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Champlain Bridge incident probed Inspection hatches on bridge connecting NY and Vt. removed

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CROWN POINT – The Champlain Bridge was reduced to a single lane for six hours Sunday as authorities tried to determine why someone removed the manhole inspection covers from the span.

Both lanes were reopened to traffic just before 6 p.m.

Someone out for a jog on the bridge Sunday at about noon reported the circular access plates missing.

The metal covers were thrown over the side into Lake Champlain, and the Port Henry Fire Department’s fire boat was called to the site around 3:30 p.m. to recover the metal hatches from the lake.

The boat was able to launch from the Van Slooten Harbour Marina and make its way

through ice and frigid waters to get under the bridge. The lake is only partially frozen so far this winter, and is open under the bridge.

New York State Police, Vermont State Police, Essex County Sheriff ’s Department, New York State Department of Transportation and the Essex County Office of Emergency Services were all on site investigating the apparent vandalism.

State Police had a special team at the bridge checking the inspection tunnels that run under the surface of the roadway, to make sure whoever removed the manhole covers hadn’t gone inside to do damage or plant anything.

At about 4:30 p.m., a U.S. Department of Homeland Security helicopter arrived at the bridge to do an aerial inspection.

There’s some evidence whoever removed the covers may have also tried to get atop the bridge, Essex County Emergency Services Director Donald Jaquish said.

“It appears they tried to climb the bridge,” >> See BRIDGE | pg. 24

The Champlain Bridge was reduced to one lane Sunday, with State Department of Transportation workers directing traffic. Someone heaved the bridge’s manhole inspection covers into the lake overnight, and police were checking for possible sabotage of the bridge’s systems.

TownÊ canÊ massÊ notifyÊ citizenry Ticonderoga now has a mass calling system for emergencies

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Master plan revealed

Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolls out preliminary plans for ‘Gateway to the Adirondacks’

By Pete DeMola

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NORTH HUDSON — The governor has opened up about the proposal that would transform the abandoned Frontier Town theme park into a gleaming new tourism hub.

“It’s a sad story now, but we are going to invest in it because we believe we have the volume and we want to build a gateway to the Adirondacks at that spot,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo >> See GATEWAY | pg. 25

TICONDEROGA – The Town of Ticonderoga is developing the means for mass notification of residents by phone, text or email for local emergencies and issues.

Councilman Wayne Taylor said the town has contracted with Everbridge of Burlington, Mass. to keep residents, staff and emergency personnel informed with quick and up-to-date information.

“The system will provide push alerts by text, voice or email in any variety or sequence the person wants,” Taylor said. “It will also serve the hearing or visually impaired by TTY/TTD (teletype) devices. It will be used for law enforcement alerts, water/sewer alerts, town office closures or opening delays, general pubic notices, highway/traffic infor-

mation, public hearing notices. We will continue to develop its uses as we learn more of its capabilities.”

The equipment has been installed at the Ticonderoga Community Building, where the town has its offices.

Taylor said messages will be sent to residents on their preferred contact paths: cell phone, SMS/text message, home phone, email, fax, pager and others, to ensure realtime access to community information.

“We have a commitment to ensure public safety, community awareness and emergency response,” he said. “To uphold this, when critical information and public service announcements are available, we need to reach our residents as quickly and reliably as possible.”

He said the Town of Bolton in Warren County uses Everbridge and is pleased with the results. >> See TI | pg. 2

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Free dinner goes Mexican style Ticonderoga Community Dinner brightens cabin fever season

By Lohr McKinstry

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TICONDEROGA – It’s Mexican fiesta time for the next free Community Fellowship Dinner at the First United Methodist Church in Ticonderoga.

The menu for the February meal is tacos, Mexican corn, and Spanish rice.

For dessert, there will be ice cream sundaes.

The dinners have become very popular, the church’s Betty Rettig said.

“People can come and enjoy the festive spirit in Fellowship Hall,” she said. “We’ll have plenty of good food, conversation and laughter.”

It will be held Sunday, Feb. 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the church hall. Organizers said everyone is welcome, and reservations are not needed.

The free monthly dinner program is an outreach project of the church and is self-supporting, Rettig said.

High chairs, booster seats, take-outs and a child-friendly menu are available. There is no charge for the dinner, but a free-will donation is accepted. Food is donated or purchased with contributions that guests make to the dinners.

Rettig said volunteers sit down every month and work out the menu for that month’s dinner.

The First United Methodist Church is located at 1045 Wicker St. in Ticonderoga, just up the hill from the hospital.

For more information about the free dinners or the church, contact the church office at 585-7995 or visit the church web site: www.tifumc.com.

Erosion control training set WESTPORT — On Feb. 3, the Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District will offer the required fourhour erosion and sediment control training for contractors and developers. The training will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the Essex County Fairgrounds in Westport.

Dave Reckahn, district manager, will lead the class.

This training is required for all contractors working on projects that disturb more than one acre of soil and have a storm water permit from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The permit will require that contractors moving dirt at those sites have at least one trained employee on site on a daily basis. Training is good for three years.

Contractors and developers will have to preregister for the training to receive credits. The training will cost $75 for certification, reference materials and refreshments.

Registration needs to be in by Feb. 2. For more information, call 962-8225 or contact essexswcd@westelcom.com.

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I did some research and found that the Town of Bolton (Landing) was using this company and was very happy with their service,” he said. “The (Bolton) town supervisor and his clerk were very helpful in getting us started.”

Residents who want to sign up for the notifications should go to the town’s website at townofticonderoga.org, click on the Everbridge link, and begin registration.

The cost for the notification system was not prohibitive, Taylor said.

“The town entered into an annual contract with Everbridge that will service 1,700 registrants for $5,000,” the councilman said. “It was considered a professional service under our procurement policy.”

Everbridge Mass Notification supports more than 100 different multi-modal delivery methods, with voice recording, text to speech conversion in multiple languages, push notifications, rich text formatting, and SMS. The system can send messages to people based on: zip code, street address, radius from a specific point, latitude/longitude, and specific areas, like fire or utility districts.

“I think that accurate information delivered in a timely manner will help our town board build trust within our community,” Taylor said.

This is the software screen for the Everbridge Mass Communication System the Town of Ticonderoga has recently contracted to use for phone, email and text alerts to citizens.

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Ti Chamber events database helps area groups

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Administrative Assistant Kaylene Ross, keep the calendar as up to date as possible.

“We also assist in keeping the Lake Champlain region calendar up to date,” he said.

“In addition, Sun Community News uses the calendar to assist them in keeping their calendar updated. Help the chamber showcase all the events the area has to offer by providing event information on a regular basis.”

While individual events can be submitted to the community calendar, organizations can also submit their yearly schedule of events. Events can be inputted directly on www.ticonderogany.com, by emailing chamberinfo@ticonderogany. com, or by visiting the chamber office in downtown Ticonderoga.

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TICONDEROGA – The Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce has become the central clearinghouse for events in the Ticonderoga area.

The chamber maintains a database called the Ticonderoga Area Calendar of Events, which is the central calendar for the area.

“It’s important to keep a centralized calendar, where information about events can be shared, not only to promote the area, but to eliminate as many scheduling conflicts as possible,” Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Matthew Courtright said. “We strongly encourage area businesses and organizations to share information in regards to their 2017 events as soon as possible.”

He said the chamber is looking for area businesses, organizations, and committees to share their event information, as well as a schedule of upcoming special events. The calendar will serve as the central

data location for the chamber, community members, and visitors in finding events within the area and answering event questions, as well as a referencing tool used when planning future events in the Ticonderoga area.

“We encourage everyone to use the calendar and contact the chamber when choosing dates to host an even,” Courtright said.

He said Molly Bechard, the chamber’s visitor and member service manager, along with

Maintaining the Ticonderoga Area Calendar of Events database are, from left, Administrative Assistant Kaylene Ross, Executive Director Matthew Courtright and Visitor and Member Service Manager Molly Bechard.

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Ticonderoga spelling bee winners go to states

The 6th grade spelling bee winner was Bridget O’Hara, right; and alternate Olivia Powers.

Ticonderoga Central School held its annual spelling bee for middle school students

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TICONDEROGA — Michael O’Donnell is the 8th grade winner of the annual spelling bee at Ticonderoga Middle School.

The Ticonderoga Central School District Annual Spelling Bee was held earlier this month at the Ticonderoga Middle School for

The 7th grade spelling bee winner was Kacia Moses, left; and alternate Aidan Porter.

grades 6, 7 and 8.

Winners were: 6th grade winner, Bridget O’Hara; alternate, Olivia Powers; 7th grade winner, Kacia Moses; alternate, Aidan Porter; and 8th grade winner, Michael O’Donnell; alternate, Adriana Borho.

The winners will represent the school in the Champlain Valley Educational Services Regional Spelling Bee on March 3 in Beekmantown.

“The CVES Regional Spelling Bee gives Ticonderoga students the opportunity to qualify for an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C.,” Middle School Principal Herb Tedford said. “In Washington, students will partici-

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The 8th grade spelling bee winner was Michael O’Donnell, right; and alternate Adriana Borho.

pate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.” The Ticonderoga Teachers’ Association provided monetary awards for local bee winners and alternates.

Stage manager was Heather York, grades 7/8 Spanish and yoga teacher. Pronouncer/ Spelling Bee coordinator was Barb Peria, grade 6 teacher.

Judges were Tedford, TMS Principal; Jim Burgey, grade 6 math; Samantha Wells, Middle School guidance counselor; Dawn Wojewodzic, grades 6/7 science teacher; Virginia Morse, grade 8 teacher; and Eric Mullen, grades 6/8 Social Studies teacher.

Spelling Bee contestants were: Grade 6: Olivia Powers, Kim England, Yarr Tyler, Nick Borho, Hayden Dedrick, Ruby Gondal, Bridget O’Hara, Hayden Fraiser, Janessa Moses, Emma Cook, Laura Grinnell, and Brooke Bennett.

Grade 7: Kacia Moses, Owen Stonitsch, Aidan Porter, Chloe Baker, Austin Olden, Ryan Stockmar, Jeffrey Jordon, Anna McDonald, Michael Stipom and Bobby Alkinburgh.

Grade 8: Adriana Borho, Noah Bogart, Zyleen Tyler, Paige Morse, Kirsten Strum, and Michael O’Donnell.

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es, football is on my mind as I write today on Championship Sunday as four NFL teams battle for the chance to represent their conference in the Superbowl. My childhood team lost last weekend, but I love the game and will still be glued to the set and rooting. But today I’m also thinking about the activities of the last few days as our nation dealt with the Inauguration of President Trump.

So many images and comments from the past weekend leave many Americans with mixed emotions on how to interpret what we saw, heard and witnessed.

Let’s start with the national media. Over the last eight years it’s been widely accepted that the media tends to lean to the left, thus playing the role of defending the previous administration. Mr. Obama made it clear that organizations like FOX News leaned overtly right and thus went out of its way, offensively, to attack his administration and its policies.

As we move forward it would seem evident that those roles will now be reversed. If that is what we witness over time, and the jury is still out, we would have further truth of clear media bias thus jading what we can believe coming out of either side.

The reason for saying the jury is out is the same reason I urge individuals to give the new president time to show his true intent before assuming, as many have, that he is the next Hitler.

Clearly everyone has the right to their own opinion and their right to protest, but as I look at the country’s landscape on social media I see so many friends, neighbors and even family on both sides, still fighting about an election that is now long over. President Trump was sworn into office and I can’t even begin to imagine what four years of this continued fighting will do to our country and our children.

Ben Carson said it best when he commented that wishing President Trump’s Administration fails badly is like wishing the pilot of the plane in which you are flying crashes.

This version of America is not the one my family handed down to me.

Throughout life optimism, hope and a can do attitude was always front and center, both at home and at school. >> See ALEXANDER | pg. 7

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The Adirondacks and Jack Ma L China’s

ast week, government and busiCOMMENTARY ness leaders from around the world met in Davos, Switzerland to attend the annual World Economic Forum.

Every year, Davos provides a venue to discuss the vital economic interests of our world and offer solutions to some of our And his 30/30/30 initiative largest economic challenges.

One of the forward thinking speakers at Jay White the forum was Jack Ma, founder and exColumnist ecutive chairman of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Mr. Ma, being China’s wealthiest individual, may at first be an unlikely source of tangible economic advice for those of us living in Essex County.

But I believe further scrutiny of his ideas may be worth considering.

Mr. Ma’s relevance to our local economy appears to be three fold.

First, he has invested in the region by buying the former Rockefeller preserve, Brandon Park. His purchase of this 28,000 acre tract was for the purposes of conservation, becoming one of the largest land stewards within our Adirondack Park.

Second, he is among the new “Agri-Tech Nerds” in China, where technology titans are making significant investments in agriculture.

These “nerds” seek to use technology to reshape the economics of food production and find more affordable ways to bring quality food to market.

Third, he is a true believer in the future. Last week in Davos, Ma said “the next 30 years are critical for the world,” suggesting that we are halfway through the latest technological revolution.

The last 20 years have been about the development of technology, he said, whereas the next 30 will be about dealing with “the implications of this technology.”

