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Hurricane UMP set for hearing

By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com

RAY BROOK Ñ The fate of a pair of fire towers in the Adirondack Park will be the topic of public comment at the Adirondack Park Agency Offices March 12.

The APA announced that the proposed final drafts of the Hurricane Mountain and St. Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area Unit Management Plans (UMP) would be the topic of a public hearing Wednesday, March 12, at 6 p.m. with attendees being able to review the document starting at 5 p.m.

The UMPs for both fire towers were presented to the APA Board Feb. 14 after work done by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

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County seeks psychiatrist

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By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com

SPORTS

Snowmobile riders drive through the trails on their way to the Westport Fish and Game Club open house which was held Feb. 22.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

Annual benefit Fish Fry set for this Sunday in Lewis

By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com

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LEWIS — The annual fish fry benefit to support the Elizabethtown and Lewis Fire Departments will be held on Sunday, March 2, at the Wooden Nickel Pub in Lewis.

“We do this every year and serve a whole lot of food,” said Jim Olsen, the event’s organizer and owner of the Wooden Nickel.

Olsen anticipates the raffle, an annual mainstay that sees firefighters and volunteers fanning out around town selling tickets, will generate $4,000. It will be split between

the two departments and used to help fund items not included in the annual department budgets like regular jackets, kitchen equipment and other materials essential to the departments’ operation.

Fifteen-hundred dollars in cash will be awarded to raffle participants. One lucky winner will walk away $500 richer, a second with $250, four each with $100 and $50 and six with $25.

Also on deck is an auction and sale of handmade items from area merchants, including quilts and furniture.

“I go around to local businesses and col-

lect things,” said Olsen.

This marks the event’s 26th year.

“In the early years, we used to have people go out and get smelt. Then a bunch of us guys would get together, drink some beers and prepare the dinner,” said Olsen.

Now, pollack is served — 160 pounds of it.

“We also have a whole lot of fried dishes and a buffet for people who don’t like fish — you don’t even have touch one,” said Olsen.

“It’s a really good thing and the community really looks forward to it. Everyone is involved — people come out and they really enjoy taking part.”

ELIZABETHTOWN — Essex County has been without a full-time medical director and staff psychiatrist since the mental health department’s medical director, Dr. Kausar Chaudhry, resigned last December.

Chaudhry was a staff psychiatrist who served as the department’s medical director.

Patients are still receiving care, said Mental Health Services Director Stephen Valley, and residents are not being discharged.

“When a patient comes, they have a primary counselor who works with them,” explained Valley.

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Owens plays role in Farm Bill passage to aid local farmers

By Seth Lang

seth@denpubs.com TICONDEROGA — Things could get a little easier for New York State farmers after President Obama signed the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act into law Friday, Feb. 7th.

It’s been two years since the expiration of the last farm bill, far too long, according to Rep. Bill Owens.

“Passage of the Farm Bill provides farmers the long-overdue certainty they deserve and contributes significantly to deficit reduction,” said Owens. “I am confident this bipartisan agreement will help New York agriculture thrive.”

About 15 percent of the money in the legislation will go to farmers to help them grow the food you eat. The majority of the rest of the money in the almost $100 billion-a-year law will go to food stamps that help people buy groceries.

Essex County Farm Bureau President Erik Leerkes said the new farm bill would affect his family operated farm in Ticonderoga with more than 180 dairy cows.

“Overall, the bill is a good compromise. It’s not as beneficial as the proposed program, but better than what we had. At this point but we’re happy to get anything,”said Leerkes.

“Farmers aren’t looking for a hand out, they work hard every day, more than 70 hours per week,” he said. “It’s important for us as a country to support its own agriculture.”

Three provisions added by Owens that were designed to have local impactrelate to apple exports, farm credit and maple promotion.

The Owens provision aimed at apple exports is designed to streamline U.S. apple exports to Canada by exempting bulk shipments of apples from inspection under the Apple Export Act. According to the New York Apple Association, the elimination of the required inspection will immediately offer a savings to growers of approximately $300 per truck load. Additionally, removing this regulation will allow apple growers to distribute their products on their own schedule without working around costly afterhours inspections procedures, providing them the opportunity to save money and streamline operations.

The second Owens provision will expand the range of business structures that qualify for loans and loan guarantees through the Farm Service Agency (FSA). Increasingly common structures that do not currently qualify for loans through the FSA include family trusts when family farms divide into a farm ownership LLC or farm operating LLC to facilitate ownership by multiple family members, as well as farms operating with an “embedded entity structure.”

An embedded entity occurs when one entity is owned wholly or partly by another entity.

The final provision drafted by Owens and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) is aimed to promote activities related to maple production. This includes maple syrup operations, natural resource sustainability for the maple syrup industry, promotion of maple products and increased access to land for maple-sugaring activities.

“Family farmers help strengthen New York’s economy,” said Owens.

Essex County Farm Bureau President Erik Leerkes takes time to discuss the pros and cons of the latest Farm Bill at his farm in Ticonderoga.

Photo by Seth Lang

One of the major sticking points in the final days of negotiations between the House and Senate was a program designed to stabilize milk prices.

Farmers are paid for their milk through a complicated, regionally based system called the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO.) This system was initially developed to price milk based on demand, but because price triggers were not transparent to the average producer, and prices were announced on a month delay, farmers were unable to respond to the market and it became extremely volatile in both production and income to farmers.

For example, milk is sold by the one-hundred weight. Farmers pay for the cost of production which may be $20 per one-hundred weight, but have had no control over the sale price of, say, $19 per one-hundred weight. The new bill offers insurance to cover that margin.

Leerkes said, “The problem with milk, unlike soda, you can’t stop making it. If there’s 1 percent too much milk nationally, the price will dip 10 percent to the farm.

“In the long run the bill is good for dairy and the budget,” said Leerkes.

“Food production is really important to national security, if you can’t sustain yourself and things go bad, you’re done for,” he said.

William Gunnison, co-owner of Gunnison Orchard in Crown Point, also said getting the bill passed is positive for local growers.

“Improved crop insurance offered in the bill will help improve our operation,” said Gunnison. “This bill will give us five years to concentrate on our growing without the unsettled worry about what’s around the corner.”

Gunnison is the resident of the New York State Horticulture Society and the vice chairman of the New York Apple Association and has been to Washington, D.C. lobbying for this bill over past years.

“The apple export provision is a huge step in the right direction in regards to getting fruit into Canada,” said Gunnison. “In the past, growers haven’t been able to get fruit into Canada unless the country runs out of their own fruits.”

Owens added, “This has been a difficult process to say the least, but I am satisfied that the compromise on the dairy title will address price volatility for New York’s farmers.”

“This bill is a remarkable achievement considering the dysfunction that has plagued Washington. I commend Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member Peterson for their tireless efforts to get this important work done. This bill serves as an example of what we can accomplish when both sides come together and I am hopeful we can continue this momentum through the year,” Owens said.

Co-owner of Essex Farm in Essex Mark Kimball said that USDA programs have been very beneficial to his farm over the years, creating jobs and increasing the health of his livestock.

Mark and his wife, Kristin, have trained and mentored over 50 beginning farmers who have started more than 10 new farms to date. They currently farm 600 acres and feed 222 CSA members and the farm is powered by 15 solar panels, nine draft horses, 10 full-time farmers, and three tractors.

A past clean waterways act under President Obama increased funding for the Champlain Valley, allowing Essex farm to build covered barnyards to reduce the loss of nutrients in manure that occurs with water run off in winter and spring. It also helps reduce pollution in that runoff from reaching the lake.

“Counter to our original thinking, the USDA has been easy to work with and we’re hoping this new bill will continue to benefit our farm,” said Kimball.

The Farm Bill combines an overhaul of the nation’s agricultural commodity programs with a package of reforms that will produce an estimated $23 billion in 10-year savings.

ACA talk at CCE in Westport, Canton

WESTPORT — If you are still confused about your responsibilities with the Affordable Care, come to a meeting to learn more. On Thursday March 6 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Office in Westport, and on Friday March 7 from 10 a.m. to noon at the back classroom at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm in Canton. Kirk Shoen will present a program especially designed for farmers looking for insurance for themselves or for employees.

They will have a computer available to show people how to move through the application process. If you have particular questions, you can ask them when you call to pre-register and we will have the answers available for you at the meeting.

Call Judy for the Westport meeting at 962-4810 ext. 0; or Anita for the Canton meeting at 379-9192.

Willsboro seeks pre-k applicants

WILLSBORO — Any child living in the Willsboro Central School District that will be four years old by Dec. 1, 2014, is eligible to enroll on pre-kindergarten at the school. Please contact the school nurse at 963-4456, ext. 2-6, to pre-register a child by April 11. Pre-kindergarten screening is scheduled for May 16. The district is also registering any students currently not enrolled for kindergarten. Please contact the school for more information.

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Westport residents learn cost for new, renovated buildings

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com WESTPORT — Almost 60 residents in the town of Westport turned out for the third time to hear the price tags for bringing three

community service buildings into the 21st Century.

Andrea Murray of Vermont Integrated laid out a $4,374,877 plan to replace the Westport Highway Garage and Westport Volunteer Fire House with a single facility at the site of the

Photo by Keith Lobdell

current DPW structure.

Also, Bill Johnston of the town hall committee also announced that their findings determined an approximate $1.4 price tag to renovate the current town hall as a separate project.

Both Murray and Johnston said that the preliminary cost estimates included overhead along with engineering and architectural work.

“Renovating the town hall keeps it in the village, which is something people in the community feel is important,” Johnston said.

“We have looked at five different alternatives but have yet to come up with a final option.”

Murray said the price tag for the DPW and fire department building had more to do with the site and its development.

“The building component runs about $2.9 million, so it is very cost effective,” she said.

“The site development is about double what it would be to develop the same building on a more flat, less tricky site.”

Engineer Peter Gibbs said the site costs factored into where the building would be located.

“I would like to see the building go further back, but then you are getting into more ledge and more hill and we already have a high enough cost point as it is,” Gibbs said.

Murray said the DPW-fire department building would be a pre-engineered metal building with steel frame structure. There would be office and storage space in the middle and back of the building with seven bays

for the fire department and six bays for the DPW, two of which would be used for either maintenance or washing stations for both departments.

