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Lawmakers talk minimum wage Little, Duprey and Stec gather with North Country business leaders during Feb. 26 legislative breakfast in Plattsburgh

over coffee and muffins to discuss issues facing the North Country: one being boosting the state minimum wage from $9 to $15.

The North Country Chamber of Commerce released its annual issue survey showing 93 percent of the area’s business community believe a $15 state minimum wage would elimiBy Teah Dowling nate jobs and harm the local economy. teah@suncommunitynews.com “I would like to think that if people get more money, they’ll spend more money,” state Sen. Betty Little said. “But there PLATTSBURGH — Minimum wage was a hot ticket item might not be jobs available at that point.” at the breakfast table this morning.

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downÊ hep-c MORRISONVILLE — Veterans from all around the North Country gathered for free hep-c testing Feb. 26 at the American Legion Post 1619.

The veterans present, most of which from the Vietnam era, were subjected to Teah a jet gun: a pneumatic device using comDowling pressed air rather than needles to inject 18 Writer vaccinations in each arm.

With each injection came a suction effect that tore skin, left a welt and spilled blood.

Since the guns were not sterilized between injections, not only were soldiers receiving vaccinations, but someone else’s blood — one of the ways to become infected with hepatitis C. Peru Dog Control Officer Dave Drollette was one of the first to get shots with the device in 1961 when he was in boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois.

“I had no idea what it was used for,” he said. “All I know is that it hurt.”

Essex County Sheriff Richard Cutting remembered lining up with his fellow marines in Paris Island, South Carolina to receive his first shot during induction.

“You had a number on your chest that they would track and one by one you would get a shot,” he said. “We weren’t entitled to know what we were getting; we just followed orders.”

(L-R) Senator Betty Little, Assemblywoman Janet Duprey and Assemblyman Dan Stec met with North Country officials to discuss issues facing the local area Feb. 26.

A new way to search for properties online

By Keith Lobdell

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A few veterans get tested during the first hep-c testing clinic Feb. 26 at the American Legion Post 1619.

Retired Army Colonel Mike Derrick, who’s currently running for the Democratic nomination for New York’s 21st Congressional District, attended the testing with his wife, Kathy, to see if they too fell victim to the virus.

Derrick knew he received shots from the jet gun at least once. However, there could’ve been several other times during the period he served from 1985 to 2013.

“I remember it wasn’t a lot of fun,” he said. “I’m concerned.”

Peru Town Supervisor Peter Glushko received his shots while stationed at the old airforce base in Plattsburgh.

He decided to attend the testing clinic after learning about the possibility of contracting the virus.

ELIZABETHTOWN — A new online tool has been created to help people know more about who owns what in Essex County.

Liz Arabadjis of Fountains Spatial, Inc., presented members of the board of supervisors with a look at the Essex County map viewer — available to all at the website essex-gis. co.essex.ny.us — during the Feb. 29 ways and means committee meeting.

“This site allows users to search for parcels where you can zoom into certain areas and the parcel you search for will come up shaded,” Arabadjis said. “Besides clicking on the identified parcel, you can click on all the surrounding parcels and get their information, as well. There is also a buffer feature which will let you look at all surrounding parcels to any you have searched.”

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County sheriff warns about scammers

By Keith Lobdell

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LEWIS — While people now have more ways than ever to communicate, it also leads to more ways than ever to be conned.

Telephone and internet scams are nothing new, but their popularity as a way to swindle unsuspecting folks into giving away important information or sending money to a bogus cause has increased, according to Essex County Sheriff Richard Cutting, who said residents are being “bombarded” with these types of scams.

“Each and every day, Essex County residents are being targeted with a wide variety of scams intended to swindle money from honest, hard working people,” said Sheriff Richard Cutting. “Never give personal information out over the phone or internet, and by all means don’t fall victim to these scams.”

