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Footbridge negotiations break down City School District opts to move forward with repairs without city involvement Assemblyman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay), Plattsburgh Town Supervisor Michael Cashman, American Legion Post 1619 Commander Ron Poland and Friends of Crab Island Commodore John Rock unveiled designs for a proposed “Battlefield Memorial Gateway” waterfront park at a press conference last week. Photo by Elizabeth Izzo
Officials unveil plans for lakeside park, boardwalk Town, American Legion officials reveal design for proposed ‘Battlefield Memorial Gateway’ STA FF W RITER
Dubbed the “Battlefield Memorial Gateway,” the park is designed with a focus on showcasing the region’s military history, and highlighting Plattsburgh’s role in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Once complete, the project is slated to include a
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PLATTSBURGH | The Plattsburgh City School District Board of Education (BOE) last week voted to move forward with repair of the Webb Island Footbridge — without the City of Plattsburgh’s involvement. Negotiations between the two entities, which have spanned more than a year, appear to have broken down. This comes three weeks after both the BOE and the Plattsburgh Common Council had each agreed on contract terms to facilitate the repair, and a formal contract seemed imminent. “Over the course of the past many, many months, a long series of impediments, delays and obstructions have been advanced by certain city leaders,” Superintendent Jay Lebrun told The Sun. “The district believes that, even if the current issues could be resolved, another slate of barriers and delays would surely be advanced. “As such, and in the interest of making this valuable community asset again available to the public, we will simply proceed without the city.” » Footbridge Cont. on pg. 2
By Elizabeth Izzo
PLATTSBURGH | Local officials unveiled preliminary designs for a new waterfront park last week.
By Elizabeth Izzo
boardwalk with areas for fly fishing, a potential boat launch to facilitate trips to Crab Island, outdoor performance and children’s play areas, an educational outlook stage and veterans memorial wall. “Ultimately, we want everyone in our community to have something here for them,” Plattsburgh Town Supervisor Michael Cashman said at a press conference last week. » Officials Cont. on pg. 2
The Plattsburgh City School District Board of Education has decided to move forward with repairs to the Webb Island Footbridge without the City of Plattsburgh’s involvement. File photo
College students, volunteers clean up community United Way ‘Day of Caring’ effort draws more than 700 volunteers
SUNY Plattsburgh students and volunteers from Plattco pose on the steps of the Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh. Photo by Danielle Rock
By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | Surrounded by dozens of black trash bags filled with seasonal debris,
a group of college students sat on the stone steps of the Strand Center for the Arts last Saturday. It was one of the first mild days of the year, and students talked amongst themselves under the bright afternoon sun, drinking water and readying for the next round of cleanup. The group was among more than 450 SUNY Plattsburgh students dispatched around the county on April 13 as part of the United Way’s annual “Day of Caring” event. Students pitched in to help complete 27 service projects, everything from collect-
ing nonperishables for local food pantries to raking leaves. “The college students get a bad rap oftentimes and they don’t get enough credit for the contributions that they make to our community,” said United Way of the Adirondack Region CEO John Bernardi at a press conference last week. “We’re very proud.” SUNY Plattsburgh Project H.E.L.P coordinators Joe Hunziker, 21, and Molly Schoder, 22, helped spearhead this year’s effort. » College Students Cont. on pg. 2
Book vending machine revealed Cumberland Head Elementary School to offer free books to students with new program
By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | At first, students thought it might be a giraffe. Or maybe a candy machine. All they knew for sure was that there was a large rectangular object, wrapped in gray paper with a red bow on top, sitting in the lobby of Cumberland Head
Elementary (CHES). The mystery of what this box could be generated a lot of buzz — and a lot of speculation — in the lead up to last week’s unveiling, according to Debra Jabaut, a library aide at the school. And when librarian Lori Christopherson, in a school assembly
April 11, told students that the new addition to the lobby was a book vending machine? Cheers erupted from the hundreds of students sitting before her.
EAGLE PRIDE
Starting this September, students nominated by their teachers
to receive an Eagle Pride award — the school’s recognition of a student’s kindness, responsibleness or overall good behavior — will receive a token to put into the vending machine. Children will also receive a token on their birthdays. » Book Cont. on pg. 2
A book vending machine was unveiled at Cumberland Head Elementary last week. Photo by Elizabeth Izzo
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