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This Week CLINTONVILLE

Sewer still backs up H. Nye transfer

By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com

ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ Legal wrangling continues to drag out the official handover of the former Essex Countyowned Horace Nye nursing facility to the NYC-based Centers for Specialty Care (CSC), county attorney Daniel Manning told lawmakers Monday, March 3.

Since early-February, the two sides have been negotiating a resolution to issues involving the septic system and sewage pits as a result of the detection of some contaminants. Ò WeÕ re still going back and forth between CSCÕ s engineers to see what needs to be done,Ó said Manning. Ò TheyÕ re being very strict.”

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Owens reaches out

Middlebury coach speaks to local educators

By Pete DeMola

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SPORTS

Elizabethtown-Lewis defenders Angel Barnes, Jasmin Barnes and Savanah Graves attempt to trap Moriah’s Taylor Sprague during the Section VII/ Class D girls championship game Feb. 28 at the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse. The Lions were defeated by the Vikings, 46-26. See more from the weekend in sports on page 14-15.

Photo by Nancy Frasier

Tanneberger Alumni Tournament celebrates 35 years

By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com

Local athletes compete in state contests PAGE 14-15

WESTPORT Ñ For the 35 years following the death of Westport native Dr. Thomas Tanneberger, community and alumni have returned to the Eagles’ homecourt to pay tribute to him through basketball and fundraising.

The 35th Annual Dr. Thomas Tanneberger Memorial Alumni Basketball Tournament will take place Saturday,

March 15, with games starting at 1 p.m. featuring teams comprised of alumni from the school.

Carol Schwoebel, Tanneberger Õ s sister, and her husband Jeff have been working as tournament organizers for many of the 35 years and are joined on the Tanneberger Scholarship board by Jim Forcier, Pete Frisbie, Michael Tyler and William McHone. Ò ItÕ s an incredible feeling knowing

how the community has supported the scholarship efforts started by TomÕ s friends 35 years ago,Ó Carol said. Ò The tournament started as a way to honor Tom, his spirit and love of athletics, academics and community. The annual alumni basketball and golf tournaments have been a perfect way to reach out to others in TomÕ s honor while supporting scholarship efforts.Ó CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

WASHINGTON Ñ Congressman Bill Owens (D-NY) held a telephone town hall Wednesday, Feb. 26, with constituents of New YorkÕ s 21st Congressional District to discuss policy in Washington, his recent work in the district and issues reflecting both national and local concerns. Ò I wanted to host this town hall because itÕ s been a while since we’ve done this,Ó Owens told participants before running down a list of recent Capitol Hill accomplishments, including the debt ceiling increase, the 2014-15 resolved budget and last monthÕ s Farm Bill passage.

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AuSable Valley Central School students to present ‘Pippin’

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com CLINTONVILLE Ñ Students from elementary to high school will take to the AuSable Valley Middle/High School stage next week to perform a coming of age story set to song.

The troupe of players is set to bring Ò PippinÓ to the school stage with 7:30 p.m. curtains Thursday, March 13; Friday, March 14; and Saturday, March 15, along with a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, March 16. Ò Pippin is just getting out of college and

looking for something meaningful, but nothing seems to work out,Ó said senior Michael Rafferty, who plays the title role. Ò It is a coming of age story about finding happiness in life.”

Sophomore Clara Meyer plays then Leading Player.

“She’s kind of like the devil,” Meyer said. Ò My part is to manipulate Pippin into performing my grand finale, which makes me kind of the bad guy.Ó Meyer is joined in her quest by several players, including Berthe, played by junior Emilie Kilburn; and Catherine, played by senior Tonie Cross.

Ò We are a troupe of actors that make Pippin believe that we can help him find meaning in his life,Ó Kilburn said. Ò CatherineÕ s job is to direct Pippin away from a comfortable home life, but things do not go exactly as planned.Ó Students have varying years of experience as members of the annual musical production of the show.

“This is the ninth show I have done here,” Rafferty said.”It has been great because I have grown up in the theater and it has taught me a lot of life lessons and a lot of skills.Ó “The first year I was a disaster,” said Meyer, who is in her third musical. Ò I found it funny they cast me for a role that requires dancing because that is not a strong point for me, but I am getting more comfortable and more confident as a person just by doing all the plays.Ó “I actually think I have gotten more stage shy since I started,” said Kilburn, a seven year vet.

“You want to make sure that everything goes right.Ó Cross has been a member of the last three musicals, coming back to the stage after being part of the productions as an elementary student.

“I think I am more confident and more comfortable on stage then I am in front of smaller crowds,Ó Cross said.

The musical is directed by Matt Stanley, with assistance from Martin Deslauriers, choreography by Antonette Knoedel and music direction

by Dennis Frisbee.

Stanley said the cast is made up of 20 high school students with a number of elementary students set to join the cast for the final week leading up to the performances.

Tickets for the show cost $10 each and can be purchased in advance by calling the school box office at 834-2800, ext. 7500. For information, email office@avcsk12.org.

Members of the AuSable Valley musical production, “Pippin” rehearse in preparation for the opening curtain March 13.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

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Middlebury hockey coach looks to bring school, college students together

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com ESSEX Ñ Many young kids grow up with the dream of making it to the big stage in the world of sports.

Bill Beaney believes those who have made it to that next level should help support those dreams.

Beaney, the head coach of the Middlebury College menÕ s hockey team, spoke to educators assembled at the College For Every Student (CFES) headquarters Feb. 6 abut the bonds that form when players from his teams go to local schools. Ò These players can latch onto younger kids and communicate in a way that is much more meaningful and deeper,Ó Beaney said. Ò What we try to do is make a connection that will carry on. If you can develop trust, it is amazing what you can come away with.Ó Recently, some of BeaneyÕ s players joined with college student-athletes from the Middlebury women’s hockey team to visit students at Ticonderoga and Crown Point Central schools. Ò They come back from those trips and they cannot stop talking about what happened there,Ó Beaney said. Ò I had a practice that night and the girls had a game and they all came back with smiles on their faces and sharing stories.Ó

Beaney said when players talk to younger students and make trips to schools, he wants them to help students become leaders in the same way he works with his players and students.

“For me, over the course of the last 10 years, I have noticed that being a leader today is really difficult,” Beaney said. “We need to start early to develop the characteristics of real leaders because there are not a lot of them. We need to talk about goal setting, what it means to be a friend, standing up for the tough decisions and helping to solve problems.”

Beaney said that he promotes self leadership with his students and athletes because they need to be able to motivate themselves in tough times. Ò When you look at the athletes competing in the Olympics, their parents played a roll and were holding on, but they were the ones that had the drive to get to that next step, and learning how to get there is the kind of things that we can talk about with our students.Ó Beaney said that he tries to teach four core principles to his athletes: preparation, respect, having Olympic-sized dreams and dealing with distractions. Ò ItÕ s not just about teaching them a math equation, its about turning the light on and getting the kids excited,Ó he said.

Middlebury College hockey coach Bill Beaney speaks at a CFES event last month.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

Essex County bridge rehabilitation work to continue throughout spring season

By Pete DeMola

pete@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ The new Moriah Center Bridge is open to traffic, Department of Public Works chief Anthony LaVigne said in his report to the DPW committee Feb. 12, and the project will go into winter shutdown until weather conditions permit construction to restart.

The bridge needs to be paved and guardrails have yet to be installed.

The design of Grove Road Bridge in Jay is near completion and final plans are expected to be received for review and bid this month.

Other bridges in design include Elk Drive and Lord Howe Street Bridge (Ticonderoga), H. Weight Bridge (Crown Point), Dr. Ray Bridge, Cemetery Bridge and St. HubertÕ s Bridge (Keene), Lobdell Bridge (Elizabethtown), Sprague Hill Bridge (Moriah) and Pepper Hollow in North Hudson.

The large number stems from Hurricane Irene in August, 2011.

The county lost 12 bridges, said LaVigne, and 28 others were “significantly” damaged.

LaVigne said the DPW normally replaces two per year as a result of annual deterioration.

Construction on Stickney Bridge in Jay is scheduled to start on March 4. The bridge will be closed for two months while the deck is replaced.

LaVigne also filled in lawmakers on a power outage in Lewis on Jan. 22 that affected the county prison.

The prison has a generator with automatic switches, he explained. Issues arose with the mechanism that switches from municipal power to the power generated on the prisonÕ s generator.

As a troubleshooting measure, NYSEG came in with the manufacturer to simulate a power failure.

“They observed what happens during power failures and downloaded that info onto a computer Ñ like a black box,Ó said LaVigne.

Ò They will study that information to determine the exact issue.Ó LaVigne also told lawmakers that CHIPS funds Ñ state aid for highway improvement — had been included in Gov. Cuomo’s proposed budget at the 2013 increased level, a level that will remain static until the end of the state fiscal year 2015. Ò These funds make up the lionÕ s share of our maintenance and construction money,Ó he said, referring to the CHIPs contributions.

“It’s been a fight to get them into the budget. But the governor has included them in this year for the first time in about eight years, which is a good sign.Ó LaVigne said last yearÕ s increase was a great help and the county really appreciates it.

He told the board that Advocacy Day, the two-day event in Albany for local officials to lobby their counterparts at the state level, is slated for March 4-5. LaVigne encouraged lawmakers to attend and advocate, among other local issues, to keep the CHIPS funds both in the budget and tied to inflation.

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he North Country SPCA would like to announce an upcoming benefit bowling tournament on March 22 at 1 p.m. The excitement will take place at the Willsboro Bowling Center. The cost to enter is

Westport

Kathy L. Wilcox • 873-5000

$25 per player for a 4-person team to play three games of 9-pin. In addition to the bowling excitement, there will be prizes, a 50/50 raffle, and a Chinese Auction so we can promise it will be a day of plenty of entertainment! For more information and to register, please email susan.arena@ gmail.com. Come out and enjoy a day of friendly competition - all for the animals!

Our featured pet this week is Lyza, a Chow Chow/ Keesehound mix who has a gorgeous, thick, golden-brown and black coat you wonÕ t be able to resist sinking your fingers into! Poor Lyza was found wandering lost and wondering which way to go.

She is a large dog with a sweet disposition. Although she is an older gal, she still has plenty of spunk and she loves going for walks.She likes other dogs and even has patience with the young, jumping dogs. Lyza has such a wonderful, affectionate personality and many years of love left to give. Please stop by and meet this special gentle giant - you wonÕ t regret it.

