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May 11, 2019
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Proposed Ti levy reduced
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College prep, sports program on chopping block if vote fails By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | The Ticonderoga Central School Board has reduced the amount of its proposed tax levy increase to 9.57 percent, still over the tax cap, but short of the 12.57 percent increase administrators had projected a week ago. The decrease is possible because of a larger than expected end-of-year fund balance, which will allow the system to inject an additional $350,000 in savings into the budget. Because the increase still exceeds the 2 percent tax cap, a supermajority of 60 percent of the voters will need to approve the plan at the ballot box later this month. Under the new numbers, according to Superintendent John McDonald Jr., the owner of a home with a taxable value of $100,000 would pay an added $103 a year in Ticonderoga, and $129 in Hague, about $30 to $40 a year less than under the previous plan. » Budget Cont. on pg. 7
Regulations that have protected the Adirondack forests have not simultaneously harmed the economy, a new report suggests.
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Study: Adirondack economy has not been harmed by environmental regulations By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
NORTH CREEK | The Adirondack Park has performed better economically than the rest of rural America since the inception of the Adirondack Park Agency, according to a new study, a finding that is at odds with the conventional wisdom that environmental regulations are bad for business. Overall, the report points to a park
Ticonderoga Superintendent John McDonald Jr. explains the budget at a recent public meeting. Photo by Tim Rowland
population that has become older and wealthier through the years, but appears to lack corresponding opportunity for younger people, many of whom have left for college and/or careers. “From 1970 to 2010, compared to rural communities elsewhere, many Adirondack communities experienced improvement in median household income, per capita income, and poverty rate,” the report states. “Far from showing a wasteland of economic distress, longterm trends over 40 years show Adirondack communities that consistently out-performed other areas in Upstate New York and across Rural America.”
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The study, backed by a trove of census data, was prepared by the conservation group Protect the Adirondacks. » Adk study Cont. on pg. 7
ART SEASON OPENS Ti gallery’s first show features student take on Hundred Dresses Project By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | Bullying is not a new phenomenon, and, as it turns out, neither are attempts to curb it. In 1944, Eleanor Estes wrote the Newberry award-winning book “The Hundred Dresses” about a poor Polish-American girl in Connecticut named Wanda Petronski,
who claims to her skeptical classmates to have 100 dresses, even though she wears the same faded blue dress to school every day. Wanda and her family are mocked by her classmates, to the point her father believes she must leave the school. When the school holds an art contest, Wanda enters and submits drawings of 100 dresses whose beauty stuns her classmates. The students realize how they have hurt Wanda and try to apologize, but by this time she has moved away. Even so, Wanda writes her former classmates to tell them they are missed. The remorse leads Maddie, one of Wanda’s classmates, to vow to never again be cruel or to stand by and do nothing when she sees someone being bullied. » Dress Cont. on pg. 7
One of the pieces of dress art designed by the Ti Middle School student council that will be on display at the Ti Arts Gallery’s first show of the 2019 season.
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Market time approaches The Ticonderoga Area Farmers Market Committee is planning for the 2019 season. Pictured from right to left are committee members Ann Lamb (Willow Wood Farm), Anthony Anselmo (The Garrison Gym), Matthew Courtright (TACC), June Curtis (Farmers Market adviser) and Carol Wood Ramundo (Farmers Market on-site manager) during a meeting at the chamber to recap the 2018 market and plan for the 2019 market. Photo provided
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