For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Artist Carolyn Abrams, left, and Carol Hotaling, "The Yellow Ribbon Lady" of Ballston Spa, take one of the painted "Yellow Ribbon" chairs out of Abrams car to be dropped off at the Ballston Spa Department of Public works to have a brass plaque attached to it. The "Yellow Ribbon" chair to honor U.S. Troops, and is one of 100 Adirondack style rocking chairs individually decorated being dropped off Friday afternoon and Saturday at the village DPW garage. They will be photographed for a catalog, then put on the street. The Yellow Ribbon chair will go into the veteran's park on Low Street.