Within the next 30 years, Ma suggests we need to focus on the 30 year olds

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— the internet generation. He believes they will be the builders of our world, bringing about more significant change than we have seen in a generation. And because nearly two thirds of all jobs are created by small businesses, he suggests we need to focus on businesses with less than 30 employees.

For Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County, the connection between these ideas and our local economy could not be clearer. First, consider the mission of the CCE system: “Cornell Cooperative Extension puts knowledge to work in pursuit of economic vitality, ecological sustainability and social well-being. We bring local experience and research based solutions together, helping New York State families and communities thrive in our rapidly changing world.”

Mr. Ma’s 30 years, 30 year olds, 30 employees vision appears, unwittingly, to be playing out here in Essex County in the re-emerging agricultural sector. And the CCE mission is helping play a part in supporting this trend.

Young farmers are gravitating to our area with a significant commitment to sustainability and entrepreneurship. This tech savvy generation of small business owners is demonstrating the Ma theory in real time. In starting innovative farming operations in our area, these “agri-preneurs” are demonstrating that agriculture is once again becoming an important industry sector in Essex County.

Moving forward, CCE is committed to providing the most advanced support necessary to help our local agricultural producers become regional and statewide leaders. Through the creation of more agricultural small businesses and corresponding jobs, we can make Essex County more economically sustainable.

Through the development of a new five year strategic plan, CCE is committed this year to identifying the most significant needs of our local agricultural community. One action already taken is the hiring of a new fulltime agriculture educator who will provide our farmers with the most current and valuable information available.

With Mr. Ma’s 30/30/30 guidance in mind, CCE is poised to help lead Essex County agriculture to new heights.

Jay White is president of the Board of Directors for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County.

LETTERS

LetterÊ containsÊ anti-SemiticÊ language To the Editor: I don’t know if you realize it, but you have been publishing classic anti-Semitic [language] from a man named Gary Guido. In his latest letter, he claims that “Jews” gave $75 million to Trump (that will be news to Trump) and he is forging an alliance with the president of Israel so we will send troops to fight for Israel. No Nazi could have said it better.

If this is the intellectual level of your regular readers, God knows what you’ll be publishing next.

John Gardner Essex

JohnÊ LewisÊ aÊ usefulÊ idiot To the Editor: As a Roman Catholic, I am supposed to hinge on every word that the Pope utters — even as he goes off the trails, as this Pope has on numerous occasions.

This is because some people are just too great to point out their errors. But he is just a man, no matter what his position is.

This brings me to John Lewis and his stupid remarks about President Trump.

The Russians did not make Trump president. By calling Trump an illegitimate president, Mr. Lewis is being what Lenin called a useful idiot.

He can’t even see how he is playing into Putin’s hands.

Yes! President Trump should have handled this differently, but he didn’t.

Now I realize that Mr. Lewis is a great civil rights icon. But does that mean he is perfect and all his pronouncement are above reproach? Are we not allowed to disagree with him?

With the failure of inner city schools, more blacks in poverty, unemployment rates sky high for blacks and the murder and abortion rates among blacks at genocidal levels. It would seem Mr. Lewis would have better served his people talking about that. This does beg the question: what has Mr. Lewis been doing the last 30 years? These are the things President Trump has talked about and wants to find solutions to. But instead of working with the new president, Mr. Lewis plans on fighting him at every turn. How does this help anyone?

Now I get to be called a racist again because I am treating Mr. Lewis just the same as I would treat anyone else I thought was wrong.

Neither Mr. Lewis or the Pope walk on water and both should be ready to be reminded of that fact.

Raynard Corrow Indian Lake

ThankfulÊ forÊ RachelÊ Ray To the Editor: Most recently, we have been notified that due to other scheduling commitments in 2017, the Rachel Ray Annual Alumni Association Scholarship Benefit Cooking Show will not be held this Spring. We look forward to Rachel joining us in the future.

Rachel’s generosity for 16 years has enhanced many students with scholarships, assisted school organizations and technical programs. We are very grateful for her donation of time, energy and talent that has strengthened our educational community, students and school district. Please join us as we thank her for sharing her wonderful gift and talent with her alma mater’s district.

Tom Roach Lake George

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TrumpÕ sÊ Ô post-factualÕ Ê healthÊ careÊ planÊ To the Editor: President Trump promised a healthcare replacement plan that’s “far less expensive and far better” than Obamacare. It’ll cover more people, with lower deductibles, retain coverage for adult children on their parents’ policies, and eliminate individual mandates while still covering preexisting conditions.

His plan will permit the purchase of out-of-state medical insurance — currently federally legal, but we can pretend it’s not.

Mr. Trump says this incredible plan is nearly complete. But, as with other things he won’t show us (his taxes, his secret plan to defeat ISIS) there’s a catch: He won’t reveal his plan until the Health and Human Services nominee, the aptly named Mr. Price, endures his gauntlet of committee-hearing grandstanding and is confirmed by the Senate.

After Mr. Trump commended the New York Times for “pretty accurately” reporting on his plan, their editorial board criticized his “breathtaking ignorance about health care and the Affordable Care Act.” So, who cares what they think?

He boldly promised to deliver, in months, what GOP leaders couldn’t do in a decade: Create a “terrific” replacement for Obamacare. Only the old-school, reality-based critics say Mr. Trump’s plan (if it even exists) is irrelevant because it’s not legislation.

These critics are dismissed as sore-loser snowflakes who can’t appreciate the brilliance that a real businessman and his ten-billion dollar administration brings to Washington.

Mr. Trump assures us that, even though it’s “complicated stuff,” he’s got really smart people working on this, as opposed to Obama’s presumably transgender communists and Sharia law partners. And he’s no wuss, he can certainly kick Congress into action with a motivating locker room speech.

The forceful intelligence of our new leader will inspire Congress to close ranks on a replacement plan, satisfying all mutually exclusive parameters. He’s done the heavy lifting, they simply have to draft a bill, hold House and Senate committee hearings, debate it, find eight Democratic senators willing to break a filibuster, pass bills in each chamber, negotiate any differences in conference, then pass the amended bill. Quickly, because Mr. Trump also has executive orders to cancel, a wall to build, taxes to cut, immigrants to deport, pipelines to approve, treaties to renegotiate and trade wars — perhaps shooting wars — to start.

If you are skeptical, it’s only because you can’t embrace post-factualism and the new Land of Make-Believe.

Earlier this month, Vice President Pence turned up the schedule pressure. On “day one” the “first order of business will be to repeal and replace Obamacare.”

At a bizarre press conference a week later Mr. Trump stated that repeal and replace must be done “essentially, simultaneously.” Congressional Republicans are scrambling to rise to the challenge and think outside the box. Well, I’m happy to help.

How about expanding on that idea of purchasing out-ofstate health insurance? Canada is right next door. Give us the option to buy their healthcare plan.

The Canadian system covers everyone and everything, with no copays. They have better medical outcomes than we do — at half the cost. Montreal General Hospital is a two-hour drive, same as UVM-Medical Center.

We can still retain that post-factual, make-believe option for the diehards — who can expect to do just that... after bankrupting their families in the process.

Frank Pagano Jay

ThoseÊ whoÊ donÕ tÊ rememberÊ theÊ pastÊ areÊ doomedÊ toÊ repeatÊ it To the Editor: Joe DeMarco submitted a letter to the editor in which he included a passage from “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s political manifesto or blueprint for what became a horrendous reality.

A profound and prophetic utterance from a madman, who was also Time’s Man of the Year in 1938.

Amazing how his rhetoric is somehow validated over 80 years later? Incredible how this new political figure could manipulate the educated masses with propaganda, lies and distortion.

A crafty “spin doctor” used just two forms of contemporary media (newspapers and radio) to accomplish this and spread this distorted news. Just think how their “fake news” wasn’t spread on social media like ours is today?

Tragic what was accomplished then without it!

How and why could this occur to a technological and civilized nation?

My summary of this excerpt is simple: People see only what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and believe almost anything!

It seems humans are addicted to sensationalism in a maca-

bre kind of way. Proof of this can be substantiated. Just look at social media and how much fake news became truth to the gullible believers in 2016.

Remember how political “news” infiltrated the presidential campaign?

Events like these always remind me of this famous quotation from George Santayana (1863-1952): “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Kenneth J. Sausa Lake Placid

TrumpÊ hasÊ Ô maturityÊ of Ê aÊ disturbedÊ teenagerÕ To the Editor: In response to Jerry Kelly’s letter about poor losers, and all the other references elsewhere of the same sort: Mr. Kelly’s final comment that it’s “too bad that we are setting such a poor example of who we are to the rest the world” indicates that he is apparently not aware that most foreign governments and their citizenry are laughing themselves silly at what an insane thing the U.S. has done — that is, when they are not lost in fear of the huge harm that President Trump can, and likely will, wreak on the whole world.

You don’t get that this response is so unique because a person with the maturity of a disturbed teenager is now our President.

Now, I know that those of you who elected him don’t see him this way, I don’t expect that protest or any other actions are likely to change your minds. But it’s hard to believe that you don’t understand the grave danger that we see, and the need to demonstrate the severity of what we fear, not only to ourselves, but to the rest of the world.

You know that Hitler was an evil person but you don’t seem to realize the parallels of personality and communication patterns with those of Mr. Trump. That you cannot see this makes the situation all that much scarier.

Congratulations to Mr. Trump for doing the unthinkable by winning this election. But God help us, Hitler came to power in a similar fashion, and created a government that excelled in killing Jewish people and all others that in their opinion were sub human. Not to mention starting World War II. You don’t see this, but we do. It looks like the numbers of people who are dedicated to resist him every step of the way is growing. And that’s what the protests are all about.

Don Austin Greensboro, NC

PropertyÊ taxÊ capÊ takesÊ awayÊ homeÊ rule To the Editor: Reading the article “Cuomo on taxes” (The Valley News Sun, Jan. 21) I would like to point out some data that anyone can obtain from the Essex County Real Property webpage.

I do not agree with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and our elected state representatives who supported the two percent tax cap of local government. It takes away home rule. Also, the large counties downstate do not have to comply with the two percent cap.

In the article, the Clinton County manager states that the Clinton County tax rate has increased only by half of one percent in the past five years.

Chairman of the Essex County Budget committee, Supervisor Tom Scozzafava, who I believe is still paid an extra salary for preparing the annual county budget, states that in 2017, the Essex County tax rate is $3.25 per $1,000, being one of the lower rates in New York State.

Editor’s note: Scozzafava was not quoted as stating this. The data was included as a matter of public record.

In the past five years, the Essex County tax rate has gone up about 38 percent. Under tax cap law, it should have been about 10 percent. The amount to be raised by county tax rate is established by differences in the expenditure of the budget and income.

The 2017 budget amount to be raised by land taxes is about $21 million, an increase of about $2 million more than 2016.

If you would check the Essex County tax assessment for the past 5 years, you will see the county assessments value have gone up about $9.5 million.

The Essex County budget has increased over 30 percent in the last five years, whereas under the two percent cap it should have been about 10 percent.

The county sold the nursing home for $4 million because it was losing $2 million a year. In the past five years, the county raised the sale tax, garbage fee 20 percent and added a new tax on rental property and yet this year the tax rate will go up 3.75 percent.

Property owners who had an assessment increase will have higher taxes. Tom also stated that the sharing of services by the towns was going well. Yet the county highway department does not do shared services with other towns.

Editor’s note: Scozzafava was also not quoted as saying

sharing services was “going well,” but rather that the county has been sharing services for years without getting credit from the state.

Shared services with town and county would not only save tax money but would give better use of the tax dollars. Many Essex County towns will be due to review their assessment programs and meet the subject increases of land assessment

by New York State.

Essex County taxpayers should be meeting with the assessors to see about their increase in tax assessment.

Edward Hatch Willsboro

DemonstratingÊ ourÊ dissentÊ isÊ notÊ Ô whiningÕÊ To the Editor: The letter last week from Dianne Iasevoli of Brant Lake was not only great penmanship but also a mind-blowing show of morality.

Americans have had an eye opener with the election of Trump, who spoke many words that were far from moral.

His supporters write letters telling those that didn’t vote for Trump to stop whining. They don’t speak of their gloating and lies they spread during the election.

Don’t get me wrong, as I believe those who voted for Trump have a right to celebrate as their man won. Unfortunately, some are carrying on in a manner that isn’t moral and Dianne Iasevoli laid it out in her letter.

One must not give up how they feel and just line up like sheep heading to slaughter. One’s beliefs are sacred and there is nothing wrong with those who don’t have warm fuzzy feelings about a Trump presidency!

As I write this letter, the ceremonies are getting underway to make Trump our president and thousands are there to cheer him along with thousands who are demonstrating against him. This is America, and demonstrating one’s feelings is a right and it is not “whining”!

People are scared and rightfully so, as millions are about to lose their health care and companies are gearing up to take more rights away from workers.

The billionaires Trump has put up for major positions have no idea what workers in Ticonderoga, Port Henry and the other towns of the North Country do to make ends meet and feed their families.

With several pension systems underfunded many will lose or have their pensions cut. The nominee for treasury secretary was asked what he would do to save these pension systems.

