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Nursing home sale approved

Heritage Commons sold to downstate group

Hydro plan for mine moves forward

Moriah’s old iron mines could be used for hydroelectric generation

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MORIAH – A federal hearing on a hydroelectric project proposed for Moriah’s old iron mines drew 50 people recently.

Of the nine people who spoke, most either supported the $260 million project or wanted to make sure it wouldn’t shake or flood their nearby homes.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fisheries biologist Chris Millard is the coordinator for the permit process.

“We look at these applications from all angles,” he said. “These project scoping meetings are critical to the mission of the agency (FERC).”

The Mineville Energy Storage Project would generate power by drawing water from upper to lower mines through generating turbines during high-demand periods, then pumping it back up with the same turbines acting as pumps when demand is low.

Millard said the process began in 2005, and

his agency received the application in 2015 from Albany Engineering Corp.

“It took about 10 years to develop,” Millard said. “Anything and everything is on the table (for the hearing) in terms of input.”

The permit timetable is that the deadline for comments is April 2017, then a draft environmental impact study will be issued in October 2017, with comments taken in November, then a final environmental assessment and permit by March 2018.

Albany Engineering President James Besaw Sr. explained how the project would work.

“Pumped storage is a type of hydro,” he said. “We take water from an upper reservoir; it goes down through a turbine and generates electricity.”

The turbine also acts as a pump, moving the water back later, he said.

The mines that would be used are Old Bed and Harmony, Besaw said, about 2,500 feet underground and the length of nine football fields.

Besaw said the project would create five to 15 permanent jobs, and 100 to 200 construction jobs during its two year build process. >> See MINES | pg. 23

Sun Editorial Board sits with Access, BeWild

Our editorial board met with the two main stakeholder groups involved in the Boreas Ponds debate: Access the Adirondacks and BeWildNY

Schroon Lake pre-K through third grade students wave during their performance in the SLCS annual holiday concert Dec. 12 in a packed school auditorium. See more pictures, page 20.

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The state purchased the Boreas Ponds and MacIntyre Tracts from the Nature Conservancy in May. Widely considered to be the final in a series of large-scale land acquisitions, the former timberlands in Newcomb and North Hudson are awaiting classification Bill Farber by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), which is accepting public comment until Dec. 30.

The APA has offered four official proposals on how the Boreas Ponds Tract, which has generated the most discussion, can be classified.

That classification will determine how Willie Janeway >> See BOREAS | pg. 12

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Ticonderoga nursing home sale gets state OK A downstate firm is buying Heritage Commons Nursing Home

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TICONDEROGA – The State Department of Health has approved the application of Inter-Lakes Health to sell Heritage Commons Residential Health Care and Moses-Ludington Adult Home to Post Acute Partners Inc. The sale of the nursing home to the Williamsville company will allow development of a medical village that will encompass all the health-oriented organizations in one central location, Inter-Lakes Health spokeswoman

Jane Hooper said.

Inter-Lakes also operates Moses-Ludington Hospital at the same location, and recently entered into an administrative agreement with University of Vermont Health Network.

The Inter-Lakes Health campus in Ticonderoga offers an already-established location for the medical village, Hooper said, because the nursing home, adult home, MLH Emergency Department, other outpatient services, and Lord Howe Estates and Moses Circle Senior Apartments senior housing are already located on the property.

Post Acute Partners operates nursing homes, adult long-term care facilities and post-hospital pediatric care centers under its Elderwood brand.

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other medical village partners are pleased to begin working with the Elderwood brand of nursing homes, Hooper said, because it shares a commitment to the local community, and the facility’s residents and staff.

She said Elderwood nursing homes also boast a reputation for providing high-quality care; something that is reflected in quality reporting measures and patient satisfaction scores.

John Remillard, president of Elizabethtown Community Hospital and Inter-Lakes Health, said Elderwood will be a strong partner organization for the community.

“Elderwood nursing homes have an excellent reputation and I am very pleased that the care of our nursing home residents will be managed by this outstanding organization,” he said. “We look forward to having Elderwood become a part of our medical service community and part of the medical village that we are creating.”

Providing quality health care access to rural communities is important to Post Acute Partners, the parent company for Elderwood nursing homes, Hooper said.

Elderwood will also work with the local hospice organization to provide that service within the nursing home facility.

“We are committed to meeting the needs of the community, and we’re excited to partner with local organizations to help provide various services,” said Anna Bojarczuk-Foy, director of business development for Elderwood. “Our nursing homes care for patients with various needs and requirements, including short-term rehabilitation after surgery, long-term care, respite care, as well as care for those with dementia or other medical conditions requiring care within a long-term environment.”

The sale of Heritage Commons Nursing Home and Moses-Ludington Adult Home is the initial step in a process that will aid the future of healthcare in the region, Remillard said.

“The development of a medical village, beginning with the Elderwood partnership, will provide a solid foundation for many important and exciting changes to the way that healthcare is delivered in this region,” he said.

Inter-Lakes Health will continue to operate the nursing home and adult facility until the sale becomes final sometime in 2017.

Once the sale is finished, the name of the nursing home will be changed to “Elderwood at Ticonderoga.”

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Statewide grant program will help Trekonderoga The Star Trek Original Series Set Tour is doing great, Cawley said.

“We’re booked pretty solid,” he said. “It’s turned into a major attraction for getting people to the Ticonderoga area.”

The sets are full recreations based upon original blueprints for the Starship Enterprise. Cawley has also recreated “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry’s office at Desilu Studios, complete with original desk and typewriter.

The Set Tour will shut down for winter break in two weeks, and reopen in spring 2017.

Cawley’s next project, with fan John Marston, is a rebuild of the original 11-foot miniature of the U.S.S. Enterprise for display at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour.

This year’s round of North Country Regional Economic Development Council awards supported 77 municipal and private development projects, with $61.4 million from the annual competition.

Ti’s Star Trek Original Series Set Tour is getting some state assistance

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TICONDEROGA – The Star Trek Original Series Set Tour and Trekonderoga 2017 are getting a state grant to help promote the two attractions in downtown Ticonderoga.

The North Country Regional Economic Development Council announced recently that $26,000 is going to Trekon-

deroga 2017 to increase attendance.

The “Star Trek” convention is held annually at the Retro Studios building on Montcalm Street, a converted supermarket and dollar store.

The special event features former actors who appeared on “Star Trek” and other science-fiction TV shows of the 1960s, and is centered at the CBS-licensed “Star Trek” set replica and other locations in the community.

Trekonderoga will be in its third year for 2017. The convention is hosted by Star Trek New Voyages webisodes producer and super-fan James Cawley and the Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance.

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Town plans more Ti downtown looking better logical water fees Ti’Coustics has been raising money to help Ticonderoga’s downtown business district Workshop on setting water and sewer rates

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TICONDEROGA – The Town of Ticonderoga is planning a workshop to set uniform water and sewer charges.

The Town Sewer and Water Committee will develop a consistent chart of user charges for water and sewer utilities, Ticonderoga Town Supervisor Joseph Giordano said at a recent meeting.

Giordano said Lord Howe Estates, a senior housing complex, had a special arrangement, and Moses Circle Senior Apartments has asked for a similar break on their water rates.

The town is required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to send an annual warning notice that says surface water supplies such as those used by the town can be contaminated by fecal bacteria.

That led some residents of Moses Circle to assume they were contaminated, when that is not the case, he said.

He said he plans to met with Moses Circle residents to discuss the situation.

“The notices are going out, regarding the EPA warning,” the supervisor said. “Right now, because of concerns of water, they are buying bottled water; they want to be compensated for that.”

He said the rate chart will also eliminate disparity between what some places are paying for water.

“The issue with Moses Circle is they’ve being charged (a higher amount) per unit, while similar, Lord Howe Estates, is being charged at medium (usage).”

The Sewer and Water Committee has already started the process to create a rate chart, he said. “(They’re) coming up with a schedule that is appropriate for every different type of business or residence in town,” he said. “We need a more robust policy.

“No one should have to petition the committee as to what their water and sewer rates should be,” Giordano said. “They can just look on a chart.”

The town is preparing to switch from a surface water source at Gooseneck Pond to a municipal well in the Streetroad hamlet.

The Town Council also voted to establish a repair reserve for the water and sewer systems.

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TICONDEROGA – The Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership is getting funds from Ti’Coustics to help spruce up downtown.

Combined with the partnership’s funds, the money was used to complete several projects that included the refreshing and improvement of the Town of Ticonderoga Bicentennial Clock; repair, cleaning, and staining of the gazebo in Bicentennial Park; and the placement of a new public bench and trash can in front of the Black Watch Memorial Library.

“Ti’Coustics is most pleased to know that the funds we as a group have raised through our musical programs will be going to assist Montcalm Street Partnership projects that are truly worthy causes and will be enjoyed by all,” said Ti’Coustics creator-coordinator Roberta Whitely. “We enjoy doing the monthly shows and hope our audience enjoys them, too.”

Ti’Coustics is a nonprofit musical program with the goal of helping local organizations by bestowing donated funds received to assist with their projects. More than 100 local musicians have donated their time and talent to entertain monthly audiences with a variety of music twice a month.

Ti’Coustics started three and half years ago, and each year, they give the donations to a different organization that does something to benefit the town and its residents.

In addition, ongoing support from the Town of Ticonderoga makes the efforts of the partnership possible, including Streetscape improvements, events, projects, and others.

Each Ti’Coustics show usually consists of five different musicians performing four to six numbers, Each month one of the programs is a theme night and could be anything from “Beatles” to “Broadway;” from old country to folk.

All programs take place at the Burleigh House from 7 to 9 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

There is no cover charge, but donations are accepted.

For more information on the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership, including projects, events, or serving on a committee, call 585-6619, or email: tmsp@timainstreet.org.

The Town of Ticonderoga Bicentennial Clock at Montcalm Street and Champlain Avenue was repaired and revived using funds donated to the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership by Ti’Coustics.

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Ticonderoga Central School students served meals at the Senior Holiday Luncheon sponsored by the Kiwanis Club and the school. More than 200 attended the annual event at the Middle School cafeteria.

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rom New York to California, Iowa to Louisiana, and Georgia earlier this week highprofile shootings this year have robbed Americans of men and women that have sworn to protect their communities.

What seems like daily news reports of officers being shot and ambushed must never become just another daily occurrence and something that we hear so often we become immune to the shock of it.

Those who choose to commit acts have no respect for themselves, our laws and certainly no respect for life itself.

We must get to the root of the issues that cause these frequent events and seek solutions for the good of all.

Fear, as we all know, is a powerful motivator, and for those who feel oppressed perhaps this seems like a way of getting attention or even a noble act, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

Fear works on both sides of these issues to create doubt, anxiety and only serves to make matters far worse.

The world is dangerous enough but these senseless attacks here in this country seem to be more than random or isolated displays of brutality now affecting not only law enforcement officers, but EMTs, firefighters and other public servants, who fearlessly answer the call to duty each day.

Nations understand strategic, conventional warfare when a nation is in fact at war.

This is not a war and can not be waged with physical weapons but with ideological ones.

Think about the simple fact that law enforcement personnel and for that matter anyone associated with public service answering a routine call, going about their normal daily activity or just sitting in a parked car could become a target anywhere in the nation, for no other reason than what the perpetrator believes they represent.

More deaths will certainly not bring this to an end, so until we come together out of respect and understanding, these events will continue to occur and the more that do occur will only serve to encourage others to do the same while placing even our best trained public servants in a position of over reacting. The cycle needs to be broken.

The taking of life is never the answer to anything. Violence only brings about more violence and those who encourage, condone or support it in any way must be made to realize the error of their ways.

As we enter the holiday season and bring this year to an end, we can only hope and pray that understanding, respect and a new appreciation for common decency and moral acceptance begins to infect the hearts and minds of us all as we seek peace and brotherly love for all God’s people.

Dan Alexander may be reached at dan@suncommunitynews.com.

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he government of the United States heard the concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, seeking help to protect their source of clean water and sacred burial sites. The Army Corps of Engineers delayed a permit to construct the oil pipeline under the Missouri River, granting a reprieve.

Environmental justice Standing Rock is what environmental justice looks like.

First, this action begins to help to ameliorate Katharine M. centuries of injustice to Indian peoples.

Preston Over the past 500 years, indigenous people Columnist who lived close to the lands we call America, had many of their deep connections to the earth severed by colonization and broken promises. Again and again they lost land and control, but they did not forget. Deep in their spiritual bones, the connections remained.

