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Hunting Northerns?

Bringing a gun to a rod fight

Annual fishing contest on Minerva Lake brings a crowd

By Mike Corey

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MINERVA — The northern pike were indeed biting in Minerva Lake on Saturday, Feb. 20, as nearly 40 fishermen and women used tip-ups and jigs as they tried their luck.

With plenty of ice (18” thick) and favorable

weather, the contest was a hit for sure.

Minerva residents Tim Kellogg and John Meehan have been organizing this contest for years, but this year’s event got briefly knocked off its tracks on its scheduled date of Feb. 13 when 40-below (with the wind chill) temperatures made being out on the exposed ice somewhat dangerous.

Minerva man dies at Gore

JOHNSBURG —A 65-year-old Minerva man was killed while skiing at Gore Mountain Ski Center Monday morning, according to State Police.

Richard S. Bredeck, Route 28N, was on a steep section of the double black diamond trail called Lies, when he lost control, according to police.

Bredeck left the trail, entering a wooded area where he collided with trees.

Police said they were called at approximately 10:30 a.m. and informed Bredeck was deceased at that time.

Jon Lundin, a spokesman for Olympic Regional Development Authority, which operates the mountain, called Lies, “an expert trail.” Conditions that day were described as “packed powder.”

Bredeck was reported to be wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.

Minerva Town Supervisor Steven McNally said though he did not have personal dealings with Bredeck, “He was very community and civic minded.” Bredeck frequently attended town board meetings and was a member of the Minerva Service Organization.

Bredeck’s accident is the second resulting in death in less than two years at Gore.

For a reasonable fee, anglers could compete for cash prizes, get a steak dinner on the ice, and walk away with a tee shirt. Young and more experienced participants tried their luck after drilling holes in the lake ice.

Jewell Leonbruno, whose 14-year-old son, Wyatt Gereau, was working hard to nail a pike, was happy to see him out on the lake.

“It’s good to get kids outside and away from their video games for a little while – ice fishing is a good opportunity to get him out to enjoy the great outdoors,” Leonbruno said.

The Minerva Lake ice fishing contest produced three winners, with prizes based on fish weights. Winners include Ian McNally >> Story Continued | pg. 2

100 days!

Minimum wage prop opens fault-lines here State delegation, business groups say proposed increase will “break the backs” of small business

By Pete DeMola

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PLATTSBURGH — If Gov. Andrew Cuomo gets his way, the state legislature will greenlight a $15 minimum wage hike for all workers in New York next month, the highest in the nation.

Getting there will likely be the biggest political battle of the season.

Advocates, including labor groups and

progressive activists, have made both a moral and economic pitch for the increase, which would affect 1.4 million upstate workers and be gradually implemented over the next five years.

Sweeping changes have already been implemented in the foodservice industry this year. As of Jan. 1, the overall wage of $8.75 was increased to $9 per hour; upstate fast food workers were bumped to $9.75, while tipped service employees saw their base pay increase by 50 percent.

A phased-in approach for fast food and state workers, already a done deal, will reach $15 per hour by 2021.

Cuomo says the proposal to bring all work>> Story Continued | pg. 3

Johnsburg Central School first grader, Tate Bacon, was crowned as the “100th Day King” Friday, Feb. 12. Students in grades K-2 celebrated the day by singing songs, making 100 day projects, and counting to 100.

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(third prize), Austin Williams (second prize), and grand prize winner Ezra Heath with his 28” northern pike.

Jack Green of Mammy & Pop’s Store in Minerva donated food to the event and Jessica Coyle of Mountain Ink donated hooded sweatshirts.

ABOVE: 14-year-old Colonie resident Carl Morehouse trying his luck with his jig set on Minerva Lake.

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nother week has gone by so here I am again. Hope everyone warmed up after the way below zero degrees. Hope the water picpes are fixed and the furnace is running. I still love to see the birds coming to the feeders.

Sorry to hear that my niece, Heather, has been so sick. Glad she had many around her that could care for her. Also, Nine days after a hip replacement Fred Allen was able to stand up in his church and preach again. He is doing much better just will take time.

Pam Goodspeed is in Glens Falls Hospital. Glad she was able to get out of ICU. Her daughter and husband, Larry and Sandy Warner traveled from their home in Florida to spend time with her and other family.

George Johnson 111 is at Adirondack TriCounty Nursing home for rehab.

Neil Hitchcock is now at The Pines. Welcomes visitors.

Sorry to hear about the death of dad’s dear friend, John Leis. Also sad to hear about the death of Sue Crossman Hitchcock and Barbara Corie.

Amy Millington Schumacher from Elizabethtown, North Carolina was happy to have

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her niece, Carli, spend some time with her.

Alonzo Conlon and son, Aaron were in the Syracuse area on Monday and Tuesday to get ready for college. The ate at Brooks Bar-BCue on Tuesday night before heading home in the bad weather.

Otto Miller, has been transferred to A Rehab in Georgia where he will get a lot of work out in hopes he will walk again. He is an 18 year old that fell off a roof while Shoveling.

His family live in Queensbury. There are different ones having fund raisers for him. Praying for him and his family.

Tom Oehser is going to have to have surgery on some very bad looking ring finger. He hurt them with his snowblower.

Darlene and Les Rogers made a day trip from Maine to visit Darlene’s mother and brother, Agnes Straight and Darryl Hitchcock one day last week.

Deana Wood had a day trip to Syracuse on Sunday.

Wayne Brewster Sr was in a bad accident last Tuesday and is in Albany Med. Hospital.

He has some broken ribs and forearm.

Happy Birthday to: T.J. Lawrence, Ethan Carmody, Payton Rausch, Easton Rae Karpensky, Justin Wilkensen, Jerry Galusha, Valerie Breason, Berniece Conlon, Vivian Kramar, Christopher Persons, Ashley Conlon.

Happy Anniversary to: Lee and Daisy Allen.

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ers up to $15 is a “reasonable” one. If the minimum wage had been indexed to inflation in 1970, the wage would now be at that rate, he said.

A report issued by the state labor commissioner’s fast food wage board last year, which was released after hearing testimony from economists, workers, business and labor groups, determined nearly 60 percent of fast food workers are in families enrolled in at least one public assistance program.

At the national level, 87 percent do not have health insurance.

The report also determined the fast food industry was surging in the state, with profits increasing 14.5 percent from 2000 to 2014.

The governor said the state subsidizes businesses who pay their workers the minimum wage through welfare benefits to the tune of about $6,800 each year.

“The minimum wage doesn’t even work numerically in this state,” Cuomo said. “The numbers don’t even add up. This is below a subsistence level. You can’t make it on a minimum wage job. You need two, three, four minimum wage jobs to actually make it, and that’s not what the minimum wage was all about.”

According to the National Employment Law Project (NELP), an upstate worker needs at least $15 to afford basic living expenses.

Using statistics crunched by the Economic Policy Institute, NELP pegged $17.24 as the basic wage needed for a single adult in the Glens Falls-area to afford housing, clothing and transportation (the average across upstate, as Douglas mentioned, clocks in slightly lower, at $16.25).

Conservatives, Cuomo said, are trying to justify keeping the minimum wage static for two reasons: “Number one, it costs businesses less money, and number two, businesses makes money on the minimum wage.”

Before the modest bump on Jan. 1, the state’s lowest paid workers brought home about $18,000 annually.

“What that means is you’ve had 45 years of economic injustice where the poor were getting poorer, while everyone else was moving up,” Cuomo said at his state of state address last month, a speech at which he took on the cadence of a preacher. “That’s not America’s way because that’s not fair.”

New Yorkers seem to agree. A Siena College poll released in September found the public supported a $15 minimum wage 59 to 38 percent.

But the business community is steadfastly against the proposal. A Siena survey released last week found 87 percent of upstate businesses are against the push for $15.

So are 100 percent of the region’s state and federal representatives.

“POLITICALLY MOTIVATED” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY21-Willsboro) said the North Country economy is different than that of New York City, which gave birth to the movement in late-2012 when labor groups and unions launched the Fight for $15 campaign.

Last December, the group staged protests in some 200 cities across the country, giving the push strong momentum before the governor formally rolled out his proposal.

“In terms of the impact on our employment rates in upstate New York, and the ability for small businesses to keep pace, I believe that it is a policy that is driven out of New York City and is out of touch with our upstate economy,” Stefanik told the Sun in an interview last month.

State Senator Betty Little (R-45th-Queensbury) said small businesses are “writing, emailing and calling almost daily” about the proposed hike.

“Their message to me is they don’t have the ability to pay higher wages,” Little said in a statement, “though they would like to be able to.”

Assemblyman Dan Stec (R-114th-Queensbury) said the state already faces some of the most severe regulations and highest taxes in the nation.

“To mandate that they almost double their labor costs for minimum wage workers would be a death sentence,” Stec said in September.

Stec called the initiative a “politically motivated decision” that would provide adverse consequences to the state’s business climate and economy, including layoffs and higher consumer costs as businesses “frantically attempt to level out costs and revenues.”

Furthermore, said the lawmaker, small businesses and labor sectors would not be able to handle another aggressive increase coming so close to the hike that went into effect last month.

All told, the wage has increased 75 percent since 2004.

Assemblywoman Janet Duprey (R-115th-Peru) said the proposed increase is an unprecedented 67 percent wage mandate.