His answer was: “I will do my best to help businesses!” He has no intention of helping those with incomes under $200,000 and I don’t believe many in the North Country make this amount of money.

When they dismantle the ACA or “Obamacare” those making over $200,000 will receive a tax break and not one person under this will receive a cent of relief.

It is unfortunate that many people won’t read a newspaper to ferret out the true story of what is happening in our country. I have many friends who rely on hearsay for their news and know nothing of what is happening in our country or the world. Americans have to educate themselves and reading is the best educator.

I thank Dianne Iasevoli for her letter on morality and I do hope others see the wisdom of her words. Her closing words “the constitution has given me the tools to express myself and to hold elected officials accountable” speaks loudly and it is the fiber of our Republic.

I have my doubts about President Trump, but then again, I have had doubts about every president, as this is my right.

God Bless America.

Gary Philip Guido Ticonderoga

Alexander From page 6

Hard work, a strong value system, fair play and self dependence was a winning formula in the America I was raised to believe.

Protest and defiance will only bring more protest and even greater defiance and to what ultimate end?

We are not at war with ourselves, or are we?

Will those who oppose the current Administration burn down the government as one protest speaker claims she dreams about? Would we really prefer to see this country destroyed rather than live in a country where the person you did not vote for is in office?

In my weekly writing I can assure you when the President’s polices for the country are enacted I will try to show why I am opposed or in favor of them as I’ve done during President Obama’s term in office. But in fairness know that I will always be in favor of what I think is best for the country regardless of party politics and will do my best to point out those who obstruct for the simple sake of obstructing.

Dan Alexander may be reached at dan@suncommunitynews.com.

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EYE ON THE ARTS

Never stop fighting

O

n Jan. 16, 1938, jazz musician Benny Goodman played at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for the first time.

Goodman was the first jazz musician to play in the famed venue — a booking that seems relatively normal now.

In the ‘30s, the concert caused quite a stir.

At the time, Carnegie Hall was reserved primarily for classical music. Highbrow stuff. Jazz was considered wild — the rock and roll of its day.

As the story goes, when Goodman’s agent suggested he play at the venue, he laughed it off.

Yet when tickets went on sale — $2.75 for the prime seats, equivalent to roughly $50 now — the show sold out fast, weeks before the historic night.

This week, to all the local musicians out there, I say: just because it has not been done before, does not mean you can’t do it. Be innovative. Be ever-evolving. Never stop fighting.

To everyone else: support your local venue. Benny Goodman started off in local clubs before he made it to Carnegie Hall. It’s important to make sure that our hometown musicians have a place to start.

There are a few concerts this week. Check them out: The Nick Schnebelen Band will perform at the Champlain Wine Company in Plattsburgh on Jan. 15. Nick Schnebelen is an award winning blues guitarist from Kansas City. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. For more information, visit plattsburghbluesandjazz.com.

Driftwood will perform at the Waterhole in Saranac Lake on Jan. 20. On Jan. 28, Old Salt Union will perform. Tickets to both shows are $10. Doors open at 8 p.m. These events are ages 21 and up. For more information, visit saranaclakewaterhole.com.

Lake Placid’s Delta Blue will host Bobby Kyle and the Administrators on Jan. 20. The show will kick off the first night of Lake Placid’s Winter Sports Festival weekend. For more information, visit facebook.com/deltabluelp.

On Jan. 28, Max Headroom will play three sets of ‘80s hits at King Neptune’s Pub in Lake George. The event is slated for 9 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/kingneptunespub.

Acoustic duo Tyler & Ryan will perform at Olive Ridley’s in Plattsburgh on Jan. 13. The group plays songs from many genres and decades. Their performance is slated for 7 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/tylerandryanmusic.

Wild West Ranch & Western Town in Lake George will see a performance by the Nobody Special Band on Jan. 21. The Queensbury band’s set is slated to begin at 7 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/thenobodyspecialband.

Valley of the Gun will perform at Madden’s Pub in Ticonderoga on Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. No cover charge. For more information, visit facebook.com/maddenspub.

Miles and the Plattsburgh Home Team will perform at Plattsburgh’s historic Monopole Bar on Jan. 28. Miles is a hip hop artist from Albany. There is no cover charge for this event — the

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Completely Stranded will perform a comedy show on Jan. 13 at the Miner Institute in Chazy. All proceeds from the show will benefit United Way of the Adirondack Region. For more information, call 846-7121, ext. 115.

Whey Jennings and the Unwanted will perform at the Moose Club in Tupper Lake on Jan. 23. The Jonesboys will also play a set. This event is open to the public, with a cover charge of $7 at the door. Doors open at 3 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/thejonesboyband.

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The Lake Placid Center for the Arts will screen the newest Mumford & Sons concert film, “Live from South Africa: Dust and Thunder,” on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.

For more information, call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts. org.

The Adirondack Wind Ensemble will perform a staged version of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale” on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 4 p.m. at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts, and Sunday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. in the E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.“The Soldier’s Tale” is based on an old Russian folk tale, where a soldier trades his violin to the devil in exchange for a magical book that will bring him untold riches. Tickets are $10. For more information, contact Gordon at 564-2470.

Olive Ridley’s in Plattsburgh will host a PBS Nerd Trivia Night on Jan. 31. Participants can compete with friends to win prizes, with questions covering a range of topics. The event is slated for 7 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/ mlpbs.

The Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh will host a pinch pot animal class on Jan. 29 for kids ages 9-12. Attendees will learn how to build an animal container and apply underglaze for color. The class is slated to begin at 9 a.m. Tickets are $35 for non-members. For more information, visit strandcenter.org.

The Champlain Valley Film Series will return with a screening of “A Man Called Ove” on Jan. 28. The film, based on the bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman, follows an elderly man who spends his days as an enforcer of neighborhood rules. The showing is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Whallonsburg Grange. For more information, visit thegrangehall.info.

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TICONDEROGA

Many projects aid Ticonderoga business district Downtown Ticonderoga benefitted from the Montcalm St. Partnership

By Lohr McKinstry

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TICONDEROGA — The Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership has a slew of projects going on for the enhancement of downtown Ticonderoga.

Their recent projects, done in coordination with partner organizations, include public parking signs, the LaChute River Trail entrance sign, a Downtown Business District sign at the Fort Ticonderoga intersection, and purchase and placement of a new bench and garbage can in front of the Black Watch Memorial Library.

They’re also working on refreshing and improvement of the Town Clock at Montcalm Street and Champlain Avenue, removal of damaged trees, repair, cleaning, and staining of the gazebo in Bicentennial Park, streetscape improvements along Montcalm Street, the annual Street Art Project, the Ticonderoga Food Pantry shopping spree, flower boxes and plantings and state Department of Transportation signs for Fort Ticonderoga and the Moses Circle Information Booth.

Montcalm Street Partnership also plans and implements annual events in coordination with their partners, Coordinator Matthew Courtright said, including the Ticonderoga End of Winter Carnival, Community Clean-Up Day, Best 4th In The North Celebration, StreetFest, Street Art Auction, and HalloweenFest.

He said the partnership’s mission is to create and enhance the economic, historic and social development of Ticonderoga’s traditional business district, using the National Trust Main Street Center’s guidelines for organization, design, promotion and economic restructuring.

The group has started preparing for future events, projects, plans and partnerships.

“We look forward to continuing to partner to improve our community together,” said partnership board member Robert

C. Dedrick. “We would like to thank our 2016 partners for their support and dedication to TMSP and Ticonderoga over the past year.”

The partnership has gotten help from the Town of Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce, PRIDE of Ticonderoga, Clinton and Essex Counties Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Programs, Adirondack Foundation, Ticonderoga Walmart, Stewarts’ Shops, Ticonderoga Kiwanis Club, and Ti’Coustics.

Their future projects include additional public parking signs along Montcalm Street, improvement of bump-outs on Montcalm Street, including tree replacement, additional benches and garbage cans on Montcalm Street, more Streetscape projects, creation of green spaces, and possible

new banners and decorations for downtown Ticonderoga and the business districts.

Courtright said they’re working on continued implementation of key areas of focus of the Streetscape Master Plan. The partnership members will also be taking Main Street America trainings and utilizing resources.

Donations to support the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership are tax deductible, and can be mailed to: TMSP, P.O. Box 379, Ticonderoga, NY 12883.

The Montcalm Street Partnership’s email is: tmsp@timainstreet.org, or visit the website at www.timainstreet.org.

The Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership has numerous projects underway to benefit downtown Ticonderoga.

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Vermont Fish and Wildlife begins moose study

By Cassandra Loucy

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MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department has begun a three-year study to gather information on the moose population in the state. According to the department, the species is becoming increasingly more threatened by a parasite known as the winter tick, or moose tick.

This study will serve several purposes.

Members of the Fish and Wildlife Department will be able to determine causes of death for moose, travel patterns, reproduction rates, and more.

As seasons in recent years have warmed up, the winter ticks have been more able to survive and reproduce in the winter.

“Winter ticks have only started to affect moose at a population level within the past ten years.” said Tom Rogers of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.

Numbers of ticks are monitored at weigh stations when hunters bring moose in, sometimes carrying tens of thousands of the ticks.

The ticks cause collapse due to blood loss, but they can also cause the moose to rub off their protective layer of fur in the winter in irritation, which can lead to death by hypo-

thermia.

According to Rogers, “They don’t pose a problem to deer because deer evolved with the species present and are better at grooming the ticks off their bodies.”

The ticks generally do not pose much of a threat to humans.

This month, researchers began the first stage of their study in the Northeast Kingdom, which included collaring 30 cow moose — which are adult females — and 30 moose calves. The radio collars will allow them to track the moose via GPS, find out if calves are living to adulthood, and find out where the

young go when they leave their mothers.

The contractors who carried out the collaring, Native Range, Inc., used helicopters to hover just over tree height. The moose were captured using nets and careful handling techniques to minimize stress and trauma to the animals. Each collar was applied in minutes, and without the use of tranquilizers.

The researchers conducting the study will be able to gather data remotely from the collars, or track the moose to the fields to study them directly.

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he month of December was a very busy and emotional month for the Ticonderoga Fire Department.

We responded to a total of 17 emergencies including: Two building fires, one chimney fire, three motor vehicle accidents, four residential/commercial fire alarms, four carbon monoxide alarms and three other general alarms.

Our membership totaled 216.7 man hours for all of the emergencies with an average response time of 3.5 minutes and an average time from call to on scene of six minutes with the average call taking 43.1 minutes.

In addition to responding to the emergencies we also conducted four weekly training drills that included 136 man hours.

Our membership had a very busy year as we responded to 201 emergencies in 2016 including: Ten building fires, 48 commercial/residential fire alarms, 11 carbon monoxide alarms, 14 forest/brush fires, 23 motor vehicle accidents, 18 EMS assists as well as 77 other general alarms.

All these calls totaled 2,566 man hours with an average response time of three minutes and an average time of six minutes from the time of call until the first unit arrived on scene and the average call taking 47.5 minutes.

We also conducted 64 trainings total 2,364 man hours.

On Dec. 1 we held our annual election of officers and we are pleased to announce the elected officers for 2017 are as follows: Matthew Watts, Fire Chief; William Norton, 1st Assistant Chief; Phil Huestis, 2nd Assistant Chief; Michael LaVallie,

3rd Assistant Chief; Pete Borho, Captain; Joelle Stonitsch, 1st Lieutenant; Ken Bennett, 2nd Lieutenant; John Watts, Fire Police Captain; Chad Jordon, Fire Police Lieutenant; Mary Cunningham, President, James Bergeron, Vice President; Dan Halpert, Secretary; Lynette Bergeron, Treasurer; Donna Trudeau, Assistant Treasurer; Chad Jordon, Trustee; Matthew Cook, Trustee; Richard Stormer III, Trustee; Dan Halpert, Historian; Kristopher Stonitsch, Chaplain; Phil Huestis, Sergeant at Arms.

The officers would like to thank all the members for their hard work and dedication during the past year and look forward to working with everyone in 2017.

Our Department also wishes to thank the community for always supporting us.

With the frigid weather upon us the lakes and ponds are starting to freeze over and with that brings everyone out to ice fish.

Please test the ice before going out on it and one small item that could save your life if you happen to fall through is a pair of ice picks that could easily be carried when on the ice.

Our department is always are looking for new members with several different types of membership available. Membership includes, regular, associate, junior and auxiliary and applications can be obtained on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 7 p.m. or contact any member for more information. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be an interior firefighter and go in burning buildings to help us, we have members who drive, are fire police, exterior support, administrative, etc., there are many ways to help without going into a burning building, feel free to stop by and see how you can help. Junior members are a great way for our youth to get involved in community service.

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Artist of the month in Moriah works in mixed media Rhonda Sargent is Artist of the Month at Moriah Chamber

By Lohr McKinstry

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PORT HENRY – Multimedia maestro Rhonda Sargent is the featured artist at the Moriah Chamber of Commerce for February.

Sargent’s work will be on display at the chamber office on Main Street in Port Henry.

The Crown Point resident said she works in a lot of different categories.

“I don’t stick to one thing,” she said. “I make crystal jewelry, barettes, tiles, bracelets, photographs.”

She started with pins in 1998, and branched into mixed media from there.