We may never know why this particular witness evoked a rallying cry, just as we did not know exactly why it did when Rosa Parks took a seat at the front of the bus. But Standing Rock was an event that was waiting to happen. Blessedly, it was Indian youth who provided much of the catalyst and organization, always listening to the deep wisdom of their elders. This will give new pride to their discouraged and embattled lives.

Secondly, support for the actions of the Standing Rock Sioux remains stunningly widespread.

We see fleeting glimpses on TV, Facebook, or online news websites: encampments of tepees, trailers and tents, now covered with snow. People are bundled and swathed against the cold, yet hands sometimes stay exposed as they beat the drums. There are thousands of local water protectors, joined by representatives of over 200 other tribes in the United States, indigenous people from other places across the globe and many non-native peoples. The tipping point may have been the recent arrival of the hundreds of veterans who vowed to protect the protectors – an unarmed cavalry of non-violent resisters, arriving

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ElectoralÊ collegeÊ Ô notÊ aÊ formalityÕ

To the Editor: Many writers have noted that the electoral college has recently functioned as a formality. But the founding fathers did not intend it as a formality, and treating it as such now puts our country at grave risk.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote, the electoral college is meant to preserve “the sense of the people” while also ensuring that a president is chosen by the individuals “most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.” Electors from each state were charged with protecting us by ensuring “that the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

The original electoral process worked — and then the political parties intervened. In the present electoral college, electors either cannot or will not make independent judgments of the candidates’ qualifications.

Instead, they will “rubber stamp” their party’s candidate. As a result, in the current election we have a person who stands ready to receive the electoral majority, despite having none of the “requisite qualifications” for the presidency. Indeed, based on his rhetoric and behavior, he appears unqualified for any leadership position. The other candidate has decades of relevant experience and an enormous advantage in the popular vote — yet she is declared the loser. This is a violation of basic democratic precepts, to say nothing of common sense.

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on the scene on the side of the Indians. Food, wood, housing supplies, fuel, prayers, and money from all over the world flow into the camps in support. Everyone is housed. There is free health care and food, schools for the kids.

Thirdly, the protectors rely on prayer and non-violence.

No guns are allowed in the camps. Around the sacred fire in the middle of the largest camp, drums beat and songs call up spiritual strength from deep in the genetic make-up of the Sioux and other tribes. This time, the prayers are for strength to NOT take up arms and fight, but to simply stand firm and protect. People from many faiths stand alongside.

Transfer Energy Partners, a big, powerful corporation, backed by many banks worldwide, were “defended” at first by a private security firm that produced scenes reminiscent of Birmingham in 1963 for us, and then by a team of heavily militarized law enforcement, using rubber bullets, tear gas and water hoses in freezing temperatures. They were met with determined songs, drums, and chants. There were some skirmishes. Some of the protectors were arrested. But the non-violent direct resistance held.

No one knows for sure what legal strategies the pipeline proponents may take to reverse the decision by the Army Corps of Engineers, nor what the new administration in Washington will do. Lawyers for the tribe are already working hard to make the case for continued protection of the water source.

The water protectors at Standing Rock reflect millions of people across the globe who are beginning to say “no!” – the earth is more important than profit. We will not let corporations and politicians in their pay have the last say over something we need and cherish.

Fossil fuels have given us much, but at great expense to the land, waters and air. Reconsideration is due – there are now alternatives.

Indigenous peoples have provided an inspirational moment, leading us back to a more sane and compassionate relationship with the earth, and have done so exhibiting a loving and respectful manner of protest. Standing Rock can become a crucial turning point, the beginning of collective action where we say “yes” to citizens of flesh and blood, fresh water, clean air, healthy land, renewable energy, and communities that take care of one another. There is more to do, but for now, environmental justice has been served.

I hope that the drums beat in celebration for a deeply shared spiritual awakening for all of us.

Lost the popular election by more than 2.5 million votes; Condemned many US citizens as rapists, murderers, and thieves; Consistently lied to the American public during the election; Called his political opponents liars and other derogatory names; Claimed that millions of voters voted illegally without any verifiable documentation; Claiming, during the election, that the process was “fixed,” despite denials from bipartisan electoral officials; Hinted that there would be a “revolution” if he lost the election; Bragged about sexually violating the personal rights of women; Stated that he witnessed thousands of Muslims cheering in NJ when the World Trade Center Towers collapsed – even though police have insisted that it did not happen; Demonstrated a lack of knowledge of foreign and domestic US policy; Denigrated individual military heroes and their families; Claimed, with no evidence, that our military — the very best in the world — is a “mess;” Established a phony university to make money while purposely defrauding its students; Repeatedly refused to pay the owners of small businesses what he owns them; Bragged about making money while going bankrupt, even as many shareholders lost money as a result; Threatened his political opponent with prosecution if he were elected; Refused to provide his income tax information, after saying he would do so after the election;

18. Stated that the Russian dictator who has supported the killing of thousands of innocents in Syria is a leader superior to our president; 19. Stated that he favors physical torture of our suspected enemies.

Like many others, I was dismayed to see President Obama accept the Republican nominee as president, stating that “the people have spoken.” In fact, when the final popular voting results were reported, it became obvious that the people had spoken — but no one was listening.

If all of the states had taken the route of Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electoral votes by the actual voting data, we would have a truly democratic process; the people’s voice would be fairly represented. In contrast, the states that allocate electoral votes under the “winner take all” principle expressly ignore the votes of significant parts of their electorate. The equal power of the vote is meant to be ingrained in all of us. This principle is borne out in elections for local representatives, state officials, school budgets, boards of education, organizational officers — in almost every part of our social fabric, it seems, except for the election of the president of the United States.

During the drafting of the 12th amendment, Madison warned against giving power to “a group of citizens who have a common interest in some proposal that would either violate the rights of other citizens or would harm the nation as a whole.” If the electoral college accepts a person with demonstrably inadequate qualifications, those fears will have materialized. On Dec. 19, the electors will cast their votes to determine who leads our nation. If they do not accept their constitutional responsibility, to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications,” then they have made a mockery of the founders’ intent.

Edward Welch Johnsburg

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ConsiderÊ increasedÊ donationsÊ toÊ UnitedÊ Way To the Editor: The 2017 United Way of the Adirondack Region campaign has launched with an ambitious goal of $725,000.

Are you noticing that more people in our area are in need of the assistance offered by the 43 partner agencies; assistance such as the mental health services offered by BHSN or end of life services supplied by Hospice?

I, too, have noticed these changes in our society and I have come to know that I am able to help so many through my contribution.

Today, I am writing to ask current or past givers to consider an increase in the amount donated to our local United Way of the Adirondack Region. I know this can be difficult but any amount that you are able to increase will be used to help the lives of the nearly 80,000 neighbors, friends, and family who have been helped by a United Way agency this past year.

For this reason, I have increased my donation this year.

Won’t you please join me? A dollar or more added to your current gift each week will make a huge impact. It will also bring you closer to becoming a leadership giver. The leadership program starts at $500, just $10 per week.

The video this year is just great!

If you have not had a chance to view it, here’s a link: unitedwayadk.org/campaign2012vid.html.

Words cannot adequately express the gratitude. Thank you for considering this increase.

Gayle Alexander Elizabethtown

ProudÊ of Ê Sentinels To the Editor: No other team, high school or otherwise, has won eight of their 10 games on the road. This team had one home game win.

Think about it: Has anyone else even won eight of 10 games on the road?

Cambridge. Wow, what a team. Well coached and highly disciplined. “No huddle offense,” “hard to stop,” no one did!

But with six minutes to play, it was 35-28. One break was all we needed.

They got it, and took advantage as good teams will. But it started 21-0. After that, we came roaring back and out-scored them 28-14.

I might add that no one scored more points on them than we did. Not even the state’s number one team. They got 21, but it took two overtimes.

There was no shame in losing to this team. I must say that I lost a little respect for their coaching staff when they scored two meaningless touchdowns at the end instead of taking a knee.

I guess that is what state ranking is all about.

I learned something by watching our boys and their opponents, and that is multiple offenses and defenses are the name of the game today. I was very proud of this team and am looking forward to next. Remember, failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Good job coaches and staff, you make it all possible.

Marty Andersen Ticonderoga

TrumpÊ SecretaryÊ of Ê LaborÊ pickÊ Ô anti-laborÕ To the Editor: It makes sense that Trump would pick Andrew Puzder for Secretary of Labor!

He is anti-labor, a wife abuser and supports cutting wages.

Puzder believes in cutting overtime pay for workers in the food industry and used sexist ads for Carl’s Jr. Restaurants, where he is CEO. This fits right in with Trump, who is a sexist and shows how proud he is being a womanizer.

Those “Bernie” people who didn’t vote for Hillary are getting exactly what they deserve. Bernie’s followers wanted a better minimum wage but now they can look at the next eight years of stagnant growth as far as wages are concerned.

“Feel the Bern” was the cry and when Bernie lost they vowed to vote for Trump or not vote as all. One can’t feel sorry for these people as they made their own bed and must live with their choice. Trump fooled a lot of people but they won’t admit it as pride has gotten in the way. They let hate lead them into a dark place and now there is no return.

The sad fact is that those belonging to unions voted for Trump and they were already in trouble. Now with his new Labor Secretary, unions can look forward to going backwards in wages and benefits!

As usual, police and firemen throughout the land voted Republican and will look to taxpayers for more pay and benefits.

Wake up folks as the bad times have just begun! Trump and his billionaire friends are going to become richer as those in the middle class get fleeced once again.

Trump used the old “there’s a fool born every minute” tactic as he spewed out hate to get Americans to vote for him and as he knew it worked. Time Magazine got it right when they stated Trump was “President of the Divided States of America!”

One can only hope the next eight years go quickly and our country’s not drawn into another war.

So far, Trump has changed his tone on several of the issues he used to get elected and this is only the beginning. The wall for the Mexican border is never going to happen and his tariff on American companies moving jobs overseas is a lost cause.

Paul Ryan and Congress have put Trump on notice that this won’t happen. Trump now admits he may have made a few rash decisions on what he would do when elected.

Well folks, let’s see how the billionaires do running our country as a business. God help us!

Gary Philip Guido Ticonderoga

Ô StupidityÊ aboundsÕ Ê inÊ presidentialÊ electionÊ discussion To the Editor: This is my first letter to a news publication since I retired from teaching, over 35 years ago.

Mr. Guido’s letter so delighted this elderly lady (96 in March), that I had to let him, and your paper, know it.

I have made copies to send to all my family thoughout the country, so they can also appreciate it.

Stupidity abounds, but more intelligence, hopefully, will now come forth.

Ed: This is in response to “Trump supporters ‘getting exactly what they wanted’” by Gary Philip Guido in the Dec. 3 edition of the Sun.) Stevie Capozio Wilmington

WillsboroÊ criticÊ shouldÊ Ô getÊ theÊ factsÊ rightÕ Ê aboutÊ WCS To the Editor: Just a response to a letter written about Willsboro Central School.

No school is perfect, but before you slam someone or something get the facts right.

Willsboro did look into merging with Elizabethtown and Westport, but since our taxes would increase, Willsboro decided to stay as we are. Had you made a board meeting or attended the public forum you would know this.

My three children graduated from Willsboro, attended college and received degrees. One is the Clinton County director of the YAP program, one works for Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, and the third got a full scholarship to law school. So for you to indirectly say Willsboro does not produce knowledgeable people, think again!

As for teachers pushing medication, really — last I knew, only doctors were allowed to prescribe medication and only the school nurse is allowed to administer the medication. Not sure what world you live in.

Kitchen help: think again. I not only worked in the kitchen at Willsboro Central for many years, I also have worked at the Old Dock. I do know for a fact that two full time employees and one part time could not run the Old Docks kitchen, but they feed all the children at Willsboro breakfast and lunch.

So if you are so unhappy with the school, then take your children elsewhere, and good luck finding perfection.

Kristina Coonrod Willsboro

SchroonÊ LakeÊ LionsÊ ClubÊ offersÊ freeÊ eyeÊ screenings To the Editor: The Schroon Lake Lions Club has been offering free eye screenings for pre-K and kindergarten children in local elementary schools for the past several years.

The program is called “LION S.E.E. (Screening Eyes Early)” and is in partnership with KIDSIGHT USA. So far this year, the club has screened 112 students, with approximately 10 percent needing additional follow-up.

Our goal is to reach out to parents, schools and caregivers emphasizing the importance of early identification of potential vision problems and refer those that need further evaluation to an eye care professional.

Our state of the art equipment can screen for six different

risk factors that may lead to amblyopia and hopefully be corrected through early detection.