“I don’t know of any business that can provide such an increase for their employees,” Duprey said in an email.

Duprey, citing a report from the Empire Center, a nonpar-

Correction In the Saturday, Feb. 13 edition, the column Squirrel Wars was credited as being written by Jan Nickerson, The actual author was Evelyn Greene.

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tisan watchdog group, the said the wage increase would cost businesses $4.6 billion.

That same report, based on the methodology used in a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), projected the bump will cost the state at least 200,000 jobs — perhaps as many as 580,000.

Under the worst-case scenario, net total wages would increase by just $1 billion, wrote Empire Center President E.J. McMahon in the report.

“But even if wages rise by the $10.6 billion projected in the low-impact CBO scenario, barely $700 million would be pocketed by workers at the poverty line, who would need it the most (and who this legislation is intended to benefit).”

Duprey conceded while most people support a more equitable living wage, she is mindful of the concerns of small business owners and farmers.

“While I expect on a personal level the majority of them would like to pay their employees more money, the reality is the onerous regulations and the inflexibility and contradiction of too many policies have an adverse impact on small businesses,” Duprey said.

The lawmaker, who represents all of Clinton, Franklin and a portion of St. Lawrence County, also said the policy would create a ripple effect for other employees who will also expect to receive a comparable raise.

Businesses will also face increases in Social Security taxes, workers’ compensation and unemployment, said the rep.

Duprey said she also heard from many non-profit organizations who fear the loss of their employees to fast-food restaurants.

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Nonprofits, which provide about 10 percent of the North Country’s jobs, will also struggle to remain solvent, she said.

“Too many of these agencies which provide desperately needed services for so many are barely able to operate with current salaries and reduced revenue from federal and state governments,” Duprey said.

For the most part, these budgets are inflexible.

In order to adequately provide a $15 minimum wage, these organizations would need to receive at least a 20 percent increase in their funding, and “that is simply not going to happen,” said Duprey.

Duprey said parents who have young or adult children receiving services are “terribly worried” the caregivers they rely on for assistance and the ability to keep loved ones at home will no longer be employed with these providers.

“It is a scary and difficult time for many families,” she said.

While the governor has proposed a $300 million tax cut for small businesses to sweeten the deal, to date, the state has not announced plans to aid nonprofits in the transition.

Cuomo brushed off criticisms that the government shouldn’t regulate the marketplace as political posturing to shield the state’s business community.

“That is a lot of baloney – that’s what that is,” Cuomo said at a Manhattan rally last month.

But he said nothing about the effect on the small businesses who feel as if they’ve been caught in the riptide.

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QUESTION OF THE MONTH

“If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would...”

Mrs. Mosher’s Second Grade ClassJohnsburg Central School Marley Lewis: “If I were locked in school overnight, I would eat the food from the lunch room for dinner. I would sleep on the coats and play with the class toys. That is what I would do if I got locked in school!”

Stephen Millington: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would eat all of the food, play with toys read, play the game “Hauntings of the School”, put up decorations, sleep in the cubby, watch movies on the smartboard, read all of the books in the library, color, and play instrument in the music room. I have all night, so I would play in the gym, do math , look outside, and listen to music.”

Bailey Brown: “If I were locked on school overnight, I would turn on the lights. First, I would go to the library and read.”

Chase Denno: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would eat all the food in the cafeteria.”

Trista Ellifritz: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would watch Futurama, Cleveland Show, and Youtube. Then I would go to the gym and bring down the hoops and swing on them.”

Christian Harvey: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would stay awake all night and play games on the smartboard.”

Keegan Mottram: “If I were locked in school overnight, I would sleep on the soft rug and watch Netflix on the Smartboard.”

Peyton Lawrence: “If I were locked in school, I would go to play in the gym and check out every classroom in the school. Last, I would watch Netflix movies on the smartboard all night.”

Hawk Millington: “If I were locked in school overnight, I would go to the gym and do 100 push-ups, then eat all the Pop Tarts in the cafeteria!”

Jordan Fusco: “If I were trapped in school overnight, I would go to the art room and get paint and make a mess.”

Carly Davis: “I would first cry for help. Then I would go tot he preschool room and play with the toys and check out the other grades.”

Hunter Monroe: “I would probably go in the gym and play.”

Ms. Watson’s Third Grade Chet Perryman: “If I were locked inside my school overnight I would play dominos and draw pictures. I would also play ball in the gym. I would want my friends Brian and Ethan to be with me. I would have so much fun!”

Emma Wilson: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would sleep for 22 minutes. When I wake up I would play Hangmouse on the smart board. I would play circus with 12 toys in the desks. I will also invent a machine that will make Captain America and all the superheroes I want.

That is what I would do if I was locked inside my school overnight.”

Memphis Facey: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would read and play games. I would draw pictures for my teacher. I would play games on the computer.”

Savannah Virgil: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would practice gymnastics. I would have a picnic on my desk. I would also secretly put on an opera in the gym.

At the end of the day I would sleep on a piece of paper with a pencil eraser as a pillow, and a magazine for a blanket.”

Kaylie O’Hara: “If I was locked inside my school overnight I would go to my old Kindergarten room, get a mat, and sleep for one hour. But before that, I would go to the lunch room and eat dinner. Next, would play in my play room. Then I would throw a party. One more thing, I would read and get my head ready for the next day, and sleep the night away.”

Hayden Baker: ” If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would go to the cafeteria to eat. Then I would go to gym and maybe find a flashlight. I would find a comfy place to stay then go to the computer lab. Then I will get out by an open window.”

Eric W. Mason: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would use all the supplies to escape I would use paperclips to pick locks. I would open vents to crawl through.

In the kitchen I could make an energy drink and break through the wall.”

Darell McNeil: “If I were locked inside my school overnight I would explore all of the classes. I would see what each classes teacher’s name is. I would look for a lockpick to open the door. I would make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the cafeteria. I will bust open the window with a chair to get out.”

Eloise Noel: “If I were locked inside my over school overnight, I would throw a party, eat all the food I want and stay up till midnight. I would play badmitten. Last but not least I would play Animal Jam on the computer.”

Alesha Johnston: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would play badmitten and I would also be in the art room painting. That is what I would do If I was locked overnight in my school.”

Autumn Smith: “If I were locked in my school overnight, I would play indoor recess. I would play a game called Sorry. I would play an instrument in the music room.”

Tristan Millington: “If I were locked inside my school overnight, I would turn on the lights and read for an hour.

Then I would play for a while. Then I would do math so I wouldn’t have to do it with my class. I would study for my spelling test. Then I would study for my math test.”

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Liar, liar

t’s been nearly 30 year since we laughed at the SNL (Saturday Night Live) skit called PointCounterpoint.

Known for their over-thetop satirical comedy, this skit pitted Jane Curtain against Dan Aykroyd in a mock news segment patterned after 60 minutes where the left and right presented their views on a subject.

Dan starts with “Jane you ignorant xxxx….,” followed

by Jane calling, Dan, “You pompous xxx….” (Just in case you are not familiar with the skit you can Google what was really said).

So funny and outrageous back then, yet here we are in the present with our country’s future at stake and we’ve stooped to parody behavior that was on par with Coneheads, Land-Sharks and Two Wild and Crazy Guys.

It won’t be long before we just strip them down to their underwear, put them in a mud pit and let them go at it until only one is left standing.

The paper took some flack last week over the editorial cartoon that appeared with Justice Scalia’s coffin in front of the other saddened justices and a smiling President Obama. It was disrespectful and I apologize for its use.

These cartoons are purchased from a national source and are meant to bring focus to major issues facing the country. Poking a little fun is one thing but the death of a noted jurist?

I mention this error on our part only to highlight the entire Scalia death, Supreme Court firestorm that has erupted.

Is it any wonder so many of our countryman have stayed away from the polls and now seem to be flocking to unconventional candidates whose best qualification is not being a part of the political class?

We need to look well beyond the rhetoric, the media, the mud, the spin and the ads to grade these candidates. We must understand what the candidates stand for and be certain they can deliver on their promises. We need to know what they’ve accomplished during their lifetime and look at the smallest details in the conduct of their personal lives to judge their true character.

We need to know how they’ve dealt with crisis and success to really understand what we can expect from them before giving one of them the keys to the big house on Pennsylvania Avenue and all that comes with it.

Dan Alexander is CEO of Sun Community News. He may be reached at dan@suncommunitynews.com.

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The editorial cartoon that appeared in our Feb. 20 editions of The Sun was published unsigned.

The artist was Gary McCoy on behalf of Cagle cartoons.

Policy, not platitudes, needed from Albany to address local issues

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he plight facing local ambulance squads is a metaphor for life in the North Country: A slow-motion disaster that has been a long time coming.

While supply is plummeting — volunteering has withered and funding is stagnant — demand is skyrocketing: The population is aging and call volumes are up, a trend that sees no signs of reversal.

Local officials have taken to describing the situation as a crisis.

It’s hard to disagree when squads are being shuttered because they can’t respond to calls.

A meeting between state bureaucrats and Essex County officials to discuss sustainable solutions in 2014 resulted in a now-familiar refrain: We’ll take it back to Albany.

Nothing happened.

Albany has issued all sorts of proposals designed to ignite upstate economic activity — including whizzbang tourism campaigns and grants galore for everyone — but no relief for emergency service providers.

In December, Essex County lawmakers again wrangled state officials up to Elizabethtown for a second powwow.