Colin Wells • WestportNYNews@gmail.com

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ttention birders! Westport Outdoor Guide Elizabeth Lee (who also directs the Youth Commission) is sponsoring two classes on bird language and behavior by renowned Vermont naturalist Connor Stedman at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall on Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, March 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The first class is on Ò Bird Language Through the SeasonsÓ and the second, a field class, will focus on bird language and behavior in the winter. Space is limited; preregister by emailing lakeside5047@gmail.com.

On Tuesday, March 11, singer Alisa Endsley and the inimitable Russell Ames will again offer an evening of your favorite show tunes at the Westport Library. Ò Broadway Babes” starts at 7 p.m. and by 8 p.m. or so it should warm things up enough to thaw the lake well ahead of schedule.

And at 7:30 p.m. the next night over at the Wadhams Free Library, Brian Trzaskos of NEW Health will give an illustrated talk on natural techniques for reducing stress as part of the free Wednesdays in Wadhams lecture series. This is your chance to learn the ancient Chinese secret that will solve all your problems forever, but

you need to show up in order to hear it.

Finally, next weekend is the 35th Annual Tom Tanneberger Memorial Basketball Tournament, when Westport Central School alumni gather from around the world to face each other in a day of exciting and, for some at least, not-quite-as-easy-as-it-usedto-be competition. The festivities begin Friday night, March 14, with the Open Shoot Around from 7 to 9 p.m. and the tournament itself starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 15 in the school gym. Between games and during halftimes, current WCS students will school the old-timers on how itÕ s done with exhibitions of their own skills.

Players for the four menÕ s and two womenÕ s alumni teams should register ahead of time online at Tanneberger.org or by calling Jeff and Carol at 962-8567. Players can then sign-in at the Shoot Around or by noon on Saturday in the gym. The $25 registration fee includes a T-shirt and a plus-one for the gathering afterward, and general admission for spectators is only $4 for adults and $2 for students. All proceeds go to the Dr. Tom Tanneberger Memorial Scholarship Fund, which as we all know is one of our communityÕ s key programs.

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onÕ t forget to turn your clocks ahead this Sunday, March 9, as Daylight savings starts again for another year.

I must thank the Anderson Falls Heritage Society for all the great information that I picked up during my visits with them last year as they are the source for the historical tidbits I’ve been placing in the column lately.

Another thing I found while visiting them was a great display of AuSable Chasm with numerous tourist items including 3-D Viewmaster reels of the Chasm. I need to head back to the museum when they open this spring to get more information on all the different aspects of our history. I was also very impressed with their photographic album of the numerous spiral staircases that exist in Keeseville.

Little Italy is taking a short break for four weeks but I’ve been assured that it will reopen again soon. Besides their pizza I am a big fan of their Wild Mushroom Fettuccine Alfredo.

Annual ST. PATRICK’S DINNER

It’s very delicious. I recently also discovered the breakfast sandwiches at the Mobil Station.

Between the Sunoco and Mobil I am very satisfied with my breakfast choices. Both are very much worth a visit and try. Of course those who prefer a heartier fare don’t have to look further than Pleasant Corners Restaurant or MacLeans for great meals to start the day.

Well the score is now squirrel: two, bird feeders: zero as the little tyke managed to chew into the top of my new feeder. IÕ m definitely going to have to get a metal or wood feeder next. I’ll go visit Adirondack Hardware and see what they have available. I saw hysterical photos on the Internet of a squirrel feeder in the shape of a horseÕ s head. You put peanut butter on a ledge in the feeder and when the squirrel sticks his head up into the feeder to get the treat it looks like a squirrelÕ s body with a horseÕ s head. Too funny.

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

tÕ s March! Spring will be here soon, itÕ s daylight savings time this weekend, so turn your clocks 1 hour ahead on Saturday evening before you call it quits for the day.

In the mean time, Friday March 7, is the last day for early pre-registration to acquire the T-shirt for the 34th Annual Doc Lopez Run for Hope. The 13.1 mile run (half marathon) from Keene to Elizabethtown is Saturday, March 22.

There is also a 3.1 mile run or a 1 mile walk that starts and ends at ELCS. Registration fees are $10 for students, $20 for adults or a family is $50, includes a buffet lunch and certificate, forms are available online at active.com. For more information call Susie at 962-4898 or email susieallott@gmail.com. This race benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, awards will be given to the top three runners, excluding the walkers. You may also register the day of the race at 8 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. at ELCS. Thinking about Spring, the annual seedling sale sponsored by the Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District has started and will continue until March 17. This a great time to purchase bare root trees and shrubs along

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ere we are starting the season of Lent, this week with Ash Wednesday and then for the next several weeks that leads up to Easter. The only service I saw listed was at the St. Phillips Church at 5:30 p.m. This season usually brings warmer weather and chances to enjoy the outdoors.

Events that might be of interest include the United Methodist MenÕ s Soup & Bread Lunch on Saturday, March 8th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. served at the UMC, serving 6 different kinds of soup and several kinds of breads, and a man size dessert along with a beverage all for $6. Come and bring a friend. On that same evening of Saturday, March 8, this will be the last Coffee House concert at the Willsboro Congregational Church for this season. They will feature the music of Alice Knight and Speedy Arnold starting at 7 p.m. with an admission fee of $5 for adults and students at $2. They also have refreshments for sale. A delightful evening of music so plan to join them.

Our new Supervisor is still issuing an open invitation to any interested persons to visit him at the Willsboro Town Hall on Saturday mornings between 9 and 11 a.m. and share your ideas and concerns for the community very informal.

Please note the former Restaurant of Ricks is now not only under new management but also has a new name ZEKEÕ S PUB, offering pretty much the same as the past restau-

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aturalist and environmental educator Connor Stedman will give a talk this Friday evening at the Whallonsburg Grange on the voices and behavior of birds. Birds are starting to sing a bit in the mornings, although this recent cold weather has driven them into hiding, and they are becoming much more active. Mr. Stedman’s lecture starts at 7 p.m. and the suggested donation is $8. The following day heÕ ll lead a half-day class in the woods applying some of the ideas of the night before. The cost for this is $25 and to sign up, go to the CATS website.

On Saturday night, the Grange hall will pulsate with the sounds of the Modern Grass Quintet, an aggregation of bluegrass, jazz and folk musicians playing lively music to warm up a winter Õ s night. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $10 and can be had at Dogwood Bakery in Wadhams or right at the door.

If all this isn’t enough to convince you that the Whallonsburg Grange is the cultural heart and soul of Essex and the greater

with wildflower seeds to add to your landscaping. The earlier you place your order the more variety of a selection you will have to choose from, order forms are available online at www. essexcountyswcd.org or call 962-8225, by email at essexswcd@westelcom.com. You may pick up your orders on April 25, in Westport at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Center.

If you enjoy bluegrass music then the place to be on Saturday evening March 8, at 7:30 p.m. is the Whallonsburg Grange to listen to original and traditional tunes by The Modern Grass Quintet. Tickets are $10 in advance, available at the Wadhams Dogwood Bakery or $12 at the door, children under 18 are $5. For more information call 963-4170 or visit www.thegrangehall.com.

The Elizabethtown Thrift Shop will be holding their end of season bag sale from Monday, March 24 through Saturday, March 29, consisting of menÕ s, womenÕ s and some childrenÕ s winter clothing for $2 a bag. Saturday, April 5, will be the next collection day and the UCC parish hall from 10 a.m. until noon. They are looking for Spring and Summer clothing donations.

Janice Allen • 963-8912 • allens@willex.com rant and include breakfast on the weekends starting at 8 a.m. I keep noting that Johnny’s Restaurant keeps offering many weekend specials watch their outside sign board.

Received some sad news that the Willsboro Diner has posted a Closed notice until further notice. Hope all goes well for them, he was offering weekend dinner buffet specials.

We do have a great school and they offer some wonderful educational programs for our students; but this takes guidance and direction, so this is where the administration and School Board play a big role. Did you know that there are two seats up for election each with a three year term.

If you have an interest in running for one of these positions contact the school office soon.

If you are looking for things to do, keep tack of all that is offered out at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall, they have some great offerings.

Congratulations to very dear friends Larry and Dorothy Bliss upon the celebration of their 69th Wedding Anniversary, wow that is something to celebrate.

Happy Birthday: Doug & Flora June Doyle both on March 8, Gabrielle Coonrod March 8, Sam Blanchard March 8, Josh Bridge March 8, Roland (Jim) Blanchard March 9, Kyle Young March 10, Ed Smith March 11, Tess Lobdell March 13. Happy Anniversary to Scott and Kim Feeley March 14, Doug and Flora June Doyle March 16.

Rob Ivy • robhivy@gmail.com central Champlain Valley, then plan to spend Tuesday evening, March 11, with Marianne Patinelli-Dubay, an environmental philosopher with the College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She will speak on the influences of wilderness on art and artists. Her talk begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $5.

This is a fine time of year to gather branches of trees and shrubs to force into bloom.

The most popular is forsythia, which bursts forth with small yellow flowers, although I also like to force birch and larch branches.

Birch and larch have attractive foliage but no eye-popping flowers. Branches should be soaked overnight in a bathtub of warm water, to rehydrate the stems and trigger growth by simulating a warm spring rain.

Birch flowers, or catkins, will open indoors and shed pollen all over the floor, so it’s best to pick them off first. Just before placing the branches into a vase of water, trim the butt ends and for extra longevity, add a dollop of lemon-lime soda. In a couple of weeks you should have some fresh green leaves to enjoy while waiting for spring to arrive.

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New High School Equivalency Diploma announced

By Seth Lang

seth@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH Ñ Adult learners who wish to earn a high school equivalency diploma will now be given the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC).

This exam replaces the previous GED that was recently privatized, doubled in cost, and only accessible through computers.

The new TASC test will be available in a paper-pencil format, free for any New

Horace Nye

Continued from page 1 The septic tanks at the renamed Essex Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare drain into 13 seepage pits ranging in volume from 2,500 to 5,000 gallons. Sometimes solid sediments go into the pits and collect.

CSC needed assurance that the groundwater hadnÕ t been contaminated by these sentiments, most of which were medical byproducts.

York resident, and assesses a studentÕ s ability in English Language Arts, Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

Students who have previously taken the GED but did not pass all subject area will be allowed to carry over passing scores and take only the necessary subjects needed to complete the TASC exam.

“So many people could benefit from our education programs,” said Executive Director at Literacy Volunteers of Essex/ Franklin Counties Maria Burke.