Cutting mentioned several forms of scams in an email to media outlets recently: • IRS scam: The recipient of the call is told they will be arrested if they don’t pay overdue taxes; • Family in need/danger: Scams where a family member has been arrested, injured or robbed and needs money right away; • Bills: Overdue utility bills that must be paid or your service will be disconnected;

• Phony camps: People purporting to be collecting for underprivileged kids to go to a camp – usually the spoken name is something like: “New York State (pause) Police” — the pause between State and Police is hardly noticeable, but they are usually not who they portray; • Inheritance or lottery: Schemes where you need to pay a fee to collect or you will be mailed a check for a large amount of money, you simply deposit the check and then send a fee for processing. By the time you get notice from the bank that the check you deposited is no good, your money is gone.

“The large majority of legitimate charities or agencies will not try to solicit you by phone,” Cutting said. “They will send you correspondence to validate their claims. If you are in doubt, ask them to mail you the information so you have time to think. Their purpose is to prey on you immediately and get you to make a hasty decision.”

We encourage people to pay attention to what they are being told by the caller,” said Stockdale. “Never give your credit card or social security information to anyone. No legitimate organization will demand that a person purchase gift card or Green Dot cards and call them back to retrieve the information, and no sweepstakes company will require a contest winner to pay any money up front to receive their winnings.

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really did get arrested. No police agency will accept a persons credit over the phone to release someone from custody.”

Cutting said those worried about telephone scams are encouraged to sign up to the Do Not Call registry by going to the website donotcall.gov. He added, however, it will not end all calls from solicitors.

“Companies who you do business with are still eligible to call you as a customer as well as people who are not selling services or products,” Cutting said. “If you still get calls, go to that website and register a complaint. They can also file a complaint with the FTC at ftccomplaintassistant.gov or by calling (877) 382-4357.”

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Tony Morette civil suit settled

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TICONDEROGA — The announcement of a settlement in the civil case of the death of Tony Morette has brought new information into public light - including the sworn testimony of the man named as the defendant in the case.

The civil case, brought in Essex County Court against Cleveland Logging, operated by Joseph Cleveland, and company driver Christopher T. Steady, was settled after three days of deliberations, with National Casualty Insurance agreeing to pay $650,000 to the family of Morette on behalf of the Cleveland Logging and Steady.

Morette, who was 60 on the morning of Dec. 2, 2009, was struck at approximately 5 a.m. while jogging near the intersection of Shore Airport Road and NYS Route 22.

Representing Morrette’s family, attorney Brian Breedlove of Breedlove & Noll, LLP, released to The Sun legal briefs and depositions given by numerous witnesses, including those of Steady that were part of the civil suit.

While there was no admission of guilt as part of the civil settlement, statements made by Steady seem to conflict with those of other eye witnesses. A number of witnesses also testified that prior to dying, Morette described the tractor trailer truck that hit him as one very similar to the truck driven by Steady.

Not in question is whether Steady was at or very near the scene when Morette was hit, however in his statement to police Steady blamed the accident on another motorist driving a gold Mazda, and then later told a witness the car was red.

Steady also told police the Mazda remained at the scene following his departure along with other vehicles and said he saw a “crowd of people,” all of which runs contrary to statements given by those first at the scene.

Steady’s statement Steady told his account of the events of Dec. 2, 2009, to members of the Ticonderoga Police Department three days after Morrette was hit. At the time, Steady said he had been an employee of the company for about two years, working for his father, Joseph Cleveland.

Steady said his day started at 3 a.m., when he left the Johnsburg garage in his 1998 Western Star logging truck with pup trailer before stopping to fuel up at the Nice-N-Easy in Pottersville, where he stayed for 15-20 minutes.

The color of the truck was blue with three white stripes on the doors.

After stopping for Fuel, Steady continued to Ticonderoga, passing the McDonald’s intersection and heading toward Shore Airport Road.

Steady said in his statement to police that when he got about 500 feet from the intersection of Shore Airport Road, he, “saw a vehicle blow through the stop sign coming off from Shore Airport Road. It looked to be going about 15 miles per hour. I saw the headlights bounce. The car turned left onto NYS Rte. 22/74. It looked like a gold Mazda MPV but I’m not exactly sure. I saw the breaklights come on, the backup lights come on then the brake lights went off. I then saw the driver side door come open.”

Steady said the car in question was in the middle of the intersection when it stopped and he could see a body lying at the back end passenger side of the vehicle.

“He was not talking or anything,” Steady’s statement reads.