She also goes to craft sales and looks for items that could be converted.

“I’ve always loved personalized gifts,” she said. “A lot of the gifts I make mean a lot to people. I made a pillow with a man’s late wife on it, and he said now he could sleep with his wife near.”

A mug she made was featured on Burlington WVNY Ch. 22 News in a craft segment, and she’s had orders from as far away as Australia.

“It was a personalized fishing lure and it cost $13 to ship to Australia,” she said. “They paid it.”

Sargent works from a home studio and computer room.

“I do it every day at my house,” she said. “I have a heat press and a mud press. I design it, print it on transfer stock, and the mud press melts it right onto the item.”

She sells her work online at agifttoremembershop.etsy.com and www. facebook.com/aspecialmemory, or can be contacted by email at sargent2@ hughes.net.

“I enjoy creating something and making people happy,” Sargent said.

“That’s a big reason I do this.”

Crafter Rhonda Sargent hangs some of her work at the Moriah Chamber of Commerce office in Port Henry. She’s the featured artist for February.

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VillageÊ of Ê PortÊ HenryÊ continuesÊ equipmentÊ sales Generating cash for dissolution

By Lohr McKinstry

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PORT HENRY – The Village of Port Henry has been so successful with its surplus equipment sales it’s looking for more to sell.

As the village prepares to dissolve, it’s sold trucks, pavers and even golf carts.

Next may be heavy equipment and a salt spreader.

In a recent sealed-bid sale, the asphalt paver went to Travis Landscaping of Keeseville for $751; a Gravely sweeper to Darren Dickerson for $51; a septic pump-out wagon to Dickerson for $378; the

golf cart to Walter Wojewodzic for $599; and a flatbed truck to Chuck Bryant for $515.

“There’s other stuff we could surplus out,” Mayor Ernest Guerin said at a recent Village Board meeting. “We’re on a spending freeze (and could use the money).”

The village backhoe or front-end loader could be next, he said, along with an extra roadway salt spreader.

Officials said they have a legal bill of $12,000 for forming the Port Henry-Moriah Fire District #3, so the village fire company can continue, and although there’s a $50,000 state Department of State grant to cover those costs, no payments have been made on the grant. Submitted bills go back to September 2016 with no remittance from the state, officials said.

The village also has a $42,000 loan payment and a $72,000 infrastructure debt service payment due.

Acting Village Treasurer Janelle Jurkiewicz said the village sent $134,000 in unpaid property taxes and $127,000 in uncollected water-sewer bills to the Essex County Treasurer’s Office for collection.

“We need to hold off on any non-essential spending until March,” she said. “We need to concentrate on payroll, keeping the lights on. We don’t have any influx of cash coming in.”

Officials said that with the village going out of business, an unusually high number of property owners haven’t paid taxes and service fees.

Village Public Works Superintendent Daniel “Digger” Laing said he’ll generate a list of possible sale items and the Village Board can decide which ones to sell next.

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Moriah Business Park may soon be full in Mineville The Moriah Business Park is getting its fourth tenant this spring

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MORIAH – The Moriah Business Park is a success that’s booming, the Moriah Chamber of Commerce was told recently.

Essex County Industrial Development Agency Co-Director Jody Olcott said the park may soon be full, with the addition of WhistlePig Rye Whiskey.

The Shoreham, Vt. distiller is building warehouses in the Business Park to store and age its product.

Olcott said the park opened in 1995, after the town got money to put up a building for a Canadian manufacturer that never followed through.

The first client was Pre-Tech Plastics, expanding from Vermont for the manufacture of precision parts for the medical and aerospace industries.

“Pre-Tech started with eight employees; today they have 42,” she said. “They came into the park in 1998. There are lots of skilled machinists in their area, around Blair Park (in Williston, Vt.). There’s a lot of going back and forth for a few more cents an hour.”

Coming to Moriah meant less competition for employees and a more stable workforce, she said.

The Business Park was sited on 32 acres in Moriah’s Mineville hamlet, with the initial 22,000-square-foot spec building now 100 percent occupied by Pre-Tech.

“They’ve (Pre-Tech) been very successful in bringing most of their line here,” Olcott told chamber members.

Other tenants in the park are the Moriah Health Center, operated by Hudson Headwaters Health Network, with a

4,500-square-foot building, and High Peaks Hospice, with a 3,200-square-foot headquarters. The hospice building was built by the trades classes at the Champlain Valley Education Center, a tech school across the street from the Business Park.

The Moriah Business Park is located on County Route 7 in the town’s Mineville hamlet. High Peaks Hospice, one three tenants there, will soon be joined by a fourth that makes rye whiskey.

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State wants Tub Mill Pond parcel, in hands of town

The Moriah Town Council must decide whether to back the sale

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MORIAH – The Town of Moriah must decide whether to endorse the sale of Tub Mill Pond to the State of New York.

Without town approval, state law does not allow the purchase with state Environmental Protection Fund money, which the Depart-

ment of Environmental Conservation wants to use.

The 1,200-acre area is located off Ensign Pond Road in Moriah, and is currently owned

by Tub Mill Pond LLC, a sportsmen’s group.

It had been offered for sale previously for more than $1.9 million. Besides Tub Mill Pond, the sale includes Rockport Pond, which has a small dam, and Smith Pond.

Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said the town has 90 days, which is up Feb. 28, to review the letter from the state and

decide if it will support the sale.

“You have a willing seller,” he said at a recent Moriah Town Council meeting. “They spent $2 million to replace the dam. It’s surrounded by state land on all three sides.”

The 40,000-acre Hammond Pond Wilderness Area borders the parcel.

“It’s posted now,” Scozzafava said. “The public would have full access to the property (with the sale).”

He said he didn’t know if motorized access, such as snowmobiles, would be allowed, and it would probably depend on the land classification the state put on it after a purchase.

He said the best course would be to hold a special meeting and invite a DEC representative to discuss the purchase with them.

The supervisor said they’d also like to get input from the public on the request. He said if the town opposes the sale, the state would probably still buy the property, but using other sources of funding.

The special meeting will be scheduled after he talks with DEC, Scozzafava said.

Tub Mill Pond in Moriah is now in private hands, but the state Department of Environmental Conservation wants to buy it.

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COUNTY

State to invest $20m in Whiteface, Gore upgrades Investments, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will make facilitates more competitive — but must be paired with private investment

By Pete DeMola

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PLATTSBURGH — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pledged up to $20 million in state investments for major upgrades to a pair of Adirondack ski resorts.

The improvements to Gore and Whiteface Mountain, announced by the governor in Plattsburgh on Monday, will enhance the current facilities and create modern skiing, lodging, dining and retail opportunities and yearround activities at the two facilities.

The project will be the first major upgrade at both Whiteface and Gore in 30 years.

Planned upgrades at Whiteface include: • Expanding the Bear Den Lodge and adding a state-of-the-art learning center, bar and restaurant; • Expanding and renovating the Adirondack Base Lodge and parking lot; • Installing a line connecting the Bear Den Learning Center area to the Mid Station; • Building one of the longest zip lines in North America; • Building the longest mountain coaster in the United States.

And at Gore Mountain: • Expanding seating capacity and modernizing the Saddle Lodge’s facilities and infrastructure; • Adding a third story to the Base Lodge – building corporate meeting room space, additional seating and customer amenities, and expanding the rental shop in the Northwoods Lodge; • Restoring the original 1967 gondola unloading station into a Gore summit warming facility and overlook.

“New York State has Olympic-caliber assets and world-class skiing, but the facilities at Gore and Whiteface are outdated and sub-par,” said Cuomo. “This investment will transform these

resorts into year-round, world-class skiing destinations and attract new skiers and snowboarders from around the globe.”

Modern-day ski resorts are shifting their primary functions from just purely ski and snowboarding based facilities to ones that provide upscale amenities, conveniences and yearround attractions, he said.

When comparing the facilities to other resorts, including Killington, both fall short, he said.

But the funds come with strings attached: The state investment, said the governor, will leverage up to $80 million in private funding.

“If we make this investment, then we want to partner with private sector management companies that do this and do this extraordinarily well,” Cuomo said. “Make them bring their money to the table. We think we can leverage $80 million and remake these facilities in to world class facilities that are high end and I believe we are going to increase tourism even more.”

BIG BOOST Winter tourism at Whiteface and Gore Mountains accounts for more than $100 million in economic impact each year in the North Country, according to the governor’s office.

His administration, he said, has made it a top priority to leverage natural assets in the region to increase visitors, create jobs and spur economic growth.

Local officials have long called for the upgrades, which they said are necessary to remain competitive at the global level.

The funding, said Cuomo, will allow the facilities to do exactly that while also generating opportunities to increase off-season revenue

and bolster small businesses in the surrounding region.

Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Preston, who also serves as the supervisor of Wilmington, says the upgrades are long overdue, and the funds will have a significant impact in facilitating those efforts.

Receiving the news was just as colossal as when he got the call in 2013 that the state was investing $12 million to refurbish the Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway, he said.

“The Cadillac of ORDA is Whiteface and Gore, which generates the revenue,” Preston said.

Preston was particularly enthused about the lodge upgrades. The current structure, he said, is like something out of the 1970s: Ski lodges should be warm, cozy, and “Adirondack-y,” he said.

“That lodge is none of it.”

“Enhancing Whiteface is going to help everyone. I just think this is something very, very positive.”

Jon Lundin, a spokesman for the Olympic Regional Development Authority, also hailed the announcement.

“It allows us to find additional ways to generate revenue during the season, and the off-season as well, and meet the new demands families have for the ski industry,” Lundin said.

The funds are in addition to the $12.5 mil-

lion the state pledged to the agency as part of the proposed 2017-18 state budget.

“This announcement is on top of that,” Lundin said.

ONGOING EFFORTS The announced upgrades join other state efforts to promote winter tourism in the region, including the I LOVE NY ad campaign rolled out last week in downstate television markets and a Free Snowmobiling Weekend for all outof-state and Canadian snowmobilers from Friday, Feb. 3, through Sunday, Feb. 5.

The tourism industry in 2015 generated a total economic impact of $102 billion – an alltime high for the state, according to the governor’s office.

That number may rise with the completion of a multi-use trail, which the governor introduced earlier this month, asking for lawmakers to authorize $53 million to complete the first phase of the 750-mile system, which would complete the Erie Canalway and Hudson Greenway before venturing north, through Albany, Lake George and through the Champlain Valley.

And on Monday, speaking at the Plattsburgh International Airport, to which he pledged $38 million earlier this month, Cuomo also introduced the master plan for the Gateway to the Adirondacks, the proposed new recreational hub at Frontier Town in Essex County.

“The governor’s leadership and new programs will be a game changer here in the Adirondacks,” said Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism CEO James McKenna. “His continued promotion of tourism as an economic driver and increased investment through programs such as I Love New York and Market New York, have been a catalyst for significantly increased traveler activity here.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, Jan. 23 announced up to $20 million in state investment for improvements to Whiteface and Gore. The investments must be paired with up to $80 million from the private sector, he said.

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BINGO

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

PUBLIC MEETINGS

TICONDEROGA - Bingo, Ticonderoga fire house, 6:45 p.m. Doors 5 p.m. Every Thursday.

LAKE GEORGE - Grief and Loss Support Group Wednesdays , 3:00 pm. Explore the root of your grieving & learn to process it in a healthy, healing way. Randi Klemish, a retired mental health thrapist leads this healing group All are welcome.

Group meets every Wednesday, From 3-5 pm at St. James Episcopal church in Lake George Village.

QUEENSBURY - ADIRONDACK Problem Solving Theater Healing Transformation in the Community Transformation Through Acting Out. Our first Improv Troupe Training (free of charge) for Problem Solving Theater begins Sunday, January 29th, 12 Noon 2 PM at UU in Queensbury, located at 21 Weeks Road. Contact Randi Klemish 518-502-3444 healandtransformation@yahoo.com

TICONDEROGA - Nar-Anon Family Group A support group for family and friends of addicts. Location: Office of the Prevention Team 173 Lord Howe St., Ticonderoga, N.Y.Mondays at 6PM (excluding Holidays) beginning June 6, 2016 For more info go to nar-anon.org

CHESTER - The Town of Chester Library Board of Trustees was forced to cancel its January 17 meeting because of weather conditions.

The meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, January 31, at 6:30, and the public is invited to attend.

TICONDEROGA – Essex County 2017 WIC Clinic Schedule at the Cornerstone Alliance Church January 9, 23, 30, Feb 13, 27, March 13, 20, 27, April 10, 17, 24 May 8, 15, 22 ,June 12, 19, 26, July 10, 17, 24, August 14, 21, September, 11,18, 25, October 16, 23,30 November 13, 20, 27, December 11,18 9:30- 2:30 PM.

TICONDEROGA - American Legion Post #224 Monthly Meeting. Second Thursday

BOOKS JOHNSBURG - The Town of Johnsburg Library has a new book club! Starting Feb 9 from 5-6:30 The library also has a kid book club. They meet at the same time as our other book club meets on the first Friday of the month at 5:30. For info Call 518-251-4343.

Don't forget our knitting circle meets every Thursday at 2:30. Beginners welcome. Preschool story hour and craft time is every Friday from 10-11 in the children's room.