In Essex County, 12 percent of the

population does not have a high school diploma, and that number increases to 15 percent in Franklin County.

Help is always available. Literacy Volunteers, CV-TEC, and its Giving a Rural Adult Study Program (GRASP), collaborate effectively to assess, tutor, and support these adult learners.

If you or someone you know would benefit from earning a high school equivalency diploma have them contact us.

If you are interested or have questions about our programs, please call our main office at 546-3008.

A resolution passed by the board on Feb. 6 set aside $75,000 from the $4.05 million sale to pump out the pits if necessary, said Manning, something that officials hoped could be done after the closing, a date that now remains frustratingly elusive.

Some of that $75,000 is now being use to pay per diem costs of $50 per hour for the one physical therapist and two occupational therapists who are now tasked with working with the centerÕ s residents.

Those services, once facilitated weekly by a contractual agreement with Eliza-

bethtown Community General, are no longer being provided.

According to CSCÕ s website, the facility is still seeking to fill five positions: a physical therapist and assistant PTA, an occupational therapist and assistant and a nursing home HR generalist.

The board voted unanimously Monday, March 3, on a resolution to facilitate those payments backdating from Feb 1 until Monday, March 10.

“It’s very frustrating,” said Manning.

“But everything else is in place.”

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mergency and fire services in the North County need a jumpstart. The pending flashover fueled by a sagging economy alongside a cluster of fast-moving accelerants Ñ an aging population, unfunded state mandates, tax caps, environmental regulations and an unrelenting brain drain Ñ has left local departments on life support and grasping for their defibrillator paddles.

Considering the region faces limited opportunities for expanding its tax base, there are no easy answers — only a series of creative, common sense solutions.

Be efficient. Arizona made headlines last month with a state program launched in partnership with public and private agencies to put veterans to work. New York should follow their lead and customize their plan to fit local needs, particularly when it comes to ensuring that service members can apply their extensive military training to meet state-mandated firefighting and EMT requirements. Congress actually attempted to address this with the Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013, but the bill flatlined in the Senate and remains DOA. Start ‘em young. Mandatory state training for EMTs has skyrocketed to approximately 170 hours in recent years, with firefighters seeing an increase to 130 from 80 just a generation ago.

This commitment makes it difficult to attract and retain young professionals, a serious problem as Baby Boomers continue to age out. As a stop-gap, why not offer high school and college students academic credits to ignite the flames of civic pride and spark what may lead to either a promising full-time career or lifelong contributions to the community.

Get involved. Welcome! WeÕ re glad our seasonal friends find our communities a desirable place for recreation and relaxation. How about helping us help you to protect your health, safety, homes and families, both during the offseason and prime time, by pitching in? Opportunities range from getting involved with your local fire department or EMT squad, helping local officials in crafting sustainable policies, volunteering whenever possible or by facilitating scholarships for local high school students who wish to enter into the emergency services and firefighting fields. We’re glad you’ve made the North Country your playground Ñ now help us pay for it.

Look outward. Local officials should be doing more to attract the bushy-tailed foreign nationals flocking to America for a better life. You can either get ahead of immigration or behind it

and those choosing the former are seeing their communities revitalized with fresh ideas and bustling economies. As Americans, we represent the best in nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit and recognizing the most promising attributes in our freedom-seeking friends around the world. These national values should never be overlooked and we need to continue to set a good global example by offering a series of cautious incentives to attract the best and brightest of the international community to our neighborhoods and lobby the federal government to put newcomers on the fast-track to citizenship by either engaging in civic volunteerism or statemandated emergency services and fire training: Welcome to America — we believe in you and we welcome you with open arms. Now suit up, get to work and experience firsthand what made our country so great.

Pay your debt. Not to tarnish a noble profession by seeding its ranks with neÕ er-do-wells, but instead of giving prison inmates a college education and sending them off into a brutal domestic job market that will never hire them, anyway, instead facilitate firefighting and emergency service training programs so that when these folks are released, they have a real shot at erasing the shameful stigma of incarceration by allowing them to reintegrate back into society while contributing a skill thatÕ s actually useful for local communities.

Get to work. It seems inherently unfair that by some metrics, the long-term unemployed (or unemployable, depending on where you stand) have better standards of living than the working poor. (Just play with SNAP’s online benefit calculator if you don’t believe us.) If residents wish to remain on public assistance, then their handouts should be tied to public service, plain and simple. This isnÕ t the United States of Socialism Ñ itÕ s the land of pluck, elbow grease and opportunity. So suck it up and get back to work, comrade.

Three Strikes, You’re In. Lastly, instead of punishing triple-slam DWI offenders by permanently revoking their licenses, work the state-mandated EMT or firefighter training into their already-required extensive treatment and rehabilitation programs and give them a useful, marketable skill instead of condemning them to a life of booze-scented public dependency. What they choose to do with that training would, of course, be up to them. But at the very least, it’d act as a sorely-needed boost to a region that needs all hands on deck at such a crucial time in its fragile and uncertain development.

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Many police departeek by week we ments around the nation alcontinue to see ready use license-plate readand hear more ers that track cars as they pass head scratching stories coming traffic signals or pole-mounted out of government. You have to cameras. Specially equipped wonder what the heck are they police cars even track cars thinking when they thought parked on streets and in drivethis up. Even the fact that they ways. The lame idea that somethought they would have no one high up at the DHS or ICE push back goes a long way toDan Alexander (Immigration and Customs Enward telling what our governThoughts from forcement) suddenly realized ing elected officials and bureauBehind the Pressline that calling for bids on a nationcrats in DC think about the state wide surveillance system while of the American public. the current nationwide surveillance systems First we heard a few weeks ago that the are being hotly debated, was probably not in Federal Communications Commission was their best interest, nor that of the country. planning to “monitor” news coverage at not How programs like these suddenly appear only broadcast stations, but also at print publications for which the FCC has no authority on the horizon, may seem a bit of a mystery to many. FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai claimed to regulate. The Ò Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,Ó or CIN (pronounced the plan to monitor news rooms had never been put to an FCC vote; it was just sort of “sin”) involved the FCC sending staffers to announced. Plans like these donÕ t just come question reporters, editors and producers out of nowhere. They are floated for a reason about why they chose to run particular stoand you can be sure there is always someone, ries. somewhere cooking up something that is beYou don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to know that the concept runs so against hind these hare brain concepts.

We can only hope someday technology will the grain of the founding pillars of our nation that one would have to think Vladimir Putin provide the technical resources that might was running the FCC. Many folks in and out address these and many other issues that threaten the liberties we now enjoy. WouldnÕ t of the media found it totally unthinkable that anyone could dream up such a concept and it be perfectly fitting if every government and elected official were fitted for a “Pinocchio think it would okay in America.

Nose” when they took office. Much like an Now it is true that there has been a great ankle bracelet that monitors confined offenddeal of discussion about the media not covering events fairly. Perhaps it was a logical step ers under house arrest, the Ò Pinocchio NoseÓ would clearly tell the American public when for the FCC to test the waters with big money at stake for many national media outlets and we are being told bold faced lies and convenient non-truths not in our best long term inan ever growing media slanted toward one terest. political side or the other. But even the most If we continued to be lied to, tricked, and slanted of media outlets wasn’t about to have taken advantage of by the very people who their coverage questioned by Uncle Sam. We’ve also learned in recent weeks, the are in office to serve our needs then, much like government wishes to monitor the ciDepartment of Homeland Security canceled plans to build a nation-wide license plate vilian population, we deserve a system that database. The DHS put out a bid request for monitors the waste, deception and foolishness of those who choose to take advantage a system that would have gone national, letof the trust we’ve given in the past but can ting the federal government track millions of peopleÕ s comings and goings just as it tracks longer afford to do in the future. WhatÕ s fair data about every phone call we make. Like is fair and if anyone needs closer scrutiny it is our government. the FCC scuttled plans for their proposal, the DHS database of license numbers was sudDan Alexander is publisher and CEO of Denton Pubdenly withdrawn last week, with the explanalications. He may be reached at dan@denpubs.com. tion that it was all just a simple mistake.

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To the Valley News: Plato once said that the written word was prone to misinterpretation. I suppose that could be true in general, but some documents of law appear to be quite clear. As I read N.Y.S. Law 272A regarding the intent of Comprehensive Plans, such as Elizabethtown and Lewis are considering, it seems quite clear what they are intended to do. This may put you to sleep, but itÔ s important for everyone to understand what is happening here and not take it lightly.

Law 272A defines a town Comprehensive Plan as the means to provide for the “ immediate and long range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the town located OUTSIDE the limits of any incorporated village or city.” Land use regulation is the method used to accomplish this.

Law 272A states that Ò land use regulation means an ordinance or local law enacted by the town for the regulation of any aspect of land use and community resource protection and includes any zoning, subdivision, special use permit, or site plan regulation, or any other regulation which prescribes the appropriate use of property.Ó The Ò appropriate useÓ of your property.

It’s important to note that “zoning“ is only one of several methods used to regulate, and therefore control your property.

ItÕ s also important to understand that an Ò ordinanceÒ is municipal law.

Law 272A does not require a town to adopt a Comprehensive Plan, but if they do, section 11 (a) states that Ò all town land use regulations must be in accordance with a comprehensive plan adopted pursuant to this section.Ó The State requires a Plan to be implemented.

Since the target area is OUTSIDE the community centers, that is where the land use regulation will eventually occur.

It’s being said that E’town has had a Comprehensive Plan since 1977. This is not accurate. What EÕ town has is a Land Use Local Law, pertaining only to the Hamlet. This meets the requirement of “Comprehensiveness“ by NYS standards. The State standards are met because of the existence of the APA, which has some authority to regulate land use outside the Hamlet, therefore between them create a Comprehensive Plan type structure, or “Comprehensiveness.” It’s stated as such in our Local Law. Land Use Local Law, page 2, Ò he segment not requiring zoning regulation is the Town of Elizabethtown OUTSIDE the village.Ó Ò The reason for the differing zoning requirementsÉ is the existence of the APA Act.” “The APA Act provides a level of control in the unzoned area (town outside village) which is adequate and desirable to the town without the need for further local zoning involvement in that particular portion of town.”

But the APA wants more, and the adoption of a town wide “Smart Growth” Comprehensive Plan will help them.