The procedure is simple and non-intrusive. No equipment touches the child. According to educational experts, 80 percent of learning is visual. So if a child can’t see well, they can’t learn well. Yet most young children don’t get their vision screened until they have problems learning or paying attention in school.

By then, it may already be too late.

Unless vision problems are detected early, they risk becoming permanent by age seven. With this in mind, we will continue to reach out to schools and other organizations in order to screen as many young children as possible.

Dennis DAmico Schroon Lake

If Ê CivilÊ WarÊ didÊ notÊ leadÊ toÊ U.S.Ê disintegration,Ê neitherÊ willÊ Trump To the Editor: Surprise and confusion have been expressed about the number of white voters for Donald Trump.

The lack of good paying jobs is one explanation. Not being able to forgive Hilary Clinton her poor judgement with her email server, the false stories spread about her, and those who hesitated to vote for a woman another.

Unease about illegal immigration, and the threat posed by ISIS another.

A minority group who believe racism, bigotry, and white supremacy are legitimate is another. A fear that we are losing our dominate place in the world another.

But I believe a fuller explanation is: respect! Especially among rural whites, a feeling that white culture and individuals are not respected.

Over the years, the rural white culture has been laughed at and ridiculed by those who don’t understand customs such as gun ownership and hunting. Just like the Black Lives Matter movement is a cry for respect by African Americans, part of the white vote in this election was a cry for respect.

Of course, white rural America is not monolithic. I know a wonderful farm family who work hours most of us would never consider. Their children worked on the farm through high school.

As parents, they emphasized education, and are proud of the college, community college, and technical training their children received.

They did not vote for Trump, because of his lack of morals.

They would never shout their views in public, because that is not who they are. But, I will say their work ethic, moral values, love of family, and love of the land and farming make them the kind of citizens that have made our country great since its foundation.

So, the instrument some white people have used, Trump, is flawed. But after so many years of being ignored, some felt he was the only instrument they had.

Of course he has lived a privileged life, respects few, divides us, criticizes our freedoms, and has no understanding of the rural culture, and what it is like to work your tail off to just get by.

The Hispanic immigrants he attacks and the Muslim citizens he denigrates also just want to be respected. I certainly would not want him as a neighbor because his enormous love of self and lying makes him completely untrustworthy.

What a shame that it took dividing our society to finally achieve an acknowledgement of the importance of respecting white, rural America.

I love this country and respect all who voted in this election, even those whose reasons I do not respect. Voting is one of our greatest patriotic duties. We must be careful not to throw respect of each other away, believing that only we know what is right. Respect and care for each other has always been what has held our democracy together.

The greatest and most magnificent surprise about our Civil War was that our democracy, our constitution, our nation survived. Over a million casualties, great destruction of property, economic disaster and brother fighting brother did not break our compact of freedom with each other.

We were willing to show compassion and respect, even after such misery and sadness. Our nation’s original sin, slavery, was abolished at a terrible cost, but not at a cost of our grand experiment of democracy.

Those who fear that Trump’s election will rip this nation apart should realize if the Civil War did not, then neither will he.

In four years we have an opportunity to remove the flawed instrument, but we should never go back to the disrespect that was one of the causes of this instrument to be used.

Until then, all of us, no matter who we voted for, must stand watch (yes, especially over Trump) for the freedoms of speech, religion, and the press guaranteed by the constitution of the greatest nation on earth.

God Bless America.

Joseph D. Dumoulin Jay

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North Country nets $61m in state economic funds Award to fund infrastructure protects, startup businesses across seven-county region

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ALBANY — The North Country landed $61.4 million in state economic development funds on Thursday.

The Regional Economic Development Council funds, announced at the annual awards ceremony in Albany, will be used to bankroll 77 projects across the region.

Key Clinton County projects include building improvements to the North Country Veterans Association, production line expansions at SSF Production, renovation work at the proposed Keeseville Waterfront Park and funds to modernize elevators at the Plattsburgh Housing Authority.

The windfall is part of $750 million made available from the state-sponsored initiative designed to offer a communitydriven approach to stimulate economic growth.

Since 2011, the North Country REDC has netted a total of $484 million.

‘SERIES OF FIRECRACKERS’ While the North Country REDC, one of 10 councils in the state, didn’t land the “top performer” designation that would have netted an additional $25 million, the pot will allow them to chip away at what the council flagged as a “communityminded” approach toward economic development.

“We once again were right up there with several of the metro regions, earning valuable support for dozens of mostly small but important projects,” said Garry Douglas, Co-Chair of the North Country REDC. The North Country is huge, dispersed and economically diverse, with no metropolitan center, he said.

“Instead of big bangs, we promised a continuing series of firecrackers,” said Douglas.

“It’s not about the size of projects, but about projects that are further building blocks.”

The North Country REDC specifically sought $25 mil-

lion for 27 priority projects.

According to a report submitted to the state in October, the plan will leverage $77.6 million in private and other funding for total project expenses of more than $102.6 million.

Collectively, the 2016 plan will support the creation of 213 new jobs, 439 indirect jobs and the retention of 393 existing jobs, according to the report.

WHAT GOT FUNDED A number of tourism-related projects also received funding.

In the central Adirondacks, the proposed Tupper Lake Crossroads Hotel received $2 million.

A proposed expansion of the Woods Inn in Inlet received $174,000, and the Adirondack Museum’s Art and Design Center landed $1 million as part of a $2.5 million proposed project.

Smaller projects include funds for Ausable Brewing Company’s planned expansion in Keeseville.

The Cascade Ski Center in Lake Placid received $42,000 for tourism infrastructure improvements, and the Forever Wild Beverage Company received $18,000 for their plan to lease space and construct a new downtown facility.

Municipalities also received millions for clean water infrastructure projects, including projects in Crown Point, Saranac Lake, Elizabethtown, St. Armand, Moriah, North Elba, Westport and Wilmington — making the announcement an early Christmas present for local officials.

“As a whole, Essex County got a lot of projects funded, and we’re very grateful for that,” said Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Preston.

Nearly $1.5 million was also allocated in additional downtown resiliency projects in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.

2015 UPDATE The region landed $84.1 million last year, and the funds were heavy on infrastructure development.

Big winners in Clinton County included the Plattsburgh Airport and Belcam, the Rouses Point bath and body products manufacturer who landed $130,000 capital improvements to expand their product line.

The North Country Food Co-op scored big, securing $217,000 for renovations.

And the City of Plattsburgh received $10 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative funds, the program designed to transform upstate city centers.

Of the 14 priority projects, 11 are on schedule, the North Country REDC reported.

Zooming out to the five-year period, 37 percent of the projects have been completed, and 51 percent are on track to be completed on deadline.

Just 5 percent were dropped due to declined funding.

On job creation, 2,185 jobs have been created over five years, with an additional 4,259 retained.

Douglas noted the past year has seen a $125 million state appropriation for the Norsk Titanium project, plus several new manufacturing operations drawn from Quebec with assistance from other state programs.

The report also held up three projects as successful examples.

Those include direct investment in Plattsburgh’s transportation and aerospace cluster, hotel investment in Clayton and the Wild Walk exhibit in Tupper Lake, which has led to increases in hospitality and “nearly a dozen” new initiatives.

DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION INITIATIVE The Downtown Revitalization Initiative, which gave Plattsburgh a $10 million check last December, is on track, city officials reported.

Planning officials will meet tomorrow at City Hall, and a community input meeting is scheduled for Saturday Dec. 10 at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Officials are also circulating a survey designed to glean public opinion as the city begins to prioritize projects to invest and leverage the DRI resources.

City leaders will also take into account past suggestions.

Plattsburgh Community Development Director Paul DeDominicas said the city is at the midway point in the process.

“There’s been a lot of good work done on assets and things we need to have in place in order to be successful,” DeDominicas said. “I think we’re on track.”

CRITICISMS Cuomo has lauded the program as an engine to place control back in the hands of local stakeholders, particularly those upstate, who he said have been traditionally ignored by the legislature.

The “ground-up” approach replaces a “one-size fits all” approach, he said.

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New Essex County tethering law sparks concerns While broadly supportive of animal rights, some pet owners concerned they may get caught in crosshairs of new legislation

ELIZABETHTOWN — Lawmakers approved a countywide dog tethering law last week.

The regulation, one of the most stringent in the state, will bring sweeping changes to the relationship people have with their pets in Essex County.

Statutes will govern the length of leashes, shelter sizes, the amount of time that animals can be kept outside and will offer safeguards against exposure to extreme weather.

The issue has generated much discussion in the community, and has warranted concerns from lawmakers and the public that it is an overreach and will be difficult to enforce.

Under the new policy, owners will be prohibited from tethering dogs to fixed points while not on the premises.

No dogs can be tethered or restrained to a fixed point for more than four continuous hours, or eight cumulative, in a 24-hour period.

Choke chains and pinch collars are now entirely prohibited. Pulley systems must be at least 15 feet in length, and enclosures must be at least 100 square feet per dog.

last week.

Despite the positive reception, several expressed concerns that innocent people would get caught in the mix.

“I don’t think I want to criticize someone who ties up dogs for 10 minutes while they go to Stewart’s and get a quart of milk,” said a speaker.

Another expressed concerns via a letter that owners of cold-loving animals, including huskies, would be swept up in the crosshairs, and that the law is a “one-size-fits-all approach.”

Jim Huneycutt, of Ray Brook, has two huskies that spend the night in a 10-by-20 foot kennel that has a 4-by-4 insulated doghouse and porch.

“They prefer sleeping in that arrangement [versus] sleeping inside, even when it’s below zero outside,” Huneycutt wrote. “They are huskies, after all.”

Working dogs are exempt, he noted. But if they are not negatively impacted by the elements, then why does the same rule not apply to his dogs, one of which is a former sled team member.

Huneycutt also said he wasn’t assuaged by the fact that he’d be okay unless someone reported him — “I don’t find this acceptable” — and urged the task force that spearheaded the law to modify the final draft.

That selective enforcement leads to disrespect for that law, and all laws, he said.

“It says it only matters if you get caught,” Huneycutt said.

COLD-LOVING ANIMALS Advocates say the legislation, which will take effect later this month, is designed primarily as an educational initiative — not a punitive one.

Nearly two dozen county residents spoke in favor of the legislation at a public hearing

NO OTHER ALTERNATIVES Tam Mrose, a veterinary technician and kennel owner from Keeseville, said she finds it difficult to believe that restricting tethering will lead to a significant reduction in animal cruelty cases or improve the lives of canines.

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tether while they are at work because they cannot keep the animals inside, or do not have access to a kennel, she said.

And there are safe ways to tether dogs, Mrose said, citing peer-reviewed research, including an article written by a Cornell University professor.

“It seems reasonable to me that most people love their dogs and whether they have no other alternative, or it is in their family history to keep dogs outdoors, criminalizing tethering, to protect the very few real cases of abuse or neglect, is akin to throwing the baby out with the bathwater,” Mrose wrote in a letter to the task force.

TOUGH TO ENFORCE Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Preston was the sole lawmaker to vote against the law last week, which passed 17-1 after lawmakers spoke effusively of the new legislation, which was first debated last spring.

While Preston said he is in favor of cracking down on animal abuse, the lawmaker said he continued to have concerns about enforcement.

For instance, there’s no way to determine if an animal has been chained for four hours on a fixed point.

Law enforcement may respond to a complaint from a neighbor, and receive a different story from the owner, Preston said.

“How are you going to prove anything otherwise unless there’s obvious abuse?” Preston said. “If it’s obvious abuse, current (state) Ag and Market laws apply.”

Preston added: “Thinking and proving are two different things.”

The lawmaker said he’ll take a wait-andsee approach, and hoped the Essex County Sheriff ’s Office (ECSO), who has endorsed the measure, will not be reduced to stakeouts.

WE WANT TO EDUCATE The North Country SPCA said the primary intent of the law is an educational one, and that law-abiding owners have nothing to fear.

“We don’t want to fill our shelter with more dogs,” said Executive Director Jessica Hartley.

“We want to keep them at home, and that’s not going to change.”

The NCSPCA will not be enforcing or investigating abuse cases, she said, but rather the ECSO. The Elizabethtown-based agency is also seeking grant funding for resources to aid those who need help coming into compliance with the law.

“We want to help that owner, educate that owner,” Hartley said.

David Reynolds, a major with the sheriff ’s department, said the department does not plan on conducting stakeouts, and will require complainants to be deposed when making complaints about alleged cases of abuse.

