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Saturday, April 5, 2014
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EC roof survey questioned By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com
ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ Essex County has sprung a leak and some of the roofing in the sprawling Government Center in Elizabethtown needs to be inspected and possibly replaced. Last month, the board of supervisors approved spending $32,401 to have the Plattsburgh-based surveying firm AES come in and analyze what needs to be done. On Monday, March 31, lawmakers questioned the decision to bring in outsiders when the county already had engineers on the payroll. Ò DonÕ t we already have an engineer working for us?Ó North Elba town supervisor Roby Politi asked Department of Public Works Superintendent Anthony LaVigne.
Social Center names T-shirt design winners PAGE 2 KEENE
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Public speakers head for state forensics event
Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Douglas presents North Country Honor Flight Secretary Pauline Stone with a check for $1,000 donated by the board. Douglas said that individual supervisors had made private donations to Honor Flight as well. “It’s amazing what you do. We enjoy the freedom we have because of what you guys do; what you World War II vets have done for us,” said Douglas. The donation will fund three WW II veterans flights to Washington D.C. this summer to see the WW II Memorial and other D.C. memorials. Photo by Shawn Ryan
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Ben Nelson honored by BCANY
SPORTS
By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com
By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
MVAC scholar athlete team announced PAGE 14
GLENS FALLS Ñ Ben Nelson is a man with a Basketball Jones. Nelson, who has been associated with Camp Dudley in Westport since 1950, was named recently to the Basketball Coaches Association of New York (BCANY) Hall of Fame. Nelson was honored during ceremonies March 16 at the New York State Public High School Athletic AssociationÕ s (NYSPHSAA) boys basketball state tournament at the Glens Falls Civic Center. Locally, he joins former Westport coach Tom Beauvais, a 2011 inductee, in the Hall of Fame. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Budget talk at KCS
Ben Nelson, second from left, was inducted into the BCANY Hall of Fame March 16 in Glens Falls. Photo provided/Matt Storey
KEENE Ñ Like other school districts in the North Country, Keene Central School is reigning back spending and donning their green accountant eyeshades. But unlike their regional bedfellows who are in full-on panic mode, entertaining once unfathomable ideas in order to remain sustainable like renting out classroom space, hiring full-time grant writers and slashing entire academic programs, the district is in relatively good shape and doesnÕ t anticipate any reductions that will affect the quality of education for its 170 students in grades K-12. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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