Article: TRACK SEASON BOOSTS SOME SURPRISING FIGURES.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CHRISTOPHER RINGWALD Staff writer -

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- No one comes to the track to die, but, this being life, each summer some fans and workers do. Indeed, local funeral directors report a small annual uptick in business attributed to the city's summertime crowds.

``Anytime you get an extra 35-40,000 people in an area, deaths will increase,'' said Michael S. Baldwin, an undertaker at his family-owned Bussing & Cunniff Funeral Home. He reported handling several visitors' deaths most summers. William J. Burke & Sons receives an extra six to eight deaths each summer, said one of the home's three funeral directors, R. Thomas Armer.

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