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December 1, 2018
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Essex County arrives at tentative budget
Expertise informs school merger logistics as communities approach final decision
Tax rate to see 0.6 percent increase By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Essex County is ready with a preliminary 2019 budget that sits about $75,000 below the allowed 2.68 percent tax levy increase cap. The total tentative budget is $104.9 million. With revenues providing $80.2 million toward 2019 spending, the county is looking to raise $23 million by increasing the tax rate by 2 cents, from $3.27 to $3.29 per $1,000 in assessed value, or 0.6 percent. This equates to $2 on a home assessed at $100,000.
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County Manager Dan Palmer provided the tentative figures to supervisors on Monday. The budget comes one year after the completion of the county’s five-year strategic budget plan, a process that Palmer said restored the county’s fund balance, which he estimated to be in the $20 million range. » Budget Cont. on pg. 3
Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School Superintendent Scott Osbourne delivers comments in Elizabethtown on Monday, Nov. 26 at a panel discussion on the proposed merger between Elizabethtown-Lewis Central and Westport Central School. Photo by Dan Alexander, Jr
Voters head to polls on Nov. 4
ELIZABETHTOWN | Forum discussion Monday night brought expertise and insight to ongoing merger review for Westport Central School (WCS) and Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School (ELCS) communities. With a final and binding vote set for Dec. 4, The Sun brought professional
By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
» Merger Cont. on pg. 18
Lake George in photos
Edited by Richard Timberlake and Philip Terne
‘J.S. Wooley’ takes a look at the man behind the lens ADIRONDACK
voices to inform logistics, statistics and fiscal opportunity. What would happen to existing school programs? How would tax rates settle? Who would establish the tax levy cap? How would building aid be calculated?
By Tim Rowland
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STA FF W RITER
“J.S. Wooley; Adirondack Photographer” shines a light on the man who photographed Lake George. Photo provided
SILVER BAY | Some fascinating parallels exist between Adirondack photography in the early 21st century and that of a century prior. Where digital cameras have turned artistic photographs into an everyman’s pursuit today, at the turn of the 20th century, Rochester’s George Eastman was producing handy pointand-shoot Brownie cameras that opened what had been a complicated vocation to the masses. And as the selfie has tantalized and attracted multitudes to the Adirondack Park,
so did the photographers and writers of the latter 1880s. Indeed, there was even the same hand wringing at overuse, as thousands of unprepared people, drawn by the photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard and the writings of Adirondack Murray flooded the mountains, earning them the epithet of Murray’s Fools. But swimming unnoticed beneath the celebrated Adirondack artists was a breed of photographer who fl itted between the worlds of art and commerce. These were the town photographers, an uncelebrated and largely forgotten class, who set up shop in villages across the country in the decades bracketing the turn of the last century. While their work was largely pedestrian, every so often a town photographer possessed a degree of artistic skill that is worthy of a closer look.
» Wooley Cont. on pg. 2
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