Smart Growth/Hamlets 3 strategies apply to areas inside and OUTSIDE hamlets and are a road map towards land use regulation for both. Accepting these strategies will open the door for expanding the existing hamlet. The existing hamlet zoning will then apply to all property in the new larger hamlet.

The APA will want trade offs for allowing a new larger hamlet.

This will almost certainly be more land use regulation Outside of the hamlet, since that is the target area of Comprehensive Plans.

It’s being said that there is lots of free grant money available for towns with Comprehensive Plans. That’s the carrot. But it’s not free money, itÕ s tax money which typically requires some matching local contribution. If grant money were ever available, which is far from certain, it should be available to E’town since we are currently in a condition of “ Comprehensiveness.”

Only 16 percent of E’town’s residents have been heard regarding this issue. Only seven people are interpreting that data and have reached a predetermined conclusion that we need more land use regulation. The Town Board needs to think about how the other 84 percent will react to the passage and implementation of a Comprehensive Plan, the core principle of which is to alter property rights for the “collective good.”

The environment in the Adirondacks is not suffering and we must be careful not to transfer our property rights to various environmental agencies.

We currently enjoy more property right protection than most realize through Local Home Rule authority. Protecting the property rights of our residents must be our highest priority. If you give them up, they will be gone forever.

Ken Fenimore, Elizabethtown

To the Valley News: In 2007, when I spoke with Kevin Haughney and Gordonna Blodgett about joining the dental staff at Moses Ludington Hospital, it was to start a new page in my life. I had little knowledge of what that chapter held for me after 25 years in private practice.

I knew that a large part of my job would be to provide care for the under served pool of dental patients with no insurance or Medicaid or Fidelis coverage. What I didn’t realize was that it was such a huge population. Two thousand new patients in one year. Three thousand new patients in two years and a total population of more than 7,000 patients in five years.

Patients from Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Port Henry, Mineville and Schroon Lake. From so far as Lewis, Plattsburgh and Lake Placid. A doctor from Long Island who was on vacation in Lake George, whose son had an emergency and we were the only dentist available on a Saturday. A camper from New Hampshire we saw as an emergency patient. This patient then drove over two hours from home to complete his root canal therapy, and later returned for a check-up visit. A young wife who was too embarrassed to smile because of the appearance of her front teeth; who cried when she saw what we were able to do for her, and is now outspoken and smiles freely. Adult patients who trembled in fear of the dentist and had never gone to one, who are now pain free and willingly schedule and keep recall appointments.

The people who have become our friends. Karen Costello, who realized that I was having a stroke the first day I was working at the hospital and brought me to the emergency room upstairs.

Kevin Haughney, who kept my insurance active, despite the fact that I hadn’t seen my first patient. Kevin, who welcomed me back after my three months of speech therapy, who was always thankful of the work our clinic did at the hospital. Wayne and Sue Busby, who let us move into our house, even before we started to pay anything to stay there and has helped us over the last six years. Leslie Bain, a great and helpful neighbor. Mia and Jermy Fuller, who helped us finish our barn. Jim and Noel Mack, who called us at home and consoled us as our puppy suddenly died and Gary and Sharon Cook, also patients, who helped us with our goats. Patients like Dawn and Kent Belden, who have also become friends. Rick Quesnel, who supplies our horses with hay no matter what the weather, who can lift three times whatever I can, and is always ready to tell me everything I am doing wrong around the farm. This is only a small example of the friends who are the substance which has fed our roots and make this our home so quickly.

That is why we were shocked when during a busy day of patients, I, Dentist Larry Cepelak, Dental Hygienist Debbie DeStefano, Dental Assistant Dave Rogers and Receptionist Betty Coley were dismissed and escorted from the hospital with no warning or severance.

This treatment of any loyal employee is unconscionable, but such treatment of patients scheduled from months ahead, for uncompleted procedures begun, for recall patients who have been loyal to the doctor and the hygienist has offended my professional ethics if not the legal ones of the hospital. The hospital may pretend that one staff dentist will be able to treat this patient pool, or even provide all of the procedures which only Dr. Cepelak offered to the patients, but the administration is deluding themselves.

I have always felt that such a large diverse patient pool, including uninsured and insured patients, and government protected patients can certainly pay its bills. It may not make the practitioner rich, but it can, with a dedicated and motivated staff, benefit everyone involved.

I approached Inter-Lakes Health CEO Chip Holmes with the suggestion that I maintain seeing our patients in the same space at the hospital for three months as a separate entity while a new office is readied, or that the hospital at least donate the now unused equipment to us so that we can serve these displaced patients as quickly as possible. I am waiting for a response from his team. Several concerned individuals in the Ticonderoga/Port Henry community have already offered spaces to expedite the process of a clinic being open in 1-3 months.

Our team wants to assure the community that we will be available as soon as possible, and making new appointments as soon as we set up a computer system to schedule our patients. Thank you to all our patient/friends.

Larry Cepelak, DDS Ticonderoga

To the Valley News: World War II Veterans are dying at a rate of 700 to 800 a day, they are in their late eighties and early nineties, there are less than one million left, soon there will be none of us left. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The North Country Honor Flight group is dedicated to fly as many North Country WW II veterans to Washington to see their Memorial as possible. It is a daunting task but our group is working tirelessly to accomplish this goal.

In the last ten days we lost two of our comrades, we don’t have much time left. Many North Country residents have been very generous in donating to our mission, on the other hand there are many who have not heard of the North Country Honor Flight, we ask you to spread the word about our organization and our mission.

The North Country Honor Flight organization is a group of dedicated local residents who seek donations to fund these flights for our WW II Veterans, without funding it would be impossible to carry on with this work.

Our website is: northcountryhonorflight.org. We are asking for your help, please send donations to Ò North Country Honor Flight,” 1 Derek Drive, Keeseville, N.Y. 12944 We don’t have much time left.

Joe DeMarco Keeseville

Tanneberger

Continued from page 1 Alumni participating in the tournament are asked to sign in by noon March 15. There will be sign-in during an open gym for alumni players at the school from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday evening, March 14.

Alumni players are asked to register by calling the SchwoebelÕ s at 962-8567 or online at Tanneberger.com. A $25 registration fee includes a t-shirt and gathering for two after the event. Ò Early on, I enjoyed watching Westport alumni Ô come back homeÕ to play basketball,Ó Schwoebel said. Ò The camaraderie was so fun. I most enjoyed hearing the fun stories told about Tom by his friends, acquaintances, and teammates who new him.

Those stories have dwindled, but the camaraderie and fun competition remains strong. Now, I love seeing the family reunions.

Kids come home to play and mothers and fathers join them on the court. Alumni players bring their younger children who join in with the biddy basketball players. It has become the strongest alumni connection for Westport Central School. I am honored to be able to be a part of it all.Ó Games start with the first men’s matchup at 1 p.m., with a halftime skills and drills show by current students in kindergarten through second grade. The second menÕ s game begins at 2:15 p.m., with biddy basketball players grades 3/4 playing at halftime and players in grades 5/6 playing between the second menÕ s game and the consolation game at 4 p.m.

Following the menÕ s consolation game, the womenÕ s game will

take place ay 5 p.m. with a halftime foul shooting competition for students in grades 7-9. That game will be followed by the menÕ s championship game at 6:15 p.m. with halftime three-point competition for students in grades 10-12.

Admission, which along with registration fees for players go toward the Dr. Thomas Tanneberger Memorial Scholarship Fund, is $4 for adults and $2 for students, with preschoolers admitted for free. There will also be a 50/50 raffle throughout the day.

There will also be a benefit dinner put on by the Westport Central School Class of 2016 (sophomores) from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

The dinner will be held in the school cafeteria and will include hamburger macaroni soup, vegetarian chili, salad with extras and dessert. The cost is $8 for adults and teens, $4 for elementary age students and free for pre-schoolers.

Along with serving as a fundraiser for the class, a portion of the proceeds from the dinner will also go to the Westport Volunteer Fire Department.

The basketball tournament is one of the two major fundraisers for the Tanneberger Memorial Scholarship, along with an annual golf tournament which will be played in June at the Westport Country Club.

“The golf tournament is not an alumni event, so there is a network of people who come to golf every year,” Schwoebel said.

The Tanneberger Memorial Scholarship is given annually at Westport Central.

“The award is given to a graduating senior who exemplifies excellence in both athletics and academics,Ó Schwoebel said.

For more information, visit tanneberger.org or call 962-8567.

InBloom getting info on kids To the Valley News: North Country parents, do you know that your child is a source of data and dollars? The New York State Education Department will be making available a quantum of information to inBloom to track children with no provision for parents to opt out of this student data system.

New York is the only state that plans to hand over confidential student information to InBloom, which is funded by the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Why do vendors need up to 400 data points about your child?

What information about you and your child will reside in the internet cloud? Student demographic information; early identification of students who may be at risk of not graduating from high school; attendance and behavioral data; state assessment scores; and educational program participation, just to name a few .

Our State Education Portal (engageny.org) repeatedly states that InBloom is prohibited from selling student data for, Ò anything other than specific educational contracts.” In other words, this data may be sold to, “third-party providers,” who publish Common Core materials that impact your childÕ s future learning. Although InBloom claims to be nonprofit, the profit motive drives this data collection.

According to InBloom, Ò Teachers spend more time integrating student data from various sources and less time teaching.”

How is that for a solution? Data collection and less teaching time will never lead to lifelong learners who contribute to society and enjoy life, liberty and happiness. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26, states that parents have the right to choose the kind of education given to their children.

Children should have the protection of the Fourth Amendment to the USA Constitution.

Parents, if you donÕ t want to share data about your child to inBloom and its, “trusted third-party providers,” contact your local government representatives today.

Jennifer Christiansen Chazy

Spring forward!

On Sunday, March 9, Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. We remind readers to set your clocks FORWARD one hour to compensate for the time change before you go to bed the evening before. It is also recommended that you change the batteries in your smoke detector when changing your clocks.

Westport PTO sets volleyball tourney

WESTPORT Ñ 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 Ð 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.

Trzaskos to speak in Wadhams

WADHAMS Ñ 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 Ò Natural Vitality Stress Relief,Ó with Brian Trzaskos of NEW Health. At this talk you will learn why there is no definition of stress that experts can agree on; discover the top stress relieving technique; and be introduced to an ancient Chinese secret that experts are saying “could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life.”

As with all the Wednesday in Wadhams lectures at the library, this one is free and open to the public.