There will also be 20 parking spaces at the front of the building, separated from Route 22 by a retaining wall. There would also be parking located at the north side of the building and six additional parking spaces behind the structure.

Murray said the new space is needed.

“The DPW building does not meet the needs of its current function and I would say the same about the fire department,” she said.

“Both buildings suffer from code violation issues, space issues and heating issues. At this point, it is really up to the community and the town board as to what they want.”

At the town hall, Johnston said renovations were needed to make the building more efficient.

“Its a building that costs a lot to heat and on the coldest days of the year you cannot heat the building comfortably,” Johnston said.

The town hall renovation could include looking into ways to generate its own energy and heat, including the installation of solar panels.

Johnston said the committee is looking for ways to bring the cost of the project down through funding.

“A project like this meets several state goals, including the preservation of historic places,” Johnston said. “We are aggressively pursuing state funding for this project.”

Under the plan, the tower would be maintained for full public access and include written interpretive materials that would be, “informative but not intrusive.”

The plan calls for a permanent radio repeater to be installed in the cab of the tower. According to a press release, the recommendations are part of promoting tourism and preserving the historic building.

“As Gov. Cuomo continues his commitment to spur tourism, the release of these draft unit management plans is another step in ensuring these historically significant resources will be enjoyed for many generations to come,”

said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens in the release. “Throughout the 20th century, fire towers played a critical role in the protection of New York state’s natural resources, and resuming maintenance of these structures for educational purposes will attract travelers and provide the public a better appreciation of that legacy.”

Some of the proposed management actions in the draft UMPs include: •Maintain the fire towers in a manner that complies with the State Historic Preservation Act; •Make necessary structural improvements to the fire towers to allow for safe public access;

•Maximize the fire towers’ interpretive and educational potential; UMPs are required by the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan for each unit of State land in the Adirondack Park. The plans integrate the goals and objectives of the State Land Master Plan, related legislation, and resource and visitor use information into a single document.

The UMP is available for viewing or downloading from the Adirondack Park Agency website at apa.ny.gov/State_Land/index. html.

Engineer Peter Gibbs goes over plans for a new building in Westport that would house the Department of Public Works and the Westport Volunteer Fire Department.

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Continued from page 1 Along with the public hearing, the APA will also accept written comment on SLMP conformance for the proposals contained in the final draft UMPs until March 26. Written comments can be sent to Kathy Regan, Senior Natural Resource Planner, NYS Adirondack Park Agency, P.O. Box 99, Ray Brook, N.Y., 12977.

The DEC drafted a UMP that called for the Hurricane Mountain fire tower to be repaired for “Public Access and Communications” use.

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he NCSPCA is overflowing with adoptable animals right now who are hoping to find their forever homes before the snow melts from the ground. We have approximately 15 loveable dogs and 50 purr-fectly wonderful cats who would love to warm your hearts. And, for a short time,

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ongratulations to Arthur Dodge on his retirement last week, after 27 years of connecting us all to the outside world (or should that be connecting the outside world to us?). I can’t imagine there can be very many phones left in town that weren’t hooked up by this tireless worker, who has been such a mainstay for us all, and such a familiar sight driving around to the next job in his white Chazy and Westport Telecommunications van. The folks at the phone company honored him with a celebration luncheon on February 13, bringing some of his favorite foods and swapping stories. They asked me to share with readers how much they will miss him, and how special it has been to have him as a coworker. Arthur will stay on part time, with the full time spot being taken over by Chris Munn, an experienced technician who now joins the Westport office.

Are you the one in your family who keeps track of the family tree? The guardian of old photo albums and scrapbooks? As you may know, our community celebrates its bicenten-

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he movie this Saturday night at the Whallonsburg Grange is “Gravity,” starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. This film is full of beautiful images of the earth from space, the best since “2001.” On the other hand, there’s only one gruesome scene and the critics loved it. It starts at 7:30 p.m.

Although there’s activity at the neighbor’s sugar house, we’re still several weeks away from the true beginning of the season. Much of a tree’s sap is held in the roots, so snow needs to melt back from the trunks before this sap will flow readily. Nevertheless, the trees are tapped, the fire wood is ready and soon steam will be billowing up from the roof vents.

Right now chickadees are singing their mating song, a two noter that sounds like fee-bee.

It’s a lot like the phoebe’s call, but less raspy and not repeated ad infinitum. Around town, there are flocks of bluebirds, especially in hedge rows, and of course innumerable robins on the roadsides. Although I’m no expert, I get

Kathy L. Wilcox • 873-5000

you can still take advantage of our February adoption special with fees reduced by 50 percent. If you have a lap, a hearth, a windowsill or a couch that could benefit from a warm furry body, now is the time to stop by our shelter in Elizabethtown! We are sure you won’t be sorry you did.

Our featured pet this week is Dr. Pepper, a Domestic Shorthair/Siamese-mix who has a personality as unique and unforgettable as the soda for which he was named.

Dr. Pepper has a handsome, sleek black coat with tufts on the ends of his ears and intense golden eyes that seem to look right into your soul. He has an effervescent personality just waiting to bring a smile to your face; he simply cannot get enough attention, and will let you know he likes you by winding in and out from between your legs with a rumbling purr. Like most Siamese cats, he is a vocal and affectionate fellow who will reward you with love and appreciation if you bring him into your home.

If you are looking for a cat who won’t leave you feeling flat, Dr. Pepper is the feline for you! Why not stop by and meet him today?

Colin Wells • WestportNYNews@gmail.com nial next year, and the Bicentennial Committee invites you to make your heritage part of the commemoration. They are looking for family histories that they can incorporate into the celebration, and would also love to copy your old photos, postcards, and any other memorabilia that helps tell your family’s story and the story of our past. Stop by the Town Hall and speak with our Town Clerk, Sheila Borden, if you are interested in helping with this project.

Sheila also asked me to pass along kudos to the Westport Pep Band, under the able leadership of Heather Olson, which has been enlivening recent home basketball games. It’s made up of students and staff both current and former, including Phil Mero and ACAP’s After School Supervisor Vera Martin.

And don’t forget the Westport Fire Department’s Annual Car Wash will be held every Saturday in March from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Westport Fire House. The donation amount is $5 for a wash, but you can pre-buy a book of five tickets for only $20 from any firefighter or the aforementioned Town Clerk.

Rob Ivy • robhivy@gmail.com asked about attracting bluebirds to the backyard, so I did a little research. They like lawns with widely spaced trees, which they hide in and watch for insects in the grass. This time of year they’ll eat most anything, but if you want to be truly welcoming, put out a platform feeder with meal worms and raisins soaked in water. They also like suet, especially when mixed with fruit, and all of our feathered friends like a heated bird bath. It should be about two inches deep and large enough for about a dozen birds. Bluebirds like to bathe together.

The familiar nesting boxes should be placed about six feet above the ground, and the boxes should be in pairs, placed back to back, about 15 feet apart. A lone box will be taken by tree swallows, but swallows won’t nest near other swallows, which allows bluebirds to move into the second box. They can have up to four broods a season. Starlings, house sparrows and crows prey on blue birds, as do snakes, raccoons and especially cats. Cats keep rodents in check but can’t resist a toothsome young bird.

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Helen DeChant • 873-9279 / time4hfd@yahoo.com

he fifth Grade of ElizabethtownLewis Central School would like you help them raise money for their June educational trip to Washington D.C. They are hosting a delicious spaghetti dinner at the Lewis Fire House on Friday, Feb. 28. Dinner begins at 5 p.m., with take out at 4:30 p.m. The cost is $8, $5 for children age 12 and under or $25 for a family.

After dinner, work off those calories at the Zumba Dance Party from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School, hosted by the Elizabethtown Social Center. For more information call 873-6408.

Back Country Skiers, the 20th Annual Back Country Ski Festival hosted by the Mountaineer Store in Keene Valley is Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2. Sign up for one of the back country tours lead by Cloudsplitter Mountain guides, attend free mini clinics or demos at Otis Mountain ski area in New Russia on Saturday or see the show at the Keene Central School Saturday evening at 8 p.m.

Chris Davenport, an extreme big mountain skier will be giving a memorable presentation, doors open to the public at 7:30 p.m., tickets

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t is great to see changes in the weather, snow piles are shrinking, days are inching a little longer, more birds are showing up and a few tight buds are showing on tree’s and schrubs. The Boquet River has some breaks of open water. Also as I am writing this column only10 days from now it will be Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season. These are all very welcome signs.

People are getting back into routine after some had a vacation last week. Those that went on an ocean cruise had a great time on a floating city. A few went down to some of the southern states for a little change, but all glad to get back home.

Reminder that the Willsboro United Methodist Men will be holding another Soup and Bread, dessert Lunch on Saturday, March 8, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. serving five kinds of homemade soup, several kinds of breads, man size desserts and beverages of choice, all for only $6.

A correction from last week, the Willsboro United Methodist Church will be starting up public suppers in the near future, but no date or month have been set so watch for that date.

The Congregational Church had their last “Coffee House Concerts” this past weekend, It is great that they make this available each winter.

I had a wonderful Mother gift this past

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are $10, there’s also a raffle. To find out the many other things happening or to register visit their website at www.mountaineer.com/ skifest. They are asking those attending, for donations of non perishable items for the Keene Food Shelf. For other information contact Holly Blanchard at holly@mountaineer.com or Vinny McClelland at vinny@mountaineer.com.

After all that skiing, the place to be on Sunday, March 2, is the 26th Annual Fish Fry benefit for the Elizabethtown-Lewis Fire Departments. Join the fun at the Wooden Nickle on Route 9 in Lewis, from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. with take-out from noon until 1 p.m.

They’ll be serving the all you can eat meal of beer battered pollock and assorted side dishes for $7. You’ll have the opportunity to win over $1,500 worth of cash prizes, a 50/50 raffle and many other raffles throughout the day. If you are interested in contributing to the auction, supplying a covered dish or place an order for take out, please speak with Jean or Jim Olsen at 873-9990. They are also asking for donations of can goods for the Elizabethtown Food Shelf, so please bring at least one non perishable item to help out.

week, two of my adult children paid me a visit each for a couple of days. A mother always likes to have some “one on one” time with their children and especially when they live farther away from Willsboro.