“We’re just going to educate people,” Reynolds said. “We’re not going to be writing a bunch of tickets.”

Essex County approved a comprehensive new dog tethering earlier this month, citing the need to combat threats to public safety and a moral responsibility to help vulnerable animals. But some residents and lawmakers continue to have reservations about the legislation.

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Be Merry

T

he holidays will soon be upon us.

This year has been one of the more divisive ones in the history of this country. After months of heated political debate, countless tragedies and an uncertain future as tensions climb, it’s difficult to feel merry.

With that being said: it’s important to be merry, if only for a little while.

It’s necessary to be an informed, engaged member of society — but it’s also necessary to keep the weight of the world from landing on your shoulders. A balance needs to be struck.

There’s no easy answer to how striking that perfect balance is achieved. There are a few things you can do to aid that battle, though; the first being community involvement.

What is another thing you can do, which incidentally can coincide with community involvement?

I’m glad you asked.

Here are a few suggestions: CHRISTMAS Lake George’s Sushi Yoshioshi will host an ugly sweater party on Dec. 17. DJ Primetime Crush will provide a festive atmosphere with a Christmas music lineup. The Adirondack Brewery will be on site serving drink specials.Attendees are encouraged to wear the ugliest holiday sweater they can find.

The event is slated for 6 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/sushiyoshilg or call 668-4135.

The Whallonsburg Grange will host their annual holiday farmers market on Dec. 17. Local farmers and artisans will fill the Grange to sell their wares -- including crafts, food and gifts -- from 1-4 p.m.

For more information, visit thegrangehall.info.

The Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) will host the Lightwire Theater and their production of “A Very Electric Christmas” on Dec. 19 at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. The performance will showcase “dazzling visuals, poignant storytelling and music designed to evoke imagery,” according to organizers. Tickets are $2 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., $10 at 6 p.m. For more information, call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts.org.

Plattsburgh’s Strand Center for the Arts will screen 1946 classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” on Dec. 21, with showtimes at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The film is not rated. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for children. For more information, call 563-1604 or visit facebook.com/strandcenter.

The Ticonderoga YMCA Teen Center will host a pine cone Christmas tree workshop on Dec. 22, and a holiday sugar cookie workshop on Dec. 27. Times vary depending on students’ Grades. For more information, visit facebook.com/ymcacateencenterti.

The Champlain Community Holiday Gathering is slated for Dec. 17. Organizers are billing this event as “an opportunity to visit with friends and friends, listen to music performed by Ron Gregoire and Ron Duffy, and enjoy some delicious snacks.” Tickets are free. The gathering will last from 1:30-3 p.m. at the Champlain Meeting House.

The Charles Wood Theater in Glens Falls will host a special Christmas party on Dec. 23. At 12:30 p.m., the theater will open for a party complete with food, live entertainment and an appearance from the big guy himself. At 2 p.m., the “Muppet Christmas Carol” will be screened. Tickets are $5. For more information, visit woodtheater.org or call 480-4878.

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HANUKKAH During the week of Hanukkah, the Center for Jewish Life in Glens Falls will host a service/minyan on Dec. 25 at 8:30 a.m., a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 30 featuring a shabbat service with dinner, and a service with student rabbi Stephen Slater on Dec. 31 at 9:30 a.m. Attendees are asked to RSVP to the Hanukkah celebration by Dec. 23 by calling 792-4945. For more information, visit shaaraytefila-gfny.org.

Plattsburgh Chabad will hold a grand menorah lighting in Trinity Park on Dec. 26. The event is slated to begin at 5 p.m. For more information, visit plattsburghchabad.com.

There will be a “Chanukah Latkes and Chinese Food Party” at the Lake Placid Synagogue on Dec. 25 at 6 p.m. One of the “Latke Kings,” Steve Bellew, will be frying up latkes at the synagogue. The Chinese food will also be homemade. Everyone is invited to join the synagogue in the party and community Hanukkah lighting, complete with dreidels and gelt for all. A donation is requested. Organizers ask that attendees RSVP in advance, so they know how much food to make. For more information, contact Sue at sue@lakeplacidsynagogue.org or call 523-5611.

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OTHER EVENTS On Dec. 16, Asa Morris and the Mess will perform at the 190 Grille + Cinema in Glens Falls. Hill Haints and Clock Dreams will open. The first band takes the stage at 8 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/asamorrisandthemess.

Buffalo-based troupe Major Arcana will perform at Plattsburgh’s Koffee Kat on Dec. 23. Opening are local punk rock groups Comrade Nixon and Executive Disorder. There is a suggested donation of $5 at the door. The first set begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call 566-8433.

Pictured: Asa Morris and the Mess will perform at the 190 Grille + Cinema in Glens Falls on Dec. 16.

land in Albany for the first time in 20 years.

Tickets to the March 11 concert, hosted by the Times Union Center, will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. After service and facility fees, tickets will cost around $75 a pop.

The singer’s stop at the Times Union Center will be his last in New York on this tour, organizers say.

Trisha Yearwood, Brooks’ wife of 11 years, will perform on the same bill.

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career. “Gunslinger,” his most recent album, was released in November.

Yearwood was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000, named top female vocalist by the CMAs in 1997 and 1998, and has won three Grammy awards.

The Garth Brooks World Tour will land in Albany on March 11, 2017 at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Dec. 16, at 10 a.m. To purchase tickets, or to find out more about the event, visit timesunioncenter-albany.com or call 487-2000.

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Access the Adirondacks sounds off A

ccess the Adirondacks is a coalition of local government officials, sportsmen and business owners who are lobbying for broader access.

The background: Access the Adirondacks is a newcomer. Formed this past summer, the group is calling for Alternative 1, which they believe could allow the widest possible use of the land, which the state purchased for $14.5 million.

Sportsmen, the elderly and the disabled are key constituency groups that the state must accommodate, says Access. The first, in particular, are aging: the average age of sportsmen across the state is between 46 and 48, according to Jason Kemper, chairman of the New York State Conservation Fund Advisory Board.

Kemper said sportsmen are playing a larger role in this debate than in the past because they feel as if they have been historically shut out of the process.

Access likened the new lands as a destination for working class people, a “poor man’s opportunity” where visitors do not have to be members of the exclusive clubs that border the parcel in order to enjoy the landscape.

The group sees their plan, a 50-50 split, as a compromise solution.

“It’s not a huge intrusion into the core of the Wilderness, and I think that dialogue has been lost,” said Roger Dziengeleski, a retired vice president and senior forester at Finch Pruyn, the prior owners of the parcel.

Economic development: The sporting community pumps money into the local economy through trips and the purchase of sporting license and permits, Kemper said.

In 2011, hunters and anglers spent $4.9 billion, according to the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. Snowmobilers, in particular, are heavy spenders, providing nearly $868 million in economic activity annually, according to the New York State Snowmobile Association.

While enticing, Access says recreation is just one plank to bolstering the year-round economy, and every little bit helps.

Increased visitation will ideally lead to a growth in businesses and service providers in their communities, a growth that will attract newcomers and lead to a sustainable economy, which would also bolster the local school districts.

Earlier this year, the Adirondack Council, a member of BeWildNY, commissioned a study from a Clarkson University professor that revealed property values increase in proximity to Wilderness.

That study has become a chief economic argument in their pursuit of more protected lands. But Access disputes those findings.

“We’re not convinced of the correlation,” said Bill Farber, chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Supervisors.

All restrictive zoning makes homes more valuable regardless of a state or residential classification, he said.

Traditional indicators of economic health — including unemployment, incomes, sales tax revenues and hotel occupancy rates — also need to be taken into account while measuring the fiscal health of a community, he said.

Due to the robust market for second homes, housing affordability is perhaps a greater issue that imperils the local economy, Farber said.

“I reject the idea that home values are a good economic indicator,” Farber said. “Simply driving up home values is not the savior of the community.”

Advocates of an expanded Wilderness area have used that study to argue that a Wilderness classification will create an bustling economic zone in North Hudson and Newcomb not dissimilar to that in Keene Valley.

But Access says Keene benefits from tourists driving through it to access Lake Placid — not its proximity to Wilderness.

As such, Minerva, Newcomb and North Hudson will likely not be automatically transformed into a Lake Placid or Saranac Lake under a Wilderness designation.

“There just isn’t commonality,” Farber said.

Intact communities, said Dziengeleski, rely on a diverse spread of residents, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, and that any sustainable economy requires complexity and diversity.

Attracting as many user groups as possible to the parcel would stimulate local business more than narrowing it to a single group, he said.

“It just seems very simplistic to say we go to a single driver,” said Dziengeleski. “It has to be a more diverse picture than just Wilderness use to drive a recreational economy.”

Misconceptions: The APA has hosted eight public hearings across the state. The final was held in Albany on Dec. 7.

Each has drawn hundreds of participants, and dozens of public comments, including many from young people calling for a full Wilderness plan that is not espoused by BeWildNY (and is not among the four APA-profered alternatives).

Farber said he was “disheartened” on the misconceptions leveled by many of these speakers as to what Access wants.

Their wish list does not include float planes, ATVs, party barges and unfettered access to the parcels.

The group, however, is requesting snowmobile use to be permitted from the so-called Four Corners, around the perimeter of Boreas Ponds to White Lily Pond and along Gulf Brook Road, the main point of entry.

Roger Dziengeleski Access is also calling for electric motor use on Boreas Ponds.

The impact of those devices on other users and especially the environment, they say, is overexaggerated.

Farber said it is “hard to logically reconcile” how motors will affect hikers: If folks cannot hear log trucks and skidders through the dense forest canopy, then how would mountain biking in the summer or snowmobiling in the winter impact that experience? Or the electric motors that emit neither emissions nor noise.

Access said they categorically denied the use of the DEC’s CP-3 policy as a gateway to broader ATV usage.

“That is absolutely not the case,” Farber said. “Nobody is looking at this as a means to open this up further than CP-3. Nobody is using this as a way to get ATV use in there — that’s not going to serve anybody well.”

The goal of that policy is simply to try to put disabled guests close enough to the access points at possible.

“I understand what revs the base, and gets people energized, but it’s a distraction from the issues,” Farber said. “It’s a fool’s errand.”

Kemper added: “I personally find it really egregious we’re leading people, those wearing the green shirts, to those conclusions.”

The misinformation, he said, had to have come from somewhere. If it was the education system, then that system has failed.

The conversation has been twisted, says the group, to insinuate Access wants to degrade the parcel, and they are not also environmentalists. But these misconceptions are damaging, and unfair to the next generation of Adirondack stakeholders.

“Lines drawn in the sand are not good for any group trying to do work in the Adirondacks,” Kemper said.

“I think a lot of testimony is that idealism,” Farber said. “The question is: How do you apply that kind of idealism to communities in the Adirondack Park?”

Access also said they were bothered at what they referred to as the “villainization” of local governments.

As elected officials, and as members of broader regional municipal organizations like the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages, they are bringing to the public sessions the will of their constituencies, not misconstruing facts to appeal to donors, they said.

On the classification process: Access is displeased with several aspects of the broader classification process.

A Wilderness designation would take most of the consideration for recreational options out of hands of the DEC, who create the Unit Management Plan (UMP), or where the state really drills down to determine appropriate use, like mountain biking and snowmobiling.

Access would prefer a UMP process that will allow the agency to consider more uses than those currently allowed in Wilderness.

When it comes to metrics like water quality and wetlands, the difference between the two ecosystems (Wild Forest and Wilderness) is virtually no different, and thus the land is not endangered any differently, Access said.

The coalition also believes a Wilderness designation by itself doesn’t necessarily mean ample resource protection, land stewardship and proper management, citing overuse by hikers in the High Peaks, including herd paths, trampled ecosystems and other damaging practices.

The parcels, they added, will not retain the same habitat as before regardless of how they are classified.

In addition, Wilderness classification tends to eliminate further discussion of many of these management issues.

The weakness in the State Land Master Plan (SLMP), Farber concluded, it that it contains two categories in which to shoehorn everything. The constitutional language, he said, wasn’t developed with some of these ideas in mind, but rather watershed and clearcutting.

The SLMP is clear about land and capacity to sustain use. If it is trammeled, it has capacity, Farber said, which underpins another argument — the current state of the land.

Kemper said he was disappointed that APA-provided maps did not reveal the pre-existing infrastructure on the parcel, including a network of roads — nor did officials mention them in their introductory comments until the sixth public hearing.

As such, Kemper feels as if the process was inherently biased from the beginning.