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What Cuomo’s tax overhaul means for the North Country

By Pete DeMola

pete@denpubs.com ALBANY Ñ As the pressure ramped up last week for state lawmakers to deliver a budget by March 31, Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a campaign to push his proposed property tax cuts, a plan he initially outlined in JanuaryÕ s 2014-2015 Executive Budget Address that he estimates will deliver $2 billion in tax relief to state residents.

Cuomo, who capped property taxes at two percent early on in his tenure, chalks the Ò structural causeÓ of high property taxes up to the proliferation and expense of local governments and argues now that the state done their part to cut spending, local governments and other tax jurisdictions need to step up their efforts to reduce costs and consolidate services in order to limit spending growth to two percent a year.

The “No Excuses” initiative hinges on mobilizing the public to lobby their state representatives in support of the plan, asking them to show them some tough love by forcing them to go a bureaucratic diet.

According to the plan, as an incentivize for local governments to share services, residents will be eligible for the tax freeze in the first year if their leaders stay within the two percent cap.

The state will then provide rebate checks to homeowners with incomes $500,000 or less who live in those jurisdictions.

Homeowners will only receive tax credit in the second year if municipalities continue to stay within the cap and develop a plan for sharing or consolidating services and eliminating duplication and overlap that generates savings equal to three percent of tax levy within the subsequent three years.

When these plans are fully implemented, said the New York State Tax Relief Commission, local governments and school districts could provide property tax relief of up to $1 billion.

North Country officials say while this plan makes sense when it comes to combating the waste and sprawl in downstate municipalities — several cite New York City-area towns with lavish facilities, town-sponsored racing teams, generous insurance and retirement packages with low thresholds for public services and tangled thickets of water, sewer, gas and fire districts Ñ this doesnÕ t apply to their towns, the

ones that have been consolidating and sharing services for years.

You canÕ t draw blood from a stone Ñ thereÕ s simply nothing left to cut.

PIONEERS Upon assuming office, Cuomo capped property taxes by two percent or the rate of inflation.

That means towns canÕ t raise what are essentially their annual operating budgets more than two percent without a supermajority vote.

Paired with a sclerotic tax base and moribund economy, North Country towns are faced with rising costs with no way to effectively pay for them. Ò How do you paint the entire state with one brush?” asked Wilmington town supervisor Randy Preston.

Preston said while he supports the cap and Cuomo is Ò absolutely correctÓ that reform is needed to trim away the fat from out of control downstate local municipalities Ñ including the three cited in CuomoÕ s pitch to the public, Westchester, Nassau and Rockland Ñ he is concerned about what happens to towns who have already scaled back operations to minimal operations. Ò WeÕ re already operating on a bare bones budget Ñ I donÕ t think thereÕ s anything we can cut.Ó Ò The North Country are pioneers at sharing services,” said Jay town supervisor Randall Douglas. Ò Between Clinton and Essex, weÕ re the grandfathers of this and we’ve already done what the Governor wants us to do.”

Jay has been sharing services with town of Black Brook for 34 years, he said, ticking off a list of what his town has pared down over the years, including water, sewer and youth facilities, the fire department and the ambulance squad.

“I support the Governor’s encouragement to get towns to think outside of the box to possibly see if they could share anything that would save taxpayer cash,Ó he said. Ò Unfortunately, I wish there was a way to financially credit what the municipalities and our forefathers have been doing over the years.”

Towns throughout Essex County share road maintenance equipment and the county uses some of Clinton CountyÕ s emergency communication towers and engages in several public health efforts with adjoining counties.

“Our town is a pioneer of sharing services,”

said Moriah town supervisor Tom Scozzafava.

“We’ve been doing it since the 1980s.”

Moriah, working alongside village and hamlets within its boundaries, has trimmed away once sacrosanct civic institutions like the village justice court, the assessment of real property office, public library, senior citizens center and meal delivery programs.

“We’ve held the line the best we can,” he said.

Scozzafava said the cap paired with state mandated costs have created a perilous situation and wonders if CuomoÕ s proposal would unfairly penalize the residents of towns who stay within the cap but are subject to other tax jurisdictions, including school, fire and village districts.

State retirement benefit programs and health insurance skyrocketed, he said, costs that towns have little control over. As a result, the town cannot replace employees who have retired, including law enforcement officials, clerks, the highway superintendent and other staffers.

“While we’re doing everything we can to stabilize the property tax, our constituency still expects us to provide services,” he said, citing an uproar that resulted when Moriah faced the decision to start shutting off streetlights and letting snow pile up in the streets.

Scozzafava said he while he fully agrees with the concept, it doesnÕ t cut deep enough and the state should instead focus on a reform of the entire system: Ò The property tax system is antiquated and supports more services than it was initially intended to support,” he said, citing fire districts as an example.

“Based on the value of your assessed property, some residents are paying twice as much for the same service,” he said. “Everyone should be paying equal for the services.”

Ticonderoga town supervisor Bill Grinnell said the cap wouldnÕ t be an issue if you could expand the tax base. But zoning regulations make expansion limited, he said, and the amount of state-owned padlocked real estate, like campgrounds on lakefront property, continues to grow.

“The Adirondack Park is a great thing to have Ñ itÕ s New YorkÕ s playground,Ó he said. Ò The problem comes when you have only the Adirondackers paying for that playground. Everyone needs to start paying.Ó

Grinnell said the state should instead take a look at reforming the 480-a Forest Tax Law that grants tax relief to owners of large tracts of timberland.

SENSITIVE There are other factors when it comes to consolidation, both practical and personal: Ò ThereÕ s so much distance between so many of our small towns,Ó said Assemblywoman Janet Duprey, the state representative who serves a large chunk of the North Country. Ò ItÕ s not like you can hand a shovel across the way: How many miles of roads are towns plowing and how they going to be plowed?Ó Other lawmakers, including Scozzafava, worry that cutting services might result in layoffs that would funnel residents onto public assistance.

TICKING DOWN At a meeting of regional lawmakers in Elizabethtown on Thursday, Feb. 27, New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC) Deputy Director of Community Relations Katy Vescio told lawmakers from across the North Country, including Franklin, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren and Washington Counties, that their concerns are duly noted and theyÕ ll continue to lobby state legislators this month with recommendations to be included as amendments in the final budget. Ò WeÕ ll try to get them into the one-house budget bill,Ó she said, referring to the bills that will be hammered out by the assembly, state and executive office before the three parties meet this week to determine the final outcome.

“At the highest level, we’re in total agreement and just need to work together as to how we can achieve these goals.”

Douglas, the Jay Supervisor and Essex County board chair, said Deputy Secretary of State for Local Government Dede Scozzafava and other state officials are aware of the concerns of local lawmakers and are actively working towards finding common ground as negotiations continue in Albany.

Each house in the state legislature is expected to pass their one-house bills this week.

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County on track with flood buyouts

By Pete DeMola

pete@denpubs.com ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ The last real estate closings for Essex County’s flood buyout program should be done by the end of the week, county attorney Daniel Manning told county lawmakers Monday, March 3.

“We’re doing four to five closings a day now and have 90 percent of them completed.”

The county has approval for 28 federal buyouts of homes damaged by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, 19 of which are in the town of Jay. Three are awaiting state approval, Manning said.

FEMA will reimburse the county for 75 percent of the costs of the buyout program. The buyout requires a 25 percent non-federal share, a cost that the state said they will eventually cover.

The total project comes with a price tag of $5.5 million; about $3 million of that will come from a

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previously-approved bond issue that will be fully repaid when FEMA comes through with their reimbursements.

Payments have started trickling in, said Community Resources director Mike Mascarenas.

Manning said some of those with damaged homes are still living in them because they can’t afford to move until they get their buyout checks. Ò One or two people may want to stay in their water-damaged homes after we close because they don’t have anywhere to go,” he said. “We don’t want to put them through further hardship.Ó He said the county will give them 30 days after closing to move out, which should be enough time to find new housing.

“They can stay there provided they pay all charges and provide liability insurance.”

FEMA mandates teardown of a structure within 90 days of the sale closing. Afterwards, the plots can only be used for open-space purposes like parks, athletic fields or open-faced gazebos.

Friends and family gathered to celebrate Jean Leonessa’s 90th birthday on Saturday, Feb. 22. Jean resides in Willsboro with her cousin, Zoe Knickerbocker Hill.

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Tutor training planned

PORT HENRY Ñ 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.

For more information call 546-3008 or e-mail director@litvol.com .

AVCS swimming closed

CLINTONVILLE Ñ The AuSable Valley Central School swimming program has ended for the season Sunday, March 2.

Board candidates sought

WESTPORT Ñ The Westport Central School District is seeking a candidate to fill one fiveyear term vacancy on the Board of Education.

The seat is currently held by Sue Russell.

Candidates seeking this position must be a qualified voter of the District who is able to read and write, a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years of age, and a resident of the District for at least one year before the election.

Petitions are available in the District Office between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Those who would like to be considered as candidates for this term must submit a petition to the District Clerk signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the District. Petitions must be returned to the District Office no later than 4 p.m. on April 21.

The Board of Education election will be held on Tuesday, May 20, from noon through 9 p.m. in the lobby outside the Bulles Auditorium. For further information, please contact Jana Atwell, District Clerk, at 962-8244.

Assessment set in towns

ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ The towns of Westport and Elizabethtown will be conducting a Revaluation Project for the year 2015. The assessor and property tax service office will be visiting each parcel to verify property information in an effort to maintain a fair and equitable assessment roll.

For information and questions, call Charli B. Lewis, Director of Essex County Real Property, at 873-3390.

Modern Grass Quintet to play

WHALLONSBURG Ñ On Saturday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m., the Grange Hall in Whallonsburg welcomes The Modern Grass Quintet for a night of original, traditional and very hot bluegrass. Tickets to the show are $10 in advance and $12 at the door, only $5 for those under 18.

Advance tickets are on sale at Dogwood Bakery in Wadhams or by mail at WCA, P.O. Box 54, Essex, N.Y., 12936. For more information visit thegrangehall.info or call 963-4170.

Trip to Placid set for Westport YC

WESTPORT Ñ The Westport Youth Commission is planning an exciting visit to the Olympic Sports Complex at Mt. Van Hoevenberg for students in Grades 3-12. The trip will take place on March 14 from noon to 5 p.m. Students in Grades 3-7 will tour the bobsled, luge and skeleton track, see vintage sleds and talk with Peter Vaiciulis, a former Olympic bobsled and skeleton athlete and coach. Students in Grades 8-12 will try Paintball Biathlon. After visiting Van Hoevenberg, students will travel to the McKenzie Jumping Complex for an hour of tubing.