A room full of EMTs, first responders and elected officials again told their stories: No volunteers. No money. Suffocating training requirements. Dissolved squads.

One lawmaker even dryly remarked that patients should begin calling hearses instead of ambulances.

State bureaucrats said they weren’t surprised by the tales of woe.

“Things are changing,” said Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Governmental and External Affairs Amy Nickson. “EMS is in a precarious position now, not just in Essex County, but all over the state.”

But yet Albany does nothing.

What’s the solution?

Local leaders asked the state to flex on training requirements. The high number of hours, they said, hampers recruitment efforts.

No dice, said the state. The steady escalation is designed to bring state standards up to those at the federal level.

Relaxing the hours was the county’s Hail Mary pass.

Now that the proposal is dead in the water, the only other solution to ensure reliable emergency medical service, say county officials, is the formation of a countywide ambulance district.

At the meeting, a state bureaucrat said the twoyear process was “freakishly easy,” requiring a resolution from county lawmakers, a letter to the state and an operational plan.

Local officials expressed cautious optimism over the possibility.

Once turf battles are settled between town squads, and each is brought up to the same level of basic functioning, it just might work.

Perhaps.

Essex County has asked for state funds that would aid in studying the issue: We’ll take it back to Albany.

If this is a statewide problem, then Albany should start issuing policy proposals, not platitudes.

The crisis is part of a broader issue surrounding the tax cap, which was implemented in 2011 to curb excessive tax growth.

Quite simply, the policy is stagnating economic growth and prohibiting municipalities from rolling with the punches.

While there is no silver bullet to solving the EMS crisis, Albany can start by making special districts exempt from the cap. Doing so will allow local leaders to address emerging problems without facing political pressure from taxpayers.

The cap calls for limiting tax hikes to 2 percent per year or the rate of inflation.

It’s near-zero this year.

At .012 percent, the allowable bump amounts to pennies in North Country communities, and one that’s gobbled up by rising health care costs and insurance premiums.

As such, municipalities are pruning elsewhere — an employee here, a piece of equipment there.

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HatsÊ off Ê toÊ NYÊ roadsÊ crews

To the Editor: NYS has a fairly high gas tax. Vermont is considerably less. As some of you know I travel to Vermont for work. On several occasions these past few winters the results of the difference spent to keep the roads clear is night and day.

The last storm is a good example. Vermont starts to clear roads about 5 a.m. while New York clears continuously. Coming home on the Vermont side of the lake, traffic moved from a 20 minute standstill to 35 mph. Ice and slush ruled the day.

Their highway crews work all day to cut through the mess, tying up traffic

Towns are bending themselves in knots trying to accommodate the policy, which was born out of the need to curb mutant growth downstate and on Long Island, not here in the wilderness.

The EMS crisis is a well-timed scud missile that casts the flaws into sharp relief.

Last year, three towns in Essex County raised taxes by double digits to accommodate temporarily folding ambulance squads into municipal operations.

Once their structures are hammered out, the goal is to restructure the squads as nonprofits and start billing. But until that happens — a definitive timeframe remains murky — towns are depleting their rainy day funds to make up the difference and taxpayers are on the hook.

The creation of these new districts to accommodate North Country realities are actually expanding bureaucracy, not reducing it, making this the antithesis of the state’s plan to reduce layers of government.

But yet towns are penalized.

One of the latest proposals coming out of Albany is a $25 million competition designed to “reward” municipalities for developing consolidation plans.

It’s another “Hunger Games”-type contest that leaves the North Country out in the cold.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he loves the Adirondacks and we believe him. His record on clean water infrastructure, tourism promotion, broadband development and role as mediator during the Essex Chain of Lakes land use discussions is a testament to that.

But if the state is serious about keeping tax growth flat while also ensuring the agility of local communities to deal with rising costs, unfunded mandates and other local issues, then they need to grant some wiggle room when it comes to navigating this rocky terrain — not mixed messages, gimmicks and platitudes.

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which is driving on treacherous highways.

Once on the Champlain bridge it all changed, the roads were mostly wet with some melting slush in the middle and sides. Speed was increased to 50 mph and traffic moved effortlessly.

Both States had exactly the same storm conditions, the preemptive road work NYS performs saves hours of extra work, hundreds of thousands of hours of increased productivity, and most importantly safe roads! Hats off to all!

Tim Sherman Westport

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Putnam School Board fiscal responsibilityÊ isÊ ridiculous

To the Editor: Thank you for your recent coverage of the several issues involving the voters, school board and administration of the Putnam Central School. It is much appreciated that your newspaper is serving as a vehicle to the airing of important civic issues in our small community.

I write with specific concerns about certain statements in the article by Mikaela Foster in the Feb. 13 issue of your newspaper regarding the school plan to reduce the unrestricted fund balance held by the school board.

First of all, it was not just the audit by the State Comptroller’s office which uncovered the residual fund. Indeed, a very high overage in that line item has been the case for several years. The Comptroller’s office has, however, highlighted the problem. The fifty-nine percent overage is contrary to state law: according to Section 1613 of the New York State Real Property Tax Law, a local school board is not permitted to keep an unrestricted fund balance of more than four percent. The proposal to reduce the Putnam School tax by $90,000 is a mere drop in the bucket. The total expenditure of the Putnam Central School District for fiscal 2014-2015 was: $2,019,281. The much-published 1.4 million was actually $1,443,571 at year’s end. The legal (4 percent) which it would be allowable for the school board to have kept in 2014-2015 would have been $98,056 based on the budget number $2,451,407 which is itself $321,126 above the actual expenditures of that year. A rebate or total tax reduction of $90,000 is laughable, still leaving an unrestricted fund balance of $ 1,353,571.

Moreover, are there really needed repairs that will cost that sum? If so, where was the management and administration in previous years? As homeowners, most of us know that allowing physical problems to fester increases the costs of ultimate repair. Have things been let fester at our school for this long?

I must close by adding a point about decorum. A citizen who has long been critical of the lack of Putnam Central School building maintenance and fiscal policy was accused by the board of “hatred” of the school.

There are many of us who are concerned and not at ease with the current administration. I, for one, do not hate, nor do I think that anyone in the room that evening “hates”. I think we are concerned and if expressing our concern is interpreted as “hatred” then we are no longer in a democracy.

The Rev. C. Irving Cummings Putnam

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To the Editor: After having attended the Port Henry dissolution meetings given by LaBerge group, village and town officials, I felt fairly well informed. The spokespeople, with powerpoint charts outlined the areas of concern. The process to be followed seemed clear and with the words “you will have a chance to vote on the plan” still in my ears I felt confident.

Several months later I found out that the “chance to vote on the plan” depended on a full 25 percent of the registered village voters petitioning for that “chance”. I do not really believe the presenters hid this information, but it certainly was not emphasized. Several people I spoke with later had also not been aware of that provision.

It took only 10 percent of the registered village voters to force the village to make a dissolution plan, but 25 percent to get the “chance” to vote on it.

Whether you are for or against the dissolution of Port Henry, please sign a petition to allow us to vote on the plan. Any village resident ought to be engaged with this issue that directly affects their taxes, services and proportion of influence on their own local government.

Kim Gilbertson Port Henry

MinimumÊ wageÊ hike

To the Editor: In the Feb. 13th issue of The Sun there was an article titled “Minimum wage hike taking bite out of restaurants.” It discussed the wage increase for tipped servers, as well as the proposed mandated increase of minimum wage to $15/hour by 2018. The article goes on to say that 87 percent of upstate businesses are opposed to the pay hike.

When owners in this industry complain about being able to afford a mandated pay hike (which, by the way, probably wouldn’t be happening if you paid a fair wage to start) they need to ask themselves how much they lose in staff turnover and staff management, and then ask themselves if they can afford to pay more.

Not paying your staff results in: high staff turnover, the employee vs business mentality (staff not feeling appreciated), apathy (the “I don’t get paid enough for that attitude”).

The aforementioned directly affect businesses’ profit margin. In my fifteen years in the industry I have heard the same song from owners, cry poverty when it comes to discussing pay at the time of hire, or when raises are the topic. The whining continues when they say, “I can’t get or keep good help.” Anybody with any discernible degree of ambition will look to work where they are properly compensated and feel valued. Pay is the threshold for acquiring competent, committed staff. If you can’t pay your people well, you shouldn’t be in business.

Christopher Griffin Brighton

OurÊ RightsÊ byÊ theÊ Constitution

To the Editor: The U.S. Constitution specifies certain rights given to the American people. While there are rights stated in the original Constitution, the rights most discussed are in the Bill of Rights, particularly those in the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

These rights are given to everyone. Rights protect individuals from the majority. In so doing, it implies that the rights given to you are the same as given to me. Your rights are not superior to mine nor anyone else’s. I picture it as your rights extending half the distance between you and me, and mine half the distance to you.

Shouting down a speaker is a violation of the speaker’s right to free speech. It is an assault on the Constitution, threatening the very right the shouter claims to be exercising.

“Time, place, and manner” are considerations used to manage free speech to minimize conflicts between individuals’ rights. For example: You are at your place of worship for a service when a couple of members of the congregation get up and begin giving “cheers” for their favorite professional football team: hardly appropriate. Yet this sporting event behavior has crept its way into all situations violating some people’s Constitutional Right.