Pro-access advocates, he said, had to spend their allotted three minutes at the public hearings just to present a base-level understanding of the facts, which included presentations of the maps Ac-

Bill Farber & Jason Kemper cess created themselves this past fall.

“Put the facts out there,” Kemper said, “and see where it ends up.”

Dziengeleski said the Boreas and MacIntyre tracts should have peeled away from discussion of the other parcels under discussion.

“With 99 parcels, it’s tough when Boreas is sucking the air out of the room,” he said.

On the divisiveness: It’s been said much of the sharp discussion that has characterized discourse in the Adirondack Park has mellowed in recent years. But Access says the misleading rhetoric acts as somewhat of a reversal to that, and is harming future discourse.

The group said one of the reasons elbows have been sharpened isn’t necessarily due to a broader existential debate on environmental politics, but rather that green advocacy groups have historically relied on large-scale land use acquisitions for their fundraising and membership recruitment drives.

But now that the final jewel has been acquired, said Dziengeleski, more issues need to be created to support their agenda.

“It makes good fundraising flyers,” Dziengeleski said.

While the rhetoric can be effective, you don’t need to put out an extreme perspective to be true to your base, he said.

“It’s turned political,” Kemper said. “We’re not talking about classification facts.”

As sportsmen and local government officials, they have no base beyond their members and constituents, which is largely baked in — nor do they have an advocacy organization to maintain.

But, Kemper said, Access has nowhere near the financial resources as environmental groups, who have said they will spend “whatever it takes,” and have enlisted celebrity spokespeople, to ensure the victory in their final quest for more Wilderness.

Access has spent $5,000, which they have scraped together from town boards.

That influx of outside funds pressures lobbying groups to produce results, Kemper said.

Imagine what can be done to combat trail overuse and the harmful effects on vegetation if those resources were redeployed, Kemper said.

The coalition largely hailed ADA and DEC staffs for their work.

But by their very nature, the ADA public hearing process is flawed, they said.

Asking people to comment often devolves into campaign-style arguments where you’re simply trying to win people to your side — not discussing the facts, Farber said.

As such, the rhetoric increases and attendees seldom reach common ground.

“But that’s not what sells,” Farber said. “So those conversations never happen.”

“People making a flawed argument doesn’t make a flawed argument right.”

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Alternative 1 splits the 20,543-acre parcel in two, creating an even split between Wild Forest and Wilderness. The remaining proposals offer varying formulas, with each successively adding more Wilderness than the last.

Following classification, the state Department of Conservation will draft a Unit Management Plan to determine the exact recreational usage.

Since the details of the proposals have widely been reported on, we discussed several issues that have largely fallen by the wayside, including misconceptions, the classification process, the economic impact for local communities, the role of money in the debate and what the process means for future discussion in the Adirondack Park.

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What BeWildNY had to say B

eWildNY is a coalition of environmental organizations led by the Adirondack Council and the Adirondack Mountain Club.

The background: The coalition supports none of the four Adirondack Park Agencyoffered alternatives, believing all to be flawed because they adequately fail to protect Boreas Ponds, leaving them vulnerable to motorized uses and invasive species.

Their plan, introduced this past spring, calls for Wilderness expanded south to include the ponds and the sensitive wetlands surrounding them. This will act as somewhat of a buffer zone to protect what ecologists say is an astonishing array of wildlife located on the parcel.

BeWildNY sees their plan as a compromise solution that has something for all stakeholders.

While the exact path hasn’t yet been determined, snowmobiling will be permitted at the southern end of the tract, an olive branch to an activity that sportsmen groups, businesses and local government officials believe will stimulate the local economy, which remains sluggish.

Their big tent approach is based on one main underlying premise: “How can we balance these things while being true to the State Land Master Plan (SLMP), and making sure the most sensitive areas are protected?” said Willie Janeway, executive director of the Adirondack Council. “Where can we accommodate other interests even if they don’t endorse our plan in the end?”

Aside from minor details, most of the debate is over the last mile of Gulf Brook Road, he said.

On motorized use: BeWildNY wants to prohibit electric motors on Boreas Ponds, not only because they believe they would be injurious to the waters, but also due to broader ramifications.

A Wilderness designation is critical for the area surrounding the ponds, says BeWildNY, because the classification is the only way to definitively prohibit motorized activities from ever taking place in the future.

Uses permitted by the state Department of Conservation on Wild Forest may drift over time, they argue.

“Another DEC commissioner can add motorboats to Boreas Ponds, and it would not be difficult,” said Neil Woodworth, executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club.

Nothing in the SLMP would prevent the next commissioner from changing those uses, he said, and the APA doesn’t have the tools that would be necessary to remedy those mistakes.

Furthermore, he said, classifications do not have sub-categories.

If electric motors are allowed, perhaps a small outboard motor could be next, for instance, leading to a slippery slope.

As such, classification must be wielded as a “blunt tool.”

“What’s the point of a Boreas Ponds Wilderness if the center is not motor-free?” Janeway said.

For the APA to not classify those internal tracts as Wilderness, and to not look at the ecology first, would be an “abdication” of their responsibility, he said.

BeWildNY and Access the Adirondacks, a pro-access group, have sparred over the use of the DEC’s CP-3 permitting system.

Access says they simply want to accommodate disabled guests, but BeWildNY says that opens the door to future ATV use.

In fact, that’s already trying to be done elsewhere, Woodworth said.

The DEC’s draft of the Grass River Unit Management Plan, for instance, may open up sections of the St. Lawrence County tract to ATV usage, a development BeWildNY finds worrisome.

On access for the disabled: BeWildNY agrees with Access that the tract must be made available for use by the disabled, but disagrees on the best way to accommodate the user group.

The coalition is calling for a gently sloped path around LaBier Flow accessing the ponds using a stone dust component, which makes an easy stable surface — more so than gravel roads.

A number of potential sites for portage trails are also being explored, and will be hashed out in the UMP, they argue.

The group says one of the biggest misconceptions is that they’re anti-access, which they find offensive.

“We believe there are ways to get people physical access and not open it up to 19 million people at the same time,” said John Sheehan, a BeWildNY spokesman.

On practicality: BeWildNY says they are mindful of alleviating the overuse which has jeopardized some of the High Peaks’ most popular destinations.

That mindfulness, and sense of history, factors into their proposal for Boreas Ponds, leveraging what works based on past experience and what doesn’t.

BeWildNY is also mindful of what uses their members will find enjoyable.

For instance, the coalition does not support biking around the ponds because they believe there are places to do that — like in Wilmington, for instance, or Ragged Mountain.

Their proposed parking lot is just up from LaBier Flow, about 1.2 miles from the ponds, which would offer a balance between access and protective safeguards, they said.

Parking spaces would be limited to 15 to 20 cars, with perhaps more allocated by a permitting process.

“We call that the Lake Lila factor,” said Woodworth. “That 1-mile buffer is enough to protect the resources.”

The ponds themselves are never going to be a camping destination because the shores are too wet, said Woodworth. But the prop-

erty is great for canoeing, which would allow for new access points around the High Peaks.

A number of campsites on Casey Brook could make it a perfect backpacking trail, he said.

Keeping the road closed for seven miles is not a reasonable proposal, agrees the coalition. But a mile is pretty doable, which is also a distance that is accommodating for guides.

BeWildNY’s preferred snowmobiling route will lock into the Newcomb and North Hudson connector trail.

Their proposal for a connector trail is one that will not get caught up in the courts, Woodworth said.

Furthermore, the DEC-approved route is problematic, said Woodworth, because it does not have the full support of key landowners.

Economic development: BeWildNY says Wilderness acts as a draw for outdoor enthusiasts, citing Keene as a successful example of an economy that caterers to outdoor adventurers.

A similar scenario is possible in North Hudson and Newcomb, they said.

While the exact recipe for economic success has historically been tricky, local merchants need to create businesses that hikers wish to frequent by providing goods and services appealing to them, said Woodworth.

Those that find that magic sweet spot tend to build up a customer base, he added, citing a boat manufacturer in Olmstedville who is clearing $1 million annually and employs six people.

BeWildNY said it is a misconception that hiking does not generate economic activity for local communities.

“It’s a shibboleth that hikers don’t spend money,” Woodworth said.

The Adirondack Mountain Club’s facilities are located either in Wilderness, or adjacent to Wilderness, and hikers are a fairly affluent group, he said.

“We make quite a bit of money catering to that business,” Woodworth said.

Data, he said, doesn’t show a Wild Forest designation helps small businesses economically.

Furthermore, Woodworth said, it’s difficult for businesses to discern how much of their visitation comes from hikers who do not always identify themselves as such.

But data does support more and more visitors are coming to the Adirondacks to hike, and less are coming to snowmobile and visit Olympic venues, he said.

BeWildNY said there needs to be better regional management of tourism assets: Perhaps more signage could generate economic activity in the region, for instance.

The coalition floated additional ideas, like a parking facility and a town-state partnership that would provide a shuttle service from Exit 29 to the parcels.

Part of the problem facing the Five Towns, Woodworth said, is that they’re not receiving the same level of support from the state’s marketing platforms, including I LOVE NY, as Lake Placid does.

The Adirondack Park also needs a long-term financing system that will give start-up businesses more readily access to capital, Woodworth said, like a revolving loan fund.

Banks, for instance, might be loath to lend a startup bed and breakfast in Newcomb funds, Woodworth said.

“It’s really access to capital.”

Post-classification, the group will continue to challenge the stereotype of hikers as “granola-eating folks who gas up fuel-efficient cars and don’t leave anything behind.”

“We really are going to challenge supervisors to get beyond the fallacy that hikers and paddlers don’t spend money,” Woodworth said.

The group also argued that snowmobiling isn’t a panacea for the economy, citing climate change.

On the classification process: This is one area in which both Access and BeWildNY agree the process is flawed.

“This was probably the worst way to do the process,” Woodworth said. “This whole process was rushed for some reason.”

Woodworth noted the parting comments by former APA commissioner Richard Booth last spring, who called the SLMP process regarding major amendments “badly broken” and that the governor “rigidly controlled” what analysis the agency staff was allowed to prepare and present to the agency.

As such, full discussion was stymied.

Woodworth also noted the comments by Chad Dawson, the newest commissioner, who said there was a poverty of appropriate proposals. The agency also failed to chose a preferred alternative.

But the APA had already voted on the public hearing schedule, resulting in what Woodworth said were a number of procedural errors from which the agency could not recover.

“I don’t think they expected thousands of people to come out to this thing,” Woodworth said.

Like Access, BeWildNY says the lack of official data, including maps, poses a vexing predicament because there is not a universallysupported baseline of facts.

“When you saw the four alternatives come out, they didn’t have scientific substantiation; no roadmaps, they didn’t have the wetlands accurately — and they didn’t explain the differences,” Woodworth said.

Woodworth added: “This process did not have the document and cost-benefits of alternatives. That just wasn’t provided, and in a way, the various advocates and viewpoints had to come up with their own.”

All sides must be aware of what they’re refuting, said Janeway, who

called the process “botched.”

The APA, he said, did not “take a more fully inclusive science-based full range of alternatives to this.”

And that has led to a sense of distrust that has pervaded the process, and has awoken Neil Woodworth young enviros calling for a more restrictive classification, Janeway said, which then created a pushback from snowmobilers.

The state, said Janeway, has the opportunity to put this back in the bottle by providing another set of alternatives — at least seven.

“I think a lot of the acrimony would have been abrogated,” Woodworth said.

On existing infrastructure: BeWildNY disagrees with Access on the status of existing infrastructure.

Some roads are no longer there, or have deteriorated, making them unfeasible for the bicycle use on the tracts Access is proposing.

Others haven’t been used for 20 years, especially those further back on the parcel.

The group says at least half of these are “phantom roads” and is pushing to create better, more accurate data.

“I think there’s a growing agreement that there isn’t good data on the property,” Janeway said.

But even that discussion is a red herring, says the coalition.

Just 5 percent of the Adirondack Park is old growth forest, or 300,000 acres of a total of 6 million.

“If existing roads prevented Wilderness classification, we would not have had half of the Wilderness we have today,” Woodworth said.

Wanakena, for instance, used to be a railroad lumber town, and the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area in Long Lake was once heavily logged and contained a vast network of roads.

“It’s amazing how quickly nature has taken those roads,” Woodworth said.

On the divisiveness: Janeway said the eight public hearings, which concluded last week in Albany, demonstrated that many people love the Adirondacks.

“And I think those are things worth celebrating,” he said. “I don’t see that degenerating if we should have an Adirondack Park in 100 years.”

