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Essex County seeking judgment against slaughterhouse
Remembering USA’s first woman speedskating medalist
By Kim Dedam
By Kim Dedam
Jeanne Chesley Ashworth, 80, died Oct. 4 in Wilmington
Now-shuttered Adirondack Meat Company under investigation STA FF W RITER
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TICONDEROGA | Essex County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) is seeking judgment against the owners of the former Adirondack Meat Company. Denise and Peter Ward founded the state-of-the-art meat slaughterhouse and processing center in Ticonderoga, opening in 2014 with nearly $500,000 from IDA, state economic development and federal United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funds. But the slaughterhouse closed its doors last December amid complaints from area farmers and unpaid property taxes.
WILMINGTON| The international Olympic and local community is mourning the loss of a pioneer woman speedskater. Olympic champion and former Wilmington Town Supervisor Jeanne Chesley Ashworth died at her home Oct. 4 with Christine LeFevre, her partner of 25 years, and her dog Wriggly at her side. She was 80. In addition to many contributions she made to local government policy with environmentally focused projects in Wilmington, Ashworth forever holds a place in Olympic history as the first American woman to ever medal in speedskating competition.
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IDA had been working with a potential meat processing buyer, but that deal fell through several weeks ago, IDA co-executive director Jody Olcott told county lawmakers last Monday. » Slaughterhouse Cont. on pg. 4
Jeanne Chesley Ashworth
» Ashworth Cont. on pg. 5
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WCS maps out post-yes landscape District to gird for Dec. 4 merger vote By Pete DeMola EDITOR
Westport Central School Interim Superintendent and K-12 Principal Josh Meyer briefed the WCS school board on Thursday, Oct. 11 on the timeline for a proposal merger with Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School. Voters in each district approved the first of two merger votes by wide margins last week. Photo by Pete DeMola
WESTPORT | District officials are surveying the landscape following a straw poll vote last week that paved the way for a merger between Elizabethtown-Lewis Central (ELCS) and Westport Central (WCS). Residents approved the straw poll 357 to 198 at WCS, and by wider margins at ELCS, where the vote total was 399-73. “Th is turnout was amazing,” said
Interim Superintendent and K-12 Principal Josh Meyer. Fifty-percent of eligible residents voted. Questions at the WCS school board meeting held two days after the vote zeroed in on the timeline leading up to the final Dec. 4 binding referendum, which would also determine the makeup and term limits of a newly constituted school board, which could be 5, 7 or 9 members serving 3, 4 or 5-year terms. Meyer told the five-member WCS board they will not need to create a budget for the 2019-2020 school year if voters in both districts again approve the final vote. “There’s no budget you need to do,” Meyer said. » WCS Cont. on pg. 9
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