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February 8, 2020
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BVCS resets building use
HEADING BACK TO THE ISLAND Willsboro’s Sophie Clarke to return to CBS show ‘Survivor’
K-5 at Westport for grade school; middle/high school in E’town By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Boquet Valley Central School Board voted to combine its elementary school grades at the Westport campus and put all middle/ high programs in Elizabethtown.
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I’m scared about the amount of time some of these little kids are going to be on the bus.”
The move will merge elementary grades K to five taught this year in separate buildings at Lake View (Westport) and Mountain View (Elizabethtown). The move will also relocate middle school (sixth through eighth grades) from Lake View to Mountain View starting next fall. See BVCS BUILDING USE » pg. 2
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Sophie Clarke in a scene from Survivor: Winners a War, which premiers Feb. 12 on CBS. Clarke has returned to the show she won in 2011 as one of 20 champions vying for the “best of the best” title. Timothy Kuratek/CBS Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES | In the fall of 2011, North Country television fans were abuzz with the CBS television show, Survivor, as Willsboro native Sophie Clarke not only appeared on the show, but won the $1,000,000 grand prize for the season. Now, after nine years, Clarke returns to the island in Survivor: Winners at War, as one of 20 former champions who return to the game to prove who is the “best of the best.” “It was really intimidating going in, not just because all of these people had won but also because I have always been a huge fan of the show and many of them I had seen when I was watching the show at 12 years
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Celebrating 40 years: 1980 Winter Olympics XIII OLYMPIC WINTER
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Lake Placid ready to relight Olympic torch By Kim Dedam
Keene Central wins regional science honors
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Keene Central High School students recently took fift h-place honors in the Science Olympiad Regional Championships. With growing interest in the program locally, Keene Central had two teams preparing for the contest this year. Pictured are: (Top row) Tomasi Vaiciulis, Solomon Fair, Jarrod Colby, Alp Tas, Megan Quinn, Caitlin Quinn, Cal Page-Bryant and Joy Cooper. (Middle row) Rafe Simmer, Charlotte Ward, Will Tansey, Sebastian Smith, Camille Ward, Kaiya Belisle, Francesca Val Bagli, Zoe Lavallee, Aidan Durant and Lazarus Blacksmith. (Bottom row) Brenna De Walt, Harvey Runyon, Sam Baldwin, Walter Moore, Trinity Ashe and Sarah Tansey. Photo Provided
LAKE PLACID |In 40 years since the 1980 XIII Olympic Winter Games, the spark from a miracle on American ice has not faded. Olympic venues here have continued to welcome international competition. See OLYMPIC ANNIVERSARY » pg. 9
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