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HOMES EVERY WEEK! Times of Ti
September 7, 2019
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HHHN, UVM collaborate on new Ti Health Center Addition incorporates ‘medical village’ approach to services, care By Laura Achouatte STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | The University of Vermont - Elizabethtown Community Health and Hudson Headwaters Health Network celebrated a groundbreaking ceremony in Ticonderoga at the former Moses-Ludington Hospital site Aug. 28. See GROUNDBREAKING » pg. 2
CEOs and board members of University of Vermont, Elizabethtown Community Hospital, and Hudson Headwaters Health Network symbolically break ground at the site of the new health center at the Ti Hospital campus. Photo provided
Back country creativity up. There is no traffic control, no flashing event signs, and sometimes unwitting travelers on Mutton Hollow Road who had no particular intention of being in a parade that day wind up in one. Liz Ross of Crown Point said she first learned of the parade when she wound up in it. “We were out for a four-wheeler ride and got right in the middle of the parade,” she said. Lacey Kitchin came up from Warrensburg, and was taking in the parade for the fi rst time. “It’s been a lot of laughs, and it’s nice to see a creative community come together. And creative it is. Along with battered lawn mowers and ATVs, there are homemade floats, fire trucks, horses, chickens, goats, pickups, antique tractors, a propane truck for some reason, motorcycles, wagons and, one year, a motorized Lay-Z-Boy recliner on wheels.
Mutton Hollow Parade celebrates its 14th year By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
A float in the Mutton Hollow Parade gets an enthusiastic reception from onlookers.
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MORIAH | Fourteen years ago, Larry Cutting had one of those fantastic ideas born of genius and too many beers. He and a couple of his neighbors on Mutton Hollow Road decided to celebrate Labor Day with their very own parade, fabricated out of anything that moved. ATVs, pickups, riding mowers that looked as if their lawn mowing days were over, it was all good. Today the Mutton Hollow Parade has evolved into a wildly popular cult event rife with good natured anarchy, where anyone who wants to participate can simply show
See MUTTON HOLLOW » pg. 2
Sister Sharon serves 50 years Principal of St. Mary’s has served area for 34 years; school also celebrates 60 years By Laura Achouatte STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | When you walk up Father Jogues Street on the backside of Main Street and get a view of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, you might just notice your jaw has dropped in awe. The structure is a Ticonderoga gem. Almost in complete comparison to the wonder and beauty of the church, St. Mary’s School, just behind the church, has its own jewel, according to the many that have spent time here. Those that entered the school or had words to
give in passing, as Sister Sharon met with The Sun, provided that they feel Sister Sharon Anne Dalton is St. Mary’s school. Sister Sharon celebrates her 50th year with the Sisters of St. Joseph’s Order of the Ogdensburg Diocese, this year, simultaneously as the St. Mary’s School celebrates its 60th year in existence. In 1986, Sister Sharon moved to Ticonderoga to be the principal of St. Mary’s School. For 34 years she has remained the principal of these halls. Even when the school was nearly a complete loss on September 5, 2014, due to arson, Sister Sharon rallied her school together and continued with the help of volunteers, friends of the church, and support from their neighboring Methodist Church. Her long career in education began after entrance in the sister hood around 1968 and her graduation from Villa Marie College in Erie, PA; where she graduated with her MA in Education. Her
teaching history includes: St. Anthony’s in Watertown, St. John the Evangelist in Morristown, St. Andrew’s in Norwood, Sacred Heart in Watertown, St. James in Gouverneur, and St. Augustine’s in Peru, where she served as both principal and first grade teacher for six years. She has also served on the Watertown Catechetical Board and the Education Board of the Catholic Administrators Association of New York State. With a total of 40 years as an elementary school principal in the Diocese of Ogdensburg, her friends ask, “How did she do that?” Her answer is “By the many graces God has given me and the people He has sent to help me along the way- God bless every one of you.” “Sister Sharon is the most awesome in the whole wide world,” said Jennifer Facteau, a teacher with St. Mary’s. As Sister Sharon chuckled from the words, Facteau’s face started to gather emotion. See SISTER SHARON » pg. 8
Sister Sharon Anne Dalton stands on the walk outside the St. Mary’s School In Ticonderoga this August.She celebrates 50 years with the local Diocese and also celebrates 60 years of St. Mary’s School this year. Photo by Laura Achouate
AMAZING GRACE
Ti First United Methodist Church musical director retires at age 96 By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
Grace Trombley sings a hymn at her retirement performance at the Ticonderoga First United Methodist Church. Photo provided
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TICONDEROGA | If you love what you do, why not work until — oh, say the age of 96? On a Sunday in
late August, Grace Trombley played and sang at the Ticonderoga First United Met hodist Church, t he capstone on a musical career that began 82 years ago as a pianist for services in the chapel at the Valley View Cemetery. “It will just be me and the keyboard; I’ll be accompanying myself,” Grace said prior to her performance. “I’m looking forward to Sunday to see if I can still do it.” She could.
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