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PRIDE gets housing grants Contractors, administrator needed to put $1.5 million to work By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | PRIDE of Ticonderoga is seeking contractors and a program administrator to put into motion $1.5 million in housing-related grants that have been awarded to the community-development organization since April. The grants, along with PRIDE’s Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, help low-income people in need of housing assistance, from emergency repairs all the way up to the purchase of a new mobile or manufactured home.
Port Henry loses Mac’s Market
But even with the money in hand, there can still be obstacles, said Maria Tedford, PRIDE’s executive director. “We’re always looking to partner with new contractors,” Tedford said.
A family arrives to shop at Mac’s Village Market, which has announced it will close shortly.
See PRIDE » pg. 2
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Announcement of closing surprises workers, shoppers By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
PORT HENRY | Mac’s Village Market, the last remaining supermarket on the Adirondack Coast between Plattsburgh and Ticonderoga, will shut its doors once its current inventory has been sold, a district manager said last week. The closure will eliminate 21 jobs and send local shoppers to Elizabethtown, Ticonderoga or across the lake to Vermont to buy their groceries. The news is especially troublesome for residents of the neighboring Lee House for the elderly and disabled, most of whom lack transportation. Mac’s is part of privately held chain of about 20 groceries and convenience stores, mostly in Vermont, said district manager Pete Ramsdell. Ramsdell said the closure is a “business decision,” and that no other store closures are planned. The company owns the building, but it will be put up for sale in the coming weeks, he said.
Schroon Auditorium: Locals and Schroon Lake Association officials gather to speak and hold the town’s annual “State of the Lake” and “State of the Town” address to residents. Photo by Laura Achouatte
Schroon Lake holds annual meeting
Manager Kathy Provoncha said there was no advance warning, and employees were “shocked” when they got the news. Mac’s opened in 2008, shortly after a Tops supermarket closed in the same location. See MACS » pg. 3
Hibernating bats receive DEC preservation
Two officials decline to run again; positive lake tests again this year By Laura Achouatte STAFF WRITER
SCHROON LAKE | The Schroon Lake Association held its annual “State of the Town and State of the Lake” meeting at the Schroon Lake Central School auditorium recently. The summer’s end gathering of local officials and experts invested in the Schroon Lake environment and economy presented informative sessions on past, present and future impacts on the lake and the town community overall. After a unanimous renomination of current officers and agreement that the current Schroon Lake Association (SLA) Board would remain, Association President Mark Granger also announced that he would be retiring commencing Dec. 31, 2020, and urged locals to join SLA to keep protecting the lake as the group has done since 1911.
MARNELL: STATE OF THE TOWN Kicking off the set, Mike Marnell, town supervisor, gave a rundown of accomplishments for the town in the last year. Marnell has held his position for the last eight years and his seat is up in November. He will not be running for another term.
Possible endangered, protected bat hibernacula found in Mineville Mines being monitored for population and health due to white-nose disease See BATS » pg. 3
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