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P’burgh lawyer found dead; city PD investigate Attorney Justin Herzog failed to appear in court By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | Plattsburgh City Police have confirmed that attorney Justin Herzog was found dead in his law office Monday afternoon.
“It is not believed that this is a suspicious death,” City Police Chief Levi Ritter said. Police and EMS responded to Herzog’s office at 5139 U.S. Ave. at 5:35 p.m. yesterday after receiving a report of a “male that was not conscious and not breathing” from an employee of the law office, according to Ritter.
An autopsy was scheduled to be performed Tuesday morning. City police are investigating. The Clinton County Sheriff ’s Office issued a warrant for the arrest of Herzog Monday. Herzog, 44, failed to appear in court to face multiple felony charges stemming from an alleged domestic violence dispute in February. Police say Herzog was scheduled to appear in court April 8 to be arraigned on one count of second-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree burglary, both
class B felonies; one count of second-degree burglary, a class C felony; and first-degree unlawful imprisonment, a class E felony. Police said at the time that he would likely have been driving a 2011 Chevrolet Impala with a license plate that says “ZOGLAW.”
ACCUSED OF STRANGULATION, RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT
Herzog was initially arrested at a Chazy residence in February for allegedly strangling a woman and threatening her, and an unidentified 13-year-old, with a knife. » Herzog Cont. on pg. 2
Literacy volunteers seek funding for summer camp Local org asks legislature for $8K
to go to literacy camp,” she said. “I didn’t think this was possible. But it helped. It created that love for learning.” Her son’s passion for reading was ignited to such a degree, in fact, that they were forced to implement new rules in the house. “We have to take his books out of his bookbag at night,” she said, smiling. “If we don’t, he reads all night.”
SPOTTED: An osprey was seen flying through the air with dinner in its claws at Ausable Point this week. Photo by Todd Collins
P’burgh man convicted for cocaine conspiracy Faces 30 years in prison
PLATTSBURGH | A Dyer to traffic 300 grams Plattsburgh man has been of cocaine from New York convicted in federal court City to Plattsburgh, acfor conspiring to distrib- cording to the New York ute cocaine. Northern District U.S. Sean R. Fabian, 41, was District Attorney’s Office. convicted last Friday of The U.S. DA’s office said conspiring to disthat Fabian provided tribute cocaine in Dyer, 37, with 300 the City of Plattsgrams of cocaine. She was allegedly burgh, a class B felony, following tasked with driving a four-day jury the cocaine up to Elizabeth Izzo Plattsburgh. trial in federal By• STA FF W RITER • court. But the New York He faces up to 30 years State Police stopped her in prison and a fine of up to vehicle in Clinton County $2 million at his sentenc- and found the drugs in a ing before U.S. District container — submerged in Judge Mae A. D’Agostino a fish stew, the office said July 31. in a news release. Dyer was arrested by COCAINE STING city police last February Fabian’s initial arrest was the result of a sev- and charged with first-deen-month-long investi- gree criminal possession gation conducted by the of a controlled substance. Assistant U.S. District Plattsburgh City Police Attorney Michael Barnett Narcotics Unit and the Drug Enforcement Ad- told The Sun that Dyer ministration Task Force. pleaded guilty in federal Fabian allegedly sold court Dec. 14 to one charge cocaine to a city police of conspiracy to distribute informant Feb. 5-6, 2018. cocaine, a class B felony. Her sentencing is still A few days later, Fabian pending. conspired with Hannah K. » Fabian Cont. on pg. 3
FUNDING NEEDED
The Literacy Volunteers of Clinton County asked the county legislature last week to consider contributing $8,000 toward a summer camp designed to help underprivileged children with their reading and writing skills. Photo by Elizabeth Izzo
By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | Luke struggled to read and write. When he left Kindergarten at Northern Adirondack, educators told local mother Ashley Manor that her 6-yearold son’s literacy skills lagged behind other kids his age. At the time, she worried that he’d be held back in school. She worried about his future. “It was a nightmare, to say the least,” she told the Clinton County Legisla-
ture last week. When she learned that the Literacy Volunteers of Clinton County hosted an educational literacy camp for kids each year — a program now seeking $8,000 from the legislature to keep the camp going — she was skeptical. “I was pessimistic that literacy camp would improve his skills in that short amount of time,” she said. But she witnessed a transformation over the span of the two-week program. Suddenly, her son was fi lled with enthusiasm about reading and writing. “He woke up in the morning wanting
Linda Carela, the director of the Literacy Volunteers of Clinton County, said that the group hopes to help more children like Manor’s son. For the last six years, the program has been funded by tuition costs and SUNY Plattsburgh’s Literacy Education program. “The deactivation of that program has put us in a position of seeking outside funding in order to keep camp affordable for families,” said Jean Ann Hunt, president of the Literacy Volunteers of Clinton County board. Every year, Clinton County doles out tobacco settlement money to community projects. This year, the Literacy Volunteers are asking for $8,000 to help fund their summer program, a two-week camp designed to foster a love for reading and writing by aiding children and adults alike with developing their literacy skills. » Funding Cont. on pg. 2
Mooers Free Library vies for funding Library reps eye park, community garden area By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | Representatives of the Mooers Free Library are seeking funding for a proposed park and community garden. Tim Gonyo, president of the Mooers Free Library Board of Trustees, asked the Clinton County Legislature last week to consider granting the library $10,000 toward the development of a piece of property outside their School Street building.
“We want to create greenspace — create a little park there and have raised beds for a community garden,” Gonyo told The Sun. “We want to put in seating for families, and a nice gazebo so we can do some outdoor education.” Altogether, the project is expected to cost roughly $20,000, according to Gonyo. The $10,000 ask would supplement $7,000 from the sale of the library’s previous location on Route 11, along with $3,000 from its ongoing memorial brick fundraiser. “Once we get the funding, we’re looking at this being a spring-summer project,” Gonyo said. The library’s request was one of nine submitted to the Clinton County Legislature for consideration last week.
Every year, the legislature doles out tobacco settlement funding for community-level projects. The nine applications submitted asked for a total of $113,000, according to Deputy County Administrator Rodney Brown. County Administrator Michael Zurlo said that as much as $89,000 in funding is available. Legislators were expected to decide which projects would receive funding on April 10, after this edition went to print. ■
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