But, he admitted, signs have arisen that the new culture of cooperation has been slipping: The divisions are still there; they’re just sharpened, and over a smaller area, he said.

The discussion over motorized use, said Janeway, is appearing to wake up an element of the environmental community to BeWildNY’s left.

“I think we’re at risk, but we’re going to get through it,” Janeway said.

But there are also more tasks ahead.

After Jan. 1, the Adirondack Council will start to work with local leaders on the second passage of a state constitutional amendment that will allow local governments to coordinate public infrastructure projects on state land while also being protective of Article 14.

“We have different positions. We try to keep those viewpoints respectful,” Janeway said, citing additional work on the Common Ground Alliance and other regional issues.

“This has tended to polarize some, but if you look at the BeWildNY proposal, it really is a compromise between the two perspectives,” Woodworth said.

The groups also plan on working with the DEC to address the overuse issue, and new waves of users are also placing a strain on Forest Rangers, who continue to be underfunded. Many of these users have little outdoor experience and are vastly unprepared — like those in sandals and shorts.

On claims of drumming up donor base: Access criticized BeWildNY for using the issue to drum up their donor base, and suggested the coalition was misrepresenting their positions.

BeWildNY brushed off the criticisms.

The campaign, said the coalition, is funded by major donors who feel as if they have a chance to influence a discussion that will ultimately see the governor approve a decision that accurately reflects public sentiment.

“They tend to be folks who helped the Nature Conservancy buy the property, and they don’t want to see this lost,” Woodworth said.

It wasn’t until the APA introduced their alternatives in October did the groundswell came out, BeWildNY said.

What really captured the attention of his donors, Woodworth said, was the opportunity to combat invasive species.

“We are mounting a campaign to fight the Hemlock Woolly Delga before it gets to the Adirondacks,” he said, noting 1 in 7 trees in Adirondacks is a Hemlock, and thus susceptible.

Donating to that cause, he said, makes people feel as if they can combat a real, tangible threat.

“Finally, we can fight back.” Woodworth said.

Furthermore, compromise solutions like their Boreas Ponds proposal are traditionally not the best for drumming up their base, he noted.

If the Adirondack Council wanted to galvanize their base, they would highlight the aforementioned draft Grass River UMP, Janeway said.

“Nothing incites a donor base more than ATVs,” Woodworth said.

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Supers deny pay bump for sheriff’s confidential secretary Essex County Sheriff Richard Cutting said the proposed redesignation was a matter of equity

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ELIZABETHTOWN — Lawmakers have denied the county sheriff ’s request to give his confidential secretary a redesignation that would result in a slight pay increase.

Essex County Sheriff Richard Cutting said on Monday his confidential secretary is indispensable, and juggles a number of tasks to keep his office running, from aiding in administrative tasks to drafting paperwork on confidential files and ongoing investigations.

“It’s a one-person operation,” said Cutting, who painted the bump as an equity measure.

But lawmakers on the Public Safety Committee soundly torpedoed the adjustment that would have given the staffer an hourly boost from $21.56 to $23.88.

Cutting’s request narrowly failed to garner approval from the salary subcommittee earlier this year, and the county filed the 2017 budget last week.

Essex County Manager Dan Palmer said he was against the redesignation because the responsibilities didn’t match those handled by confidential secretaries in other county departments, including social services, district attorney and the public defender’s office.

“The decision at the time was to grade those positions differently,” Palmer said. “That’s the same thing that holds true now.”

Cutting said his administrative staff consists of just two people: the confidential secretary and a civilian clerk.

At one time, he asked for another full-time staffer, but the board authorized a half-time position.

Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy

Preston (I-Wilmington) voted against the resolution, arguing that it would open the floodgates to similar requests.

“Sadly, I would vote against this,” Preston said. “I think it’s opening a whole Pandora’s Box for us.”

Preston noted the board had previously approved a clerk position that would have been split with another county department, but that arrangement fell through due to a lack of compatibility.

Public Safety Chairman Shaun GIllilland (R-Willsboro) voted in favor of the defeated request, and said Cutting’s request was valid.

“He is within his rights coming in the door here,” Gillilland said. “Personally, I think it’s a good argument.”

Ti’coustics donates to benefit TMSP TICONDEROGA — The Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership (TMSP) was the recipient of funds raised by the monthly concert series Ti’coustics.

The funds donated to TMSP, combined with their own funds, were used to complete several projects including improvement to the Town of Ticonderoga Bicentennial Clock, repair, cleaning, and staining of the gazebo in Bicentennial Park, and the placement of a new bench and garbage can in front of the Black Watch Memorial Library. For more information on the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership, call 585-6619 or email tmsp@timainstreet.org.

Donations to support the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership and their efforts to enhance and revitalize Downtown Ticonderoga are tax deductible.

Donations can be mailed to: TMSP, P.O. Box 379, Ticonderoga, NY 12883.

Student honored with award SARANAC LAKE — North Country Community College is pleased to announce that Sadie Robinson, a massage therapy student, is one of eight recipients of the “Successful Hands Grants” award, which supports professional massage therapy students in their educational pursuits.

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“As long as I am governor of the state of New York, I will not sign a budget that does not help upstate New York.”

But the program has been criticized by fiscally conservative groups, including the Empire Center, the government watchdog who has shrugged the awards off as government subsidies.

The group also questioned the program as the state heads toward fiscal uncertainty next year.

“The $750 million being handed out for #SubsidyDay is

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more than the $689 million budget gap NYS faces next year,” the Empire Center wrote Thursday on Twitter.

Total state tax receipts for the year ending next March 31, said the Empire Center, are now projected to hit $74.46 billion, which is $739 million below the estimate in the first quarter update released in July, according to the the mid-year financial report released last month by the state comptroller’s office.

That report revealed state tax collections dropped $764.1 million over last year, or 1.8 percent, largely due to lagging personal income tax receipts.

The group also argues the return on the REDC program is

questionable when it comes to job creation.

“Whether they involve financing an enormous, complex $750 million manufacturing plant — or, on the other hand, distributing five- and six-figure grants to countless craft breweries, farm distilleries and ice cream shops and other trendy micro-enterprises across the state — government economic development programs are no substitute for a better business climate,” testified E.J. McMahon at the state Assembly Economic Development Oversight Hearing in August.

“Unfortunately, more often than not, economic development programs actually serve to distract attention from the state’s failure to improve that climate,” McMahon said.

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Schroon woman uses flintlock rifle for hunting

By Lohr McKinstry

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SCHROON LAKE – Not many women own a flintlock rifle, but Holly Bearor has two.

The Schroon Lake woman takes her muzzleloader to historic re-enactments, and has even bagged a deer with one.

She was the cover story for the October issue of Muzzle Blasts, a monthly magazine devoted to the use of muzzleloading firearms and published by the National Muzzleloading Rifle Association based in Indiana.

“I got a .45 caliber flintlock in 1978, the Tulle (.62 caliber) musket in 1990,” Bearor said. “The Tulle is a French infantryman’s musket. I have a bayonet for it that I got for Christmas.

“What other woman got a bayonet for Christmas?”

The .45 caliber was custom made for her by armorer Doug Anderson, with a Siler flintlock and a Green Mountain barrel, and she entered and won various competitions with it.

She started attending historic re-enactments as a French marine.

“I said someday I want to participate, throw a tomahawk, shoot,” Bearor said. “My first reenactment as a French marine was the Battle on Snowshoes. I went from being a camp follower to a French marine private.

“It gave me a lot more to do. It was fun being a guy.”

The re-enactment in 2000 simulated the original March 1758 encounter between Rogers’ Rangers and French troops near what is now the Ticonderoga Country Club.

Next, she participated in the Death of Lord Howe re-enactment in 2001, which recreated events leading up to the July 1758 killing of British Lord George Howe by French forces.

“I was on the top of Mount Pelee (Rogers’ Rock),” she said.

“I had to be (play) a guy to be there.”

She said many re-enactors are now calling themselves living historians.

Bearor enjoyed 18th-century-like frontier trekking in the forests, but has had to scale back because of a knee replacement.

“I had my left knee replaced; now I’m having my right knee done,” she said. “We go canoeing now.”

In recent years, they’ve done the U.S. Forest Services’s Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness in northern Minnesota.

She also goes hunting with a black powder muzzleloader.

“I got a buck,” she said. “I normally hunt every year with a flintlock.”

The hunting was an experiment, she said.

“I wanted to prove to myself that back in the 18th century, if I was alive, I could provide for my family,” Bearor said. “I proved I could do it.”

The flintlock she uses is very accurate, her husband, French

and Indian War historian Robert Bearor said.

“If your eyesight is good you can hit it (your target),” he said. “She’s an amazing woman. What adventures we’ve had.”

Holly and Robert have four grown children: Cliff, Ted, Rebecca and Jennifer.

“My greatest achievement was that I had four children, and they all turned out to be great human beings,” Mrs. Bearor said.

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Town wants junk taken away soon Personal junkyards are springing up around the town of Moriah

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MORIAH – Accumulated junk at homes around town is becoming a problem again in Moriah.

The Moriah Town Council reported at a recent meeting that it has received numerous junk and debris accusations lately, and is directing Town Code Enforcement Officer Richard LaPier to start taking action.

“We’re receiving complaints about junk accumulation,” Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said. “(LaPier) went to a couple of them in Witherbee.”

He said the town’s junk ordinance is difficult to enforce, so they’ve been using the State Property Maintenance Code to cite violators.

Moriah’s 1973 junk law says two or more unlicensed, abandoned or junk vehicles constitute a junkyard and require an eight-foothigh solid fence.

“If we’re serious about trying to clean up, we’re going to end up in court,” Scozzafava said. “It’s a tough situation to deal with.”

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is working on some of the worst cases, such as an unlicensed junkyard at an auto repair garage, Scozzafava said.

Councilman Paul Salerno said the process with the DEC seems to be moving slowly.

“It’s month upon month, (and) we’re not getting answers,” he said.

Scozzafava said a new situation is developing in the town wth distressed properties, and they need to monitor it.

“Some of these places, we let them grow to where they are,” the supervisor said. “They happened on our watch.”

He said he and the Town Council didn’t inherit the home junkyards when they took office; they started after they were elected.

A private survey in 2007 found that 143 households and businesses in Moriah had two or more unregistered vehicles, which represented 10 percent of the population of the town. The study did not include the Village of Port Henry, which is scheduled to dissolve on March 31, 2017.

The town took no action on the survey, with officials saying at the time they’d like to work with property owners to clear away junk.

Residents with property maintenance complaints can call LaPier at 546-3510, or email: moriahbuildingcodes@nycap.rr.com.

The Moriah High School Chorus sang for the school Christmas Concert recently. April Reeder is directing the chorus. The school band also performed at the event in the school auditorium.

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Witherbee man pleas guilty to possession of child porn

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WITHERBEE – A Witherbee resident faces at least 10 years in prison on federal child pornography charges.

Kirkland Smith, 55, of Moriah’s Witherbee hamlet, pled guilty Dec. 9 in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to six counts of possessing child pornography.

On each count, Smith faces at least 10 years and up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a term of postimprisonment supervised release of at least five years and up to life when he is sentenced on April 10, 2017 by Senior U.S. District Judge Norman A. Mordue.

As part of his guilty plea, Smith admitted to possessing hundreds of videos and images of child pornography on an electronic tablet and a smartphone seized from his car and on five computer hard drives taken from his home.

On Oct. 30, 2014, Smith was charged with driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car on Route 73 in Keene.

His blood-alcohol content was 0.36 percent, 4.5 times

the legal limit, police said.

While processing his vehicle, police found child pornography on a computer tablet and a smartphone Smith had on him at the time of the accident, police said, but he wasn’t charged until Jan. 5, 2015.

Smith, who was previously convicted of second-degree child molestation in Rhode Island, also admitted that the child pornography in his possession involved prepubescent minors and minors under the age of 12.

The State Police Troop B Computer Crimes Unit discovered hundreds of images of child pornography on hard drives seized from Smith’s Witherbee home after police executed a search warrant there.

The case was investigated by the New York State Police and Homeland Security Investigations, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Cyrus P.W. Rieck.

Smith was prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide cyber-crime initiative designed to protect children from online exploitation and abuse.

The announcement on Smith’s guilty plea was made

by U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian; New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II; and James C. Spero, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations at the Buffalo Field Office.

Smith has been jailed since his arrest.

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The total output would be 260 megawatts, fed into a nearby 115-kilovolt high-voltage line owned by National Grid.

“It will be privately financed, with no subsidiaries of any kind,” Besaw said.