“I don’t remember what he was wearing only that he had an orange reflective safety vest.”

Steady then said he went around the car and noticed the windshield had the appearance of being broken (“it just didn’t look right”). Then he approached the driver, which he described as a female between 5’4” and 5’5” and 140 pounds with dark hair just below the shoulders, wearing a sports blazer and pleated slacks. He said she addressed him, saying she thought it was a deer.

“I tried calming her down and getting her name,” Steady said. “Neither idea worked. I had her get a pen and I dug into my pocket... I wrote down my name, cell number, my company name, and company phone number and gave her the paper. I told her I was headed to the (International Paper) mill and if anyone needed to get a hold of me they could call me.”

As he left, Steady said a truck and SUV showed up to the scene, and then said he saw two other vehicles parked before leaving.

“I saw in my mirror that a crowd of people was near the car but nobody was near the body,” he said. “As I was looking in the mirror I could see at least three blue glowing things in the peoples hands that I recognized as cell phones. I soon decided to drive away thinking someone had contacted 911.”

Steady said he got to the mill between 4:50 and 4:55 a.m., and was weighed in around 5:25 a.m. He stated he made three phone calls while he was there, one to his brother, one to a fellow driver and one to his wife. He left the mill around 6:30

Family seeks confession says ‘it was never about money’

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TICONDEROGA — Following the recent settlement of a civil suit involving the hit and run death of Ticonderoga resident Anthony “Tony” Morette in 2009, the family of the late Ticonderoga native still relive the pain of that tragic day and hope for a confession to bring them closure.

Morette was killed Dec. 2, 2009, when he was struck by a vehicle while running near the intersection of Shore Airport Road and Route 22 Tony Morette in Ticonderoga.

Morette, 60, was found lying on the side of the road just after 5 a.m. by three men who were on their way to go hunting. He was still conscious when emergency personnel arrived and able to give a description of the tractor-trailer that struck him.

He later died of internal injuries at Moses Ludington Hospital.

The civil suit included circumstantial evidence that pointed to Christopher Steady as the driver of a blue tractor trailer truck that allegedly hit Morette.

However, Ticonderoga Police Chief Mark Johns said “We have never closed that case with an arrest or a definitive suspect named.”

“The Ticonderoga Police Department has not publicly named Mr. Steady as the person of interest,” he added.

Johns said police do have a person of interest in the investigation based on inconsistencies given to law enforcement during interviews and statements.

But without a conviction, Morette’s family members have been wondering everyday for the last 6 years if Steady was indeed the driver of the vehicle that struck Anthony, and they siad they relive the pain of Morette’s death every day.

“All these years not knowing if it was him or if it was someone else...” Susan Morette, Anthony’s widow said. “It actually got harder. You relive it every day and you just want some closure.” >> Story Continued | pg. 9

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ADK Sportsmens Dinner coming to Schroon March 12 Coming to Schroon March 12

By Mikaela Foster

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SCHROON LAKE — Attention sportsmen — the “best sportsmen’s dinner event in the North Country” is right around the corner.

Outdoor enthusiasts can say goodbye to cabin fever by joining hundreds of other likeminded people at the 21st annual Adirondack Sportsmen’s Dinner, March 12, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mountainside Bible Chapel, 165 State Route 9, Schroon Lake.

Along with being known as the “best sportsmen’s dinner event in the North Country,” the event also helps mark “the first sign of Adirondack spring,” Organizers said.

The day is packed full of outdoor related seminars, great food, exhibits, prizes and the gospel message shared by this year’s keynote speaker, Randy Flannery, master outdoorsman of Wilderness Escape Outfitters.

“Everybody attending has the opportunity to fill their cup with knowledge,” said Flannery.

Admission is free; the event is donation supported by locally and regionally owned businesses as well as churches and individuals. Sportsmen must be 12-years-old or older to attend.

Tony Tenda, event coordinator, said they’ve never charged admission to this event because they believe sharing the gospel, which is their main mission, should be free.

“For 21 years, we’ve had 500 people hear the clear message of the gospel and that’s why we do it,” Tenda said.

Tenda said there’s a lot of hard work and preparation before the event, but the actual day of the event is a lot of fun.