The “place” in “time, place, and manner” is important. Free speech is only protected in public areas such as streets and parks. It does not apply to private property nor to property rented to a group or individual notwithstanding that members of the public can gain access to it. If one owns it or has rented, he can set the rules, just as you do on your property.

Note, also, that one only has a right to “peaceably assemble”. Free speech, free press, peaceably assemble, and petition the Government for a redress of grievances were specified so that the people could criticize the Government without retribution; important rights for a democratic nation which had just been wrested from an oppressive monarch.

The right to practice a religion is granted, also. Again, my right to practice my religion ends half way between me and you. I have no right to impose my religious practices on you and you do not have a Right to impose your religious practices on me. Keeping the practice of our faiths separate and protected is a responsibility of our Constitutional government. It should not be seen as persecution nor as a violation of the First Amendment.

Gordon E. Howard Keeseville

MinimumÊw ageÊin creaseÊh urtsÊ non-profits

To the Editor: Recently The Sun ran two rather extensive articles on Governor Cuomo’s proposed minimum wage hike. The tremendous ripple effect that this wage increase will have needs to be thoroughly examined before it is voted upon by our legislators.

Assemblywoman Janet Duprey mentioned an important issue-the effect such an increased wage will have on non-profit organizations. Let’s put a face on an example of what she is talking about.

Mountain Lake Services (MLS), which is Essex County ARC is the largest employer in Essex County. MLS employs 720 people and serves 440 individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities. It is an example of an essential non-profit organization which could be destroyed by the proposed minimum wage. The Direct Support Professionals (DSP’s) who are responsible for the care and well-being of our family members absolutely deserve an increased wage. They are the backbone of the agency and their jobs carry a huge responsibility.

The question is, where will the money for such a wage increase come from? Businesses at least have the option to increase prices of their merchandise or menu items. MLS is funded with state and federal moneys.

Governor Cuomo has not proposed any funding increase to offset the required wage increase. In fact, funding to aid people with developmental or intellectual disabilities in New York State has been declining steadily since 2010. MLS will be expected to pay the higher wages with no increase in funding, in fact less funding.

Filling DSP positions in MLS residential houses is already difficult, especially near tourist centers such as Lake Placid. The impact of increased wages for fast food workers will make hiring DSP’s even more challenging.

The care and support of our family members is so important to us that we have formed an action group, Save Our Services – Families of Essex County.

We have a Facebook page by that name with more information about the issue and what you can do to help. We have also meet with Senator Betty Little and Assemblyman Dan Stec to present our concerns.

To lose a valuable and essential agency like Mountain Lake Services would be devastating to us and our family members who receive their services. It would also severely impact employment in Essex County.

I would suggest that The Sun do another installment on the wage issue focusing on the ripple effect on non-profits and the harm to those least able to fend for themselves.

Nina Matteau, Save Our Services Families of Essex County Westport

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Little Bits Silly songs Gordie Little

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e need a little silliness in our lives.

Things are too darn serious these days. Call it comic relief. Call it anything you like.

Allow me to deviate from all the talk of politics and news of doom and gloom.

Here’s what I want you to do.

Ready? Laugh out loud. Laugh long. Laugh hard.

Do it. Gosh, I hope you weren’t in church at the time. What reaction did you get from those around you? Did they look at you like you lost some of your marbles? Did they start laughing with you? Terrific. We’re making progress.

Of course Kaye was my guinea pig. I looked over to her recliner as she sat there, all covered up with her favorite “blanky.” I asked her to simply laugh out loud and the results were cathartic and wonderful. I joined in and we split a gut for a minute or so.

Now that we’ve let our hair down a bit, let’s go for more silliness. See how many completely silly songs you can come up with. Take your time. The first that came to my mind was “The Okeh Laughing Song” from 1922.

I grew up with that one and so did Kaye. I just played it for both of us and we started laughing all over again. It is just a horn and a bunch of people laughing from beginning to end. Silly? Yes—and wonderful.

When that was finished, she burst out in song, singing “Chickery chick chala chala” to the top of her lungs. I joined in and we raised the roof. How the heck did we remember the silly lyrics to that Sammy Kaye song from 1945? After World War II was over, we needed such a nonsense song.

Yes, we also remember all the words to “Mairzy Doats” from 1943. But if you’re a bit younger, I’ll throw out a couple more for you. How about “Iko Iko” by the Dixie Cups in 1965? Go ahead.

Sing it. Then, there’s “The Name Game” by Shirley Ellis in 1964.

Another is “The Purple People Eater” sung by Sheb Wooley in 1958. Ten years before that, it was “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” 1948.

Silliness in songs and stories have been part of our musical and literary landscape for hundreds of years. Many examples come to mind, not the least of which are by Edward Lear with “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” Lewis Carrol’s “Jabberwocky,” Mother Goose with “Hey Diddle Diddle,” and my favorite, Dr. Seuss with “Green Eggs and Ham.” Now that your silly juices are flowing, let your hair down even further and challenge your memory for even more examples. Kaye and I had a ball being silly the afternoon I wrote this; but then again, we seldom take ourselves too seriously. I guess we’re just not meant to do much in life but to keep smiling and see what happens. At the very least, it makes people wonder what we’ve been up to.

Columnist Gordie Little may be reached at gordie@suncommunitynews.com.

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here’s something about weather that brings people together. Excuse the rhyme. Perhaps it is simply because the topic of weather is neutral; it’s less subjective, it’s uncontroversial. Personally, I like to think that there is more to it than that. I like to think that there is a community aspect –in this area especially, where weather is often extreme. In 1983, social psychologists Schwarz and Clore investigated the affect weather has on our emotional states. In this study, researchers found that participants’ self-reported happiness and overall life satisfaction changed based on the climate. For most of us in the North Country, this is not surprising. When one is still shivering even under three layers of clothing, it’s difficult to feel cheerful. Yet when we share that discomfort with another person, it somehow seems a little more bearable; like we’re all in this together. Having that sense of community is important. I think it’s a bigger part of making it through the winter than most of us realize. Here are a few of the events happening around the North Country this week. Bring a friend to an event, or make one there. Whichever you choose to do, I promise you will have a sympathetic ear after braving the bitter wind.

Condition Oakland, Entrance to Trains and Kevin Lewis will perform at the ROTA Studio and Gallery in Plattsburgh on Feb. 27. Condition Oakland is a folk-punk band from Ashland, PA. Following the release of their EP “Nervous Ghost” last year, the band has been quickly gaining momentum in the Northeast. Entrance to Trains is an experimental post-rock band from Burlington, VT. Kevin Lewis, who will open the show, is a local singer-songwriter. Show starts at 7 p.m., doors at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are on a $3-10 sliding scale. Attendees are encouraged to pay what they can afford.

The 2015 biopic “Steve Jobs” will play at the Grange in Whallonsburg on Feb. 30. Starring Michael Fassbender, the film follows the iconic innovator’s rise to prominence in the eighties and nineties. The movie will play for one night only. The showing starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for minors. For more information, contact info@cvfilms.org.

Native rock band William Hale will play Gug’s in Glens Falls on Feb. 27. NYC based alt-pop group Edith Pop will co-headline. Show starts at 10 p.m. Tickets are free.

The Chilson Fire Department in Ticonderoga will host a Winter Wonderland Dinner Dance on Feb. 27. Along with dinner, dancing, and music, there will be traditional raffles and miniraffles with hundreds of valuable prizes. Proceeds benefit the Chilson Fire Department. Tickets are $15 per person. For more information, call 518-585-6823 or email chilsonvfd@gmail.com.

Michael and Tammy Dinsmore perform at SPoT Coffee in Glens Falls on Feb. 27. The acoustic duo will play an eclectic set featuring contemporary Christian and Classic Rock hits. Show starts at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.

On March 5, Julia and Michael Devine will present their short film “Burgh” at the Upper Jay Art Center. Says filmmaker Michael Devine, “’Burgh’ is a film about place—not this city, not Plattsburgh, but rather the spaces we share as social creatures, and our need to connect to one another.” A Q&A will follow. Manhatta, the classic 1926 avant garde short directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, will also be shown. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.

On Feb. 27, the 120 Intercollegiate Art exhibit will open with a juried selection of the region’s best collegiate artwork. The exhibit will feature over 40 works by 25 students repre-

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senting SUNY Adirondack, Skidmore College, The College of Saint Rose, University at Albany, SUNY, Siena College, SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, and SUNY New Paltz. The opening reception will be held from 4 – 6 p.m. at the Lapham Gallery in Glens Falls. It will be free and open to the public, and feature live music by Jay Lawson.

The exhibit will be on view until March 25.

The Lake Placid Center for the Arts will host local favorite Rusted Root on Feb. 27. In the past, Rusted Root has opened for Santana, Dave Matthews Band, The Allman Brothers Band, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, and many more. Bassist and vocalist Patrick Norman says, “From the very first time we played music together, I knew we had something special.

The music and the enjoyment of creating and playing with one another I feel is the driving force behind this band.”

Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at www.lakeplacidarts.org or by calling the LPCA Box Office at 518-5232512.

The Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh will host an exhibit by local photographer Ron Nolland next month. The exhibit, titled �imaginations,’ features a mixture of Nolland’s photography and work by metal sculptor Corky Corrado, poet Julie Canapa, and painter Kate Catalfamo. Says Nolland, “I look to find patterns and details in plain sight. I look to find more there than originally meets the eye. Seeing the unusual in the usual helps me create my �imaginations’.” Nolland’s exhibit will be on view in The Strand Center �s Main Gallery until March 26. The opening reception, with original piano music by Kim LeClaire, will take place on March 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. To view the exhibit after its opening, everyone is encouraged to visit the Strand during its regular gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, call 518-563-1604 or visit strandcenter.org. www.suncommunitynews.com/A&Efor the latest events

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JOHNSBURG - Knitting Circle Thursday afternoons, 2:35 to 4 pm (students may take the bus from school, but must be picked up at 4 p.m. at the library). Johnsburg Town Library, Open to: grades 4 and up. Instructor: Mrs. Carol Pearsall, Mrs. Mary Jo. Keeler, and Mrs. Evelyn Greene, No charge, materials will be supplied, Register now by calling Mary Jo Keeler, 518-251- 3292.

SCHROON LAKE – 2015-2016 WIC Clinic Schedule at the Schroon Lake Health Center November 18, December 9, January 13, Feb 10, March 9, April 13,May 11, June 8, July 13, August 10, September 14, October 12, November 9, December 14 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518-569-3296

CROWN POINT - Crown Point Board of Fire Commissioners will hold monthly meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month commencing at 7:00 pm at the Crown Point Fire Station 2764 Main St., Crown Point New York.

CROWN POINT - Knapp Senior Center, 3 to 6 p.m. Dinner 4 p.m.

Senior Center, Methodist Church Creek Road. Details: Tatum 518597-4491.Wednesday & Thursday.

PORT HENRY - Range of Motion Class. Parish Center, St. Patricks Place. 9:30 a.m. Details: Peg Waldron 518-546-7582, Delores Lash 518-546-7128. Every Monday.

TICONDEROGA - AA “Big Book” Meeting. Inner Lakes/Moses Ludington Cafeteria. 7 p.m. Every Thursday.

TICONDEROGA - Free Opioid overdose responder training. Ticonderoga Community Building, 152 Montcalm Street, Basement Meeting Room. 2nd Tuesday of every month, 5 p.m. 6 p.m. Must call 518.563.2437, ext. 3403 to register. Must be at least 16 years of age to participate.

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TICONDEROGA - Take Control Exercise classes. Ticonderoga Armory Senior Center. 9:30 a.m.

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Details: 518-585-6050, rsvp@logocail.net. Every Wednesday.

BINGO PORT HENRY Port Henry Knights of Columbus, bingo, 7 p.m. Every Monday TICONDEROGA - Bingo, Ticonderoga fire house, 6:45 p.m. Doors 5 p.m. Every Thursday.

BOOKS SCHROON LAKE – Schroon Lake Public Library's, Writers GroupMeets the 2nd and 4th Monday At 1:00 p.m., In the downstairs meeting room. New Members welcome!

For more info call 518-532-7737 ext. 13.

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS CHESTERTOWN - Chester Library, Chester Municipal Center, Main St. Story Time and Sing-A-Long 10:30 a.m. Details: 518-494-5384 or chesterlibrary.org. Every Friday.

NORTH CREEK - Play Group is sponsored by North Country Ministry, and meets on the first, second and third Tuesday mornings each month, from 10-11:30 am at the Adirondack Community Outreach Center on Route 28 between North Creek and Wevertown. We offer creative play experiences for babies, toddlers and three year olds, accompanied by a caregiver.

For more information call Teresa at 251-4460.

NORTH CREEK/LONG LAKE Preschool story hour, craft time.

Town of Johnsburgh Library. 10 to 11 a.m. Every Friday.

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TICONDEROGA - YMCA Teen Center. 123 Champlain Ave. Open hours: Grades 6 to 12, 3 to 6 p.m.

Grades 9 to 12, 7 to 9 p.m. Membership free, form required silverbay.org. Details: Jackie 518-5035136, jpalandrani@silverbay.org.

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WARRENSBURG - Weekly computer instruction class, 3 to 4 p.m.

Richards Library, Elm St. and Library Ave. Topic changes weekly.

Details: 518-623-3011, visit the Friends Facebook page. Every Tuesday.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH CLINTONVILLE – Chesterfield Fish & Game Club, Green St., Clintonville, NY has indoor Archery, Pistol & Small Caliber Rifle Shooting.

January–April.

Tuesdays Archery 7pm–9pm. Thursday is Pistol & Small Rifle Shooting 7pm9pm. Please note that Pistol Permits are required before shooting is allowed. Cost is $5 Non-Member & $3 for members. For further details please call John Stranahan 518-534-9716.

LONG LAKE - Alcoholics Anonymous, lower level Wesleyan Church. 7 p.m. Every Tuesday.

MORIAH – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Moriah Fire Department December 8, January 12, February 9, March 8, April 12, May 10, June 14, July 12, August 9, October 11, November 15, December 13, 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 PORT HENRY – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Knights of Columbus November 12, December 10, January 14, February 11, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 11, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296

TICONDEROGA Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group monthly support group for caregivers InterLakes Health, Ethan Allen Library.

4 p.m. Details: 518-564-3370.

Second Tuesdays TICONDEROGA - Celebrate Recovery meetings. Board room, Moses Ludington Hospital. 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Open to public. Details: Vince 518429-9173. Every Thursday.

TICONDEROGA - Essex County Lethernecks, Marine Corps League, Det 791, Ticonderoga American Legion Post. 6 p.m. Active Marines and Marine Veterans invited. First Thursday of every month.

TICONDEROGA - Support group people family members addictions.

Library at Heritage Commons nursing home. 6:30 p.m. Every Monday.

TICONDEROGA – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Cornerstone Alliance Church December 7, January 4, Feb 1, March 7, April 4, May 2, June 6, June 27, August 1, August 29, October 3, November 7, December 5 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM November 16, December 14, December 21, December 28, January 11, 25, Feb 8, 22, 29, March 14, March 21, March 28,April 11, 18, 25, May 9, 16, 23, June 13, 20, July 11, 18, 25, August 8, 15, 22, September 12, 19, 26, October 17, 24, November 14, 21, 28, December 12, 19 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 LECTURES & SEMINARS TICONDEROGA - Women's History Month lectures"What is Cancer?"

Friday, February 26, 1:00-2:30.

"What is Heart Disease?" Friday, March 11, 1:00-2:30, Dr. Selina Lemay-Klippel will explain the symptoms the disease process, and the effects on the body. Call NCCC at 518-354-5179 to preregister.

PUBLIC MEETINGS CROWN POINT - Crown Point Fire District Board of Commissioners meet. AE Phelps Fire Station. 6:30 p.m. Second Wednesday each month.

CROWN POINT - Monthly meeting.

Second Thursday of the month.

Hammond Library. 4 p.m.

HAGUE - Hague Fish & Game Club meetings. 7 p.m. Third Tuesday JOHNSBURG - The Johnsburg Central School, Board of Education, invites JCS staff, students, and community members to come and share their thoughts on several topics concerning JCS. Examples of topics are safety, curriculum, technology, communication, sports, and more. March 2nd 6:008:00PM at JCS Cafetorium.

MORIAH - The Town of Moriah Police Committee will hold their Committee Meetings on the following date and time. The public is welcome to attend. MARCH 10, 2016@ 5:30 PM TOWN HALL. PORT HENRY - Town of Moriah Town Board meetings. Town Courthouse, 42 Park Place. 6 p.m.

Second Thursday.

SILVER BAY - Northern Lake George Rotary Club meeting. Silvery Bay YMCA of ADK. 7:30 a.m.

Details: Diane Dickson 518-5438051. Every Tuesday.

STONY CREEK - Garden club meeting following 10 a.m. Stony Creek Free Library. Details: 6965911. Every Saturday.

TICONDEROGA - ADIRONDACK TRAILRIDERS - SNOWMOBILE CLUB meetings will be held at the Ticonderoga Fish and Game Building on Middle Chilson Rd at 6pm Second Monday of every month.

All members are encouraged to attend. New members are welcome.

Think Snow. Jon Cooke 518-5856102.

TICONDEROGA - American Legion Post #224 Monthly Meeting. Second Thursday TICONDEROGA - Town of Ticonderogas Regular Town Board meeting. 6 p.m. Second Thursday.

February 4th & February 25th meetings have been cancelled.

TICONDEROGA – The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce (TACC) will continue to host monthly Open House with the North Country Small Business Development Center on the Second Tuesday of each month. There is no Open Houses for the months May, June, July, or August. Note: dates are subject to change. For more info call 518-585-6619.

WEVERTOWN – North Creek Farmer's Market Annual Meeting, February 25th, 2016 6:30pm. Wevertown Town Hall, NY-28 & NY-8, Wevertown, NY 12886. If you are a vendor or interested in becoming a vendor, please come to this meeting.

ICONDEROGA - Free arthritis exercises, Inter-Lakes Health cafeteria, 2 until 3 p.m. Details: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County 518-962-4810, Mary mba32@cornell.edu. Every Third Monday.

INDIAN LAKE - Senior Citizens Bingo. Senior citizens meal site.

12:30 to 3 p.m. Details: 518-6485412. Every Monday.

LONG LAKE - Nutrition Site serving lunch to our area seniors . Monday-Friday @ Noon Great lunch and social time. All are welcome, so come join us! Call Colleen Smith at 518-624-5221 NORTH CREEK – Mondays & Thursdays there will be Osteobusters exercise program. Free.