I really enjoyed the Olympics, those competing are just great to watch them use their skills, but the fantastic job of the camera people that bring these event right into our livingrooms, just blows my mind.

The Champlain Film Society will be showing “Gravity” on Marchch 1, staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as they show how it is to be in space. This movie gives a great picture as to how one would cope while floating around in space. Movies are at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall starting at 7:30 p.m. with a $5 adult charge and $2 for chhildren under 18. This group shows some great movies right here in the area.

Happy Birthday to: Cathy Alden March 1, Ginny Rankin March 2, Marchgie Jaquish March 3, Amie Knickerbocker March 3, Paul Mero March 3, Jade Sayward March 3, Mildred Mason March 5, Cheryle Blanchard March 5, Dorothy Hoke March 5, Lucus Sayward March 5, Rick Low March 5, Michelle Barber March 6, Tina Hotaling March 7, Harold Mac Dougal March 7, Flora June Doyle & Doug Doyle both on March 8, Sam Blanchard March 8, Gabrielle Coonrod March 8, Josh Bridge March 8.

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he final film in the “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Story” series “The Loving Story” will air this Saturday, March first at 1 p.m. in the Plattsburgh Public Library with a community discussion to follow afterwards. This is free to the public and hosted in part by the library and the North Country Underground Historical Association.

Visited the Keeseville Elementary School website and came across this and thought I would pass it on to my readers: “The Keeseville Elementary School Choruses are in need of an accompanist!

“We have two concerts during the school year (December & May) and hold our weekly rehearsals between 1:30 and 2 p.m. If you or someone you know would be willing to accompany the KES choruses, please leave a voicemail for Mrs. Barbara Boulerice at the school (834-2839 ext. 7318).”

Just a reminder that the Anderson Falls Heritage Society is currently closed for the winter until April 15 but is available for appointments. Contact either Colin McDonough at 834-6032 or Betty

Brelia at 834-7138 to arrange a time.

Keeseville was the home of a thriving peanut railroad at one point in history. A peanut railroad is so named as it is smaller both in terms of the locomotives as well as the gauge of the rail ties as well. Back in the late 1880s there was a need to safely move heavy product from several factories in Keeseville over to the lake by Port Kent, and so the Keeseville, AuSable Chasm and Lake Champlain Railroad Company was born. The total length of the track was 5.6 miles with the tremendous and impressive feat of engineering for a bridge over the Chasm built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company from out of Connecticut. The bridge was almost 250 feet long and stood over a depth of 150 feet. The train could not turn around. It was pushed one way and pulled the other. During its high point it was making seven round trips daily and three on Sundays taking a total of 20 minutes to make the trip. It ceased operation in the 1920s. The bridge was demolished and the site of the station is now the North Country Club Restaurant. Enjoy your week.

Annual ST. PATRICK’S DINNER

Corned Beef / Ham, Cabbage, Carrots, Potatoes, Bread, Milk, Coffee, or Tea, and Gingerbread.

St. Elizabeth’s Parish Hall Rt. 9, Elizabethtown, NY 12932

Takeouts Available

Sunday March 16th - Serving 2-6 PM Adults $11.00

Children (under 12) - $5.00

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With extra time, United Way reaches 2014 campaign goal

By Shawn Ryan

shawn@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — It required extra innings, but the United Way of the Adirondack Region surpassed their campaign goal of $725,000.

United Way Executive Director John Bernardi announced the results at a press conference at their Plattsburgh headquarters. Citing the continuing poor economy for creating a “challenging environment” to raise money in, he praised campaign co-chairs DaleAnne Wolter of Compassionate Friends of the Champlain Valley and JCEO and Ellen Gordon of Adirondack Community Action Programs, Inc. for their efforts.

“We’re not the only important cause in town,” Bernardi said. “We’re competing in many respects for the charitable gifts people are giving.”

The loss of some major contributors was also mentioned by Bernardi as a challenge faced this year.

“It was a valiant team effort among campaign team volunteers, United Way staff and employee campaign representatives, but most of all, it was the generosity of businesses, organizations and individuals that made it successful,” said Gordon. I am always so impressed to see how people in our region come together for their friends and neighbors.”

Bernardi said the focus will now turn to as-

sessing the highest priority needs and deciding how funding will be given out to the 40 partnering agencies covered under the United Way umbrella. Historically, Bernardi says, mental health services are one of the most glaring needs in the North Country. But recently, he said, assistance with basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and utilities have risen in priority as well.

According to Bernardi, roughly 80,000 people in the United Way’s tri-county coverage area.

Typically 35 to 36 of the 40 member agencies apply for funding from the United Way. The rest usually receive funding from contributions which are specifically allocated to that agency by the contributor at the time they contribute.

Along with the volunteers and contributors, Bernardi thanked the local media for helping get the word out in the closing weeks of the campaign.

“It helped us across the finish line,” Bernardi said.

The 2014 campaign was slated to end at the end of January, but three weeks were added to the campaign when the goal had not been reached by that time. By the time of their press conference they had exceeded their goal by $116.

Bernardi was not ready to announce the coming year’s campaign chair person(s), saying that they are still in the process of assessing the needs for the community going forward.

Mehr’s movie, ‘Fort Apache,’ now streaming online

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com WESTPORT — The film made by a local student as part of his college program now has an online home.

“Fort Apache,” the film created by Westport Central School graduate Addison Mehr as part of his senior project at NYU, can now be found online through the video sharing site vimeo.com Vimeo is a U.S.-based video-sharing site that focuses on longer videos, such as shorts and movies.

In “Fort Apache,” scenes from Westport, Port Henry and Lake Placid come across the screen as Mehr decided to use his hometown and the region as the backdrop for his film.

“It was great to be able to shoot the film here where I grew up,” Mehr said previously. “It started out to be a short film that we wanted to be around 15 minutes. It was never supposed to be a feature,” he said.

During a showing at the Whallonsburg Grange, people in the audience whispered to each other as they saw familiar sites like the Stevenson Road Railroad crossing, Camp Dudley Road, Main Street and the Horse racing announcers stand in Westport; storefronts in Port Henry and the Palace Theatre in Lake Placid. Many local names were also listed in the credits to the movie, including a number of people who were in attendance for what Mehr called “the Adirondack premiere.”

Mehr said that the movie took seven days of shooting, followed by editing and putting together the final cut.

“I wouldn’t want to change anything about this because there is something very magical about it,” Mehr said. “A bunch of people came together to put something like this together in a short amount of time.”

“Fort Apache” can be found at vimeo.com/80205984.

Sportsmen dinner slated

SCHROON LAKE — The 19th annual Adirondack Sportsmen’s Dinner will be held on the campus of Mountainside Bible Chapel, Saturday, March 15. There is no charge, however a “pass the hat” offering will be taken to cover expenses. For more information, and to register for a ticket, please go to www.sportsmensdinner.com.

United Way of the Adirondack Region Executive Director John Bernardi addresses the media at the United Way’s recent press conference announcing the results of their fundraising campaign.

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Westport PTO sets volleyball tourney

WESTPORT — The Westport Parent Teacher Organization is hosting its annual volleyball tournament on Friday, March 7, at the Westport Central School Gymnasium starting at 5 p.m. Participation is open to seventh through 12th grade students, faculty or community members. Not limited to Westport – all communities welcome. Teams must consist of three males and three females, no regular substitutes.

Food, fun and prizes. $5 each for students, $10 each for adults. Number of teams are limited so pre-registration is recommended. For registration forms and rules please visit westportcs.org or stop by the Westport Central School office.

For more information contact Laura Sells-Doyle, 962-4049.

Knight, Arnold to perform

WILLSBORO — The Willsboro Coffee House, celebrating its 20th season, will be featuring musicians Alice Knight and Speedy Arnold, who were the original group to play at the Willsboro Coffee House, Saturday, March 8, at the Willsboro Congregational Church on Route 22 at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 adults, $2 students. Refreshments available. For information call 963-7772.

North Star Museum talk at Wells

UPPER JAY — On Wednesday, March 5, at 1 p.m. at Wells Memorial library in Upper Jay, Peter Slocum will speak about the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausable Chasm, which explores the hidden history of the Champlain Line of the Underground Railroad, and talk about the movie, “12 Years a Slave,” based on the true story of Solomon Northup, an Essex County freeman.

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housands of New York State families struggle every day to pay the costs of college education for their children. In most cases students are forced to mortgage their futures by borrowing to pay for college, graduating with an average debt of about $30,000 while earning a bachelor’s degree.

Now there may be an alternative for families who don’t have the money for college and students who don’t want to go deep into debt.

They can go to prison.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced a new statewide initiative to give incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn a college degree through funding college classes in prisons across New York. The governor cites studies that show college education for prisoners dramatically decreases recidivism rates while saving money.

Those who earn a college degree while in prison are less likely to end up behind bars again, he said, therefore decreasing the number of inmates in New York state prisons.

The initiative will provide college level education at 10 New York State prisons, one in each region of the state. The program would offer both associates and bachelor’s degrees.

“Giving men and women in prison the opportunity to earn a college degree costs our state less and benefits our society more,” Cuomo said.

“New York State currently spends $60,000 per year on every prisoner in our system, and those who leave have a 40 percent chance of ending up back behind bars. Existing programs show that providing a college education in our prisons is much cheaper for the state and delivers far better results. Someone who leaves prison with a college degree has a real shot at a second lease on life because their education gives them the opportunity to get a job and avoid falling back into a cycle of crime.”

Cuomo may be right about providing college educations to criminals, but shouldn’t New York State be doing more to help hard-working, lawabiding families with college?

Costs to attend one of the 64 State University of New York campuses vary, but the average for the 2013-14 academic year is $22,700, according to SUNY. SUNY costs have increased an average of 8.6 percent a year for the past decade, according to a study by the Albany Times Union newspaper.

The average SUNY student earning a bachelor’s degree leaves school owing $22,575 in student loans, according to SUNY. The national average is $26,600.

That makes the SUNY system “an excellent value,” according to SUNY. Is it?

It’s true SUNY costs can be half of some major private colleges and universities, but often the actual costs to families and students are much higher at SUNY than at private schools. That’s because financial aid is virtually nil for a middle class student in SUNY, while private schools can offer attractive financial aid packages.

Not only does the lack of financial aid cost New York families, it forces many of its top students to leave the state for higher education. Often they leave and never come back.