Students can sign up in the Westport Central School office by Wednesday, March 12. The trip is being offered by the Westport Youth Commission and students are welcome at no cost. More information is available at westportyouth.org.

Knight, Arnold to perform

WILLSBORO Ñ 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.

Angel’s Share in Jay

JAY Ñ The JEMS Coffee House will host Angel’s Share Saturday, March 8, 7 p.m. at the Amos and Julia Ward Theatre on Parkside Drive in Jay. The group include Dutch Stout (guitar/ bass), Daun Reuter (madolin) and Eric Klotzko (keyboard/guitar/bass) playing classic tunes with a modern twist. Admission is $6.

ACW seeks nominees for awards

SARANAC LAKE Ñ 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 Adirondackthemed, though they can be.

ACW is looking for submissions of fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, memoir, edited collections and poetry. The judges will choose a winner from each category, and popular vote decides a People’s Choice Award at the ceremony in June. 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.

Open house for Girl Scouts

WILLSBORO Ñ The Willsboro-Essex Girl Scouts will be holding their annual Open House on Monday, March 10, 6:30 p.m. at the Champlain Valley Senior Community. The girls will be joined by their families and friends to help celebrate their accomplishments, with some receiving the Bronze Award for a project that was done at the Champlain Valley Senior Community.

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Keeseville library hour set

KEESEVILLE — The Keeseville Free LibraryÕ s Story time this month is Tuesday, March 11, at 10 a.m. The theme for this month is Ó The Noisy Barnyard.” All are welcome Call 8349054 for more information.

ELCS school board to meet

ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ The ElizabethtownLewis Central School Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on March 11 at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room. ItÕ s anticipated the Board will convene in executive session at 6 p.m. to discuss negotiations and gather advice of counsel.

The Board will reconvene in public session at 7 p.m. to: •Adopt the 2014-15 School District Calendar; •Adopt district policies pertaining to the district mission, vision and belief statements; •Consider various personnel appointments.

A portion of this agenda is devoted to a Budget Workshop, where the Board will engage in constructing the 2014-2015 school budget by receiving facts, figures and a budget forecast from the Business Manager.

The public is welcomed and encouraged to attend. Agenda materials and public packet will be available on elcsd.org the day of the meeting.

Oscar’s best at Grange

WHALLONSBURG Ñ On Saturday, March 15, the Champlain Valley Film Society will present a screening of the Academy Awardwinning film “12 Years a Slave” at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall. A soup and chili dinner will be served beforehand and historian Rachel Seligman and members of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association will be present to answer questions.

Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. with Seligman discussing her book, Ò Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave.” Book signing and comments from the Historical Association start at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $15 for dinner and the movie; reservations requested by Thursday, March 13, by emailing info@cvfilms.org or by calling 963-4170. For the movie only, tickets are $5/ adults, $2/youth under 18 starting at 7:30 p.m.

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Road tripping once again!

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f following the white lines of the freeway is your style, then check out the following programs!

Agriculture

Spring Beef Week Wednesday, March 19 6- 9 pm Adirondack Meat Company 30 Commerce Drive Ticonderoga NY Topics: Peter Ward will provide a tour of the new slaughterhouse for farmers and describe

By Rich Redman the types of animals that he will purchase. Mike Baker will discuss Artificial Insemination (including synchronization and heat signs) advantages and disadvantages, Bull fertility checks, Feeding minerals. Peter Hagar will discuss handling facilities.

Speakers: Mike Baker NYS Beef Specialist, Peter Hagar CCE Clinton Co, and Peter Ward of Adirondack Meat Co. Preregister with Anita Deming 962-4710 ext. 409 or 0 ald6@ cornell.edu • 3rd Annual Organic Dairy & Field Crop Conference Holiday Inn, Auburn, NY March 7, 2014 Join us at one of the nation’s leading organic dairy and field crop conferences!

Keynote Speaker Gary Zimmer, president of Midwestern BioAg, will discuss how to build healthy sustainable soils for your farm.

We offer three different workshop tracks--Business Management, Dairy, and Field Crops--and a total of 12 workshops.

Workshops Include: Raising Healthy Calves and Replacements for Organic Dairy with Dr Guy Jordarski Wheat: Systems for Success with David Smith of Log City Milling & Lake Distilling Keeping Ò FamilyÓ in the Family Farm with Mike & Gayle Thorpe of ThorpeÕ s Organic Family Farm Registration is only $60 and includes a delicious lunch prepared from food donated from local organic farms.

• Grasstravaganza 2014: Pasture Soil Health Creates Wealth – Thursday to Saturday, July 17 - 19 – Morrisville State College, Morrisville - Speakers include Ray Archuleta, the NRCS “soil guyÓ from North Carolina, Jerry Brunetti of Agri-Dynamics, and Jim Gerrish, former University of Missouri researcher, writer, and now cattle rancher and consultant from Idaho. A Thursday evening dinner will kick-off the conference, and tours will be held on both Friday and Saturday afternoons. Visit http:// grasstravaganza.morrisville.edu for updates on the conference agenda and registration.

Conservation

Conversations

Fly Fishing

• Tree and Shrub Sales Essex County Soil & Water Annual Tree & Shrub Seedling Sale, Advanced Order Deadline March 17, 2014 Limited quantities available until April 25th, 2014 pickup date Cornell Cooperative Extension Center P.O. Box 407, 3 Sisco Street Westport, NY 12993 518-962-8225 or essexswcd@westelcom.com

Wildlife

The Whallonsburg Grange Hall is located at the corner of Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road in Whallonsburg, New York.

Built in 1915, the Grange Hall has been a center for the community in the Champlain Valley for many years.

• Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m.

Bird Language for All Seasons Join Connor Stedman in a rich exploration of the voices and behavior of birds. He will review the basics of bird language and then dive into how birds journey through the seasons in their strategies for survival. Knowing what to track in bird language and behavior across different times of year is a powerful tool for understanding ecology and revealing the hidden stories of the landscape. $8 suggested donation • Saturday, March 8 from 9a m-1pm Winter Bird Language and Behavior Field Class Connor Stedman will lead a half day field class exploring the relationship between bird language, tracking, and winter ecology. WeÕ ll put our bird language and tracking skills to the test and learn to read the language of the forest more deeply.

Come with eyes and ears wide open and your curiosity stoked for whatÕ s happening in the natural world, just two weeks out from the spring equinox. Cost is $25. Space is limited. Pre-registration required by email to lakeside5047@gmail.com) • Friday, April 26, 7 p.m.

Timber Rattlesnakes in Folklore and Fact The Timber Rattlesnake has long been feared and despised by many people. But scientific studies have shown them to be a complex animal; both predator and prey, solitary and social, and slow to reproduce but fast when striking. Learn more about this fascinating creature found at Split Rock Mountain among other places in New York, from the past when it was worth a $5 bounty through the modern era of legal protection.

Joe Racette of the New York State DEC and Wildlife Action Plan Coordinator will lead this program. His recent work has included projects on habitat connectivity, colonial water-birds, Peregrine falcon, BicknellÕ s thrush, and Timber rattlesnakes.

Rich Redman is a retired District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and an avid outdoorsman. His column will appear regularly. He may be reached at rangeric@nycap.rr.com.

COSTA FLY FISHING FILM TOUR on April 5 at the Center for the Arts in Lake Placid. The movie starts at 7 pm but the doors open at 6 pm so you can get a quality seat for this show.

This is a HIGH QUALITY FLY FISHING event that every bamboo and graphite rod, water whipping fly casting stream walker needs to see!

Tickets for this event are $12 each and can be purchased by sending a check payable to the Tri-Lakes Chapter of Trout Unlimited, at 749 Norrisville Rd, Schuyler Falls, NY 12985 Check out the website at www.thef3. com.

If you don’t want to leave home, have no desire to challenge the snow and ice, and would prefer to kick back and watch a movie then check out this great 6 minute film about a father and son living and fishing along the Ausable River in upstate New York. Jerry has been running the family business for 37 years and now Evan has stepped in to help out. Check out fly-fishing and the Ò The Hungry TroutÓ in Wilmington NY. flyfishing@hungrytrout .com

Wildland Fire Training

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission will be hosting two annual fire line refreshers with NYSDEC Forest Rangers this year. They will be held on the following dates: March 7- 8 at 9 a.m.

If you do not have wildfire qualifications and would like to get certified please email Tyler Briggs for the training materials: (The S-130/ S-190 Field day www.albanypinebush.org, April 26 at 9 a.m.)

Tyler Briggs Fire Management & GIS Specialist tbriggs@albanypinebush.org (518) 456-0655 x1220 (Office) (585) 506-8675 (Mobile)

While fishing with friend, Clayton Smith, over February break, Brandon Tyrel caught this 35inch Northern Pike weighing 10 pounds out of Minerva Lake. This was Brandon’s third time ice fishing and he is now obsessed with ice fishing, hook line and sinker!

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Fire tower power

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saw the headline from a distance, and I rushed to grab a copy of the newspaper. The front page story featured a photograph of the old Firetower on Hurricane Mountain, which had been slated for removal along with the tower on St. Regis Mountain.

Cautiously, I read the story, “In a rare move, the state Adirondack Park AgencyÕ s Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to classify land beneath fire towers on St. Regis and Hurricane mountains as historic, which would let the structures remain and be restored.Ó APA approval had been confirmed, and according to the story; both of the mountaintop towers were to remain as Ò Historic Resources in company with other historic sites in the park including Camp Santanoni in Newcomb, the ruins of Fort St.Fredric near Crown Point, and John Brown Farm in North Elba.Ó The fire towers had previously been slated for eventual removal since Hurricane Mountain is classified as a primitive area and St. Regis Mountain is located in the St. Regis Canoe Area.

The DEC may use the towers for administrative purposes, in order to attach repeaters to the towers, to aid radio communications in remote areas.

Although I have connections with both sites, the Hurricane tower is truly a symbol of home. In Elizabethtown, the tower is omnipresent, and it remains as familiar to most folks as their own back door. I could see it while walking to school, or from the gas station where I worked, or the golf course where I played.

Over the years, I spent a lot of time on the summit of that peak in the company of family, friends and guests. As a teenager, it was always a familiar haunt, with a comfortable leanto at it’s base, and access available via two easy trails.

