Byline: Christopher Ringwald Staff writer
Homeless and carless, Mary Westcott and her newborn baby live in a motel room on Route 9 miles from the grocery, hospital and other services.
"They always stick the welfare people here," said Westcott, sitting on a bed at the Northward Motel. She, along with 10 other families and several individuals receiving emergency housing from Saratoga County, lives in a wing of the motel isolated behind a stockade fence.
Westcott has a single-burner hot plate and a small refrigerator. The local convenience store, Westcott said, won't take food stamps and larger stores in Saratoga Springs are either a 35-minute walk along the shoulder of Route 9 or a $5 taxi ride away. …
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