Look at the case of a local student, a national merit scholarship semifinalist, whose college choice came down to SUNY-Geneseo and the University of Notre Dame.

The cost to attend Geneseo, arguably SUNY’s top academic campus, in 2013-14 is $21,670. Geneseo offered no scholarship assistance to the local student, although it did offer loans.

The cost to attend Notre Dame, generally ranked among the leading universities in the country, in 2013-14 is $57,117. Notre Dame offered the local student nearly $40,000 in scholarships.

In the end it cost the local family less to have their student attend a $57,117 university in Indiana than a $21,670 college in New York.

That situation is not unique, particularly among high-achieving, middle class students — the very students New York State should be trying to keep at home.

Cuomo’s plan to educate prison inmates may be sound, but it also seems like sound policy to promote a public education system that rewards New York’s best students and encourages them to keep their talents at home. Where is the help for those students?

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb railed against the governor’s proposal.

“If the state is going to hand out free college educations, why don’t we start with deserving students who actually respect the law?,” Kolb said. “This proposal is an insult to families struggling to find money for tuition, to young men and women who take on mountains of debt in student loans, and to the millions of New Yorkers who pay the highest taxes in the nation and are now asked to subsidize college degrees for criminals.

“Paying for a college education is an issue that keeps parents up at night,” Kolb said. “It is a massive financial commitment that has become even more onerous as years have gone on. Any effort to reward convicts with something that law-abiding men and women can hardly afford is an affront to all New Yorkers.”

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Not so affordable health care

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he writing has been through our sister publishon the wall for some ing company in Central New time. Our great fears York that just received their are coming to pass and no one renewal notice for the comis taking the steps to fix what ing year. The watered-down is clearly a bad and ill-contraditional Excellus EPO ceived law. plan will see a 21.3 percent Even staunch Democratic rate increase this coming sponsors of the legislation year. The Health Saving Acknown as the Affordable count, which carries a high Health Care Act have called deductible where employDan Alexander it a “train wreck” waiting to ees pay everything upfront, Thoughts from happen. Well, the wreck has without the benefit of coBehind the Pressline already happened and its true pays, will see an increase of effects will continue to ripple approximately 12 percent. through the country as it destroys the econOur policy renewal comes in a few omy and the millions of American families months but we’ve already been told by our who have lost their insurance coverage and insurance broker to expect similar increasthe many more who will be unable to afford es. From a small employer’s standpoint, coverage under the new plan. we’ve attended many meetings prompting The Affordable Health Care Act prous to be ready for implementation. We’ve posed and driven into law by President made changes to our plans and we’ve made Obama in 2009 has been everything but afcertain our employees were all enlightened fordable. The President promised it would to the pending changes coming our way. be “revenue neutral” and he promised we The Administration was not ready to imcould keep the plans we had in place as plement the law, wasting not only time but well as our doctor. All false promises, unbillions of dollars. Now they appear to be fortunately aimed at getting votes — not more concerned about the upcoming elecsolving problems. tions and the impact the Act is having on To date, the ACA, which is scheduled to their ability to maintain their party seats. It go into full effect later this year, has seen reinforces the point that this was all about over 30 portions of the legislation delayed votes and it was never about improving the primarily due to poor preparation by the health care system for all Americans.

Administration. The website continues to Looking back, one has to wonder how be a terrible disappointment and the navicould we have ever justified making such gators hired to assist Americans signing up a major change to the American health care have failed to fill the void. system, clearly seen the best in the world.

Ah, but just wait — the high-cost marketWhile not perfect, 85 percent of Americans ing campaigns rolling out will certainly put told pollsters year after year they were satthe Act back on track. These will focus on isfied with their health care coverage. Cerluring the healthy youth, recently referred tainly there was room for improvement, to by Mrs. Obama as “Knuckleheads,” to but I think we should have realized what purchase health insurance policies through would happen in a government takeover of the marketplace in order to support the health care system. many elderly and sick who have taken adUnder the Affordable Health Care Act, vantage of the government subsidies. we are losing our freedom of choice. Health To top it all off, the non-partisan Concare is very personal to each of us and ungressional Budget Office has released their less serious modifications are made in the report indicating that the Act will add more future to this law, it will cast a very long than $1 trillion to the federal deficit which shadow over our freedoms and “fundais already at the critical stage! We’re getting mentally transform” this country in ways exactly what we asked for when we started unimaginable only a few short years ago. believing in campaign promises.

So how is the Act affecting businesses Dan Alexander is publisher and CEO of Denton in our region? We received an early glance Publications. He may be reached at dan@denpubs.com.

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Editorial Missing the Point

Supporting community

To the Valley News: I was saddened to read your recent Op-Ed in support of repeal of the SAFE Act, because it seemed to me that it quite clearly missed the point on what this legislation is trying to do and at the same time you seemingly glossed over the problem of gun violence in America today.

The legislation is aimed at Mass Shootings (ones that involves the killing of four or more people in a single place according to the FBI), hence the limit on ammunition. Yes, people are murdered in lots of different ways in America. Even knives kill people. However, I think you would agree that if Adam Lanza had walked into Sandy Hook Elementary school wielding a knife rather than a fully loaded Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle it would not have resulted in the death of 20 children and six of the school’s staff.

No legislation is perfect. Finding the right way to attack this problem from both a criminal and psychological perspective is difficult. I applaud the Governor for at least trying something.

What is the response of the gun control lobby? It’s to do nothing, hide behind the Second Amendment, complain about what an imposition it is for hunters, and let these senseless deaths continue on. We hear a lot of complaints from the NRA about background checks and the NRA’s Washington lobbyists quickly quash any hint of legislation that attempts to curtail the deaths of thousands of Americans each year. We never hear any word of a plan to help America deal with this problem from pro-gun groups.

Finally, your editorial blithely skims over the growing list of mass shootings in this country and even refers to Sandy Hook as an “outlier.” Mass shootings happen about once every two weeks in this country, hardly a number that we should scoff at.

There have been 146 mass shootings in America since 2006 and over 900 people have lost their lives. Certainly that deserves more mention than a throw away line in your piece. And by the way, even if this problem is, as you suggest, overblown, limiting the number of guns and rounds would surely have an impact broadly on other deaths due to gun violence.

Yes, even with the SAFE Act people will continue to use guns and kill each other and themselves. It’s is not perfect, but certainly an attempt to tackle at least one part of the problem shouldn’t be met with so much derision and resistance.

Evan George Westport

To the Valley News: Seven years ago the Elizabethtown-Lewis Chamber of Commerce contacted the Elizabethtown Postmaster about the possibility of having a Community Bulletin Board inside the foyer of the Elizabethtown Post Office. Since many of our residents visit the Post Office almost every day, this seemed like a great place to announce Community Events. The Chamber Chairman at that time assured Postal officials that the Chamber would monitor the Bulletin Board. Permission was given and the Bulletin Board was created. It included a notice explaining the purpose of the Bulletin Board in “Supporting Community” by helping promote area events. The Bulletin Board also had a notice that stated “No Legal or Political Notices” are allowed.

For several years the community has respected these rules and the Bulletin Board has become a focal point in finding out about area events. Unfortunately, in the past few years, some people have chosen to ignore the rules and posted personal letters, political announcements and legal documents on the Community Bulletin Board. This has created problems both for the Chamber of Commerce and the Post Office.

The Chamber is asking everyone to please respect the purpose of the Community Bulletin Board and not post political, legal or personal announcements. Keeping this board free of such notices allows for community events and service notices to be posted within the perimeters of the Post Office regulations and the Elizabethtown-Lewis Chamber of Commerce bylaws.

Thank you for your understanding, as we all continue to enjoy the “Supporting Community” Bulletin Board.

Elizabethtown Lewis Chamber Of Commerce Board of Directors

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Continued from page 1 “Some, not all, also see a prescriber. The vast majority are still coming to the clinic and receiving their counseling services.”

Lorna Jewell, the office’s psychiatric nurse practitioner — a registered nurse with additional training in psychology who is allowed to write prescriptions — has increased her workload from one to two days per week, said Valley, and is handling many of Dr. Chaudhry’s former patients.

Jewell cannot accommodate all of them, however, so the balance has been transferred to local primary care physicians for the purpose of prescribing their psychotropic medications.

“The general consensus for good treatment in mental health treatment is to combine therapy with medication,” said Valley, whose office is designed to provide, according to their mission statement, county residents with opportunities to improve their psychological well-being through therapeutic partnerships with mental health professionals.

County residents tend to require the same mental health services as the rest of the nation: treatment for mood disorders and depression are common, said Valley, and tend to be comorbid with substance abuse problems.

But shuttling them over to primary care physicians, while not detrimental to the patient, is just a quick fix to the staffing problem and isn’t a permanent solution to patient care, say officials.

Local impact

“While a primary care physician can write a prescription, they don’t have the training to really offer counseling,” said Valley. “If you have a heart problem, you go to the cardiologist. Raising the bar for primary physicians to care for those who don’t have a psychiatrist available concerns me greatly.”

“It’s a big issue throughout the county,” said Elizabethtown Community Hospital (ECH) representative Jane Hooper. “Our emergency room is seeing increases in patients who need that type of care and it’s very challenging for our staff.”

Divided, puzzled To the Valley News: When it comes to gun safety laws I find myself divided about what’s right and what’s possible. It’s a tough problem. And I have never heard a discussion of it in which any two or three people agreed on anything. Try reaching a consensus about gun safety you might as well make jello stick to a wall.

So I am somewhat puzzled about how the editors of the Valley News (how many are there actually?) arrived at solid agreement on every last thought and every word of their joint and very angry editorial demanding repeal of the state SAFE act.

Ultimately, according to ECH medical director Dr. Rob DeMuro, these patients require counseling and services from a medical professional skilled in that particular specialty.

“Physicians are always there to assist; but patients really require specialty care, something in addition to what their general practitioner can provide.”

The average number of people actively receiving treatment from the Essex County Mental Health Department at any given time is about 450, or about 1.2 percent of the county’s population.

Valley’s office treated more than 1,300 people in 2013, most of whom were seen in three visits or less.

The department’s staff includes 10 masters-level counselors, two care managers, two supervising clinicians, an assistant director and the director.

