacs in and around Schuylerville.
May is Lilac month, and the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce produced a lilac walking tour of the trees, bushes and shrubs in Schuylerville. The village and surrounding areas, including the Saratoga National Historical Park and the Hudson Crossing Park, have about 80 varieties to spy in various locations.
[For a printable version, click here.]
“I love seeing our name in lights, so to speak,” Village Clerk Helene Patterson told the village board on May 11 as she presented the flier. “It’s a lovely map. It was nice of the chamber to drop them off.”
“It highlights our village a little bit,” she said later.
Maps can be found around town on
Broad Street:
- Byrons market
- Revibe
- Saratoga gluten free
- Village Tart
Spring Street:
- Village offices
Salaries and similar expenses
Schuylerville’s Board of Trustees meeting on May 11 was also the village’s annual meeting, where they established salaries for the coming year:
- Building, janitorial: $500 annually.
- Historian: $4,427.74 annually.
- Building inspector: $11,000 annually.
- Crossing guard/traffic control: $18 per hour, although the village is paying half and the school system is paying half at this time.
- Visiting Center employees: $13.20 per hour.
- Registrar of vital statistics: $200 annually.
- Planning Board Secretary: Up to $1,000 annually.
- Village Treasurer: $51,759.58
- Village Clerk: $47,630.50
- Village Attorney: $11,000 annually
- Trustees: $12,000 annually
- Mayor: $6,500 annually.
- Wastewater treatment plant operator: $64,786.32
Juneteenth is a work holiday in the Village of Schuylerville
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Jubilee Day, is celebrated on June 19, in reference to the day in 1865 that the last of the African American slaves, still working in Texas, heard about their emancipation. It became a federal holiday in 2021.
It is now also a work holiday — staff gets the day off — in the Village of Schuylerville after a unanimous vote by trustees Whitney Colvin, Timothy Le Baron, Bryan Drew and Mayor Dan Carpenter on May 11. Trustee Dan Baker was not present.