Both the leanto, and the old Firetower Observers Cabin have since been removed, but my memories of the place remain intact. As a teenager, I spent the summer working on a trail crew with the old Conservation Department. The job included clearing brush, moving stones, building bridges and restoring the phone line on the backside of Hurricane.

The leanto was my home away from home for the summer, and although it was only a fifteen minute motorcycle ride from town; it provided true freedom.

Our trail boss also served as the Firetower Observer, which left us pretty well to our own devices. Although we were rarely supervised, we managed to get the job done, and we had a lot of fun in the process.

The trail up the backside is currently in much rougher shape than I ever recall, and the route is now a bit longer, since motor vehicles can no longer drive to the site of the old Observer’s Cabin.

Fortunately, the view from the mountain’s summit hasn’t changed much. There are obviously a few more beaver dams in the foreground and usually far more hikers on top, but the sun still rises over Lake Champlain to the east and it sets beyond the Great Range of the High Peaks to the west.

My memories of the place are the same, and whenever I’m atop the peak the only thing I forget is my age. Climbing a mountain has that affect. The climb up serves to reminds us of the aging process; but the view from the summit always brings out our youth Thanks to the efforts and dedication of the late Gretna Longware of Elizabethtown, and the many other Friends of Hurricane, the familiar, old gray steel firetower still stands, as do so many fond memories of the place.

On March 12, the state Adirondack Park Agency will hold a public hearing at their headquarters in Ray Brook to determine how to preserve the two mountaintop fire towers.

In October the state Department of Environmental Conservation released a draft unit management plan which outlined the agencyÕ s proposal to restore and allow for full public access to the Hurricane Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area in the town of Keene and the St. Regis Mountain Fire Tower Historic Area in the town of Santa Clara.

Both of the towers have been closed to the public since they were discontinued for use as fire observation stations. The Hurricane Mountain tower was closed in 1979 and the St. Regis Mountain tower in 1990.

The APA is set to hold a hearing at 6 p.m. on March 12 to determine whether DECÕ s draft UMP is in compliance with the State Land Master Plan.

Public comment on the topic will be open until March 26.

The public comments will be presented to the APA board for a final decision at their April or May meeting.

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residing in Ray Brook.

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Owens

Continued from page 1 The outgoing rep said he was instrumental in getting legislation added to the latter to reflect local concerns, including loan facilitation, a $450,000 reduction in export tariffs of apples for juice manufacturing and a bump in funding for maple production and sales.

Owens highlighted the Farm BillÕ s Dairy Security Act as important for local farmers and as a boost to the local economy and cited recent discussions with the owners of a robotic dairy farm in Washington County.

“This gives us some real opportunity to allow small farms to continue to exist and let families run those. ItÕ s also a national security issue when it comes to food production.Ó Still on the legislative schedule, he said, is the appropriations process, which he anticipates will run smoothly. Ò Tax and immigration reform is unclear,Ó he said. Ò Unfortunately, thereÕ s some discord there.Ó Owens then opened up discussion to the 3,996 participating constituents.

MINIMUM WAGE Ò Is there any possibility of the minimum wage bill passing the House?Ó asked Ernie from Potsdam.

“This is quite unfortunately unlikely as we move forward,Ó said Owens.

Owens said the state itself done a good job in that respect and some businesses are starting to facilitate

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“Seventy percent of the U.S. economy is consumer spending,Ó he said. Ò Putting money in the hands of people spending their dollars to enhance the economy is an example of a Ô trickle up theory.Õ If people are spending more money, that drives demand which drives manufacturing. We all have a reason to look at where things are made: buy local, buy American.Ó Owens said North Country residents should be trained for the jobs that are currently available in the community but remain unstaffed. He estimates there are 2,500 to 3,000 of those in the region.

UNEMPLOYMENT Linda from Greenville Center asked if Congress was continuing to discuss unemployment extensions: “People have gone quite awhile without help and itÕ s kind of ridiculous.Ó Ò The Senate has tried to get a bill though and haven’t gotten votes,” said Owens. “It’s a significant and serious problem.Ó Owens said he supports the extension of benefits and returned to the training issue: “I’d like to see that we provide a mechanism for training for available jobs. We have jobs, we need to be training residents to fill those.”

SAFE ACT Ò Where do you stand on the SAFE Act?Ó asked Donnie from Schroon Lake, an issue that was addressed frequently throughout the session. Ò What do us honest people have to look forward to — not

home invaders?”

Owens sympathized with Donnie and pointed out that the controversial firearms legislation was state law Ñ not federal Ñ and directed concerns to Assemblyman Dan Stec, Assemblywoman Janet Duprey and State Senator Betty Little.

“I have often said that I wouldn’t have voted in favor of it,” said Owens, citing his A rating from the National Rifle Association, his belief in the Second Amendment and a continued pledge to support gun rights.

COMMON CORE MassenaÕ s Jamie asked Owens how Congress planned on addressing the controversial education initiative that seeks to establish consistent standards across the country for K-12 students. Ò I see a big difference with my kids Ñ theyÕ re being testing on things theyÕ re expected to know, but donÕ t,Ó she said. Ò Testing needs to portray what children know and we need to know what happens to teachers digging in their heels.Ó “The implementation of this is at the state level,” said Owens. Ò The basic concepts behind Common Core are largely supported and the issue is implementation. People feel as if it should have been implemented for several years before teaching was commenced. A fairer approach is to focus on amending a good idea to make it workable in our communities and schools.Ó ENERGY Rensselaer FallsÕ Bonnie asked why small com-

CV • Valley News - 13 munities were having trouble receiving access to natural gas throughout the winter. Ò I assumed that it was regulated,Ó she said.

Natural gas distribution lines arenÕ t part of public utilities system, explained Owens, and are operated by independent providers. Ò The issue is putting a gas line in and getting it into homes Ñ thatÕ s fairly costly to do. We need to have a conversation with local and town officials and figure how to get more homes and buses hooked up.Ó Owens stressed that it’s important to have competition between natural gas, fuel oil, electric and renewable resources.

ROOFTOP HIGHWAY “When can we get Highway 98 started?” asked Massena resident Bruce, referring to the proposed Ò rooftop highwayÓ between Watertown to Plattsburgh. “We need a route to Syracuse to give us business.Ó Owens said he acknowledges the benefits that the Northway and I-81 have brought to Plattsburgh and Syracuse, respectively, to help local economies and said the proposed corridor is being held back because of costs.

“We are seeing some movement from CamdenPotsdam that can be looped in the future. If we can do that in an incremental way, it would be extremely beneficial for the local community,” he said. “We also need to study the effects of rail in Massena and the St. Lawrence River. Whatever options we have, we need to explore and exploit.Ó

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March 8, 2014

Westport, AuSable Valley boys ousted in D, B sectional finals

By Seth Lang

seth@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH Ñ The two teams that started the season at the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse finished it theere with the same, yet different, result.

The Moriah Vikings beat the Westport Eagles to win the Section VII/Class D Championship in boyÕ s high school basketball March 1 at the Plattsburgh State Field house.

The Vikings claimed their second straight Class D title with a 48-37 win over the Eagles, by far the largest margin between the two teams that had been involved in a two-point nail-bitter and triple-overtime, one-point thriller played at the fieldhouse in their first game of the season.

After a very slow first start to the game for both teams, Moriah went on a 7-0 run, forcing Westport Coach Ike Tyler to call a timeout. The Vikings lead 12-4 after the first quarter.

Eagles Ryan Davis hit a three pointer with under a minute to go in the first half only to have Vikings guard Tyler Pratt hit a three point buzzer-beater to end the first half with Moriah in the lead 25-16.

The Eagles climbed to within five points early in the third quarter but couldn’t overcome their slow start to the game. Ò We played well today to keep Westport to 24 total points in three quarters is something our defense is proud of,Ó said Vikings Coach Brian Cross.

Vikings were led by Noah GilboÕ s 12 points and key buckets underneath, while Adam Jaquish also scored 12 points and had some stellar blocks throughout the game.

The Eagles were led by Anderson Gay with 14 points, while Ryan Davis and Same Napper each had 8, while Thomas Mero scored 3. Ryan Mead and RJ King each scored 2 points.

Westport coach Ike Tyler said he was proud of the Eagles season but his team was out outplayed and couldn’t find their rythm offensively.

The Vikings advanced to the Class D regional semifinal game Wednesday, March 5, at the Plattsburgh State Field house against the defending NYSPHSAA Class D state champions, Argyle.

Class B final Plattsburgh High 66, AuSable Valley 56

The Plattsburgh Hornets beat the Ausable Valley Patriots 66-56 to capture the boys Section VII/Class B title at the Plattsurgh State Field House Saturday, March 1.

Plattsburgh jumped out to a 19 point lead, 256, after the first quarter but Ausable Valley cut that lead to just 10 by halftime, finally finding an answer the the Hornets outstanding shooting early on.

Kobe Parrow had 12 points for the Patriots, hitting some key baskets early in the third quarter including a put back off an offensive rebound with 4:45 to make the score 43-40 and a jumper on the next possession to put the Patriots within one point.

Shane Douglas scored 23 points in his final game for the AuSable Valley Patriots in the Class B finals.

Patriots Nick Mcdonald scored a few possessions later on a pass from Shane Douglas to tie the game at 46-46.

Patriots were led by Shane Douglas with 23 points. Other scorers for Ausable Valley were Austin Facteau with 9 points, John Goodnough with 5, Nick McDonald 4 and Zach Cosgrove with 3.

The Hornets were led by Garrett Frady scoring 30 points, making seven free throws and a trio of three-pointers.

Plattsburgh also had a big night from Taufik Maknani who had 24 points including five from beyond the arc.

Other contributors for the Hornets were Robert Matthews with 5 points and Brady Channell with 3. Alex Follmer and Adam LaBorde each scored 2 points.

“We were so evenly matched but dug ourselves a hole early in the game we were just not able to overcome,” Patriots head coach Jamie Douglass said. Ò The Hornets shot lights out, especially early in the game. We never gave up climbing back, getting stops on the defensive end and scoring key buckets on offense. IÕ m going to miss my four seniors as they were the rock and heart and soul of this team. We had a great season, we just didnÕ t want it to end today.Ó Hornets head coach Chris Hartmann said the win was unbelievable.

Ryan Davis of Westport drives to the basket against Moriah in the Class D finals March 1.

Photo by Nancy Frasier

Ò Looking at this team early in the year I donÕ t think a lot of people would have guessed that we would be here right now, IÕ m nothing but proud of these boys.Ó Hartmann won his fifth Section VII title in nine years coaching Plattsburgh.

