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Saratoga Springs High School celebrated its junior-senior prom Saturday at the City Center.

I was planning to post an extensive list of Memorial Day events on Monday, but it looks one of the biggest area parades won’t make the calendar this year.

Organizers of the annual Saratoga Springs Memorial Day parade are cancelling this year’s event due to a lack of funding and lack of interest, according to a story reported by the Daily Gazette.

This year will mark the first time the parade honoring our nation’s military won’t march down Broadway in more than 25 years. It has become quite a tradition for my family, and many others, so this is definitely disappointing news.

Usually held on the Wednesday evening before Memorial Day, the parade  was sponsored by the local posts of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Italian American War Veterans. The organizers plan to hold a ceremony at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 30 in Congress Park.

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Join us at noon Thursday, May 24, for a live web chat with veterans services director Andrew Davis and veterans' affairs counselor Paul Stote. You can ask your questions of Andrew and Paul regarding health, psychological, job training and education challenges facing returning soldiers. You’ll also hear the advice of vets trying to re-assimilate.

MALTA — The KIDS Reaching Out Club (KIDS R.O.C.) will hold its second annual family fun run this morning on the Zim Smith Trail at the Shenentaha Creek Park.

More than 225 people registered to take part locally in Friday’s National Bike to Work Day. Businesses and organizations throughout Saratoga County formed more than 30 teams to partake in the challenge. Saratoga Springs-based Bikeatoga hosted a “Saratoga Bike to Work Challenge” and held a healthy breakfast, at right, at The Arts Center on Broadway.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The State University of New York Empire State College on Friday announced a new acting provost and the establishment of the New York Institute for Open Education, the first of its kind in the state.

Church burglar gets jail sentence BALLSTON SPA — A man who burglarized the St. Mary’s Church and stole religious artifacts in November was sentenced to prison time Friday.

COLONIE — Police have arrested a 27-year-old Tae Kwon Do instructor on possession of child pornography Thursday.