To kick it off, registration opens around

9:45 a.m. There will be display tables set up around the gym featuring outdoor related businesses and information for hunters, anglers, hikers and more. Tenda said this is a perfect time to mingle and enjoy the provided snacks before the seminar sessions begin at 11:15 a.m.

During the first session, attendees will have the opportunity to choose from several different seminars. New this year is Kyle Scheffler from Orvis Manchester Outlet. He will give a seminar on different fish species in the great lakes and its tributaries. He’ll cover topics like spawning runs, proper tackle, flyfishing techniques and more.

After the first session, an Italian-style meal will be served… baked ziti, garlic bread, salad and desserts. During that time there will be a “pass the hat” donation collection for anyone who wishes to donate to the event.

The second seminar session will take place following dessert. Tenda said some of the speakers have been coming for years and are very popular. Among them are Marty Simon who has been doing a survival seminar every year.

Gary Hodgeson also comes back every year; he is a retired forester from Lake Placid who will give a seminar on building a birch bark canoe. Tenda said this seminar is a favorite among attendees.

Sharon Tabor from the DEC is doing a very important seminar on North Country ticks that cause Lyme disease.

The main presentation takes place at 3 p.m. with Randy Flannery.

“He is very good,” Tenda said.

Flannery’s seminar will be on tracking and stalking whitetail deer. Flannery said, “that’s what we do in the north country.”

“We try to educate people so they’ll have far more success in deer hunting… climb out of the deer stand and go look for the deer in-

stead of waiting for them,” he said.

Flannery said he travels to many sportsmen’s events but loves going to this particular one because it’s a great event and it’s run very efficiently.

“The main thing that keeps me coming back is what they’re trying to do,” Flannery said. “There’s nothing more important than educating people about the all powerful and loving God that we have.”

“If you go to the Adirondack Sportsmen’s Dinner and you don’t 1) eat well, 2) learning something or 3) enjoy yourself… I don’t think it’s possible to do that... It’s just a great time run by wonderful people,” he said.

After his seminar he will share the gospel message and his personal testimony of faith.

After Flannery’s presentation, prizes will be awarded. Tenda said this year’s grand prize is a muzzleloader.

To get your tickets and more information about the event, go to sportsmensdinner. com, or check them out on Facebook: Adirondack Sporstmens Dinner 2016.

SEMINARS Gary Hodgeson: birch bark canoes Marty Simon: survival, disaster preparedeness Mark Brown: ice fishing Terry Bice: bow hunting Dan Ladd: Adirondack Deer Hunting Joe Hackett: backwoods brookies Melanie and Roger Houck: jigging for perch and lake trout Sharon Tabor: Adirondack moose, northcountry ticks Mark Pepin: tips on turkey calls, calling, decoys and strategies for field and woods hunting Mark Pepin and George Gedney: Duck 101covering the basics of duck hunting Kyle Scheffler: different fish species, spawning runs, proper tackle, fly fishing techniques, fishing locations, fly-fishing resources and more Kevin Estella: Compass and GPS

Steve LaMere appointed as Conservation Council Reg 5 director SCHROON — The Essex County League of the New York State Conservation Council voted unanimously Wednesday, Feb. 10 to appoint and elect Mr. Steve LaMere to the position of Region 5 director. According to members of the league, LaMere’s knowledge and understanding of Adirondack issues, plus past workings with governments and state agencies, makes him the most and best qualified to fill this position and represent the area at the council and at state hearings and meetings.

Library celebrates Dr. Suess’s birthday LEWIS — The Lewis Library will host a Dr. Seuss birthday Saturday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to noon. There will be green eggs and ham served along with fun games, fun crafts and of course lots of rhyming. For more information email sneezebeez@yahoo.com.

Jazz band to serve steak, concert KEESEVILLE — The AuSable Valley Jazz band will be performing at the Knights of Columbus Saturday, March 5, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. There will be a steak dinner served for $12 a plate or $40 per family. This is a benefit for the jazz band’s trip to New Orleans. For more information email Vondell.Patty@avcsk12.org

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Mending fences

n last week’s Republican Primary Debate I heard one candidate, on one issue, say something that resonated with me and I feel is the single most missing ingredient from politics today.