The property is owned by the Town of Moriah, and Albany Engineering would negotiate with the town for purchase or lease.

Resident Katrinka Trombley expressed concern the project would cause her house to vibrate.

“We had tremors in Witherbee from the mines (when they operated),” she said. “My concern is you are going to pump water up and down.

Is it going to affect the surface of the ground in Witherbee?”

Besaw said no, but they’ll put out monitoring seismographs to be sure.

“We don’t expect the movement of water up and down will cause any tremors,” he said.

Another resident feared swallow holes might open in the ground if the mines are eroded by the water flow.

“What do we have as security that our houses aren’t going to fall into sinkholes?” Holly Burkey asked.

Besaw said some mine openings have failed since they were closed in the 1970s, and have to be fixed, so water doesn’t continue to get in.

“The erosion potential (from the project) is virtually nothing,” he said, because the underground rock is granite.

Port Henry resident Jeff Kelly noted that there are bats roosting in the mines, and asked if the project would affect them.

The bats, including brown and Indiana bats, are believed to be in the Barton Hill mine, however, not the ones the project would utilize.

“The mine we’re talking about is full of water; there are no bats,” Besaw said.

He said the project won’t disturb the bats.

Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway said his organization supports such projects.

“We’re excited about ways to create energy independence,” Janeway said.

Mark Westburn, an attorney for Solvay SA, the Belgian successor to Republic Steel that owns most of the shuttered iron mines, asked that Albany Engineering be ordered to do a title review and a mineshaft review.

A similar request was made by Steve Wilson, representing Kay Stafford, the Albany area woman who owns the mineral rights to the old mines. Stafford, the widow of state Sen. Ronald Stafford, who died in 2005, bought out the former X-Earth company investors who owned the rights.

“You need to have some title work done,” Wilson said.

Besaw said they looked at who owns the surface lands where they want to locate the project and it was the Town of Moriah.

“Who owns the (mine) holes: Solvay, the surface owners, mineral-rights owners or some other?” Besaw said. “If someone can prove to us they own the holes we will work with them.”

Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said no one has claimed ownership of the mine holes.

“I’m glad to see people stepping up so we can find out who owns the holes, so they can come in and repair them,” he said.

Millard said FERC is well aware of those issues.

Port Henry Village Board Trustee Linda Smyth noted that the project would boost the economy of the area.

“Please get it done (the permit), so this project can happen,” she said to cheers from the audience.

ABOVE: Albany Engineering President James Besaw Sr. (at podium) talks about the proposed Mineville Energy Storage Project during a scoping hearing at Moriah Central School. At left is FERC project coordinator Chris Millard.

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The Ticonderoga Elks Lodge 1494 Hoop Shoot Free Throw Competition was held on Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Ticonderoga High School gym. Winners were: Boys ages 8-9: 1st place, Bryce Perry; 2nd place, Jackson Dorsett; 3rd place, Derrick Osier. Boys ages 10-11: 1st place, Garrett Drinkwine; 2nd place, Keiden Bishop; 3rd place, Thomas Montabano. Boys 12 -13: 1st place, Robert Alkinburgh; 2nd place, Brayton Molina; 3rd place, Aiden Porter. Girls ages 8-9: 1st place, Myleigh Drinkwine; 2nd place, Keirra Bechard; 3rd place, Kaylee Bishop. Girls ages 10-11: 1st place, Sophia Dorsett; 2nd place, Irelan Porter. Girls ages 12-13: 1st place, Jade Frasier; 2nd place, Nora Denno. Kneeling from left in photo are: Kaiden Bishop, Kaylee Bishop, Irelan Porter, Keirra Bechard, Jackson Dorsett, Bryce Perry, Myleigh Drinkwine. 2nd row: Thomas Montalbano, Robert Alkinburgh, Garrett Drinkwine, Sophia Dorsett and Derrick Osier. Back Row: Nora Denno, Jade Frasier, Brayton Molina, Hoop Shoot Chairman Mike Shaw, Aiden Porter, Past Grand Exalted Ruler David Carr, Lecturing Knight Sue Thatcher and Exalted Ruler Marge Hurlburt.

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Out of respect, our tribal tribute to him was a surprise party for the man, including a cake, on opening day; deer season evening. We had a toast to the man, shared gifts and laughs.

Dick had his bottle of wine cooler; his one bottle limit.

He is a friend. My brother and I and the others, all have the deepest respect for the man. Just this past week, while Dick and my brother Shorty were working their way out of the woods after a day’s hunt, peaking down into one of those ravines, my brother spotted a big boy feeding. One shot later, they discovered a beautiful 10 pointer down. He and Dick shared that moment. It will live in infamy for those guys.

Camp members come and go. Young guys, friends and sons of members, replace those who leave due to various reasons.

Youth eventually replaces the aged. In time, we will all lose the battle of life. It happens to us all; no exceptions. Dying is a part of living! We return to earth!

Cherish those moments you spend with the guys at camp, your family and in life. It is precious.

Happy Birthday Dick!

May you hunt deer for many more seasons!

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hether we are hunting whitetail deer, turkey, or ruffed grouse, camp is camp. You can even multi-task and work deer and steelhead into the blend of the forest, field, and stream pleasures. Camp is our woodland home away from home with our tribal brothers of the sport. Just as many of you have your clan, we have a dedicated group of guys who get together yearly for opening day of whitetail, bird or fishing. Southern Zone hunting and fishing season for us is in the western portion of the southern tier of NY, near the Pennsylvania border.

It started out years ago, as a way for me to regroup with friends, and spend time with family. I grew up out that way so it was a chance to get home. We rented a cabin for a week and hunted state lands. Out there the NYS DEC can manage the state land for diverse woodlands, wetlands and wildlife habitats.

We had a large faction, but as time goes by, the crowd thinned out due to various reasons. It happens! Marriages, girlfriends, divorces, kids, jobs, and everyday living all have a way of weeding out camp members.

My brother bought his acreage and camp, so he had his piece of whitetail heaven. Another friend grouped up with three others and got their hunting land. The three of us left, hunted together for a few more years, and then even that bond seemed to loosen and eventually crumble.

I regrouped with my brother, some of the originals and some new guys, at his place and now that is where opening day begins. For me getting older and spending time with family is important. We are close to Ma, and the other kin, so cruising back and forth for daily and evening visits works for me. The other plus is a chance to get some real food; roast beef on kummelweck, and Buffalo wings.

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Pictured are Dick Bridges, Randy, John, Stevie, Shorty, Ted, Brett, and Jim.

Bro’s place is driving distance from Cattaraugus Creek, where steelhead run in the fall once the water cools and a freshet supply’s the incentive to swim upstream. The camp is surrounded by farm fields, managed woods and deep ravines filled with hemlocks; the best of both worlds.

This year at camp we had a special moment, Dick Bridges, the original deer hunter of these parts and camp elder turned 80. He has been hunting these hills all his life and still gets out for his buck every year. At 80, he is still kicking butt, but just does it a little slower now. He has his own mini deer shack up on the hill, with heat, chow and a bed, where he can power nap while on watch. He is usually up in his shack before light, so he can settle in for the day. He shoots a .243, a .270, or a 30.06 depending on his mood for the day. Dick is always bartering, swapping or trading rifles and equipment.

This man is a worker, always doing something. Whether it’s fixing machinery, grading the road, or digging out a ditch, he stays busy. He has become a second father to many of us over the years I have known him. I call him pop.

Many people would discard a guy because of age, and write him off. Respect for people is dwindling in these days of me and self. Age will catch up to them one day! Their self-powered egos disregard the others experience. They are takers!

Their actions seem to be: “use him and get what you can”.

I’ve actually heard that said one time. That wouldn’t happen within our group.

Rich Redman is a retired District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and an avid outdoorsman. His column will appear regularly. He may be reached at rangeric@nycap.rr.com.

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DanielÊ FrancisÊ Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Ê Marriott SARATOGA SPRINGS — Daniel Francis Marriott, 66, passed away surrounded by loving family members on Saturday, Dec. 10, at Saratoga Hospital following a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer.

Dan was born Aug. 14, 1950 in Herkimer, NY. He was predeceased by his parents, Donald F. Marriott and Mildred Booth.

He never met a stranger and was well-known for his sense of humor and his willingness to lend a hand to anyone in need of help. He was an ardent believer of the principles of Boy Scouting and was a master knot-tier, as many of his friends well know.

Dan was a resident of both Saratoga Springs and Ticonderoga, where he and his wife of 43 years, Barbara Jean Gandron, spent every summer at their lake cottage, entertain-

ing many friends with lunches, dinners and campfires, as well as boating and wave-runner riding.

Dan was the consummate outdoorsman.

He loved to hunt (and loved to tell the story of how he bagged the bear), fish and boat around Lake George. His true passion was golf. He and Barbara were members of the Ticonderoga Golf Course, where Dan had served for a number of years as a director and an officer.

Dan graduated from Herkimer Senior High School in 1968 and attended Alfred Ag and Tech College, where he participated in the college’s swim and dive teams. He had a long association and appreciation for Scouting, having earned Eagle status in 1964 with this twin brother Don at the age of 14. He served as a Scout counselor at Camp Russell from 1966 to 1975 and his position after college was as a professional scout at BSA Scout Camp Sebastion Explorer Division.

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He served for eight years Saratoga Springs School District bus driver before his retirement several years ago.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his twin brother, Donald C. Marriott and his five children, of Syracuse; his sisters, Cindi Marriott Readon and her husband, Mark, of Williamsburg, VA, and their three children, and Lindy Marriott Potocnak and her husband Frank, of Eden, NC, and their two children.

And another brother, Thomas (Neidermeyer) Marriott of Mohawk, NY, as well as his brother-in-law, Patrick Gandon of Troy and his two children, also survive.

Special thanks to the office of Dr. Edward Leibers and his staff for the kind and compassionate care provided to Dan. A Mass will be held Monday, Dec. 19 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ticonderoga. The Rev. Kevin D. McEwan, Pastor, will officiate.

Interment will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery in the spring at the convenience of the family.

In accordance with Dan’s wishes, family and friends will be invited to a Celebration of Life event that will be scheduled in the spring at Ticonderoga Golf Club. Also, for those wishing to donate in Dan’s memory, it is suggested that the St. Marys’ Catholic Church in Ticonderoga and the Boy Scouts of America would be appropriate.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Wilcox & Regan Funeral Home of Ticonderoga. To offer online condolences, please visit wilcoxandreganfuneralhome.com.

AaronÊ PeterÊ Mars TICONDEROGA — Aaron Peter Mars, 54, of Schaghticoke died unexpectedly on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 at his Ticonderoga residence.

Mars was born in Ticonderoga on Aug. 1, 1962, the son of the late Peter and Dawn (Trombley) Mars.

He served in the United States Air Force

until 1982.

Aaron co-owned and co-operated Mars Metals, Inc. He designed and patented a robot that cleans industrial materials.

Aaron will always be known for his kind heart and generosity. He was such a humble man that helped anyone in need.

A a r o n loved traveling, boating, snowmobiling, motorcycling, hunting and golfing. He was an avid wine collector, and enjoyed music and cooking.

He had a passion for politics and loved being with his family and friends.

He was predeceased by his parents Peter and Dawn Mars, and his brother, Eric Peter Mars.

He is survived by his wife, Cecile Mars; and his siblings, Michael and Sharon Mars of Tamworth, New Hampshire, Renate and Bill Devin of Cohasset, Massachusetts, Erica and James Braisted of Silver Bay, NY, Adrian and Judy Mars of Ticonderoga, NY, Martina and Phil Crank of Ticonderoga, NY, Gary Mars of Ticonderoga, NY, Lisa Mars of Putnam Station, NY, Peter and Kristi Mars of Ticonderoga, NY, and Mark and Stacey Mars of Putnam Station, NY. He is also survived by his aunts and uncles, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins; and best friends Dana and Lorraine Jordan, and Dawn Kelly.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the EMA of Ticonderoga on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016 at 1 p.m.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Wilcox & Regan Funeral Home of Ticonderoga. To offer online condolences, please visit wilcoxandreganfuneralhome.com.

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TICONDEROGA - Nar-Anon Family Group A support group for family and friends of addicts. Location: Office of the Prevention Team 173 Lord Howe St., Ticonderoga, N.Y.Mondays at 6PM (excluding Holidays) beginning June 6, 2016 For more info go to nar-anon.org DINNERS & SUCH TICONDEROGA - Elks cook to order breakfast will start Oct. 23, from 8-11 every 2 and 4th Sunday each month any question please contact me at 518-585-1052

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LEGALS A SPECIAL MEETING of the Ticonderoga Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners will be held December 15, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ticonderoga Firehouse, 60 Montcalm Street, Ticonderoga NY 12883 Paul LaRock Ticonderoga Fire District Secretary TT-12/17/2016-1TC138807 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS Moriah Fire District #1 The Board of Fire Commissioners organizational meeting will be held on January 12, 2016.

