A feel-good story in the Adirondacks
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1995:
CORINTH, N.Y.––Adopting out 1,500 to
1,700 animals a year, or roughly one for every 10 year-
round residents of Saratoga County, Adirondack Save-
A-Stray is easily the best-known enterprise in Corinth,
New York, population 2,700. Founder Meredith Fiel,
perhaps the best-known person in town, makes sure of
that, spending $500 a month to advertise in every paper
from Schenectady to Ticondaroga, and Rutland,
Vermont, to Lake Luzerne.
“If you don’t get out word about what you
have,” she states, “people aren’t going to know.”
Since 1991, Fiel has also contributed a popular
biweekly pet care column to the Glens Falls P o s t –
S t a r––and just this year she commenced a weekly half-
hour interview program, “Hot Topics,” on the Corinth
country music radio station, WZZM 93.5. “It doesn’t
have anything to do with animals,” she insists. “The
focus is local current affairs.” But Adirondack Save-A-
Stray gets frequent mentions.