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

Free.

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

COMMUNITY OUTREACH LAKE GEORGE – SA @ St James Episcopal Church 175 Ottawa Street Lake George Saturdays 7:00 pm in the Parish Hall weather permitting Call St. James' for more information Tuesday - Thursday 518 668-2001

MORIAH – Essex County 2017 WIC schedule at the Moriah Fire Department January 10, Feb 14, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 11, august 8, September 12, October 10, November 14, December 12 9:30-2:45pm.

Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 PORT HENRY – Essex County 2017 WIC shedule at the Knights of Columbus January 12, Feb 9, March 9, April 13, May 11, June 15, July 13, august 10, September 14, October 12, November 9, December 14 9:30-2:30pm.

Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296

SCHROON LAKE – Essex County 2017 WIC Clinic Schedule at the Schroon Lake Health Center January 11, Feb 8, March 8, April 12, May 10, June 14, July 12, August 6, September 13, October 11, November 8, December 13 9:302:30pm.

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 - 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.

January 19, Feb 6, 16, March 6, 16, April 3, 20 , May 1, 18, June 5, 22, July 3, 20, August 7, 28, September 21, October 2, 19, November 6, 16, December 4, 21 1:30-6pm.

Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 DINNERS & SUCH TICONDEROGA - Elks cook to order breakfast will start Oct. 23, from 8-11 every 2 and 4th Sunday each month any question please contact me at 518-585-1052

TICONDEROGA - The Champlain Valley Bluegrass & Old Time Music Association holds their Monthly Meeting on the 2nd Sunday of each month at the Ticonderoga American Legion, Montcalm Street at 1 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Please bring a dish to share.

SENIORS 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

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CROWN POINT – New Crown Point Fire Chief Joseph Norton brings 31 years of experience in the fire service to the position.

He’s working on equipment upgrades, enhanced training for firefighters and recruitment of new members.

“It took me 31 years to get here (as chief), but I got here,” Norton told the Sun. “I think it worked out pretty good. I appreciate the confidence from those who voted for me.”

The A.E. Phelps Volunteer Fire Department of Crown Point just purchased a new E-One engine-tanker to replace a truck that was 25 years old, Norton said.

“We also have 10 new air packs; they’re in service,” he said.

“They’re using lightweight 30-minute bottles. We got a minicutter for our Jaws of Life Rescue Tool.”

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he said. “They removed two panels that prevent you from climbing the bridge. The helicopter is checking the bridge” for anything suspicious.

The Port Henry Fire Department recovered everything from the laske, he said.

The overhead lights on the bridge are timed to go off at 11 p.m., and the covers are believed to have been removed late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

The metal hatches are heavy, so more than one person may

The air packs that firefighters use to enter burning structures are from Avon Deltair, he said, and the mini-cutter completes their set for the Hurst tool used to free victims from entrapment in auto wrecks and other critical situations. The minicutter is used for hard to reach places in vehicles, he said.

The Jaws of Life were bought through fundraising and a family donation in memory of deceased firefighter Josh Deyo.

The engine-tanker has a 3,000-gallon capacity, compared with 1,250 gallons for the previous truck, which will be sold as surplus, Norton said.

The department has stepped up its training schedule, the chief said.

have been involved, authorities said.

Under an agreement with Vermont, the New York DOT is responsible for the entire bridge, even though half of the span is in the Green Mountain State.

The bridge connects Crown Point with Addison, Vt., and traffic counts show it is used by more than 3,000 drivers daily.

“We’ve got a ton of training planned,” he said. “We have new members. We did radio training, ice rescue training.

We’re doing a live backwoods rescue exercise.”

He and other firefighters are also doing a walkthrough at Crown Point Central School to develop a pre-plan for any emergencies at the school.

With Port Henry Volunteer Fire department, they have a live air pack drill planned for the Gunnison’s Orchard complex in Crown Point.

“Every Tuesday, there’s a plan to have drills done,” Norton said. “We’re inviting other departments to come and drill with us.”

This summer, they’re doing tanker task force training with Moriah, Ticonderoga and Addison, Vt. fire companies. The tankers are used when fires are in locations not served by hydrants.

The department signed up four new members in the last two months, Norton said, and are looking to recruit more.

“The Crown Point Fire Department currently has 31 members on the roster with 316 years of combined experience,” he said.

Norton said the department responded to 168 incidents from structure fires, mutual aid requests, EMS, motor vehicle accidents, service calls and more in 2016. Their average time to respond was 4.3 minutes, he said.

“I want to thank Walmart and International Paper for allowing members to be called out of work,” he said.

Both places are located in Ticonderoga and allow fire company and ambulance squad members who are employees to leave for emergency calls.

The said the department is currently looking for drivers/ pump operators, firefighters, fire police and support personnel. Contact the station at 597-3211, the fire chief at 597-9247, email at cpfiredistrict@gmail.com, or stop by the station any Tuesday night between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., the chief said.

“We’re starting fresh,” he said. “We want to keep the momentum going. We’re always looking for new members and support people. The Board of Fire Commissioners and the officers are working great together. We’re right on with our budget.”

The local Board of Fire Commissioners is the elected body that oversees the Crown Point Fire District.

The Port Henry Fire Department fire boat works to recover Champlain Bridge access hatches thrown into Lake Champlain overnight Sunday.

Authorities in New York and Vermont are investigating the act of vandalism.

ABOVE: New Crown Point Fire Chief Joseph Norton (right) stands with Fire Capt. Fran Cook in front of the Crown Point A.E. Phelps Fire Department’s new engine-tanker.

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Monday in Plattsburgh.

Earlier this month, the state pledged to invest up to $32 million to transform the former theme park into a visitors center, complete with trails, a campground, equestrian offerings, retail space and other recreational amenities.

The remarks were the first Cuomo has made publicly about the project, which had been kept under wraps for months as Essex County hammered out details with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Open Space Institute.

The governor’s office revealed the master plan for the site following his speech at Plattsburgh International Airport, also the home of a multi-million upgrade.

The blueprints, designed by Chazen Companies, depict an artist’s rendering of the property, which is located off the Adirondack Northway about 100 miles north of Albany.

The early images depict a series of low-slung structures nestled in the foothills of the mountains.

The plan contains an inventory of existing structures on the county-owned parcel, permitting info and proposed amenities, strategies and guiding concepts.

The document also contains a list of possible partnerships and collaborative opportunities for local stakeholders, including local vintners, breweries and a yurt company.

One local business, Paradox Brewery, has announced a $2.7 million investment at the site, a measure that will create 22 new jobs.

Cuomo said he hoped more private investment would be sparked by the anchor.

“And I believe it will just make the case and promote everything else we are doing,” Cuomo said. “Gore, Whiteface, the tourism, the hiking trail, Boreas Pond, put all of that package together, and again it can be an international destination site.”

The governor also announced up to $20 million in state investment at Gore and Whiteface Mountains to renovate outdated infrastructure.

PLANNING UNDERWAY Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Preston spent nearly three hours touring the parcel Monday with DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.

“He was very excited about what he saw,” Preston said. “It was good to see that type of enthusiasm from him — he really was engaged.”

Shuttered since 1998, many of the structures have disintegrated into the landscape.

But some of those may still be saved.

“Renovating those structures are really going to help make this place really unique,” Preston said.

North Hudson Supervisor Ron Moore said the project is still in the initial stages, and the master plan doesn’t reflect a final document.

“The next part of the process will be the county will have to subdivide the property into essentially what is along Route 9 where Paradox Brewery intends to relocate,” Moore said. “So it’s really just continued planning at this phrase.”

Details also need to be hammered out between the state and the town, who owns a stretch of property where the DEC intends to construct their campground.

Another swath of the property is under private ownership, including the A-Frame that has become the theme park’s most identifiable structure.

State lawmakers said they were confident that the $32 million would not be stripped from the budget, which Cuomo rolled out last week.

“I’m pretty confident in that,” state Sen. Betty Little told the Sun last week.

“That Frontier Town exit just doesn’t give you a lot of hope that there’s a lot going on in North Country — it just looks abandoned when you pass by,” Little said. “I think it’s an exciting proposal and it really would help the economy in that area.”

Other officials hailed the project as one that would stimulate the economy and trigger year-round jobs, a rarity in the seasonal economy.

“This exciting project has the potential to draw thousands of visitors to North Hudson to connect to the amazing recreation opportunities in this area of the Park,” said Assemblyman Dan Stec.

EMPIRE STATE TRAIL The proposal joins a number of other measures designed to keep a sustained focus on North Country tourism, including the completion of a multi-use greenway trail by 2020 that would run from Albany and up through the Champlain Valley before terminating at the Canadian border.

That 196-mile stretch,

which is about halfway completed, would ideally draw visitation to communities along the route, Cuomo said.

“Here in the North Country, the trail will go through really amazing attractions and will connect them all,” Cuomo said.

“The trail, you can hike it, you can walk it, you can bicycle ride the trail, but it really is a template to bring all of our tourism actions together.”

The state already owns most of the land, said the governor, who is asking state lawmakers for $52 million to complete the first phase.

Once the final 750-mile effort is wrapped up, the trail will be the largest of its kind in the nation.

NEW FRONTIER: Pictured above and on cover are artist renderings for the proposed Gateway to the Adirondacks at the Frontier Town site in North Hudson. Gov. Andrew Cuomo released the plans following a visit to Plattsburgh on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017.

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TICONDEROGA/PORT HENRY — Round two has begun.

The biggest rivalry in Section VII heats up again this week and next and the Ticonderoga Sentinels and Moriah Vikings take to the court and lanes for the second — or third — time this season.

It started Jan. 23, when the Sentinels completed the season sweep against the Vikings at Adirondack Lanes as the boy’s team scored an 8-0 win over Moriah and the girl’s team a 4-0 win.

On senior night, Anthony Paige had the high game for the Sentinels with a 256, while Gavin Fleury scored a 570 series with 212 high game for the Sentinels. Zach Labarge added a 527 series, while Zach Bush had a 2-4 high game, Darby Guay had a pair of 170 games, Austin Gijanto a 167 game, Axel Dedrick a 168 game and Adrian Page a 167 game.

Jacob Gibeau led the Vikings with a 219 high game and 531 series, while Zack Harter had two games of 170 in a 505 series and John Martinez had a high game of 195.

In the girls match, Avery Alkinburgh had a 534 high series for the Lady Sentinels, while Samantha Gonyo beat her out by one pin for a 200 high game as part of a 531 series. Cerise Bush added a 529 series and Abigail Melvin went for a 509 triple.

For the Vikings, Hailey Morgan had a 170 game as part of a 435 series, while Carli Newton had a 155 high game.

“I thought they did a great job,” Ticonderoga coach Donna Fleury said after the match. “I know the girls were definitely more emotional about their last home game and they all did really well. You could tell they were determined to go out with a bang in front of the hometown audience.”

Darby Guay

Jacob Gibeau and Myles Madill

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Jay Strieble

Boys basketball It’s the rubber match of the Viking-Sentinel rivalry on the court, as both boy’s varsity teams have scored wins so far in 2016-17.

It was the Vikings who took the edge early, scoring a 61-41 win over the Sentinels in the championship game of the Alzheimer’s Awareness Tournament in November.

However, it was Ticonderoga (9-4, 7-0) who would take the edge in the race for the Division II championship, scoring a 75-62 win over the Vikings on their home court.

While Ticonderoga comes into the game with an honorable mention ranking in Class C, the Vikings (13-1, 7-1) are almost back to where they were before falling to Ti, moving back to being ranked fourth in Class D. The Sentinels are the only team to defeat Moriah in CVAC play in the past three years.

Both coach Brian Cross of Moriah and Joe Defayette of Ticonderoga said there teams will be different versions when the two meet in Ticonderoga Thursday, Feb. 2.

“The biggest change in our team has been the play of our bench,” said Cross. “Our bench players have come into many of our games and provided us with points and good defense.”

“Our biggest change is that we are full strength now and we are a little more fluent offensively,” said Defayette. “I also think that last time Moriah might have underestimated us, as they just beat us the game before by 20 and we were coming in short-handed.”

Both coaches agreed the game will come down to how their teams play when they do not have possession of the ball.

“Moriah is a really good team,” said Defayette. “We need to make sure we limit their open looks so we will also focus on not allowing dribble penetration. Offensively we need to be patient and execute.”

“Contesting shots and rebounding will determine who wins this game,” Cross said.

Girls basketball The difference between the first time the two rivals met in girls basketball comes down to the center position, as center Emily Pike has been out for the Sentinels (3-7, 2-6) with an arm injury.

Pike returned Jan. 23 for the Sentinels, scoring 13 points against Section II’s Fort Ann. Since the 43-34 victory over the Vikings (7-7, 4-7) in December, the team has scored one win against Plattsburgh High.

The Vikings have also struggled facing a very tough CVAC schedule, but have defeated Class D foe Elizabethtown-Lewis/ Westport twice during the season.

“The biggest changes that I have seen in our team in the last five weeks is that we are getting contributions from players on a consistent basis and we are comfortable with the roles that we have developed as a team,” Moriah coach Stephan Pelkey said. “I am very pleased with the progress that we have made.”