Trends

The psychiatrist shortage has been a longstanding issue nationwide.

While the U.S. population grew 4.7 percent between 2005 and 2010, the number of psychiatrists shrunk slightly from 38,578 to 38,289, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

According to a report issued last year by the US Department of Health and Human Services, almost 91 million adults lived in areas where shortages of mental health professionals made obtaining treatment difficult.

A report to Congress later that year said 55 percent of the nation’s 3,100 counties have no practicing psychiatrists, psychologists or social workers, the result of a perfect storm of budget cuts, doctors leaving the profession and a lack of young med school graduates eager to enter the field.

The reason for the shortages fall under three main hypotheses, said Dr. Kevin M. Antshel, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Syracuse University.

The first, he said, is because psychiatry generally isn’t a popular medical profession.

“The common view among med students is that’s where the weak students go, which will lead to a shortage,” he said.

The second is because psychiatry

as a profession is associated with high levels of burnout.

“It’s a difficult population to work with chronically,” Antshel said.

Lastly, young, freshly-minted psychiatrists tend not to be attracted to rural areas.

“That’s not a problem in Manhattan where you might have trouble finding an internist, for example,” said Antshel. “Psychiatrists tend to gravitate to metropolitan areas.”

Valley agreed.

“Despite how beautiful the North Country is, it’s hard to attract professionals here,” he said. “For a lot of doctors we have in this area, psychiatry seems to be an aging speciality. At the same time, the culture of mental health treatment has gone mainstream and it’s becoming more acceptable to seek out help for those problems.”

Fifty-seven percent of practicing psychiatrists are at least 55 years old, established, approaching retirement and more selective in who they take on, primarily patients who can afford to pay out of pocket.

Valley also said psychiatry is not as lucrative compared to its fellow studies and doctors can make more money as, say, orthopedic surgeons.

The mean income for psychiatrists — $186,000 a year — ranked 19th out of 25 medical specialties, and rose only one percent in 2012.

Looking forward

While a full-time medical director and psychiatrist is not a county-mandated position, said county manager Daniel Palmer, the county does have to adhere to state law and provide a medical director for a medical clinic and must provide a certain level of mental health services to the citizens required to receive those services from other county departments — like the District Attorney’s Office, for example, or Social Services.

Each county is structured differently when it comes to how they approach mental health.

Hamilton County, for example, doesn’t have a full-time psychiatrist or medical director, said Robert Kleppang, Hamilton County’s Director of Community Services.

“A psychiatrist comes in for one day every two weeks and that meets our needs in terms of adult care — we’re not heavily populated, we have

Agreement on every last word, that is. The Newtown school shooting they all agree was, “an outlier in the world of homicides if there ever was one...” Really? An exception perhaps, statistically speaking, since our editors and the FBI tally nearly 10,000 gun killings of one kind or another in 2012. But an “outlier?” The killing of 20 children and six adults in a school is an outlier? Where, in Connecticut? Come on guys. The English language is your bread and butter. How did you come on that word?

I am told that since the Newtown shooting many public schools now practice a drill they call a “lockdown.” It’s not unlike the old fire drills except the kids don’t evacuate the school building. They are herded and sometimes locked into closets and other enclosed areas where they are presumably safe from any crazed individual bent on mayhem. From which we may conclude (can’t we?) that school authorities don’t think about Newtown as an outlier nor even that it is statistically insignificant. I know a 10 year old who gets the hebee jeebies and has a sleepless night after every one of these drills in his city school.

He hasn’t yet taken a course in statistics.

I don’t pretend to know all the answers to this problem of gun control but I do think it must be addressed one way or another. Dismissing it and the Governor’s motives in unison is as easy as singing in a barbershop quartet. But it doesn’t make the problem go away. We have DWI laws intended as prevention.

Why not to a proper gun law? Is a car driven by a drunk more a killing machine than an automatic weapon in the hands of a crackpot? The Governor isn’t altogether wrong. If 10 rounds in the magazine aren’t needed to hunt deer, what are they needed for? Short of a war I can’t think of a practical reason. Of course there is always the lunatic who needs 10 rounds at least if he is out to slaughter a crop of school kids before the sheriff gets him.

There is no law that says you need to like Cuomo’s law. Nor, as our editors claim, will it help the Governor get elected to national office. And yes, there are second amendment rights.

There are other rights as well. The right to life for one thing.

According to the Center for Disease Control its not 10,000 but 32,000 gun deaths a year in the United States. In some cities the numbers are simply awful and in gang areas right to life has all but lost its meaning. That’s not just about numbers, statistics, types of weapons, or how many rounds of ammunition do you want. Its about a national scandal and about a duty. Call it a citizen’s duty and a journalist’s job to face up to a problem and to scrap the boilerplate.

Carl Resek Westport

less than 5,000 residents, so this system works for us.”

Kleppang noted, however, that the county is struggling to find a child psychiatrist.

“The larger issue is recruitment,” he said. “not so much the ability to fund.”

Franklin County, which has a population of about 10 times greater than Hamilton, doesn’t have a fulltime director or psychiatrist, either, instead referring psychiatric patients to North Star Behavioral Care, a network of private behavioral health providers in Northern New York.

Clinton County (population 81,654) has a mixture of both private and public mental services — nonprofits are paired with a county-run clinic — while Washington and Warren County have consolidated services in order to serve a combined population of about 130,000.

“It’s going to be a real challenge moving forward,” said Valley. “We’re

providing the best services we can under the circumstances.”

Following national trends in health care, the county is in the process of expanding their telepsychiatry services.

“We use that to provide psychiatric consultations to support the primary physicians who are prescribing meds,” said Valley.

The search for Dr. Chaudhry’s replacement is ongoing. Taking the search national, advertisements have been placed on the American Psychiatric Association’s website. Valley is also contacting med schools with psychiatric residency programs to scout out new talent.

“We’re trying to find out if someone’s coming out of residency this spring to see if they’re interested in community mental health in a rural setting,” Valley said. “We’ve got a good quality of life here in the North County and hope we can find someone soon.”

Missing Children’s tourney slated Au SABLE FORKS — The 25th Annual Missing Children’s Basketball Tournament for fifth and sixth grade Boys and Girls will be held March 6-9 in Au Sable Forks. At this time, there are still openings for teams in this double elimination tournament.

Please do not assume that if you were in last year’s tournament that you are automatically signed up for this year. Please call Carol Greenley at 647-2204 or e-mail carolanne87@gmail.com for more information or to sign a team up for this event. The entrance fee for this tournament is $150.

ELCS fifth graders to host dinner LEWIS — The Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School 5th Grade Class is having a Spaghetti Dinner on Friday, Feb. 28, at the Lewis Fire House to raise money for their education trip to Washington, D.C., in June. Takeouts start at 4:30 p.m. and dine-in starts at 5 p.m. Cost is $8 per person, $5 12 and under and $25 per family. Menu includes spaghetti (with or without meat sauce) salad, roll, drink & dessert.

AVCS jazz band playing for funds CLINTONVILLE — On Feb. 28 at 7 p.m., the AuSable Valley High School Jazz Band will be performing for the first time at the Amos and Julia Ward Theatre. They will be performing jazz favorites both old and new, including big band-era, Stray Cats, Blues Brothers, Feeling Good, and more. The money raised from this concert will go towards a trip to New Orleans. There will be a coffee and tea bar, tasty handmade desserts, and a 50/50 raffle. Tickets can be purchased from band members or at the AVCS music department. Call 834-2800 ext. 7950 or stop by.

Tickets cost $10. Some tickets available at the door night of show for $12.

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CFES hosts annual college connection at Essex headquarters

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com ESSEX — Last year, College For Every Student packed local high school and college leaders into a small section of their near completed Essex offices for the first College Connect workshop.

This year, attendees were welcomed into the completed facility, coming together Feb. 6-7 to talk about ways of connecting primary school students to the next educational step.

“The partnerships with schools and colleges is really at the center and the foundation of our work,” CFES Ex-

Edward Summer, PhD., of Union College delivers the keynote address at the CFES College Connect workshop Feb. 6 in Essex.

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ecutive Director Rick Dalton said. “We invite school and colleges here to think about these partnerships together and what we can bring to the colleges and how these connections can continue to last for years and years.”

CFES currently serves around 20,000 students in high schools throughout the country, with about 1,000 of those students living in the Adirondack region.

Edward Summers, PhD, Chief of Staff and Director of the Kelly Adirondack Research Center at Union College, was the keynote speaker at the conference and talked about the increased need for government to help fund programs to help get high school students to the next level.

“The amount of expenditures that has gone to higher education has dropped tremendously,” Summers said.

“The government has to help more. It has to take a deeper interest in funding that supports the access to higher education and there needs to be more interest than just dis-

cussing the issue.”

Summers said the Adirondack Research Center is a program designed to connect students at Union to the Adirondacks and, in turn, attract more Adirondack perspective students to their campus.

“We have to become more connected to our local communities,” Summer said.

“Our goal is to help the admissions office recruit more students from the Adirondacks and help them to be successful students. We also want to better educate people on the history and importance of the Adirondacks.”

Summers said when students first start in the program, he is surprised how many of them do not know where or what the Adirondacks are.

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I look forward to potentially partnering with the schools here to help that mission.”

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It’s up to you, New Amsterdam?

Grassroots movement calls for state to split into pair of autonomous regions

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pete@denpubs.com SARATOGA SPRINGS — How does being a resident of New Amsterdam sound to you? Brushed up on your Dutch yet?

A potential change in identity for North Country residents won’t rely on relocation across the Atlantic Ocean to the Netherlands, but rather a flash of the pen in nearby Albany.

A people-powered movement to split New York into two selfsustaining regions, a remedy to what grassroots activists say is a gaping cultural and political divide, gained a small boost earlier this month with the launch of a Facebook page, “Divide NYS into New Amsterdam & New York”, alongside an accompanying website and a prominent plug in the right-learning national daily newspaper the Washington Times.

Instead of splitting New York into two distinct states, an unprecedented action that would require federal approval, separatists want a singular state controlled by two autonomous regional governments that reflect the upstate-downstate divide.

The current state would retain a symbolic presence funded by a three percent sales tax and would remain united for “token state laws”, including congressional representation, Native American services and all issues related to elections, judicial law and retirement benefits, among others.