50+. 12:45 p.m. Johnsburg Senior Center. Details: Helene Goodman 518-251-2846. Doctors clearance before first session SCHROON LAKE - Schroon Lake nutrition site. Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. Call Keisha at 518-5320179. Everyone is welcome.

TICONDEROGA - Free arthritis exercises. Ticonderoga Senior Center, 10 to 11 a.m. Details: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County 518-962-4810, mba32@cornell.edu. Second and Fourth Wednesday TICONDEROGA - Ti Area Seniors Casino Trip, Akwesasne Mohawk Casino, March 12, 2016. Pickup at Walmart Parking Lot at 7:00 a.m.Cost is $35 per person. Casino Incentive $25 free play and $11.50 food comp. Call Ann 518-5856050 or Sue 518-354-1188.

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Basketball season comes to an end in sectionals GirlsÊ BasketballÊ -Ê ClassÊ D Opener: Schroon Lk. 47, Wells 28

SCHROON — The eight seed Lady Wildcats used a 26-11 first half to secure a win against Wells in the opening round of the Section VII/Class D playoffs Feb. 17.

Alora Bearor scored 16 points on eight field goals for the Wildcats, while Grace Higgins, a late season call-up, added 11 and Corrine Pelkey 8. Malena Gereau, Ruth Jabaut, Angie Stellabotte, McKayla Vanderwalker and Emily Maisonville each scored 2 points.

Quarterfinals: Keene 61, Schroon Lk. 31 KEENE VALLEY — The top-seeded Lady Beavers jumped out to a 10-point lead after the first quarter of play in defeating the eighth-seeded Lady Wildcats Feb. 19.

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Quarterfinals: Willsboro 44, Lk. Placid 40

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The duo of Taylor and Trina Bigelow each scored 15 points for the Warriors, with Trina hitting a trio of triples and Taylor connecting on five free throws, including two late.

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Cameron Shipman scored 12 points to lead the Blue Bombers, while Lauren Rossi added 8, Sarah Rose-McCandish 7, Maria Paola 6, Graci Daby 5 and Camille Craig 2.

Quarterfinals: Moriah 48, Johnsburg 23 PORT HENRY — A 26-7 halftime lead was increased as the second seed Lady Vikings went on a 16-7 third quarter run to defeat the seven seed Lady Jaguars Feb. 19.

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Azriel Finsterer led all scorers with 22 points for the Beavers, while Antonio Finsterer added 8, Damian Brown 7 and Josh Baldwin 4.

Quarterfinal: ELCS 54, Schroon Lk. 52 SCHROON — Sam Huttig drained a shot with seconds remaining in the fourth quarter as the fifth seed Lions defeated the fourth seed Wildcats Feb. 20.

Branden Hall led all scorers, as the Wildcat scored 20 points in the loss. Uriah Fogle added 16 points, with Jordan DeZalia scoring 8, Andrew Pelkey 5 and Derek DeZalia 3.

Quarterfinal: Willsboro 39, Wells 30 WILLSBORO — The second-seeded Warriors outscored seventh seed Wells 13-7 in the final eight minutes of play, pulling away and advancing to the Class D semifinals Feb. 20.

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Vermont is the only state in the nation that still permits anglers to shoot fish.

Notes from the North Woods Joe Hackett

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he Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department recently announced four new all-time state record fish taken during 2015. The species included yellow perch, redhorse sucker, cisco and a bowfin that was taken with a bow.

It was the first cisco ever submitted to the Department’s Record Fish program and as a result, it established a state record.

Vermont angler, Louis Phelps established a new state record with bowfin he had taken with a bow. The fish weighed 12.09 pounds, and was 30.75 inches long.

Although the State Record Fish program accepts fish taken by means of archery; the agency’s Public Affairs officer, John Hall, explained, “The Department does not accept fish that were intentionally foul hooked, snatched, snagged or shot.”

Shot? I wanted to ask if fish harvested with the use of explosives were also out of the question, but I knew Mr. Hall and his fellow DF&W’s co-workers would be a little gun shy while discussing one of most archaic, and potentially dangerous angling practices in the nation.

In case you didn’t know, it’s perfectly legal to shoot fish in Vermont, even if you have to climb a tree to get the job done.

It’s a state where even a rainbow taken with a longbow is eligible for the record book. Many anglers consider Vermont’s angling regulations to be quaint, corny or just plain crazy depending on the caliber of your fishing pole.

With a world class Atlantic salmon fishery already established on the Big Lake combined with a stellar reputation an incredible bass factory, the ingredients are in place for the Lake Champlain corridor to become an angling mecca.

Following the removal of the old dam at Willsboro, and the planned removals along the Saranac, the western shore of the

lake is poised for a rapid transformation.

The eastern shore is already pretty well along on the route, and the others are hurrying up to catch up with their succcess Wherever there are salmon, there will be a need for sport shops, visitors services, guides, sporting lodges and the infrastructure necessary to compliment them. Salmon anglers are a discriminating group, who are willing to pay to have it their way.

While consumptive outdoor pursuits are undoubtedly considered a highly, valued component of rural culture, there is a pressing need to welcome the great, green state into the modern era of protection for fish, fowl, fields and the native species that belong there.

Despite some very unusual, local angling practices, catch and release pure-hearts need not fret. Not all Vermonters support shooting fish in a barrel, and they surely aren’t ready to begin draining the ponds. However, they really are shooting fish. When I first heard about it, I thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it wasn’t at the time, and it should no longer be.

At the time, I was traveling to Burlington with an old friend, driving along the causeway near Sandbar State Campsite that connects Grand Isle to the mainland. It was a surprisingly warm Spring evening and all the car windows were rolled down.

As we passed by the Sandbar State Park, the first shot sounded and it was close. At first, I thought I’d blown a tire, but we were still cruising along with no shakes or shimmy. Up ahead, I saw the repeated flash of gunfire off in the swamp. I slowed down, and another flash followed.

“What the hell?”, I muttered with a start, “That’s gunfire, and it’s coming from out there in the woods!”

“It’s ok they’re probably just doing some pike fishing”, my friend calmly explained, “Don’t worry, they’re way up there in tree stands, shooting down into the water.”

“Water?,” I responded nervously, “What in hell are they shooting at this time of night, in the dark, in the middle of a swamp?”

“Fish, big frigging, fish”, was his sly reply. “Yeah, right”, I answered, “You expect me to believe the Vermonters are out there, shooting at fish in the dark of night, way the hell back

Conservation Conversations Rich Redman

> Outdoor Columnist

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he science class at Moriah Central School is excitedly involved with the “Salmon in the Classroom” program.

Recently, Jeanette Rotella’s environmental science class was once again delivered some live salmon eggs to raise and release later this year.

Trout Unlimited’s, Lake Champlain Chapter, supplies the class with salmon eggs from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s, Lake Clear Hatchery near Saranac Lake. The program is designed to allow young students the opportunity to raise salmon in an aquarium in their classroom. The student scientists observe their growth and learn about the ecology and life cycle of the fish. Later this year, the young fish will be released in a local Lake Champlain tributary stream that supports salmon so they can continue their growth and hopefully complete their life cycle. Mill Brook in Moriah just upstream from the lake will most likely be the home stream for these fish.

To help guide the class through the learning process, Don Lee of the local T.U. Chapter gave the class a special presentation this year on the life cycle and habitat salmon require.

Don, who is a retired Air Force pilot, is a seasoned veteran of the military and of the fly fishing for salmon world. Don’s twenty one years of salmon expertise was shared with the Moriah students.

The presentation started with a film by the Hooke fly fishing company, showing the group fishing for salmon in the maritime Provinces’ of Canada. This movie introduction helped set the hook for the young fishermen and women in the class. Seeing clean clear water and twenty plus pound Salmon being caught and released not only caught the class. I could feel the hook being set in my jaw as well.

The salmon’s life cycles starts with a nest or redd being built by a female salmon. She would fan the gravel with her tail and side fins to clear out a hollow where she can deposit her eggs.

The male would then fertilize the eggs and they would be cov-

Don Lee

ered with fine stone and gravel. Flowing water through the gravel supplies oxygen to the eggs until they hatch out of the protective covering of the egg sac.

A small egg sac clings to the young fish supplying nutrition until it’s able to feed on its own. The young fish called an alevin grows into a larger fish called a fry, then to a larger one with markings on its side called a parr where it lives in the stream.

As it grows to about 6 or 7 inches it then is called a smolt which then migrates out to the lake or ocean where it grows for a few years into an adult.

As it reaches maturity, the fish will return to its home stream and start the cycle all over again. A 7 to 8 pound female could lay 7,500 eggs in various redds or nests. By the time they hatch out, 4,500 may be left due to predation, and natural causes. At the parr stage there may only be 200 survivors. By the time of maturity the loss is down, with only four making it to the returning salmon stage and only two actually spawning.

Nature has a survival method. The survival of the species is to procreate, so thousands of eggs are laid in redds to compensate for the loss through natural causes, such as predators like other fish, lampreys and cormorants.

It’s the unnatural causes that nature can’t cope with. Dams, over fishing and pollution have had a drastic effect on the wild native salmon’s population.

Don explained how the dams prevent the fish to return to their native home spawning streams, and how over fishing in the ocean by the Norwegians, Danish and Icelanders with large trawlers and nets captured numerous species of fish. The salmon where kept for market and the other fish caught, died due to the lack of oxygen due to the entrapment in the nets.