While below .500 in the league, the Vikings have been solid in each game, most recently giving CVAC power Beekmantown a run for their money in an eight-point loss.

“We are a couple breaks here and there from having a winning record,” Pelkey said. “Every game that we have lost, with 3-4 minutes left in the game or less (with one exception), has been a game that we have given ourselves the chance to win.

Four of those games have been on the road.”

Pelkey said the home crowd will factor into the Feb. 3 rematch.

Sarah Bresett “Obviously being at home is a plus,” he said. “We certainly are concerned with their rebounding/height and their ability to defend. We cannot give them the same shots offensively that they had the last time that we played.”

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EKMW’s Logan VanBuren races Saranac Lake’s Anderson Gray to the line in the boy’s 1,000 Jan. 21 at the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse.

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PLATTSBURGH — The Saranac varsity indoor track and field program continued to keep their place atop the CVAC standings for a third straight meet, with the boy’s team scoring 208 points for a 128-point win over second place Peru.

The girl’s team scored 159 points, finishing 68-point win over Peru. PHS, Ticonderoga, Saranac Lake, Beekmantown, AuSable Valley, Seton Catholic and EKMW followed in the girls meet, while PHS also took third in the boys meet, followed by AuSable Valley, Ticonderoga, Beekmantown, Saranac Lake, EKMW and Seton Catholic.

Cameron Duffield and Desiree Dashnaw swept the 55 hurdles for the Chiefs to start the day. The Chiefs also won the boy’s 1,600 and 640 relays, while Andrew LePage and Heather Dutko swept the 1,600 and 1,500 races, respectively. LePage also won the 1,000 and 3,200 to sweep the distance races.

Rory Patterson and Shayne O’Neill took the top two spots in the 600 for the Chiefs, with Marcus Baisi winning the 300, Rachal Woodruff winning the 1,000 girls race. The Saranac girl’s team also won the 3,200 and 1,600 relays.

In the field, Eric Delutis and Tyler Blair took the top two podium spots in the long jump for the Chiefs, with Dashnaw winning the girl’s triple jump, Dan Utzler the boys shot put with Logan Thatcher, Kat Furman and Kylee Wiedeman sweeping the top three spots in the girl’s shot put.

Other winners in the boy’s meet included Daryn Nephew (Beekmantown) in the 55, Jason Moore (PHS) in the high jump and DeAndre Watson in the triple jump.

Girls winners included Jada Meadows (Saranac Lake) in the 55, Ella Messner (Peru) in the 600, Sue Sivakumaron (PHS) in the 300 and high jump, Enya Sullivan (Beekmantown) in the 3,000 and Haley Wright in the long jump with a personal best distance.

The AuSable Valley boy’s 1,600 relay team scored a win in the 3,200 relay, while the Ticonderoga girl’s team won the 640 relay.

Photos from this meet, covered by sports editor Keith Lobdell, can be found online at mycapture.suncommunitynews.com.

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Moriah 77, Lake Placid 31 PORT HENRY — A 30-7 opening quarter gave the fourth ranked (Class D) Vikings all the room they would need to score a win against the Blue Bombers Jan. 23.

Dylan Trombley scored 21 points for Moriah, while Joe Stahl added 12, Kyle Wilson 11, Lane Decker 8, Dewey Snyder 8, Brayden Swan 5, Jay Strieble 4, Jerin Sargent 4, Mike Rollins 4 and Todd Gregory 4.

Blake Roy had 8 points to lead the Blue Bombers, while Stuart Baird had 7.

Lake George 61, Ticonderoga 47 TICONDEROGA — The Warriors were effective from behind the arc, scoring 33 points off 11 three-pointers and outscoring the Sentinels 40-27 in the second half to win Jan. 23.

Alex Jones connected on four of the 11 three-pointers and finished with 21 points in the game for the Warriors.

Evan Graney scored 17 points for the Sentinels, while Samuel DuShane added 8, Colton Huestis 7, Ethan Thompson 5, Brett Mosier 5 and Michael DuShane 2.

Photos from this game, covered by sports photojournalist Jill Lobdell, can be found online at mycapture.suncommunitynews. com.

Crown Point 63, Wells 61, OT WELLS — After Wells cut down a nine-point deficit in the second half, the Panthers responded in overtime to earn a win Jan. 19.

Chad Stephens scored 17 points to lead the Panthers, while Zach Spaulding added 14, Hunter Pertak 11, Jake LaDeau 7, Reese Celotti 6, Chance Potter 4 and Cade DeBrobander 4.

Moriah 79, AVCS 78, 2OT PORT HENRY — Dylan Trombley hit the key free throw at the end of the second overtime to give the Vikings a win over the Patriots Jan. 17.

Trombley finished with 25 points for the Vikings, while Joe Stahl added 17, Jay Strieble 12, Dewey Snyder 11, Todd Gregory 6, Jerin Sargent 4, Brayden Swan 2 and Matt Pelkey 2.

Joel Martineau led all scorers for the Patriots with 36 points, while Kobe Parrow added 24, Mason Douglas 10, Branden Snow 6 and Matt Pray 2.

Schroon Lake 54, Indian Lake/Long Lake 41 SCHROON — The Wildcats pounced on the Orange in the

second half, outscoring them 22-10 to earn a win Jan. 19.

Harrison Gereau led the Wildcats with 12 points in a balanced night scoring, as Cole Plumstead added 10, Jordan DeZalia 8, Andrew Pelkey 6, Ryan Hannaman 6, Branden Hall 4 and Vlad Starkov 4.

For the Orange, Brice Hutchins scored 24 points as Chandler Brown scored 9 and Andrew Brown 8.

Photos from this game, covered by managing editor John Gereau, can be found online at mycapture.suncommunitynews.com.

Girls basketball

Ticonderoga 49, Fort Ann 22 FORT ANN — The Lady Sentinels opened the game on a 20-0 first quarter as they defeated the Lady Cardinals Jan. 23.

Delaney Hughes scored 19 points to lead the Sentinels, while Emily Pike added 13, Saidi St. Andrews 8, Emily Hood 4, Sarah Bresset 2, Aubrey Smith 2 and Paige Bailey 2.

Schroon Lake 57, Indian Lake/Long Lake 38 INDIAN LAKE — A 17-6 opening quarter gave the Lady Wildcats a cushion they would use to beat the Lady Orange Jan. 20.

Grace Higgens paced the Wildcats with 16 points as Corrine Pelkey added 15 points, while Alora Bearor added 14, Emily Masionville 10, Malena Gereau 2 and Samantha Grey 1.

Lillian Dechene scored 20 points for the Orange, with Maria Black adding 6, Karmen Howe 5, Rebecca King 4, Taylor Carroll 2 and Ashley Ghostlaw 1.

Alora Bearor

Crown Point 54, Wells 24 CROWN POINT — The Lady Panthers never allowed more than nine points in any quarter, highlighted by a 17-2 third quarter, as they defeated Wells Jan. 20.

Hannah Palmer paced the Panthers with 15 points, while Torrie Vradenburg added 12, Heather Foote 11, Shawna McIntosh 10, Amber DuShane 4 and Sydney Gould 2.

Schroon Lake 50, Wells 42 SCHROON — The Lady Wildcats doubled up on Wells, 14-7, in the opening quarter en route to an eight-point win Jan. 18.

Emily Maisonville scored 15 points to lead the Wildcats, while Corrine Pelkey followed with 14, Alora Bearor 7, Grace Higgens 6, Malena Gereau 6 and Samantha Grey 2.

Photos from this game, covered by managing editor John Gereau, can be found online at mycapture.suncommunitynews.com.

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Broadband stalled in Schroon due to dispute Latest delay stems from National Grid declining to move equipment

By Pete DeMola

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SCHROON LAKE — Work on broadband has hit another snag as work has stalled indefinitely on the project.

National Grid has not yet allowed Slic Network Solutions, the provider spearheading the installation, to string their fiber optic gear along their utility poles, said Don Sage, head of the town’s broadband committee.

The installation of the gear, known as the “make-ready” stage, was scheduled to have started in December and be finished by the end of January, he said.

“However, no work has been started nor accomplished,” Sage wrote in an email to committee members.

Now stakeholders are scrambling to remedy the situation.

Slic Vice President Kevin Lynch said National Grid has not completed its work within the time frames outlined by the state Public Service Commission.

Due to the current state of the infrastructure, Slic can safely

perform temporary attachments. But the end result is the provider cannot begin construction until National Grid provides work orders to prepare the poles.

“We’re waiting for them to finalize make-ready so we can prepare our poles,” Lynch told the Sun. “We’re in regular conversations with them and have been for months.”

The Schroon Lake Broadband Committee also reached out to state Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury) for a lifeline.

“We are working with National Grid to see what can be done and see why this isn’t moving forward,” Little told the Sun. The $2.3 million project stands to benefit hundreds of homes currently served by satellite and phone service.

The roadblock is just the latest in a project that has been littered with them.

Slic was first awarded state grant funds in December 2012 to bring fiber to upstate areas.

Following a period of delays stemming from both the state and private sector, progress had been humming along since last fall, when Slic received their long-expected round of private investment funding to allow work to continue.

Since then, the provider has been working out technical

and installation details with the committee, with stakeholders eager to service to be deployed as early as this spring.

Now the project remains on hold.

Slic, according to committee minutes, will not move forward on the poles that have already been approved for equipment installation because they do not want to pay their contractor fees for stopping and starting the project if National Grid continues to hold up progress.

Sage said he was confused as to why progress in other North Country communities is moving forward, but not Schroon.

The community, he said, is fed-up, anxious and growing increasingly skeptical.

“Everybody is aware the project has been going on for four years now,” said Sage. “People want results, and they’re not seeing any. And I can’t blame them.”

Lynch, in an email to committee members, echoed the frustration.

“We are in daily contact with National Grid and the NYS Broadband Office trying to move this forward,” Lynch wrote.

“To say this is frustrating is an understatement.”

The next broadband meeting is scheduled for Feb. 3 at the Schroon Lake Town Hall.

Sun Community News to host Boreas Ponds debate Local media outlets to host debate Feb. 2 at Schroon Central to weigh what comes next in Boreas Ponds land classification process

SCHROON — Following the hottest land use debate in decades, the Sun Community News is partnering with the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the Adirondack Explorer to host a debate on the future of land use discussions in the Adirondack Park.

The debate will be held Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Schroon Lake Central School Auditorium at 6 p.m.

We’ve invited representatives from a wide variety of stakeholder groups to sit on the panel, including the Adirondack Park Agency, the state Department of Environmental Conservation, BeWildNY, Access the Adirondacks, Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, as well as local officials and residents.

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Chief among the parcels was the recently acquired Boreas Ponds Tract in Newcomb and North Hudson, Essex County.

The hearings on the 20,543-acre tract drew thousands of comments on how the state agency should classify the newly-acquired former timber lands, widely anticipated to be the last in a series of large-scale acquisitions.

Now that the public comment period has ended, and as the APA weighs the evidence before recommending a package to the governor, the forum is your chance to listen to experts weigh-in on what comes next.

This is not a forum for advocacy — all sides have represented their viewpoints— but rather is designed to explore the broader ramifications for land use policy in the Adirondack Park, including flaws in the classification process, as well as any other issues that haven’t been examined during the contentious debate.

The forum will be jointly moderated by the Sun Community News, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and the Adirondack Explorer.

For more information, contact: John Gereau, Sun Community News — 518-873-6368 ext. 213 | john@suncommunitynews.com

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he Schroon Lake Senior Citizens Club Events Committee recently held their monthly meeting to plan events for the month of February.

Kicking off the events is a general meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 4 p.m. Dinner will follow the meeting at DeCesare’s Restaurant in Schroon Lake. On Thursday, Feb. 2 and every Thursday throughout the month, bingo is offered at the club beginning at 12:30 p.m.

On Friday, Feb. 3 the bus leaves at 9 a.m. to go to the Shirt Factory in Glens Falls for a day of shopping and browsing in the locally owned and operated artisan studios. Lunch will follow.

Also on Monday, Just Walking is offered at the club from 9-10 a.m. This is a low impact program of walking and stretching and is safer than walking outside in the ice and snow.

On Wednesday, Feb. 8, the Gourmet Groupies will dine at the Bistro in Lake George. The bus leaves at 4:30 p.m.

Every Tuesday in February the bus will go to Ticonderoga for a shopping trip. The bus leaves the club at 12:15 p.m.

Beginning on Friday, Feb. 10, the club will be starting a game afternoon from 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. Also offered on Friday, Feb. 17 and Friday, Feb. 24, a variety of games will be offered, as well as an invitation to bring along any favorite games.

There will be Mexican train, cribbage, Scrabble, rummy cube and many more. This event will follow lunch, so members are encouraged to sign up for lunch and stay for a fun afternoon.

Peter Crowley, Adirondack Daily Enterprise — 518-891-2600 ext. 22 | pcrowley@ adirondackdailyenterprise.com

Phil Brown, Adirondack Explorer — 518891-9352 ext. 22 | phil@adirondackexplorer. org

RachaelÊ RayÕ sÊ hometownÊ fundraiserÊ wonÕ tÊ occurÊ inÊ Ô 17

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On Saturday, Feb. 11 there will be a Valentine party at the club from 2-4 p.m. Members are asked to bring a finger food to share.