The power on all internal matters would be transferred to the two regions.

“We think it’s viable because it removes the federal government from the equation,” said Upstate Conservative Coalition (UCC) coordinator John Bergener, a representive of the group that is spearheading the push.

States are free to internally organize themselves however they want, he said, citing Louisiana’s parishes and Alaska’s districts as examples.

UCC’s strategy is to amend the state constitution, which would be as simple as getting the state legislature to vote twice in favor of the proposal.

The state will then take amendments and merge them into the original text, said Bergener. “Our proposed amendment would just create a new article to govern the regions.”

According to UCC’s outline of their proposed amendment, regional senators would also serve on the state senate and the same goes for their counterparts in the state assembly. Each region would have an elected regional governor, regional lieutenantgovernor and regional secretary of state.

Alternatively, the plan could be adapted in a constitutional convention. The next vote is scheduled for 2017.

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“This idea is not new,” said Bergener. “You can Google 100 different websites that support splitting the state and they all have different strategies.”

It remains unknown how a potential split would effect each regions’ respective economies alongside the estimated 200,000 employees on the state’s two payrolls, those directly controlled by the governor’s office and the other similarly-sized chunk employed by the independent public authorities and agencies who don’t report their payroll figures to the state, but lean on them for bailouts and financial support, including the State University of New York system and the New York State Thruway Authority.

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The philosophies are just completely different.”

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of Government, for example, determined that New York City residents and businesses paid about $4.1 billion more to Albany in taxes and fees than the state returned in spending for education, health care, transit and other services in 2009-10. The number for the nearby suburban counties, said the study, was $7.9 billion more in taxes than came back in spending.

The extra $12 billion, according to the institute, went to prop up struggling upstate communities.

Local reactions

“From a state legislative perspective, it makes sense because there are so many more members from New York City and the surrounding suburbs,” said state senator Betty Little, who represents the 45th District that comprises most of the North Country.

The sheer numerical advantage of downstate reps largely influences the direction of policy decisions, said Little.

“But from a financial perspective, upstate would lose the benefit of the revenue generated downstate which supports education, health care and roads and bridges.”

Assemblyman Dan Stec said he hadn’t heard of the position when contacted at his office on Thursday, Feb. 20.

“It certainly highlights the frustration that many people upstate feel towards the New York City agenda that is imposed on the rest of the state,” he said.

Hugh T. Farley, the long-serving state senator who represents Hamilton County, didn’t respond to our requests for comment and Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, who represents Clinton and Franklin counties alongside St. Armand in Essex County, reached out to the Valley News to express regret that while she didn’t have time to study the issue extensively before this story went to press as a result of attending to the needs of her constituents in Albany, she looks forward to future discussions.

Future waves

UCC, for their part, is feeling optimistic: “We originally thought this campaign was a longshot, but considering the volume of email we’ve received this week, we think we have a better chance,” said Bergener. “It really depends on how many people contact their local representatives. I think we have a very good shot in three years.”

The group’s Facebook page boasts 130 members, up from 121 the same time last week, and offers a continuous stream of news from similar movements in other states, including coverage of an ongoing petition to divide California into six segments.

A change.org petition from an affiliated group urging Governor Cuomo, who has brushed off calls for state separatism in the past, to “Create a 51st state OR Free Upstate New York from NYC control” appears to be gaining traction.

That had 5,003 signatures by the time this story went to press on Tuesday, Feb. 25, up from 4,600 supporters a week ago.

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Pond hockey event set in Champlain

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shawn@denpubs.com CHAMPLAIN — Nothing says hockey in the North Country like a frozen pond in the dead of winter.

March 1 will bring the first annual “Winter Classic at Mahoney Pond” to Champlain.

The charity game will feature two teams of officers from Clinton Prison, and benefits both St. Jude’s hospital, and a 27-year-old correction officer suffering from stage four liver cancer.

“It’s just neat to play outside on a natural rink in the elements,” says organizer Liam Mahoney. “If Mother Nature cooperates.”

Mahoney and several other corrections officers at Clinton came up with the idea while brain-storming on how to help their ailing co-worker. Including St. Jude’s, he says, seemed like an obvious charity to support.

Mahoney says they’ve received support from NYSCOPA, Budweiser and several local businesses. There will be raffles after the game, including among other items a Gordie Howe miniature statue and other hockey paraphernalia. The game will be recorded for Hometown Cable as well.

Following the game will be a barbecue and a free skate for spectators.

There are already plans for two games next winter, including a challenge of one of the powerhouse Border Patrol teams. The puck will fall on the Winter Classis at 10 a.m. at Mahoney Pond in Champlain.

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With Doheny in NY-21 race, GOP stays with Stefanik WATERTOWN — Matt Doheny announced his bid for New York’s 21st Congressional District seat.

“I was honored that more than 120,000 voters chose me to represent them during the last election,” said Doheny. “Many told me they appreciated my real-world experience in tackling tough problems and working together with competing interests to find common ground. That approach and real-world experience is sorely needed in a Congress too full of career insiders.”

“I’ve made a career out of finding ways to create growth opportunities, turn troubled companies around, balance budgets and protect American jobs,” said Doheny, a Watertown businessman. “I want to apply that expertise to the problems facing Congress, while helping my community – the North Country, Adirondacks and Capital Region – attract good-paying jobs that are vital in the 21st century economy.”

Doheny managed the distressed assets division of a Fortune 500 company for eight years. He became an expert in both identifying what caused companies to fail and how to improve them so that they could stay in business and retain American jobs.

Doheny later formed his own local investment firm and now uses his acquired knowledge in turnarounds, development and business reforms while serving on the boards of directors of several national companies, such as Kodak, YRC Worldwide and Affinity Gaming.

Doheny, the son of Sandra “Kay” and the late Richard Doheny, grew up in the North Country and graduated from Alexandria Central School.

In weighing his run, Doheny received an outpouring of encouragement from friends, family, neighbors, party leaders, elected officials and a few local newspapers.

“I was humbled by strangers who stopped me in the grocery store or at the gas station and urged me to run again. Several friends I met on the campaign trail called and offered an encouraging word,” said Doheny. “I’m going to be out there every day working hard to get elected and be a good representative for them in Congress.”

Doheny will seek the Republican, Independence and Conservative party lines for the Nov. 4 election.

He was all three parties’ candidate during the 2012 election – one of the closest House races in the nation. Rep. Bill Owens won by 1.9 percent in a district in which President Barack Obama carried by 6.1 percent.

Doheny was also part of one of the closest House races in 2010, with just 1,990 votes separating him from the incumbent – while a fellow Republican who stayed on the Conservative Party line received 10,507 votes.

Doheny’s enterance into the race will force a primary fight with North Country Republican Party choice Elise Stefanik. Stefanik, 29, from Essex County, was endorsed by the North Country Republican chairs earlier in February.

Stefanik’s office was unavailable for comment.

After the announcement, county GOP leaders were quick to assert their confidence in Stefanik,who was tabbed by 11 of the 12 counties in the district as their

endorsed choice for the seat.

“On Feb. 5, 11 Chairs of the Republican County Committees of the 21st Congressional district selected Elise Stefanik as the candidate to best represent all the counties as our Congresswoman in Washington,” Essex County First Vice Chair Win Belanger said.

“This fact remains; she is still the best possible candidate regardless of the ‘Johnny Come Lately,’” Belanger added Doheny should have thrown his hat in the ring during the vetting process. “(Doheny and Tupper Lake Mayor Paul Mauron) had ample opportunity to weigh in against Bill Owens, they did not. Both men had ample opportunity to weigh in against Stefanik, they did not. They only came forward after a Democrat was selected that they felt they could beat,” Belanger said. “Where are the same two men who previously felt that backing the committee selection was the way it should be? Those were the gentlemen that helped our party.”

Belanger added he was confident in Stefanik’s work so far.

“Elise Stefanik knows this district, she spent much of her childhood as well as adult life here and has worked throughout this district for many years,” he said. “The Stefaniks have owned their home and paid taxes in Willsboro for over 25 years; many people who live here know and respect them. Elise has been working hard, driving to every town and county event possible for months. She has openly challenged Owens and every Republican candidate for months.

She has impressed everyone with her knowledge, experience and down to earth ‘get it done’ attitude.”

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SARANAC LAKE — The Adirondack Creative Writing Center Literary Award is a way to honor the writers and publishers who live and work (even part time) in the North Country. Submissions don’t have to be Adirondack-themed, though they can be.

Please send two copies of the book to Nathalie Thill at the ACW Office (P.O. Box 956, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983). The deadline is March 7. Please include a brief cover letter that includes contact information (including email address and snail mail address) and the genre in which you wish your book to be placed (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children’s literature, memoir, edited collection, or photography). There is no entry fee. Do not include a SASE; books cannot be returned but will become part of reading rooms or libraries.

Please note this is for published books; articles and single short stories are not eligible.

PORT HENRY — Literacy Volunteers of Essex/ Franklin Counties will host a tutor training for prospective volunteer at its main office in Port Henry.

This twelve hour Basic Literacy training will give you the tools, tips, and strategies needed to help a student improve his/her reading and math skills. The training will take place on March 6,13, 20, and 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. There is no fee and all materials are included.

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WADHAMS — The Wadhams Free Library announces the next in the Wednesday in Wadhams series of illustrated talks by local residents on Wednesday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. entitled “Natural Vitality Stress Relief,” with Brian Trzaskos of NEW Health.

The event is free and open to the public.

PORT HENRY — Literacy Volunteers of Essex/ Franklin Counties will host its annual winter Scrabble Tournament on Sunday, March 2, at the Knights of Columbus in Port Henry. This year’s event is being sponsored by Avery Energy, and the top three winners will receive prizes. This event will raise muchneeded funds and awareness for our adult literacy programs. The fun begins at 12:30 p.m. with registration, and the first game begins at 1 p.m. Registration is $10 per person and refreshments are included. Visit litvol.com or contact Literacy Volunteers’ main office at 546-3008 for more information.

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This year the hatchery plans to stock approximately 47,000 trout throughout 65 bodies of water in the county, making it one of the most unique and ambitious stocking programs in the northeastern United States.

Essex County assumed ownership of the state-run hatchery in 1982 and it’s been providing a population of trout in local waters ever since.