The subject that brought about the comment was the struggle between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of course, we know them as just the FBI. The FBI is in possession of the Apple iPhone used by one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino last fall.

The FBI is asking for Apple’ help to create a tool that would circumvent a feature that deletes all of the information on the phone after 10 failed password attempts.

Apple is refusing, claiming the request is far more reaching than one phone and places all their customers worldwide that depend on the privacy of their iPhone at great risk.

As a result, the FBI is going to take Apple to court in an effort to force them to comply. In turn the media and social media are abuzz taking sides.

John Kasich, presidential candidate and governor of Ohio, demonstrated his leadership skills when he basically said, leaders solve problems by getting involved.

Kasich claims he would ask James Comey, director of the FBI and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple to join him in a room where they would lock the door and keep it locked until they found a solution. No game of chicken or winner take all, just work out a solution acceptable to each side.

Shouldn’t our leaders be willing to inject themselves directly into any major issue facing the country? Not for the PR value but strictly for the purpose of solving national problems and unifying the country with the direction we are taking.

In my lifetime, perhaps the best example of a president who was able to side step a major crisis through back channel diplomacy was President Kennedy with the Cuban Missal Crisis back in the 60’s. Both sides avoided humiliation and both sides were able to claim a victory, which trumped thermonuclear war.

When we consider how polarized our national political parties have become and the number of national and world issues that are currently reaching a boiling point, a level headed leader willing to risk their own reputation to mend fences, seek solutions and solve problems would be a welcomed sight on the world scene.

Dan Alexander is CEO of Sun Community News. He may be reached at dan@suncommunitynews.com.

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all it the Hot Air Express.

Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo embarked on a statewide bus tour to promote his push for a minimum wage of $15 per hour.

The “Drive for $15” tour, which began in Manhattan and made stops in the Bronx, Long Island and Albany, is part of an aggressive campaign to push state legislators into supporting the proposed increase before the budget deadline of March 31.

If approved, the wage would be incrementally boosted to $15 per hour by 2019 in New York City and by 2021 everywhere else, making it the highest rate in the nation.

We’re surprised the Cuomo Coach didn’t total itself.

Like driving a bus, operating the state government must be tough with blinders on.

Since formally rolling out the proposal last fall, Cuomo has misrepresented the debate, falsely painting it as an Occupy Wall Street-type battle between workers and the 1 percent.

The reality is that small business owners and rural governments simply cannot accommodate a 67 percent rise in payroll costs.

Let’s back up for a minute.

The governor’s camp, including the labor unions who are bankrolling the bus tour, says the hike will reduce income inequality and incentivize fair business practices.

Boosting base pay, say advocates, will also reduce reliance on state and federal welfare programs and generate economic vitality through increased consumer spending.

Here in the North Country, $278 million is projected to be reinvested back into the local economy, according to a report prepared by the governor’s office.

Furthermore, say proponents, if the minimum wage was indexed to the inflation rate, it would be at $15 today.

Critics, including the Business Council of New York State, say the policy will lead to inflation and will cost the state at least 200,000 jobs, a development that would add more people to the welfare rolls.

The wage is the highest it has been in 37 years, say opponents, who also point out that restaurant growth has slowed to a crawl in areas that have approved comparable hikes, including the Seattle and San Francisco metropolitan areas.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco called $15 a “political number,” while E.J. McMahon, head of the conservative-leaning think tank the Empire Center, said the state’s minimum wage briefly peaked in 1970 at the equivalent of $11.30 — not $15.

Who’s right?

The effects of such a drastic wage increase are hotly contested between economists. Both sides are armed to the teeth with studies bolstering their case, and both concede that it may be too early to discern the ramifications.

But Cuomo has framed the battle in populist terms, attacking “corporations” and free-market conservatives as boogeymen trying to deprive workers of the American Dream.

“Raising the minimum wage is about fundamental fairness and decency — it’s about restoring the promise of the American Dream in the Empire State,” said Cuomo at the Albany rally last week. “We’re driving all around this state to rally support around raising the minimum wage to $15, and we will not stop until every working man and woman is on board this fight for economic justice.”