Plattsburgh has a bye but will play in the Class B regional finals against either Ogdensburg of Section X or Section II’s Voorhesville, who will play Wednesday, March 5.

Class D semifinals

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com CLINTONVILLE Ñ When faced with their first deficit of the night at the end of the third quarter, the second-seeded Westport Eagles went to work to ensure their spot in the Section VII/Class D championship game.

Westport (15-5), trailing 31-29 entering the final eight minutes, scored the first four points of the quarter and went on a 12-3 run that spanned the first six minutes in scoring a 48-41 win Feb. 26.

John Doyle paced the Eagles offense with 24 points, 16 of them coming in the second half.

While Doyle paced the team late, Sam Napper started strong in the post, grabbing eight of his 11 rebounds over the first 16 minutes as he

added 16 points to the cause. Ò We were able to work the ball around to the open guy and make some smart decisions on offense,Ó Napper said. Ò We had two close games against Schroon Lake last year that we lost and we wanted to come here and show these guys we can play.Ó “We have a full team where guys step up to the plate when they are needed to,Ó Eagles head coach Ike Tyler said. “Ryan Davis and Anderson Gay did not have big scoring nights, so John and Sam stepped up.Ó While Davis only accounted for three points, he did play big on the defensive end with 13 rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots to go with five assists offensively. Ò We had been working on our defense all week and we played tough tonight,” Davis said. Ò Coach (John) Konowitz came down and worked with us and it really helped out.Ó “It was a total domination on the defensive side of the ball,Ó Tyler said. Ò We worked a 2-3 zone in practice and our kids felt comfortable with it so we tried it out in the game and it worked well.Ó Gay added five points and four rebounds for Westport, while Thomas Mero had four rebounds and three assists in the win.

For Schroon Lake, Tanner Stone scored 16 points while Joe Maisonville added 11 points and eight rebounds. Caleb Maisonville scored seven points to go with seven rebounds, while Alex Shaughnessy scored four points.

In game two, the top-seeded Vikings jumped out to a 12-7 first quarter lead against the Beavers and continued to expand their lead over the remaining three quarters, leading by as much as 22 in the final quarter en route to a 6039 win against Keene. Ò They were able to put the ball inside with success and that got Brandon Dumas into foul trouble,Ó Keene head coach Chad Lopez said after the game. Ò We did not shoot the ball great.

In the first half, they would not fall and in the second half we rushed everything.”

Colton Venner poured in 20 points to go with 10 rebounds, while Austin Brown scored 13 points and had four steals. Gabe Warner scored three points with Justin Haverlick scoring 2 and Seungyeol Ko 1. While not scoring, Jesse Summo had 12 rebounds, seven on the offensive end.

For the Beavers, this marked a milestone for a program two years back from three years of extinction and that was 0-13 with three games remaining in the 2012-13 season.

“I am very proud of these guys from 1-10,” Lopez said. Ò We worked hard in the offseason and got our feet under us early and played well.

Every game they fought and gave 110 percent Ñ and that is all you can ask for as a coach.Ó For Moriah, Adam Jaquish scored 17 points to go with 14 rebounds. His most impressive deuce came in the fourth quarter on an alleyoop dunk with the assist going to Taylor Slattery, who ended with seven points and five helpers.

Noah Gilbo added 14 points, while Jarrod MacDougal added 11 points and five rebounds.

Gabe Warner of Keene scored three points in the Class D semifinals against Moriah Photo by Nancy Frasier

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Elizabethtown-Lewis drops D final, defeat Keene in semis

By Seth Lang

seth@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH Ñ The Moriah Vikings got off to a rapid start with a 17-1 first quarter lead in the Section VII/Class D Championship game against Elizabethtown-Lewis Friday evening at the Plattsburgh State Field House.

The Vikings scored a 46-26 win against the Lions, scoring their second sectional title in the last three years. Their last came as a Class C school in 2012, while the team lost to ELCS in the 2013 D title game.

Vikings Lauren Cross scored a team high 14 points, including four three pointers to help push the Vikings past the Lions and remain unbeaten on the year.

Madison Stahl added 11 points and Sarah Slattery 9 for the Vikings. Slattery also grabed 14 boards.

Lily Whalen led the lions with 13 points including four free throws. Jasmin Barnes added 7 points for the Lions, while Savanah Graves and Emma Disogra each scored 3.

The Lions got within 12 at one point in the second quarter only to have Moriah pull away to as much as 23 points.

The game was out of reach at 44-26, with 2:31 left in the fourth quarter when lions coach Don Ratliff pulled his starters, puting his bench in for the remainder of the game. Vikings Coach Erica Slattery soon followed.

“The better team won tonight, we got down in the first quarter and were never able to climb back because of it,” Ratliff said. Ò We tried to press but the Vikings were just too fast.Ó Vikings Coach Erica Slattery said she’s very proud of her team and that hard work does pay off.

“Our girls played tight on the defensive end and drove the ball to the hoop on offense, that was the difference in the game,Ó She said.

The Vikings will advance to the regional semifinals Wednesday, March 5, at 6 p.m. in the Plattsburgh State Filedhouse against Fort Edward, a 43-39 winner over Fort Ann in the Section II championship game. The Lady Flyin Forts were a Final Four team in 2013.

Class D semifinals

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com CLINTONVILLE — A balanced attack offensively and speed on the defensive end helped the second seed ElizabethtownLewis girls varsity basketball team advance to the Section VII/ Class D finals with a 68-51 win over Keene Feb. 25.

The Lions used a 13-7 second quarter to extend an early lead to 27-20 at the half and held off a couple of Keene surges in the second half to keep the lead. Ò We were getting the ball to Tucker (Geiger) and Naomi (Peduzzi), but they had a very low shooting percentage, which is a credit to their defense,Ó Keene head coach Brian LaVallee said

Lily Whalen of Elizabethtown-Lewis drives into the lane against Keene defenders, from left, Elaina Smith, Taylor Geiger and Hanna Whitney.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

after the game. Ò We started to climb the hump a couple of times but just could not get over it.”

Keene also suffered from a depleting bench as Peduzzi and Taylor Geiger fouled out in the fourth quarter. Prior to that, Elaina Smith left the game in the third with a low leg injury.

Lions head coach Don Ratliff said his team played the style they needed to against the third-seeded Beavers. Ò ThatÕ s the only way that we are going to beat good teams is when we have balance,” he said. “We have potentially the two best players in the league, but you are not going to win these games with just two players.Ó Valley Leading scorer Lily Whalen (19.8 ppg) scored 18 points to lead the Lions, while second-leading scorer Jasmin Barnes (14.3) finished three assists shy of a rare quadruple-double with 16 points, 14 rebounds, 11 steals and 7 assists.

“I think we executed well,” Barnes said. “We had some nerves at the beginning of the game but we worked together and played as a team.Ó

“I was nervous because I got in foul trouble early, but I just slowed down and made sure not to reach,Ó Whalen said. Ò We were able to spread it out and play great defense.Ó Emma Disogra added 16 points to go with 7 rebounds, five steals and four assists. Savanah Graves scored 10 points while Erika Mitchell, Tamara Wescott, Natalie Martin and Angel Barnes each scored 2 points.

“When you have Emma and Savanah contributing and Angel playing the defense she is capable of, we are a pretty strong team,Ó Ratliff said.

Tucker Geiger (10.4 ppg) led the Beavers (14-4) with 17 points while Elaina Smith (8.9) scored 10, Hanna Whitney ( 13.9) 9, Naomi Peduzzi (11.5) 8 and Taylor Geiger 7.

“I am going to miss having Tucker under the basket,” LaVallee said of his senior center. “Everyone else is coming back, and we brought home the first ever banner in school history for girls basketball, so this was a great year.Ó

Local athletes compete in wrestling, swimming, bowling and track state meets

By Keith Lobdell

keith@denpubs.com ALBANY — For AuSable Valley wrestlers Dylan Baker and Kenny Rivers, the NYSPHSAA state wrestling tournament Feb. 28 will be chalked up as a learning experience.

The two Patriot wrestlers failed to advance in their respective weight classes (120 for Baker, 285 for Rivers) in either the championship or consolation brackets, but both gained experience that may help the underclassmen in a potential 2015 appearance. Ò I knew that I was going to see some tough matches,Ó said Baker, who was pinned by state runner-up and former champion Luis Weierbach in his opening match while being pinned by Joe Dillon in the consolation round.

“I have been watching this tournament forever and wanted to know what it was like to be down on those mats,Ó Baker added. Ò I need to get stronger and get better cardio so I can make it back here next year.Ó Rivers was pinned in the opening round of the heavyweight tournament

by Marcus Ramundo, who finished in fifth at the event, before dropping a tough, 5-4 decision to Anthony DiNardo in the consolation round. Ò I think the physical wreslting was surprising to both of them,Ó Patriots head coach Kenny Baker said after the matches. Ò They were able to come here and get experience and know what its like, and that can motivate you to get back next year and do something.Ó “Going 0-2 will hurt but the experience will put a little fire into both Kenny Rivers (above in clinch) and Dylan Baker (below attempting takedown) went 0-2 at the NYSPHSAA wrestling tournament. of them,Ó coach DJ Barber said. Ò It was a great experience that they had Photos by Malynda Lobdell throughout the year and what they do in the offseason will be key.Ó

Swimming

Gavin Friedrich of AuSable Valley was unable to advance past the preliminary rounds of the NYSPHSAA state swim meet in Webster March 1.

Friedrich finished 53rd in the 200 freestyle with a time 2:01.06 and 50th in the 500 freestyle in 5:38.30.

Bowling

Gabi Yeager of Willsboro rolled a high game of 206 in the second session of the NYSPHSAA bowling championships March 1-2 in Babylon, part of a 511 series with games of 176 and 129. In the first series, Yeager bowled games of 171, 157 and 168 for a 496 series.

AuSable ValleyÕ s Mike McDonald was also strongest in his second series with games of 186, 190 and 191 for a 567 series. in his opener, McDonald combined games of 147, 135 and 180 for a 462 series.

Indoor track

Jonathan Gay of Westport had top-30 placings in both the 1,600 and 1,000 races at the NYSPHSAA indoor track and field championships March 1 at Cornell University. Gay finished in 27th place in the 1,600 with a time of 4:45.97 while finishing 25th in the 1,000 with a time of 2:40.82.

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