There will be games to play.

On Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. there will be adult coloring offered at the club. At 1 p.m.

Mexican train will be played at the club.

On Wednesday, Feb. 15 the bus will leave the club at 1:00 p.m. for bowling in Ticonderoga.

Thursday, Feb. 16 the event committee will meet at 9:30 a.m. to plan events for the seniors for the month of March.

Monday, Feb. 20 the club will be closed for Presidents’ Day. On Wednesday, Feb. 22 nutrition will be held in North Hudson. The bus leaves at 10:30 a.m. On other days for the entire month of February, lunch is served at the club at 11:30 a.m. Reservations should be made 24 hours in advance by calling Keisha Sprague at 5320179.

Members are reminded that if they haven’t paid their dues for 2017, please do so as soon as possible to keep membership current and to receive future copies of the monthly newsletter. The newsletter keeps members informed of activities.

LAKE GEORGE — At 10 p.m. on a frigid night last year, Alyssa Sylvia of Lake George set up a folding chair in front of the entrance of Lake George High School, and plugged her electric blanket into a portable battery so she’d keep warm in her overnight vigil outside the school.

Sylvia and her fiancee Kevin Kenny — nearby in their car — switched places every several hours through the night, so they’d both survive the cold. Sylvia and Kenny had a mission- to get the very first tickets issued to the Lake George Rachael Ray fundraiser to be held four weeks later.

Their overnight vigil last year paid off, although Sylvia didn’t get any sleep. For the second year in a row, they snagged some of the very first tickets available.

This year, Sylvia and Kenny won’t be camping out on the school lawn — celebrity cook and talk show host Rachael Ray will not be holding her annual hometown fundraiser in 2017.

Tuesday, Sylvia described her deep disappointment over the news that Ray, the school’s most famous alumnus, will not be holding court this year.

“I’m really bummed out about it — The show was something to really look forward to,” she said this week. “We’ve made such good friends with other people waiting in line overnight.”

For 14 years, Ray, a 1986 graduate of Lake George High, returned to her school for the annual sellout show, charming her audience by sharing spontaneous conversations and making quips about human behavior, peppering her presentation with insights into celebrity life and recalling the joys of her youthful years spent locally.

The show is held yearly to raise money on behalf of the school alumni association. Association President Tom Roach said his group was notified that Ray has other commitments this year.

“It’s been amazing she’s been able to keep the annual show going like she has,” he said. “She’s one busy gal.”

He said he was disappointed, but he was happy about all the charitable efforts she’s been involved in, both locally and nationally. Through the show, she’s raised about $200,000 for the school, distributed through the alumni association for graduates’ scholarships, and to purchase computers, iPads and smartboards in Lake George’s schools.

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OBITUARIES

WilliamÊ G.Ê Christian

SCHROON LAKE — William G. Christian, 78, passed away Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017 at Heritage Commons Residential Health Home in Ticonderoga following a long illness.

Bill was born April 28, 1938 in New York City, the son of the late William G. and Dorothea Christian and was raised in Howard Beach.

He was predeceased by his childhood sweetheart, the love of his life, and his wife of 54 years, Dolores Christian in September of 2014. They lived and grew up in the same Howard Beach neighborhood and met when Dolores was five years old. They were married Jan. 3, 1959.

Bill served in the United States Navy from 1956 to 1962 as a Boatswain’s Mate aboard the USS Salinan, an ocean going tug. He carried his love of the sea his entire life.

After his honorable discharge from the navy, Bill worked a Morgan Yacht and Iceland. When he moved to Schroon Lake in 1975, he began a career as a carpenter. He was proud to have built numerous homes in Arcaday Bay Estates on Lake George and several large amusement rides at the Great Escape. He was also the caretaker of Seagle Music Colony for many years and considered the Colony to be a very special part of

his life.

Bill had a love for his family especially his children William F. (Patricia) and Dennis (Sandra) Christian of Schroon Lake and Joseph (Catherine) Christian, and his daughter Diane Christian of Florida, his grandchildren, Michael Brook Christian, William (Grace) Christian, Amanda Christian, Ashleigh (Gordon Graves) Christian, Cassidy Christian and Tiffany (Ryan) Schelin.

He especially proud of have great-grandchildren, Daniel Krogh, Jace and Gage Moon, Teyah and Mason Graves, Isabella and Savannah Christian and Serenity Schelin.

The family would like to thank the loving staff of the Heritage Commons Nursing Home for their care of bill over the past two years.

At Bill’s request there will be no services. Interment in, the Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery will take place at the convenience of the family.

The family suggests memorials take the form of donations to the Seagle Music Colony. In Bill’s honor.

For online condolences please visit www.edwardlkellyfuneralhome. com.

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CONTE AS HEIR TO THE persons in possession regions ofESTATE NYS. Brokers welcome. frontage, mountain views, Stoney thing from difficult removals to OF ANTHONY L. of the mortgaged For immediate confidential reCreek, NY $69,900, no interest fitasteful premises) selected pruning. Fully COMMERCIAL PROPERTY LACONTE; ELAINE CRUISE & TRAVEL sponse, VALVICK call 607-353-8068 or nancing. 518-696-2829 FARMFARequipped Defendant(s) & insured. Michael AS HEIR TO email info@NewYorkLandandM666@yahoo.com EmelianoffNOTICE 518-251-3936 OF SALE THE ESTATE OF ANTHOLakes.comNY L. LACONTE; MADEIndex # CV14-0323 ALL INCLUSIVE RESORT packages JAY & JAY FOX LAIR TAVERN Hon. John T. Ellis LINE LACONTE AS HEIR at Sandals, Dreams, Secrets, Riu, for Sale in Bakers Mills, NY. PREMISES TO THE ESTATE OF ANLENDER ORDERED SALE! Catskill Barcelo, Occidental and many Housing quarters on premises, 646 Delano Road LACONTE; Mtn FarmTHONY Land! 39 L. acres-$84,900 more. Punta Cana, Mexico, JaAsking $329,000, Open to Bids.

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Twn(s) rd, for utilities! for 2017 and SAVE at www.NCPsale in Lewis, NY entered in the Essex (s): EN, that the for UnderTermsROSICKI, are avail! ROSICKI travel.com Masterofbedroom on 1st floor County Clerk's Office on & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 signed, on behalf the 1-888-701-1864 December 30, 2016, I, Summit Court, Suite Essex County large Boardfenced of in back yard NewYorkLandandLakes.com to sell at only $79,000 the undersigned, the 301, Fishkill, New York, Supervisors, Priced will accept (518) 873-2362 Referee named in the 12524, 845.897.1600 ESSEX sealed bids until Februjudgment, will sell at Pursuant to judgment of ary 8, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. 1/4/17 Nora Pastore and David Mann Schroon $239,900 public auction at the Esforeclosure sale for the following: 1/4/17 granted Garfield Raymond Douglas Spilling Elizabethtown $90,000 sex County Courthouse, herein on or ONE (1) NEW & UN1/4/17 Erin Lynn Timothy Bryant Moriah $30,000 main entrance, in the about August 10, 2016, I USED HYDRAULIC 1/4/17 Justin Best Arthur Smith Ticonderoga $161,000 Elizabethtown, New sell at Public AucNOTICE OF SALE CRAWLER EXCAVATOR 1/4/17 will Jane Sweeney Joseph Williams North Elba $291,000 York, on March 1, 2017, to the highest bidSUPREME COURT: Specifications are avail- NOTICE TO BIDDERS 1/4/17 tion James Miller Kenneth Becker Schroon ES$37,000 at 11:00 A.M., the at the lobby of the SEX COUNTY.Ticonderoga US BANK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVable by contacting the 1/4/17 der Callie Kohaut R.D. Condit $157,500 1/4/17 Essex Callie Kohaut Tyler Condit Ticonderoga AS $500 premises directed by the County CourtTRUST N.A., EN, that the UnderOffice of the Purchasing 1/5/17 Constance Leigh Nichole Richardson North Elba $365,000 judgment to be sold, house in the County of TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 Agent, Linda M. Wolf, signed, on behalf of the Patricia Baran Alexander Wright Lewis $155,000 which are described in MASTER PARTICIPAof Essex.

On February 21, Essex County Govern- Essex County Board1/6/17 1/6/17 Bryan Bruce Michael Sarrantonio Minerva $107,000 TION TRUST, Pltf. vs.

2017Fannie Mae at 1:00 pm.

Schedule A (Description) ment Center, 7551 Court Supervisors, will accept 1/6/17 Judith Pareira North Elba $75,000 DANNAE E. HALL A/K/A known as 4 attached hereto. The Street, Elizabethtown, sealed bids at the Office 1/7/17 Premises Patricia Rascoe Nimesh Udeshi North Elba $235,000 DANNAE HALL, et al, TOWN of the Purchasing Agent ST, TICONNew York 12932, by OF TICONDERO- premises are known as 1/7/17 PINNACLE Michael Howard Paul Murtha Schroon $45,000 Defts.

Index on DEROGA, NY 12883 646Delano Road, Ticoncalling 518-873-3332 or until 2:00 P.M. 1/7/17 GA,$300,000 NEW YORK Upstate NY Church of the Nazerene Seann Cassidy North Elba Klaus Wachter Eddy Foundation $126,500 OF #CV15/0491. Moriah Pursuant NOTICE February 3, 2017 for 1/7/17 Fire 150.59 Block: Section: on the Countys Website: PUBLIC deroga, New York.

Iron Mountain Partners, LLC Niagra Mohawk Power Co. to judgment North Elba $1 of foreclo- HEARING Alarm Maintenance. 1/8/17 6 Lot: 10.000 DATED: January 9, www.co.essex.ny.us.

1/8/17 ALL William Russell Citimortgage, Inc. North Hudson $73,061 TAKE NOTICE Sealed bids will be re- The bids shall sure and sale entered THOSE PIECES OR 2017 PLEASE 97050be opened 1/8/17 Neil McKinnon Niagra Mohawk Power Co. North Elba $1 ceived at the Office of publicly and read aloud Jan. 3, 2017, I will sell PARCELS OF LAND, with that a public hearing will /s/ William M. Finucane Niagra Mohawk Power Co. St. Armand the Purchasing Agent, on February 3, 20171/8/17 at public auction at the be $1 at the Shawn O’Brien building and imWILLIAM M. FINUCANE held by the Town 1/8/17 James Spannagel Steve Mckenna Willsboro $16,000 Essex County Govern- 2:00 P.M. at the Office Essex County Court- Board of the Town of Referee provements thereon ment Center, 7551 Court of the Purchasing Agent, erected, situate, lying house, Elizabethtown, Ticonderoga on August OVERTON, RUSSELL, NOTICE OF SALE Street, Elizabethtown, 7551 Court Street, Eliza- and being on the NY on Feb. 14, 2017 at 13, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at DOERR & DONOVAN, LEGALS northerly side of Pinna- SUPREME COURT: ES- 10:00 a.m. prem. k/a 52 New York 12932 until bethtown, New York the Offices of the Town LLP SEX COUNTY NOTICE TO BIDDERS cle Street in the Town of Attorneys for Plaintiff February 8, 2017 at 2:00 Saint Clair Street a/k/a 12932. of Ticonderoga, 132 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- P.M. at which time bids Please contact the Pur- Ticonderoga, County of WELLS FARGO BANK, 52 Saint Claire Street, Montcalm Street, Ticon- 19 Executive Park Drive EN, that the Under- will be publicly opened Ticonderoga, NY. All deroga, New York, to Clifton Park, New York chasing Office at (518) Essex and State of New N.A.; Plaintiff(s) signed, on behalf of the York. PARCEL I. All that vs. SCOTT STAPLES; et those certain lots, pieces discuss a proposed Lo- 12065 and read aloud.

873-3330 for additional al; Defendant(s) Essex County Board of All bids submitted in re- information concerning tract or parcel of land, or parcels of land, situ- cal Law establishing a NOTE: WE ARE A DEBT Supervisors, will accept sponse to this notice COLLECTOR ATTEMPTthe bidding. Specifica- situate in the Town of Attorney (s) for Plaintiff ate in the Town of health insurance policy sealed bids until Febru- shall be marked SEALED tions and standard pro- Ticonderoga, County of (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI Ticonderoga, County of for retiring elected offi- ING TO COLLECT A ary 3, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. Essex and State of New & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Essex and State of New cials and employees in DEBT AND ANY INFORposals for the proposed BID EXCAVATOR clearly Summit Court, Suite for the following: York, shown and desig- the Town of Ticondero- MATION OBTAINED on the outside of the en- work may be obtained at York, and in the Village THREE (3) NEW & UN- velope. All bids shall be the above address, or on of Alexandria-so-called, 301, Fishkill, New York, nated as Lots #4 and 5 ga. Copies of the pro- WILL BE USED FOR 12524, 845.897.1600 USED TON 4WD 4- submitted on the bid in section or Block M on the Countys website at: beginning at the southposed local law is avail- THAT PURPOSE. Pursuant to judgment of the Map and survey of DOOR TRUCKS east corner of a village www.co.essex.ny.us. able at the Town Hall, SCHEDULE "A" sheets included in the Specifications are avail- package, and no other All bids submitted in re- lot deeded to James Mc- foreclosure and sale Village Lots in Weeds 132 Montcalm Street, BEGINNING at the point granted herein on or Park made by Chappell Ticonderoga, New York of intersection of the able by contacting the sponse to this notice Cambridge; thence along forms shall be accepted. about December 5, and Burke, filed in the during regular business highway known as the Office of the Purchasing the south line of said lot be marked Dated: January 20, shall Agent, Linda M. Wolf, 2017 2 chains and 50 links; 2015, I will sell at Public Essex County Clerks Of- hours. All members of Middle Road or Delano "SEALED BID FIRE Auction to the highest Essex County Govern- Linda M. Wolf, CPA fice bounded and de- the public and interested Street and the southerly ALARM MAINTENANCE" thence southerly one ment Center, 7551 Court Purchasing Agent scribed as follows: On parties are permitted to bound of Sutherland clearly on the outside of chain, thence westerly 2 bidder at the lobby of the Essex County Court- the North by St. Clair appear and be heard.