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in a swamp. OK, I get it, the joke’s on me.”

That was my initial introduction to Vermont’s annual Big Fish Hunting Season, which generally begins a few months following the end of ski season and before the annual, Tourist Season.

After researching the topic, I couldn’t find anything in the Vermont hunting regulations about shooting fish. I didn’t even know the state harbored the kind of fish, big fish, fish that require a big bore firearm. I’m used to catching brook trout, which require only a slight bonk to achieve the pearly gates of trout heaven.

After sheepishly digging around a bit, I managed to unearth the true story behind the late-night “Causeway Crew” that was out there, sitting in the trees, shooting in the marsh in the dark.

They actually were shooting at fish: it was’t a myth and it wasn’t a joke. My Vermont buddy wasn’t full of well,..clay.

Those determined clayfooters were out shooting at fish, from way up in the trees, deep in a dark swamp. Really, I’m not making this stuff up. I don’t have that kind of imagination, and it’s still too early to attempt an April Fools joke. So I set out to discover the truth.

Sure enough, the proof was right there in the 2016-7 Vermont Fish&Game Department’s official regulations, listed under Angling Rules and Regulations. A Vermont Fishing License is required to fish in the Inland Sea, Mallett’s Bay, and the Missisquoi River. The regulations allow the shooting, or spearing of Northern Pike from March 25 to May 25 and bow hunting for Carp, Suckers, Bowfin, Mullet, Gar, Bullhead and Shad.

In addition, any person 50 years or older may use a crossbow during any season when the use of bow and arrow is permitted for pike shooting. Fish shooting has existed for over a century or more on Lake Champlain. In fact, it used to be legal in New York, on the western side of the big lake.

Today, Vermont is the only state in the nation that permits anglers to shoot fish.

A pike shooting enthusiast explained that the most common method involves setting up on a high bank, a height of land, or in a tree-stand in the shallow waters of the lake. Others prefer to wade or float in a marsh that has a history of attracting northern pike to return to their traditional spawning territories.

He was quick to note that water levels on the Big Lake really determine where and when the spawning season will begin, and how far back the pike will travel. Pike will begin to move into the streams about the same time suckers begin to move out of the lake and into the free flowing tributaries. Salmon, and trout will likewise return to the tribs, to feed on the row and the fresh fry.

Although the history of shooting fish in Vermont remains murky, a commonly cited theory claims the season started with an effort by farmers put food on the table during the spring months when they were too busy tending the fields to fish. As the story goes, they’d drive their tractors into the swamps to “shoot” a few fish for dinner.

Back in 1969, the New York State Conservation Department and the Vermont Fish and Game Department agreed to ban the shooting of fish in Lake Champlain. New York honored the pact. However, it appears a majority of Vermont residents are still not willing to let go of their old traditions.

Joe Hackett is a guide and sportsman residing in Ray Brook.

Contact him at brookside18@adelphia.net.

As sport fishermen noticed the change in the amount of fish returning to the stream to spawn, the Atlantic Salmon Federation, the North Atlantic Salmon Cooperative along with the governments of the fishing countries paid the fishermen to stop fishing to allow the stocks of salmon to grow once again. In the 1980’s and 1990’s the population was down to 500,000 fish, from a high of over 15 to 20 million. The salmon where almost eliminated. In 2014 the fishermen were allowed to harvest wild salmon once again with limitations on amounts taken.

Pollution also takes its toll, but the attitude is changing.

People realize the harm we do to fish, the environment and the economy by polluting. Everyone pollutes to an extent, and we all need to reduce our impact. Pollution has a high cost.

New York farmers, timber harvesters, and other land managers along with suburban and urban cities have all stepped up to the plate to reduce pollutants from entering the streams and rivers. Both point and non-point runoff is being reduced. Things are slowly getting better.

The biggest problem today is the connectivity of the salmon to reach spawning areas because of dams. By removing the obstacles, we once again allow access to spawning areas where natural reproduction can take place.

Trout Unlimited’s goal is to reconnect, restore and protect the cold clean waters for the survival of cold water fisheries. T.U. also encourages the youth of our nation to learn about the environment, wise use conservation and ecology. We are connected to nature in more ways than we realize.

Thankfully, we have dedicated folks like Jeanette Rotella and Don Lee to share their wealth of knowledge with young scientists and science oriented students. Knowledge is power.

To help share the knowledge with future students, we filmed this presentation and Shawn Michener of Moriah is working on assembling and editing film to hopefully make a movie called what else, the “Salmon Man”.

PS: Don is a Vietnam veteran. To him and all the other Nam vets, WELCOME HOME! Rich Redman is a retired District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and an avid outdoorsman. His column will appear regularly. He may be reached at rangeric@nycap.rr.com.

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Warren County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 6 Published by Denton Publications, Inc. Reardon Road Ext., Queensbury, NY 12804.

LEGALS Purpose: any lawful acNOTICE OF FORMATION tivity.

OF 10 Marion Avenue, NE-02/27-04/02/2016LLC Arts. of Org. filed 6TC-109837 with the Sect'y of State NOTICE OF FORMATION of NY (SSNY) on 1/26/2016. Office loca- OF 33 Harrison Avenue, LLC Arts. of Org. filed tion, County of Warren.

SSNY has been desig- with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on nated as agent of the LLC upon whom pro- 1/26/2016. Office location, County of Warren. cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail SSNY has been designated as agent of the process to: The LLC, 10 Marion Ave., Glens Falls, LLC upon whom proNY 12801. Purpose: any cess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail lawful act. process to: The LLC, 10 NE-02/20-03/26/2016Marion Ave., Glens Falls, 6TC-109036 NY 12801. Purpose: any lawful act.

NE-02/20-03/26/2016NOTICE OF FORMATION 6TC-109034 OF 321 Greene Avenue, LLC Arts. of Org. filed NOTICE OF FORMATION with the Sect'y of State OF 518 AUTO SALES of NY (SSNY) on HOLDING, LLC Articles 1/26/2016. Office loca- of Organization filed tion, County of Warren. with the Secretary of SSNY has been desig- State of New York nated as agent of the (SSNY) on December LLC upon whom pro14, 2015. Office locacess against it may be tion: Warren County. served. SSNY shall mail SSNY designated as process to: The LLC, 10 agent of LLC upon Marion Ave., Glens Falls, whom process against it NY 12801. Purpose: any may be served. SSNY lawful act. shall mail process to: NE-02/20-03/26/2016The LLC, P.O. Box 6TC-109032 4292, Queensbury, NY 12804. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION NE-02/13-03/19/2016OF M+T Golden Hold- 6TC-108634 ings, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of CERTIFICATE OF CORState of NY (SSNY) on RECTION OF THE AP1/26/2016. Office loca- PLICATION FOR AUtion, County of Warren.

THORITY OF ALVAND, SSNY has been desig- LLC, filed with the Secnated as agent of the retary of State (SSNY) LLC upon whom pro- on 01/13/16. cess against it may be FIRST: The name of the served. SSNY shall mail limited liability company process to: The LLC, 10 as it appears on the inMarion Ave., Glens Falls, dex of names in the DeNY 12801. Purpose: any partment of State is ALlawful act.

VAND, LLC. The fictiNE-02/20-03/26/2016tious name the foreign 6TC-109030 limited liability company has agreed to use is SIJANI, LLC. SECOND: The jurisdicNOTICE OF FORMATION OF 173 RIDGE STREET, tion where the foreign LLC limited liability company Articles of Organization was organized is UTAH. filed with the Secretary THIRD: The document to of State of New York be corrected was filed (SSNY) on February 5, with the Department of 2016. Office location: State on December 8, Warren County. SSNY 2015. designated as agent of FOURTH: The stateLLC upon whom pro- ments to be corrected cess against it may be by the filing of this cerserved. SSNY shall mail tificate are Paragraph process to: The LLC, 6 Third of the Application Reardon Road Ext., for Authority regarding Queensbury, NY 12804. the county location and Purpose: any lawful ac- paragraph Fifth regarding the address for sertivity. vice of process. The limNE-02/27-04/02/2016ited liability company 6TC-109837 has never had an office in New York County.

FIFTH: Paragraphs Third and Fifth of the Application for Authority are to be corrected and shall read as follows: a. Third: The County within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Warren County. b. Fourth: The secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process served against him or her is 223 Silver Bay Road, Silver Bay New York, 12874.

Purpose: All lawful activities.

NE-01/23-02/27/20166TC-107010

2015.

FOURTH: The statements to be corrected by the filing of this certificate are Paragraph Third of the Application for Authority regarding the county location and paragraph Fifth regarding the address for service of process. The limited liability company has never had an office in New York County.

FIFTH: Paragraphs Third and Fifth of the Application for Authority are to be corrected and shall read as follows: a. Third: The County within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Warren County. b. Fourth: The secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process served against him or her is 223 Silver Bay Road, Silver Bay New York, 12874.

Purpose: All lawful activities.

NE-01/23-02/27/20166TC-107010

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the limited liability company is Dillon Hill Inn LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed November 15, 2015 with the Secretary of State of the State of New York. The County within the State in which the office of the LLC is to be located is Warren County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address to which the Secretary of State will mail a copy of any process against the company served upon him or her is 58 Dillon Hill Road, Wevertown, NY 12886. The purpose of the business of the limited liability company is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under the laws of the State of New York.

