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CVES proposes $29.8 million capital plan Public vote on tax hike, infrastructure overhaul slated across 17 districts By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | Champlain Valley Educational Services (CVES) is poised to launch a $29.8 million capital plan designed to fund major infrastructure upgrades and allow for the purchase of new property. But first, residents in 17 area school districts will have a chance to weigh in on the proposal. A public vote run and funded by CVES is scheduled in 17 locations across three counties on Dec. 11, noon to 8 p.m. With this plan a tax hike is attached for school districts around the region. For a person whose home is assessed at $100,000, if their district chooses a 15-year bond financing plan and based on that resident’s STAR eligibility, the attached tax increase for the $29.8 million project would range from $1.57 to $21.54 for the next 15 years. » CVES Cont. on pg. 10
NEW MURAL: Emily Pike, a Ticonderoga High School graduate created and installed a mural on Montcalm Street on the
side of the building where Optics of Ticonderoga is located. Pike worked with Britney Shaw, the art teacher at the high school as well as the Ticonderoga Alumni Association and Reale Construction who donated to the project. Reale Construction also assisted in the installation. Pike and Shaw also worked with the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership (TMSP) and Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce to identify the location for the mural and obtain permission from the property owner, Diane Eisenberg. Pictured is Joyce Cooper, Town of Ticonderoga and TMSP board member and Emily Pike. Photo provided
Schroon Lake students get a lesson in mass media Grant will allow them to set up a virtual broadcasting station By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
SCHROON LAKE | Schroon Lake has no local television or radio stations, nor a homegrown newspaper that only covers the town. Yet a version of mass media might be coming to the community by way of a new central school class and a thin little white box about the size of cereal box. With a $1,000 grant from the Community Fund for the Gore Mountain Region,
an offshoot of the Adirondack Foundation, the Schroon Lake Central School was able to purchase a Sling media streamer that will allow high quality content to be broadcast to anyone in the community or around the world with an internet connection. Last week a group of students turned out to hear about a class and club that will function much as television studio.
Superintendent Stephen Gratto said the club will initially focus school activities with endless potential for growth. The school has a highquality camera and has streamed content, including board meetings, but the quality suffers in the process. Plus, when the content is posted on Facebook, it can’t be downloaded by interested viewers and the school loses ownership.
» Mass media Cont. on pg. 2
Paramedic classes start training Class designed to address EMT shortage By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
Brandon Minogue is one of 22 students taking the first regional Paramedic Education Program launched in a collaboration between the University of Vermont Health Network, Elizabethtown Community Hospital, Mountain Lakes Regional EMS Council in Queensbury; Essex County Emergency Services and North Country Community College. Photo by Kim Dedam
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TICONDEROGA |A new class looks to add 22 paramedics to North Country emergency response teams. Based at the Essex County Public Services Building in Lewis, the program’s connected-classroom expands access to students in Malone and Queensbury with
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closed-circuit television. Seven attend classes in Lewis, nine are in Malone and six meet from a classroom Queensbury. All are working toward paramedic certification, the highest of three tiers of emergency medical service (EMS) response personnel. Some students in the program are paid professionals serving area community ambulance squads already. Brandon Minogue, of Plattsburgh, is a full-time tech with the University of Vermont Health Network, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital. » Paramedics Cont. on pg. 8