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HOMES EVERY WEEK! Times of Ti
January 5, 2019
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Retired Ti teacher remembered for athletic feats By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | When Fred Raymon fi rst got the phone call, he hung up. “I thought it was a crank call,” he said. The phone rang again. This time, before he could hang up, Raymon heard the caller speak three quick words: “Louis White, Massena.” “I was taken aback,” Raymon said. “I didn’t know anyone remembered.” On the phone was boyhood friend Joe McCarthy who wanted to know if he could submit Raymon’s name for induction into the first class of the Ogdensburg/St. Mary’s Academy Sports Hall of Fame. “Fred Raymon is just a tremendous human being, and the best high school athlete I have ever seen,” McCarthy said at the November induction ceremony. » Raymon Cont. on pg. 2
HOLIDAY HELPERS: Members of the Schroon Lions Club distributed 48 holiday baskets in the towns of Schroon and North Hudson this year, a continuation of a 50-year-old tradition. Tops Friendly Markets made a donation and Tops employees prepared the baskets. This year Kia Lapier, Merissa Umber and Kelsey Garceau from Tops were responsible for loading up the baskets and employees of the Town of Schroon and Town of North Hudson highway departments helped with the distribution of the baskets. The boxes were donated by International Paper and Staples. Members of the Lions Club said they were grateful to all who helped. Photo provided
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JAY | Among the pleasures of yesteryear that have been all but washed away in a river of technology is the desultory pursuit known as the Sunday drive. Between church and chicken, families would pile into a station wagon with wood on the sides and slowly tool around neighboring communities in an activity that was a mix of sight-seeing and general nosiness. Rising gas prices delivered a body bow to Sunday drives, but they were finished off by navigation systems and GPS coordinates that eliminated any pretext of getting lost in the name of fun. So it is nostalgic in more ways than one to peruse the pages of “Our Towns: Dispatches From Around the Adirondack Park,”
which feels like a Sunday drive in print as it meanders through one Adirondack community after another, telling the stories of their inception, with dollops of colorful history, commerce and culture thrown in for good measure. “Our Towns” is produced by Adirondack Life, which has long been the literary heart and soul of the park, and is a collection of the magazine’s backpage town-origin stories, a feature that ran for nearly a quarter century between 1990 and 2014. The brief sketches, seldom more than eight or 10 paragraphs in length, give a quick but delightful summation of Adirondack towns, whether bustling success stories like Lake George, or all but forgotten cluster of buildings like Childwold, where a small outbuilding behind the local cafe had a sign clarifying that “Th is Ain’t What You think.” The 130 towns are arranged alphabetically instead of geographically, which makes it easier to quickly locate a particular town, but harder to take book in hand and do on an impromptu, town-to-town road trip.