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Port Henry updated on Stewart’s, waterfront
Ti underground Any construction is liable to turn up historical relics
Demolition of old supermarket scheduled to begin this week By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
PORT HENRY | Demolition was expected to begin this week on the former Mac’s Village Supermarket, which will be razed to make way for a new Stewart’s Shop, Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava told a town board meeting Thursday. See STEWART’S » pg. 9
Artifacts were unearthed when the Ticonderoga hospital graded a new entryway.
By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
TICONDEROGA | When construction crews were scraping the ground for a new entrance to the Ticonderoga hospital they began unearthing things: A beer bottle from long ago, what appeared to be a girl’s change purse and most interesting, the stacked stones of a dry well. Workers for UVM Elizabethtown Hospital’s Ticonderoga campus thought it might have been part of an old irrigation system, and went to the Historical Society to see if there were any clues in faded photographs, but none were forthcoming. So it will just go down as one more mystery in a town where you can scarcely sink a shovel without hitting something interesting. “At one time or another, the whole town was a battlefield,” said historian Diane O’Connor. For many years, sinking a shovel at Fort Ticonderoga
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was liable to turn up — a shovel. There are scores of them in the fort’s collection, which makes sense in that 18th century earth moving consisted of thousands of men foisting thousands of shovels. According to the fort’s website, “We have cataloged over 1,300 tools through this project so far. Tool examples include shovels, axes, mattocks, picks, augers, fascine knives, Irish spades or loys, as well as masonry, wood working, and agricultural tools. We have found maker’s marks and even remnant pieces of wooden handles.” Ticonderoga was strategic not just to Europeans, but to Native Americans as well, and struggles for control of the area extended far and wide. “It’s not just at the fort,” said Bill Dolback, president of the Ticonderoga Historical Society. “The whole town was the site of so many scouting trails and battlefields from different wars.” See UNDERGROUND » pg. 2
4-H teen from Essex County takes third place in Horse Bowl Lydia Visser is a member of Coyote Ridge Riders 4-H Club By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
LEWIS/PORT HENRY | A local 4-Her has won national acclaim, taking third place in Horse Bowl Competition in Louisville, Kentucky. Lydia Visser, 14, is a member of the Coyote Ridge Riders 4-H Club that meets in Port Henry. According to Essex County 4-H Educator
at Cornell Cooperative Extension Jessica Tyson, Lydia earned her trip to nationals by taking second place in state competition out of 38 competitors. “This allowed her to qualify to compete at the Eastern National 4-H Horse Round-Up Competition held in Kentucky on Nov. 9,” Tyson said. “Horse Bowl contests provide an opportunity for youth enrolled in 4-H horse projects to demonstrate their knowledge of equine related subject matter in a competitive setting, where attitudes of friendliness and fairness prevail.” In Louisville, Lydia was one of 300 youth participants from over 20 states. See HORSE BOWL » pg. 3
Santa listens to wish lists at last year’s Ticonderoga Christmas celebration.
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Dreaming of a Ti Christmas 10-day celebration begins Nov. 30 By Tim Rowland STAFF WRITER
Lydia Visser, 14, poses with the portrait of a horse. A member of the Coyote Ridge 4-H Club, the teen just won third place in the national Horse Bowl competition in Louisville, Kentucky. Photo/Cornell Cooperative Extension
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TICONDEROGA | Every mother’s child knows that Christmas is too big to be celebrated in a single day, so Ticonderoga made it a week and a half. “It’s my favorite event of the year, because everyone is so happy-go-lucky,” said Matt Courtright, of the 10thAnnual Ticonderoga Area North Country Christmas Celebration that will kick off on Saturday, Nov. 30. Courtright, the Chamber’s president and
CEO, said the celebration evolved out of a long ago tree-lighting ceremony that lost its luster. Instead of canceling it though, “we transferred it into a 10-day celebration and it’s grown ever since,” he said. The celebration kicks off with Small Business Saturday t wo days af ter Thanksgiving, and features plenty of other attractions, including the tree lighting, wagon rides, special events, Holiday Shopping & Dining Night, Holiday Farmers Market, Parade of Lights, and such. Two of the more popular events are the revamped tree lighting and the parade of lights, said chamber Events Coordinator Erin Mullen.
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