Street, Elizabethtown, Essex County Govern- the envelope. chains and 50 links to Patent, said point of behouse in the County of Street, formerly Charles By order of the Town New York 12932, by the highway thence ment Center ginning being midway Dated: January 18, 2017 calling 518-873-3332 or 7551 Court Street northerly to the place of Essex.

Street; on the East by two stone Linda M. Wolf, CPA Board of the Town of between on the Countys Website: beginning one chain, On February 10, 2017 at North Wayne Avenue, Ticonderoga, New York, pillers; running thence Elizabethtown, New York Purchasing Agent 11:00 am. www.co.essex.ny.us.

12932 formerly Prospect Av- dated July 28, 2015.

N. 232 E. along the cenEssex County Govern- containing 1/4 of an acre Premises known as 932 Sealed bids will be re- (518) 873-3332 of land. The right to enue; on the South by ter line of said highway, Tonya Thompson ment Center ceived at the Office of TT-01/28/2016-1TC166.1 feet; thence N. Town Clerk 7551 Court Street PO maintain a certain water 14TH ROAD, MINERVA, Lot No. 7 and on the NY 12851-1922 the Purchasing Agent, 142342 main now existing 8615 E. 316.6 feet to an West by Lot No. 3, each TT-01/28/2017-1TCBox 217 Essex County Governacross said lot is re- Section: 163 Block: 1 lot being 65 ft. in width, 142345 iron post standing in the Elizabethtown, New York ment Center, 7551 Court REQUEST FOR PRO- 12932 served. PARCEL II. All Lot: 19 line of a wire fence; front and rear and 91 ft.

Street, Elizabethtown, POSALS that tract or parcel of PARCEL I in depth. Approx. amt. SUPREME COURT OF thence S. 404 E. along (518) 873-3332 PARCEL I ALL THAT New York 12932 until NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- TT-01/28/2017-1TCland, situate in the Town of judgment is THE STATE OF NEW the line of said wire EN; that the Under- 142154 TRACT OR PARCEL OF $336,208.70 plus costs of Ticonderoga, County February 3, 2017 at 2:00 fence 161.0 feet to an YORK of Essex and State of LAND, situate, lying and and interest. Sold sub- COUNTY OF ESSEX iron post standing in the P.M. at which time bids signed, on behalf of the Essex County Board of being in the Town of ject to terms and condi- TICONDEROGA FEDER- southerly bound of the New York. will be publicly opened NOTICE OF SALE Supervisors, will accept Sutherland Patent aforeand read aloud.

SUPREME COURT: ES- As more particularly de- Minerva, County of Es- tions of filed judgment AL CREDIT UNION sex and State of New and terms of sale. Plaintiff scribed in the judgment said; thence S. 3556 W. All bids submitted in re- sealed proposals at the SEX COUNTY Office of the Purchasing York, being a part of Lot of foreclosure and sale.

WILLIAM M. FINUCANE, - against along part of the same, sponse to this notice PennyMac Loan Trust 6 in the southerly half of Referee.

Sold subject to all of the shall be marked SEALED Agent until COHN & HOLLY M. BARNES; 336.0 feet to the place of 2001-NPL1; Plaintiff(s) the Twenty-Fifth Town- ROTH, Attys. For Pltf., CACH, LLC; ARROW FI- beginning, containing BID DPW WORK 2:00 P.M. on February terms and conditions vs.

RICHARD LACONTE 10, 2017 for Retiree ship of Totten & CrossTRUCKS clearly on the 100 East Old Country AS EXECUTOR TO THE contained in said judgNANCIAL SERVICES LLC 1.23 acres more or less.

Drug Subsidy (RDS) Refield Purchase, Francis outside of the envelope.

Rd., Mineola, NY. A/P/O CREDITMAX; The above bearings are ESTATE OF ANTHONY L. ment and terms of sale.

All bids shall be submit- opening Services. #90550 LACONTE; RICHARD LA- Approximate amount of Dominick`s Patent.

MIDLAND FUNDING LLC referred to the magnetic Specifications are availALL THAT PIECE OR TT-01/14-02/04/2017ted on the bid sheets in$62,991.30 CONTE, INDIVIDUALLY judgment dba IN NEW YORK AS meridian of May, 1935.

PARCEL OF LAND situ- 4TC-141066 cluded in the package, able by contacting the AS HEIR TO THE ES- plus interest and costs.

MIDLAND FUNDING OF TT-01/28-02/18/2017Office of the Purchasing ate, lying and being in and no other forms shall TATE OF ANTHONY L. INDEX NO. 0826-10 DELAWARE, LLC; JOHN 4TC-141451 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Agent, Linda M. Wolf, be accepted.

LACONTE; JOSEPH LA- Judith A. Pareira, Esq., the Town of Minerva, THAT the Town Board of DOE (said name being THE TOWN OF MORIAH CPA, Government CenCounty of Essex and Dated: January 20, REFEREE the Town of Moriah, Es- fictitious, it being the in- POLICE COMMITTEE will ter, 7551 Court St., Eliz- CONTE AS HEIR TO THE State of New York, being 2017 TT-01/21-02/11/2017ESTATE OF ANTHONY L. tention of the plaintiff to hold their Committee abethtown, New York a part of Lot 6 in the sex County, New York Linda M. Wolf, CPA 4TC-141680 will hold and conduct a designate any and all Meetings on the follow12932 or by calling 518- LACONTE; DENNIS LAsoutherly half of the Purchasing Agent persons in possession public hearing at the ing dates and times.

Specifica- CONTE AS HEIR TO THE Twenty-Fifth Township Essex County Govern- 873-3332.

ESTATE OF ANTHONY L. the mortgaged Town of Moriah Court of The public is welcome to tions are also available of Totten & Crossfield ment Center ELAINE House, 42 Park Place, premises) attend. on the website at: www.- LACONTE; Purchase, Francis Do7551 Court Street VALVICK AS HEIR TO NOTICE OF PUBLIC Defendant(s) Port Henry, New York on THURSDAY, JANUARY co.essex.ny.us. minick`s Patent.

Elizabethtown, New York NOTICE OF SALE THE ESTATE OF ANTHO- HEARING the 9th day of February, 19, 2017@ 3:00 PM All proposals submitted As more particularly de12932 2017 at 6:00 PM to con- Index # CV14-0323 TOWN HALL in response to this no- NY L. LACONTE; MADE- PLEASE TAKE NOTICE scribed in the judgment (518) 873-3332 Hon. John T. Ellis LINE LACONTE AS HEIR that the Planning Board sider the proposed Cold THURSDAY, APRIL 20, tice shall be marked of foreclosure and sale.

TT-01/28/2017-1TCWar Veteran Exemption. PREMISES 2017 @ 3:00 PM TOWN SEALED PROPOSAL TO THE ESTATE OF AN- of the Town of Schroon Sold subject to all of the 142214 646 Delano Road will hold a Public Hear- terms and conditions For Veterans during Cold HALL RDS REOPENING SER- THONY L. LACONTE; War defined as Septem- Ticonderoga, NY 12883 THURSDAY, AUGUST VICES clearly on the out- CAROL LANCONTE; et ing, Pursuant to section contained in said judgPursuant to a judgment NOTICE TO BIDDERS al; Defendant(s) 276 of the Town Law, on ber 2, 1945-December 24, 2017 @ 3:00 PM side of the envelope. ment and terms of sale. of foreclosure and sale Attorney (s) for Plaintiff NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- Dated: the application of Ken26, 1991.

TOWN HALL January 23, EN, that the Under- 2017 (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI neth John Becker for a 2 Approximate amount of PLEASE TAKE FURTHER entered in the Essex THURSDAY, DECEMBER judgment $214,900.17 County Clerk's Office on signed, on behalf of the & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 lot subdivision of tax NOTICE that at said pub21, 2017 @ 3:00 PM Linda M. Wolf, CPA Purplus interest and costs.

Essex County Board of chasing Agent Summit Court, Suite December 30, 2016, I, parcel 147.17-02-55. lic hearing to be held at TOWN HALL Supervisors, will accept Essex County Govern- 301, Fishkill, New York, This project located on INDEX NO. 0342/11 the undersigned, the the time and place set TT-01/28/2017-1TCJames E. Maher, Esq., Referee named in the sealed bids until Febru- ment Center Elizabeth- 12524, 845.897.1600 Kanasta Cove Rd. REFEREE forth above, the Town 142155 Pursuant to judgment judgment, will sell of at ary 8, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. Schroon Lake, N.Y. in- TT-01/07-01/28/2017Board will consider this town, New York 12932 foreclosure and sale cludes 2 lots. The lots public auction at the Esfor the following: proposed resolution and (518) 873-3332 granted herein on or are located in town use 4TC-140178 ONE (1) NEW & UN- TT-01/28/2017-1TChear all persons interest- sex County Courthouse, main entrance, in the about August 10, 2016, I zone R-2.

USED HYDRAULIC 142344 ed therein concerning will sell at Public Auc- SAID HEARING shall be NOTICE OF SALE Elizabethtown, New CRAWLER EXCAVATOR the same. tion to the highest bid- held on Thursday, the York, on March 1, 2017, SUPREME COURT: ES- Dated January 18, 2017 Specifications are avail- NOTICE TO BIDDERS at 11:00 A.M., the SEX COUNTY. US BANK Rose M. French, Town NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- der at the lobby of the able by contacting the 9th day of February premises directed by the EN, that the Under- Essex County Court- 2017 at 7:00 PM in the TRUST N.A., AS Clerk Office of the Purchasing house in the County of Town of Schroon Lake judgment to be sold, TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 Town of Moriah Agent, Linda M. Wolf, signed, on behalf of the MASTER PARTICIPA- TT-0128/2017-1TCwhich are described in Essex County Govern- Essex County Board of Essex. On February 21, Town TION TRUST, Pltf. vs. 142156 Schedule A (Description) ment Center, 7551 Court Supervisors, will accept 2017 at 1:00 pm. Hall 15 Leland Avenue Premises known as 4 Schroon Lake, NY at DANNAE E. HALL A/K/A attached hereto. The Street, Elizabethtown, sealed bids at the Office of the Purchasing Agent PINNACLE ST, TICON- which time all interested DANNAE HALL, et al, TOWN OF TICONDERO- premises are known as New York 12932, by Index 646Delano Road, Ticoncalling 518-873-3332 or until 2:00 P.M. on DEROGA, NY 12883 GA, NEW YORK persons will be given the Defts.

February 3, 2017 for Fire Section: 150.59 Block: #CV15/0491. Pursuant NOTICE OF PUBLIC deroga, New York. on the Countys Website: opportunity to be heard.

Alarm Maintenance.

6 Lot: 10.000 DATED: January 9, to judgment of foreclo- HEARING www.co.essex.ny.us.

By order of the Planning ALL THOSE PIECES OR Board PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Sealed bids will be re- The bids shall be opened sure and sale entered 2017 that a public hearing will /s/ William M. Finucane ceived at the Office of publicly and read aloud PARCELS OF LAND, with Jan. 3, 2017, I will sell Glen Repko, Chairman WILLIAM M. FINUCANE the Purchasing Agent, on February 3, 2017 at the building and im- Attachments area at public auction at the be held by the Town Essex County Govern- 2:00 P.M. at the Office provements thereon Essex County Court- Board of the Town of Referee TT-01/28/2017-1TCment Center, 7551 Court of the Purchasing Agent, erected, situate, lying house, Elizabethtown, Ticonderoga on August OVERTON, RUSSELL, 142153 Street, Elizabethtown, 7551 Court Street, Eliza- and being on the NY on Feb. 14, 2017 at 13, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. at DOERR & DONOVAN, New York 12932 until bethtown, New York northerly side of Pinna10:00 a.m. prem. k/a 52 the Offices of the Town LLP cle Street in the Town of Attorneys for Plaintiff February 8, 2017 at 2:00 Saint Clair Street a/k/a of Ticonderoga, 132 12932.

P.M. at which time bids 52 Saint Claire Street, Montcalm Street, Ticon- 19 Executive Park Drive Please contact the Pur- Ticonderoga, County of

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