Thereafter, our regular meetings will be held on the second Thursday of each month. All meetings will be in the Moriah Fire House at 7:30 PM. TT-12/17/2016-1TC139054 ESSEX COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 1 OF 2017 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Essex County Board of Supervisors will hold and conduct a Public Hearing at the Supervisors Chambers at the Essex County Government Center, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York on the 27th of December, 2017 at 9:30 a.m., on the proposed Local Law No. 1 of 2017 entitled A Local Law fixing the 2017 salaries of County officers who are elected or who are appointed for a fixed term.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at said public hearing to be held at the time and place set forth above, the Essex County Board of Supervisors will consider this proposed Local Law and hear all persons interested therein concerning the same.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the full text of such proposed Local Law No. #1 of 2017 may be obtained upon request from the Clerk of the Boards Office, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York 12932.

Judith A. Garrison, Clerk Essex County Board of Supervisors 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932 (518) 873-3353

ESSEX COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED LOCAL LAW NO. 1 OF 2017 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Essex County Board of Supervisors will hold and conduct a Public Hearing at the Supervisors Chambers at the Essex County Government Center, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York on the 27th of December, 2017 at 9:30 a.m., on the proposed Local Law No. 1 of 2017 entitled A Local Law fixing the 2017 salaries of County officers who are elected or who are appointed for a fixed term.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at said public hearing to be held at the time and place set forth above, the Essex County Board of Supervisors will consider this proposed Local Law and hear all persons interested therein concerning the same.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a copy of the full text of such proposed Local Law No. #1 of 2017 may be obtained upon request from the Clerk of the Boards Office, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York 12932.

Judith A. Garrison, Clerk Essex County Board of Supervisors 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932 (518) 873-3353 Dated: December 8, 2016 TT-12/17/2016-1TC138870

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ESSEX WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff -againstMICHAEL G. DISKINPUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR AS ADMINSTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF GARY ROSS BICKFORD A/K/A GARY BICKFORD A/K/A GARY R. BICKFORD, DECEASED, VERIONICA K ABARE A/K/A VERONICA ABARE AS HEIR AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GARY ROSS BICKFORD A/K/A GARY BICKFORD A/K/A GARY R. BICKFORD, DECEASED, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE-TAX COMPLIANCE DIVISIONC.O.-ATC,Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly dated FEBRUARY 29, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at ESSEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 7559 COURT STREET, ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW YORK on January 12, 2017 at 11:00 AM premises known as 16 SANFORD LANE, NEWCOMB, NY 12852.

ALL that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Newcomb, ESSEX County, New York.

Section: 110.18 Block: 5 Lot: 3 Approximate amount of lien $ 70,970.81 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # CV15-0245 HILARY ROGERS, ESQ., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: December 2, 2016 FILE #: WELLS 58904 TT-12/10-12/31/2016-

Plaintiff -againstMICHAEL G. DISKINPUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR AS ADMINSTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF GARY ROSS BICKFORD A/K/A GARY BICKFORD A/K/A GARY R. BICKFORD, DECEASED, VERIONICA K ABARE A/K/A VERONICA ABARE AS HEIR AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GARY ROSS BICKFORD A/K/A GARY BICKFORD A/K/A GARY R. BICKFORD, DECEASED, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE-TAX COMPLIANCE DIVISIONC.O.-ATC,Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly dated FEBRUARY 29, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at ESSEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 7559 COURT STREET, ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW YORK on January 12, 2017 at 11:00 AM premises known as 16 SANFORD LANE, NEWCOMB, NY 12852.

ALL that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Newcomb, ESSEX County, New York.

Section: 110.18 Block: 5 Lot: 3 Approximate amount of lien $ 70,970.81 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # CV15-0245 HILARY ROGERS, ESQ., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: December 2, 2016 FILE #: WELLS 58904 TT-12/10-12/31/20164TC-138181 NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Undersigned, on behalf of the Essex County Board of Supervisors, will accept sealed bids until December 21, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. for the following: ONE (1) NEW & UNUSED 2016 CREW CAB 4 WHEEL DRIVE TRUCK Specifications are available by contacting the Office of the Purchasing Agent, Linda M. Wolf, Essex County Government Center, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York 12932, by calling 518-873-3332 or on the Countys Website: www.co.essex.ny.us.

Sealed bids will be received at the Office of the Purchasing Agent, Essex County Government Center, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York 12932 until December 21, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

All bids submitted in response to this notice shall be marked SEALED BID CREW CAB TRUCK clearly on the outside of the envelope. All bids shall be submitted on the bid sheets included in the package, and no other forms shall be accepted.

Dated: December 7, 2016 Linda M. Wolf, CPA Purchasing Agent Essex County Government Center 7551 Court Street Elizabethtown, New York 12932 (518) 873-3332 TT-12/17/2016-1TC138808 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Prime Property Managers LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY. On 11/30/16 Office Location: Essex SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom Process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 21 Schroon Lake, NY 12870 Purpose: any lawful activity TT-12/10-01/14/2017-

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Prime Property Managers LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York SSNY. On 11/30/16 Office Location: Essex SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom Process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 21 Schroon Lake, NY 12870 Purpose: any lawful activity TT-12/10-01/14/20176TC-138023 PUBLIC NOTICE - ESSEX COUNTY ADOPTION OF LOCAL LAW NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 6, 2016, the Essex County Board of Supervisors duly adopted Local Law No. 3 of 2016, a local law regulating the outdoor restraint of dogs for the County of Essex.

It is the intent of this local law to regulate and control the outdoor confinement of dogs restrained or kept on property located within the County of Essex.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Local Law will take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of the State; and PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a complete copy of Local Law No. 3 of 2016 is available for inspection in the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York.

Dated: December 7, 2016 Judith A. Garrison, Clerk Essex County Board of Supervisors P.O. Box 217, 7551 Court Street Elizabethtown, NY 12932 (518) 873-3350 TT-12/17-12/24/20162TC-138866 PUBLIC NOTICE - ESSEX COUNTY ADOPTION OF LOCAL LAW NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 6, 2016, the Essex County Board of Supervisors duly adopted Local Law No. 2 of 2016, a local law to override the tax levy limit established in General Municipal Law 3-c.

It is the intent of this local law to override the limit on the amount of real property taxes that may be levied by the County of Essex pursuant to General Municipal Law 3-c, and to allow the County of Essex to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2016 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of tax levy limit as defined by General Municipal Law 3-c.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Local

PUBLIC NOTICE - ESSEX COUNTY ADOPTION OF LOCAL LAW NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 6, 2016, the Essex County Board of Supervisors duly adopted Local Law No. 2 of 2016, a local law to override the tax levy limit established in General Municipal Law 3-c.

It is the intent of this local law to override the limit on the amount of real property taxes that may be levied by the County of Essex pursuant to General Municipal Law 3-c, and to allow the County of Essex to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2016 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of tax levy limit as defined by General Municipal Law 3-c.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that this Local Law will take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of the State; and PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a complete copy of Local Law No. 2 of 2016 is available for inspection in the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York.

Dated: December 7, 2016 Judith A. Garrison, Clerk Essex County Board of Supervisors P.O. Box 217, 7551 Court Street Elizabethtown, NY 12932 (518) 873-3350 TT-12/17-12/24/20162TC-138867 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ESSEX QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff, vs.

Any unknown heirs to the Estate of WILLIAM C. SMITH, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; BEVERLY WEST; KEN SMITH; KAREN TENEYCK; MICHAEL SMITH; BILLY WEST; ROBERT WEST; MICHELLE WEST; KERRI WEST; VALERIE WEST; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Defendants.

Filed: 11/22/2016 Index No.: CV16-0047 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 38 Morse Memorial Hwy Olmstedville, (Town of Minerva) NY 12857 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS:

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ESSEX QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff, vs.

Any unknown heirs to the Estate of WILLIAM C. SMITH, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff; BEVERLY WEST; KEN SMITH; KAREN TENEYCK; MICHAEL SMITH; BILLY WEST; ROBERT WEST; MICHELLE WEST; KERRI WEST; VALERIE WEST; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; Defendants.

Filed: 11/22/2016 Index No.: CV16-0047 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 38 Morse Memorial Hwy Olmstedville, (Town of Minerva) NY 12857 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff's attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of March 11, 2015, executed by William C. Smith to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc. to secure the sum of $154,225.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Essex County on March 24, 2015 in Book: 2319 Page: 209.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to Quicken Loans, Inc. by Assignment dated September 11, 2015 and recorded on September 11, 2015 in the Office of the Clerk of Essex County in Book: 449 Page: 193.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Essex County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.

Section: 154.4 Block: 6 Lot: 21.000 DATED: 8/19/2016 Rochester, New York NOTICE

vice, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal de-by Denton Publications, Inc. Published livery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of March 11, 2015, executed by William C. Smith to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc. to secure the sum of $154,225.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Essex County on March 24, 2015 in Book: 2319 Page: 209.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans, Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to Quicken Loans, Inc. by Assignment dated September 11, 2015 and recorded on September 11, 2015 in the Office of the Clerk of Essex County in Book: 449 Page: 193.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Essex County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.

Toggle Industries, LLC Section: 154.4 Arts of Org. filed SSNY Block: 6 9/9/16. Office: Essex Co. Lot: 21.000 SSNY design agent of DATED: 8/19/2016 LLC upon whom proRochester, New York cess may be served & NOTICE mail to 273 Grand St Fl YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR 6 New York, NY 10002 General Purpose.

HOME If you do not respond to TT-11/19-12/24/2016this summons and com- 6TC-135940 plaint by serving a copy of the answer on TOWN OF TICONDEROthe attorney for the Mortgage company who GA, NEW YORK NOTICE OF PUBLIC filed this forecloHEARING sure proceeding PLEASE TAKE NOTICE against you and filing that a public hearing will the answer with the be held by the Town court, a default judgment may be Board of the Town of Ticonderoga on January entered and you can 12, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. at lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or the Offices of the Town of Ticonderoga, 132 go to the court where your case is pending for Montcalm Street, Ticonfurther information on deroga, New York rehow to answer the sum- garding property located mons and protect your at 130 The Portage, Tax map number 150.51-6property.

Sending a payment to 12.200 regarding Local your Mortgage compa- Law 1 of 1978 concerning Unsafe Buildings. ny will not stop this By order of the Town foreclosure action.

Board of the Town of YOU MUST RESPOND Ticonderoga, New York,

BY SERVING A COPY OF December 8, THE ANSWER ON dated THE ATTORNEY FOR 2016.

THE PLAINTIFF (MORT- Tonya Thompson GAGE COMPANY) Town Clerk AND FILING THE AN- TT-12/17/2016-1TCSWER WITH THE 139055 COURT. WE ARE ATTEMPTING NOTICE OF FORMATION TO COLLECT A DEBT. OF LIMITED LIABILITY ANY INFORMATION OB- COMPANY (LLC) TAINED WILL BE USED Name: Trudeau Home FOR THAT PURPOSE. Improvements, LLC. ArLEGAL DESCRIPTION ticles of Organization ALL THAT TRACT OR filed with the Secretary PARCEL OF LAND, lying of State of New York and being in the Town of (SSNY) on June 4, 2016 Minerva, County of Es- Office Location: Essex sex and State of New County. The SSNY is York, described as fol- designated as agent of lows: the LLC upon whom BEING designated as process against it may Lots Number 6 & 7 on a be served. SSNY shall map entitled Map of mail a copy of any proBinn Bea, a Subdivision cess to the LLC at: 1035 of Lands in the Town of Wicker Street, TiconMinerva made for Bruce deroga, NY 12883. PurA. and Marion M. LaBar, pose: To engage in any Essex County, New York lawful act or activity. dated February 22, TT-11/12-12/17/20161987, by Philip J. Hask- 6TC-135513 ins, Licensed Land Surveyor, No. 049337, and filed in the Essex County Clerk's Office on April 27, 1987, Map 3674.

Premises: 38 Morse Memorial Highway, Olmstedville, NY 12857 Tax Parcel ID No.: Section: 154.4 Block: 6 Lot: 21.000 TT-12/10-12/31/20164TC-137792

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