NE-02/06-03/12/20166TC-108007

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Law ofwww.suncommunitynews.com fices of Newell & KlingeNOTICE OF FORMATION biel, 16 Maple St., Glens OF EMMA LOU, LLC. Falls NY 12801. PurArticles of Organization pose: any lawful act. filed with the Secretary NE-02/06-03/12/2016of State of New York 6TC-108157 (SSNY) on 01/07/2016.

I, JO A SMITH, TOWN Office Location: County CLERK of the Town of of Warren. SSNY has been designated as Johnsburg, do hereby certify that the Annual agent of the LLC upon whom process against it Report of the Supervisor may be served. SSNY for the year ending Deshall mail a copy of pro- cember 31, 2015 has cess to: 501 New Ver- been filed in my office mont Rd., Bolton Land- and is available for pubing, NY 12814. Pur- lic inspection at the Town Hall, 219 Main pose: Any lawful activity.

Street, North Creek, New NE-01/23-02/27/2016York. Dated February 17, 6TC-106844 2016 Jo A Smith, Town Clerk NOTICE FOR PUBLICA- Town of Johnsburg TION FORMATION OF A NE-02/27/2016-1TCNEW YORK LIMITED LI- 109803 ABILITY COMPANY 1. The name of the limit- NOTICE OF FORMATION ed liability company is OF JH MECHANICAL, FIRST TRACKS, LLC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State (The LLC).

2. The date of filing of of NY (SSNY) on the Articles of Organiza- 1/11/2016. Office location, County of Warren. tion with the Department SSNY has been desigof State was 2/10/2016.

3. The county in New nated as agent of the LLC upon whom proYork in which the offices cess against it may be of the LLC are located is served. SSNY shall mail Warren County. process to: The LLC, 4. The Secretary of State has been designated as 165 Bay St., Glens Falls, NY 12801. Purpose: any agent of the LLC upon whom process may be lawful act. served, and the Secre- NE-01/30-03/05/2016tary of State shall mail a 6TC-107428 copy of any such pro- LAKE GEORGE HOUSE cess served against the LLC, Arts. of Org. filed LLC to 451 Lockhart with the SSNY on Mountain Road, Lake 01/15/2016. Office loc: George, NY 12845.

Warren County. SSNY 5. The business purpose has been designated as of the LLC is to engage agent upon whom proin any and all business cess against the LLC activities permitted un- may be served. SSNY der the laws of the State shall mail process to: of New York.

The LLC, 15 Woodhaven BORGOS & DEL SIG- Drive, Avon, CT 06001.

NORE, P.C. Purpose: Any Lawful P.O. Box 4392 Purpose.

Queensbury, New York NE-01/30-03/05/201612804 6TC-107069 (518) 793-4900 NOTICE OF FORMATION NE-02/20-3/26/2016LIMITED LIABILITY 6TC-109022 COMPANY (LLC) The name of the Limited Liability Company is: NOTICE OF FORMATION PROPERTY OF George's LG Hold- PHOENIX ings LLC Arts. of Org. VENTURES LLC. The Arfiled with the Sect'y of ticles of Organization were filed with the DeState of NY (SSNY) on 4/26/2013. Office loca- partment of State of the State of New York on tion, County of Warren.

SSNY has been desig- JANUARY 8, 2016. The nated as agent of the County, within this state, LLC upon whom pro- in which the office of the cess against it may be limited liability company served. SSNY shall mail is to be located is: WARprocess to: c/o Law of- REN. The Secretary of fices of Newell & Klinge- State is designated as biel, 16 Maple St., Glens agent of the limited liaFalls NY 12801. Pur- bility company upon pose: any lawful act. whom process against it NE-02/06-03/12/2016may be served. The ad6TC-108157 dress within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: 175 BROAD STREET, SUITE 401, GLENS FALLS, NY 12801.

NE-1/30-03/05/20166TC-107613

JANUARY 8, 2016. The County, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: WARREN. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: 175 BROAD STREET, SUITE 401, GLENS FALLS, NY 12801.

NE-1/30-03/05/20166TC-107613 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TK RENTALS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/2016.

Office location, County of Warren. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 165 Bay St., Glens Falls, NY 12801.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NE-01/30-03/05/20166TC-107427 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF VT RENTALS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/2016.

Office location, County of Warren. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 165 Bay St., Glens Falls, NY 12801.

Purpose: any lawful act.

NE-01/30-03/05/20166TC-107428 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The undersigned shall receive sealed bids for sale and delivery to the County of Warren as follows: BID-WC 16-16 DISPOSABLE FOOD SERVICE ITEMS You may obtain these Specifications either online or through the Purchasing Office. If you have any interest in these Specifications online, please follow the instructions to register on the Empire State Bid System website, either for free or paid subscription. Go to http://warrencountyny.gov and choose BIDS AND PROPOSALS to access the Empire State Bid System OR go directly http://www.EmpireStateBidSystem.com. If you choose a free subscription, please note that you must visit the site up until the response deadline for any addenda. All further information pertaining to this bid will be available on this site. Bids which are not directly obtained from either source will be refused.

Bids may be delivered to the undersigned at the Warren County Human Services Building, Warren County Purchasing Department, 3rd Floor, 1340 State Route 9, Lake George, New York between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Bids will be received up until Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at which time they will be publicly opened and read. All bids must be submitted on proper bid proposal forms.

Any changes to the original bid documents are grounds for immediate disqualification.

Late bids by mail, courier or in person will be refused. Warren County will not accept any bid or proposal which is not delivered to Purchasing by the time indicated on the time stamp in the Purchasing Department Office.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

Julie A. Butler, Purchasing Agent Warren County Human Services Building Tel. (518) 761-6538 NE/AJ-02/27/2016-1TC109900

System website, either for free or paid subscription. Go to http://warrencountyny.gov and choose BIDS AND PROPOSALS to Enterprise access the The News Sun Empire State Bid System OR go directly http://www.EmpireStateBidSystem.com. If you choose a free subscription, please note that you must visit the site up until the response deadline for any addenda. All further information pertaining to this bid will be available on this site. Bids which are not directly obtained from either source will be refused.

Bids may be delivered to the undersigned at the Warren County Human Services Building, Warren County Purchasing Department, 3rd Floor, 1340 State Route 9, Lake George, New York between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Bids will be received up until Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at which time they will be publicly opened and read. All bids must be submitted on proper bid proposal forms.

Any changes to the original bid documents are grounds for immediate disqualification.

Late bids by mail, courier or in person will be refused. Warren County will not accept any bid or proposal which is not delivered to Purchasing by the time indicated on the time stamp in the Purchasing Department Office.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

Julie A. Butler, Purchasing Agent Warren County Human Services Building Tel. (518) 761-6538 NE/AJ-02/27/2016-1TC109900 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The undersigned shall receive sealed bids for sale and delivery to the County of Warren as follows: WC 18-16 - ALUMINUM SIGN BLANKS WC 19-16 GALVANIZED GUIDE RAIL, POSTS & HARDWARE You may obtain these Specifications either online or through the Purchasing Office. If you have any interest in these Specifications online, please follow the instructions to register on the Empire State Bid System website, either for free or paid subscription. Go to http://warrencountyny.gov and choose BIDS AND PROPOSALS to access the Empire State Bid System OR go directly to www.EmpireStateBidSystem.com. If you choose a free subscription, please note that you must visit the site up until the response deadline for any addenda. All further information pertaining to this bid will be available on this site. Bids which are not directly obtained from either source will be refused.

Bids may be delivered to the undersigned at the Warren County Human Services Building, Warren County Purchasing Department, 3rd Floor, 1340 State Route 9, Lake George, New York, between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Bids will be received up until Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at which time they will be publicly opened and read. All bids must be submitted on proper bid proposal forms.

Any changes to the original bid documents are grounds for immediate disqualification.

Late bids by mail, courier or in person will be refused. Warren County will not accept any bid or proposal which is not delivered to Purchasing by the time indicated on the time stamp in the Purchasing Department Office.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

Julie Butler, Purchasing Agent Warren County Human Services Building Tel. (518) 761-6538 NE/AJ-02/27/2016-1TC109901

line or through the Purchasing Office. If you have any interest in these Specifications online, please follow the inon â&#x20AC;˘structions Februaryto 27,register 2016 | 15 the Empire State Bid System website, either for free or paid subscription. Go to http://warrencountyny.gov and choose BIDS AND PROPOSALS to access the Empire State Bid System OR go directly to www.EmpireStateBidSystem.com. If you choose a free subscription, please note that you must visit the site up until the response deadline for any addenda. All further information pertaining to this bid will be available on this site. Bids which are not directly obtained from either source will be refused.

Bids may be delivered to the undersigned at the Warren County Human Services Building, Warren County Purchasing Department, 3rd Floor, 1340 State Route 9, Lake George, New York, between the hours of 8:00 am and 4:00 pm.

Bids will be received up until Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at which time they will be publicly opened and read. All bids must be submitted on proper bid proposal forms.

Any changes to the original bid documents are grounds for immediate disqualification.

Late bids by mail, courier or in person will be refused. Warren County will not accept any bid or proposal which is not delivered to Purchasing by the time indicated on the time stamp in the Purchasing Department Office.

The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

Julie Butler, Purchasing Agent Warren County Human Services Building Tel. (518) 761-6538 NE/AJ-02/27/2016-1TC109901

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