Hatchery superintendent Steven LaMere has seen a lot of progress made in his 24 years in charge at the facility. LaMere launched the hatcheries trophy trout program after he was hired in 1990. These trophy fish are 3-year-old rainbow and brown Essex County Fish Hatchery workers in Crown Point look over a 3-year-old rainbow trout as they trout over 18 inches in length. prepare for spring stocking.

Since the hatchery started this Photo by Seth Lang program LaMere noticed an immediate impact on tourism in “We’re very proud of the quality and quantity of fish the area. we’ve raised for more than two decades,” LaMere said.

“Sport fishermen started popping up from other states to “Our hatchery has managed to be successful with very fish these waters,” said LaMere. little funding.”

The hatchery also stocks several area waters which sponThe need for a hatchery comes from a variety of issues sor children’s fishing tournaments throughout the region. such as over fishing and habitat loss due to storm run off.

Tournaments like the Roe Pond Invitational in Witherbee, Stocking these waters with trout augments the natural rewhere seniors and disabled residents also have access be- production that occurs in streams. came quite popular. Westport, Keene, Willsboro, New“The importance of having a local hatchery is having a comb and other towns have also had children’s derbies connection with local people,” LaMere said. “For decades where these fish were stocked. people of all ages have come into our facility to learn about Prior to the trophy program, the hatchery primarily trout.” raised yearling trout.

Though there is still need for more funding for rehabOf the 47,000 trout to be stocked this year, approximately bing the facility and basic upkeep, the hatchery has man17,000 are yearling brook trout, 26,000 are 2-year-old rain- aged to get by over the years, spending what they can on bow trout and brown trout and around 3,600 are 3-yeartheir most pressing needs. old, most of which are rainbow trout.

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The tree and shrub seedlings and transplants are sold as bare-root stock.

They are not potted, nor balled in burlap; such as you’d expect to buy from a commercial nursery.

For the 2014 tree and shrub program we have several trees including American Sycamore, Sawtooth Oak, Ninebark and Serviceberry to name a few. These are all great species to grow in areas along streams and stabilize banks providing great riparian habitats. Streamco Willow cuttings and wattles work well for riparian planting. The wattles are a great way to restore some of our damaged and eroding banks. Good to eat and for wildlife habitat is blueberry, nanking cherry, blackberry, plum and apple.

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Boys playoffs KEENE — The fourth-seeded Keene Beavers wanted to take advantage of their interior play against No. 5 Willsboro in the Section VII/Class D playoffs Feb. 22, and Brandon Dumas was up to the task.

Dumas (8.4 ppg) scored a game-high 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Beavers (13-4) scored a 47-34 win against Willsboro (7-12).

“We wanted to take advantage of our height on the inside and I was able to get the ball and make some plays,” Dumas said after the game.

Austin Brown (12.9 ppg) added 14 points for the Beavers while Colton Venner (13.6) scored 10 and Gabe Warner 8.

For Willsboro, Nick Arnold (13.4 ppg) scored 12 points with Zach Pierson adding 7, Lucas Cross 6, Nolan Murphy 4, Keenen Hampton 3 and Jesse Hearn 2.

The Beavers advanced to the sectional semifinals Wednesday, Feb. 26 at AuSable Valley Central School, where they played topseed Moriah at 7:30 p.m., who beat No. 8 Lake Placid 60-27.

“We know (Adam) Jaquish is big in the middle and I am going to go out there and try to body up and compete hard against him,” Dumas said.

“We will go in with a gameplan and play hard against them,” head coach Chad Lopez said.

2. Westport 38, 7. Elizabethtown-Lewis 25 The renewal of the Eagles-Lions rivalry in the sectional quarterfinals was a physical, low-scoring affair which saw Westport (14-5) use a 9-2 third quarter to give them the breathing room needed to advance to the semifinal round Feb. 22.

Ryan Davis (12.0 ppg) scored 15 points to lead the Eagles, while Sam Napper (7.7) added 10, Anderson Gay (11.8) 5, Thomas Mero 4, John Doyle 2 and James Moricette 2.

For the Lions (5-15), Zac Noka-Bailey scored 9 points while Hugh Harwood added 5, RJ Plante 4, Cortland White 3, Austin Morris 2 and Sam Huttig 2.

2. AuSable Valley 68, 3. Northeastern Clinton 59, 2 OT After four quarters and an overtime that saw the Patriots and Cougars absolutely level, AuSable Valley (15-4) outscored NCCS 12-3 in the second overtime period to earn a spot in the Section VII/Class B finals Feb. 22.

Zach Cosgrove (10.9 ppg) was the main attraction on the night, scoring 33 points, including nine makes from beyond the threepoint arc, in leading the Patriots to victory. John Goodnough (13.0) added 16 points, while Shane Douglas (13.4) scored 12, Nick McDonald 4 and Austin Facteau 4.

The Patriots will face coin-flip top seed Plattsburgh High Saturday, March 1 at approximately 3 p.m. in the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse for the Class B title. The two teams split their regular season meetings, with each winning on their home court.

7. Elizabethtown-Lewis 56, 10. Johnsburg 46 The Elizabethtown-Lewis boys varsity basketball team did its part to set up a sectional matchup with neighbor and rival Westport with a 10-point win against Johnsburg Feb. 19.

The Lions (5-14) outscored the Jaguars in three of the four quarters for the 56-46 win, with RJ Plante leading the team offensively with 19 points.

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Gabe Warner of Keene scoops to the basket after coming out of a crowd of Willsboro defenders that included, from left, Nolan Murphy, Jesse Hearn, Lucas Cross and Nick Arnold.

Photo by Keith Lobdell “This was a good, team win,” head coach Colby Pulsifer said after the game.

Austin Morris added 12 points with Wesley Whalen scoring 9, Trevor Brooks 4, Caleb Denton 3 and Sam Huttig 1.

Hugh Harwood also filled the stat sheet for the Lions, combining 8 points with 11 rebounds, 8 steals and 3 assists.

“Hugh just plays the game all heart,” Pulsifer said. “He doesn’t know how to stop. He won’t light up the scoreboard but he does everything for this team.”

Girls playoffs 2. Saranac 50, 3. AuSable Valley 48 The No. 3 AuSable Valley Lady Patriots again found themselves in another tough fight against No. 2 Saranac Feb. 21 in the Class B semifinals at Plattsburgh High School.

Tied in the final 15 seconds with the ball in the hands of junior guard Meghan Strong, the Patriots looked to be on the verge of getting of the potential game-winning shot.

However, after a drive to the basket by Madison McCabe was picked off by Saranac’s Summer Gillespie, it was Saranac holding their breath as Gillespie raced down the court and converted the game-winning layup for a 50-48 victory.

“We have played two very close games against Saranac this year so we knew this was going to be a tight one,” head coach Roger Long said after the game.

The game started out with AuSable (14-5) scoring the first five points of the contest followed by a 12-3 run for Saranac. The Lady Pats then scored the final four points of the first eight minutes to level the score at 12-12.

The Patriots trailed 29-19 at the half but rallied in the third quarter as they had in previous games, quickly cutting the lead to a single basket before ending the third quarter trailing the Chiefs 35-31. A Madison Rondeau three-pointer midway through the fourth quarter gave the Patriots their first lead of the second half, and after the teams exchanged possessions the Patriots held a 48-46 lead but were unable to convert on late free thrown opportunities.

“The biggest thing for us was things were not going our way in the first half and we had a conversation at halftime and said we could either quit or fight hard,” Long said. “We showed a lot of heart fighting back in the third quarter. We hit some key shots down the stretch but we did not shoot the ball great throughout the game. The difference in the game for me was the fact that we were 2-for-15 from the free thrown line tonight.”

Long said the last set for the Patriots started too early.

“The whole idea was to get Meghan to draw contact on their big kids with a screen, take the ball into the lane and read it from there,” Long said. “She attacked too early. The Gillespie girl got the steal, covered a lot of ground and made the bucket.”

The Madison’s - Rondeau (7.6 ppg) and McCabe (8.7 ppg) each scored 11 points for the Patriots.

“Madison McCabe did a lot to get us back in this game,” Long said.

Strong (12.5 ppg), who played through the game injured, and Logan Snow (9.9 ppg) both scored eight points, while Taylor Saltus (10.8 ppg) added six points before fouling out early in the

fourth quarter. Sydney Snow and Bryce Douglass each scored two points.

2. Elizabethtown-Lewis 67, 7. Willsboro 27 The Lady Lions (14-5) used a 19-6 second quarter to pull away from the Lady Warriors (4-15) and advance to the Section VII/ Class D semifinals Feb. 21. Lily Whalen (19.6 ppg) paced the Lions offense with 23 points while Jasmin Barnes (14.2) added 15, Savanah Graves 13, Emma Disogra 7, Angel Barnes 6 and Myra Adams 3.

For the Warriors, Andrea O’Hara (12.9 ppg) finished with 8 points, with Stephanie Blanchard scoring 7, Taylor Bigelow 5, Payton Gough 5 and Amanda Henrichs 2.

3. Keene 51, 6. Crown Point 25 Trailing by two after the first quarter of play, the Lady Beavers (14-3) outscored Crown Point 35-10 over the next 16 minutes to pull away for a win to advance to the Class D semifinals Feb. 21.

Elaina Smith (8.9 ppg) led Keene with 18 points while Hanna Whitney (14.2) scored 13, Naomi Peduzzi (11.7) added 9, Tucker Geiger (10.1) 5, Taylor Geiger 2, Madison Gifford 2 and Daria Venner 2.

4. Minerva/Newcomb 60, 5. Westport 32 A 25-9 stretch over the middle two quarters of play sealed a trip to the Class D semifinals against Moriah for Minerva/Newcomb, who defeated the Lady Eagles (11-8) Feb. 21. Senior Brendee Russell (12.4 ppg) scored 12 points in her final game, while eighth grader Hannah Schwoebel (6.8) added 8, Ellie Schwoebel (9.1) 4, Sydney Mitchell 3, Sarah Looby 3 and Emily Rascoe 2.

Moriah scored a 68-6 victory over Schroon Lake to advance to the Class D semifinals, which will be played at AuSable Valley High School Tuesday, Feb. 25 with Elizabethtown-Lewis facing Keene at 6 p.m. and Moriah facing Minerva/Newcomb at 7:30 p.m.

3. AuSable Valley 70, 6. Saranac Lake 33 A balanced attack led the AuSable Valley Lady Patriots to the Section VII/Class B semifinals in a 70-33 victory over Saranac Lake Feb. 18.

“I thought there were spots where our offense struggled, but overall it was a good night for us,” Patriots head coach Roger Long said after the game. “It was a good team effort.”

Taylor Saltus and Logan Snow scored 15 points each for the Patriots, who scored their 14th win of the season. Meghan Strong scored 10 points and provided strong play from the point guard position.

Late in the first half, the Patriots went on a run with Strong scoring the first two points and then assisting on the next four in transition for easy baskets.

Jeanna Manning added 7 points for the Patriots, while Madison Rondeau and Vanessa Garrow each scored 6, Sydney Snow added 5, Emily McDonald 2, Kourtney Keenan 2 and Madison McCabe 2.

For the Lady Red Storm (4-14), Katie Buckley connected on four three-pointers as she scored 21 of her teams’ 33 points. Talia McDonough added 4 points, with Shanna Buckley and Jenny Ward scoring 3 points and Selena Baillargeon.

Baker draws defending state champ, Rivers gets Section II’s best at state meet

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com CLINTONVILLE — The two AuSable Valley wrestlers making their way to states this weekend will be in for a tough opening round Friday, Feb. 28.

In the 120-lbs. weight division, sophomore Dylan Baker, who finished the regular season 31-10 with an 8-3 decision over Shawn LaGrave of Saranac in the Section VII title tilt, will open the state tournament against Luis Weierbach of Hoosick Falls. Weierbach, a senior, was the NYSPHSAA state champion last season at 106-

lbs. However, he was defeated as the second seed in the Section II, Division II title match, 4-3, by top seed Matt Morris.

A win for Baker would mean a quarterfinal matchup against either Joe Rorick of OdessaMontour (Section IV) or Daniel Mullin of Gouveneur (X). Rorick was 0-2 in the 2013 competition at 106, while Mullin, like Baker, is entering his first state tournament.

Patriots’ Junior Kenny Rivers, representing Section VII in the heavyweight division (285lbs.) finished with a record of 31-6 and defeated Tony Bushey, 1-0, to claim the sectional title and state bid, will face Marcus Ramundo of Schal-

mont in Section II in the 120th and final match of the opening round in the NYSPHSAA Division II wrestling tournament.

Ramundo, who was the second seed in the Section II, Division II tournament at 285, defeated top seed Nick Scott of Cohoes by a 4-2 decision.

A win for Rivers would mean a quarterfinal match against either Elvin Gervacio of Brooklyn International (PSAL) or Anthony Dinardo of Irvington (I). Scott would be a potential semifinal opponent. The top seed in the weight division is Connor Calkins of Alfred-Almond (V), who finished in fifth place at the state meet last

season after beating then top seed Alex Soutiere in the opening round.

Rivers, Ramundo and Dinard are making their first appearance in the state tournament, while Gervacio was 0-2 in 2013.

Savage hockey all star

LAKE PLACID — Briana Savage, a student at AuSable Valley High School who plays for the Lake Placid varsity girls hockey team, was named a CVAC second team all- star defender for the 2013-14 season.

March 1, 2014

Erosion workshop set

WESTPORT — On Feb. 28, the Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District will offer the required four hour Erosion and Sediment Control training for contractors and developers.

Code Officer Credits will be available for this workshop. The training will be held from 8 a.m. until noon at the Essex County Fairgrounds, 3 Sisco Street, Westport. The training will be presented by Dave Reckahn, District Manager.

This training is required for all contractors working on projects that disturb more than one acre of soil and have a storm water permit from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. The permit will require that contractors moving dirt at those sites have at least one trained employee on site on a daily basis. Training is good for 3 years.

Contractors and developers will have to preregister for the training to receive credits. The training will cost $75 for certification, reference materials and refreshments. Registration needs to be in by Feb. 25. If you have a group of ten or more and are interested in holding a private workshop, please contact the District at 962-8225 or email at essexswcd@westelcom.com.

‘Gravity’ screened at Grange

WHALLONSBURG — On Saturday, March 1, the Champlain Valley Film Society presents “Gravity.” Directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón, who helmed the award-winning “Y Tu Mamá También,” and “Children of Men,” the film follows two astronauts, played by George Clooney and Best Actress nominee Sandra Bullock, who must struggle to survive when knocked free from their space shuttle. The film earned Cuarón the Golden Globe Award for Best Director along with three other nominations and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture. The film begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Whallonsburg Grange

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Agri exemption class offered

WESTPORT — The Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District will be assisting agricultural landowners with completion of Soil Group worksheets for agricultural exemption. The exemptions are for qualifying landowners earning $10,000 or more per year from their agricultural operation. Landowners making changes to current qualifying parcels need to have updated worksheets for acreage and ownership changes.

Agricultural landowners should first contact their local assessor to determine eligibility. Please contact the District office at 962-8225 or send an email to essexswcd@westelcom.com for a new or updated Soil Group worksheet before the March 1 deadline.

Westport VFD to host car washes

WESTPORT — The Westport Volunteer Fire Depatrment will host its annual car wash throughout the month of March from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday of the month (March 1, March 8, March 15, March 22 and March 29). Washes are offered for a $5 donation or through the purchase of a ticket book for $20. Books can be purchased from any Westport fireman or at the Westport Town Clerk’s office.

ETC to hold meeting

WILLSBORO — The Essex Theatre Company Board of Trustees meeting will be held at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, at the Willsborough Visitors Center. Refreshments will be served from 4:30 p.m. on. The public is welcome.

Book study group to meet

KEENE VALLEY — As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty and the wealth-gap takes center stage in our political discourse, Keene Valley Congregational Church UCC and John Brown Lives! invite the public join in a book study and discussion that shifts this critical dialogue to a, “preferential option for the poor.”

In the text chosen for discussion, “In the Company of the Poor: Conversations with Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez” (Orbis, 2013), a Harvard-trained physician and a Peruvian priest share their personal meditations and heartwarming conversations with one another about the structural underpinnings of poverty and what can be done to repair a broken world.

The book group will meet each Sunday evening in March, at Keene Valley Congregational Church UCC from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and all are welcome. Homemade soup and bread will be served. Local rides for seniors and childcare will be provided if requested in advance by the contacting the church at 576-4711.

Books are available for $15 from the church, $10 on Kindle, and there are copies in the Keene and Keene Valley Libraries. For more information, contact Rev. Milton Dudley at kvcc12943@gmail.com or Martha Swan at mswan@capital. net or call 576-4711.

Dinner at parish hall

ELIZABETHTOWN — The annual St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and ham dinner will be held from 2 until 6 p.m. at St. Elizabeth’s Parish Hall in Elizabethtown. Cost is $11 for adults and $5 for children under 12.

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NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF BRAIDWOODíS LAKE PLACID, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/17/14.

Office location: Essex County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/12/13. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Kara N. Sweeney, Esq., c/o PretiFlaherty, 57 North Main St., PO Box 1318, Concord, NH 03302-1318. Address

of the principal office: c/o Braidwoods, LLC, 484 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Certificate of Formation filed with the DE Secy. of State, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

VN-2/8-3/15/20146TC-37867 ----------------------------NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: BLUE LINE DESIGN & APPAREL LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 01/09/14. Office location: Essex County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 112, Port Henry, New York 12974. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

VN-2/8-3/15/20146TC-37869 ----------------------------26 POV LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 01/06/14. Office Location: Essex County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, PO Box 1260, Alpine, NJ 07620. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

VN-2/15-3/22/20146TC-38176 ---------------------------HANOVER/PORTLA ND, LLC, Application for Authority filed with SSNY on 01/22/14.

Cert. of Formation filed in Delaware on

06/25/04.

Office Location: Essex County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 19 Benedict Pl., Greenwich, CT 06830 . The address of the office required to be maintained in the jurisdiction of its formation is: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. The name and address of the Secretary of State in its jurisdiction of organization where a copy of its Certificate of Formation is filed is Secretary of State of Delaware, 401 Federal St., Ste.4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

VN-2/15-3/22/20146TC-38177 -----------------------------

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION OF LAKE PLACID FDS 708956, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/7/14. Office location: Essex County. LLC formed in North Carolina (NC) on 1/22/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. NC address of LLC: 3735-B Beam Road, Charlotte, NC 28217. Arts. of Org. filed with NC Secy. of State, PO Box 29622, Raleigh, NC 27626.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

VN-2/22-3/29/20146TC-39014 ----------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE (Pursuant to section 501 of the Real Property Law)

Pursuant to section 501 of the Real Property Tax Law, the Assessor for the Town of Keene has inventory and valuation data available for review of the assessments in the township.

An appointment may be made to review this information by phoning 518-576-9163, or stop by the office on Thursdays only between the hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm.

Dated March 1, 2014 Donna J Bramer Sole Assessor VN-3/1/2014-1TC39247 ----------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE (Pursuant to section 501 of the Real Property Law) Pursuant to section 501 of the Real Property Tax Law, the Assessor for the Town of Lewis has inventory and valuation data available for review of the assessments in

the township.

An appointment may be made to review this information by phoning 518-873-6777, Tuesdays only between the hours of 10:00am and 3:00pm.

Dated March 1, 2014 Donna J Bramer Sole Assessor VN-3/1/2014-1TC39246 ----------------------------BOREAS BAY CAMP, LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 02/19/14. Off. Loc.: Essex County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 16 Calkinstown Rd., Sharon, CT 06069.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act.

VN-3/1-4/5/2014-6TC39447 ----------------------------PUBLIC NOTICE

HEARING

Please take notice that The Town of Essex New York Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on March 20, 2014, at 7:00 p.m., at the Essex Town Hall, 2313 Main Street, Essex, NY 12936, on the following applications: Pataki - Tax Map #40.73-5-8.000 - 312 School Street, Essex Site Plan Review and Special Use Permit.

Thorn - Tax Map #49.7-4-5.000 - Wild Acre Way, Essex Minor Subdivision.

The Regular meeting of the Essex Planning Board will immediately follow this public hearing.

Catherine DeWolff, Planning Board Secretary VN-3/1/2014-1TC39660 ----------------------------Juggling Your Budget?

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