The governor has refused to budge and acknowledge the situation is more

broader and complex, instead leaning on inflammatory rhetoric that is mischaracterizing the debate.

Harnessing the language of Occupy Wall Street is a false equivalent and a disingenuous argument that has cast a chill across the North Country.

Critics, including 93 percent of the businesses surveyed by the North Country Chamber of Commerce, aren’t focused on the governmental intrusion aspect, but rather the catastrophic effects it will have on the upstate economy, which continues to struggle and is not positioned to accommodate the shift like larger cities with a more dynamic labor market and educated workforce.

Second, fast food operators are operated by franchisees who bore the cost — not corporate headquarters, as the governor is fond of pointing out.

The governor has also said nothing on how a 67 percent payroll increase would affect farmers, nonprofits, school districts and local governments, whose budgets are already gobbled up by unfunded mandates as as they struggle to stay under the tax cap.

While the governor has offered a $350 million tax cut package for the small businesses who have said the policy will result in reduced hours, layoffs, increased prices and automation, details remain scant.

Despite the mounting evidence that the policy requires future study, Cuomo is refusing to acknowledge these arguments as his “Drive for $15” bus continues to chug through upstate.

This refusal to debate such a sweeping policy is willful ignorance.

Cuomo has said he wants New York to serve as a nationwide model for progressive policies. But we’re not an experimental laboratory for liberal tinkering — we’re a struggling state at the precipice, ranked second-to-last for the worst business climate in the nation.

Income inequality is a problem. But as our elected officials have pointed out, a better solution to remedy the issue is the Earned Income Tax Credit program, which, when combined with other tax credits and benefits, can boost a single parent’s income from $18,000 to $30,000 annually.

According to the Empire Center, the combined federal, state and city tax credit in New York averages nearly $3,000, but it can reach as much as $8,427 in cash. The EITC program is, in effect, a tax refund, making it less damaging than a minimum wage hike that will have to be born by business owners and taxpayers.

Alternatively, New York can explore a staggered approach to boosting the minimum wage, like the system approved by Oregon’s state legislature last month that will used a tiered system based on population density.

Doing so, say economists, will address the concerns that rural areas will struggle to absorb the projected decrease in jobs that will come with increased labor costs.

Governor Cuomo is at his best when he rallies New Yorkers to unite under a common cause.

We have no doubt that his heart is in the right place. Cuomo is a brawler who never shies away from a fight, a trait we admire. But in a state cleaved by the upstate-downstate divide that characterizes all policy discussions, the governor should take a serious look at exploring these alternatives before driving the state in the ditch with such a rushed policy.

A measured approach would benefit all New Yorkers — not those bankrolling this ill-conceived campaign.

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LETTERS

Hep-CÊ clinicÊ bringsÊ outÊ manyÊ vetsÊ To the Editor: This past weekend American Legion Post 1619 in West Plattsburgh held the first outreach testing ever in the State of New York for Vietnam era veterans at high risk of Hepatitis-C. The event was a huge success, far beyond any expectations with 401 veterans tested, over five percent of all Clinton County Vietnam vets in under two days. This is most likely a record for veteran HCV outreach testing anywhere in this country ever.

Post 1619 wishes to express our gratitude to all the fine volunteers and dedicated members of our Post who helped make this happen. Mostly, our deepest thanks to CVPH Hospital of the UVM Health Care Network, without whose exemplary cooperation and support this could never have been accomplished. Interim Laboratory Director Ron Brown and Supervisor Peter Mullen went above and beyond the call of duty to provide the finest staff of lab technicians and medical volunteers available anywhere, a number of whom reflected that this was life changing for them.

A very special thanks to a quiet hero, Chaplain Ron Wood of Legion Post 20 who was there both days counseling every single veteran being tested and performing a remarkable job of providing spiritual unity and compassion for all present.

To the vets that turned out, this was for many more then just a medical test. We took one drop of blood from each of the 401 veterans tested. In exchange for that one drop of blood, we replaced it with the assurance that America cares about these brave men and women who served in such a difficult time and such a despised war. We showed them that their service will never be forgotten, that their fellow veterans still have their backs, and that we will now and forever be a Band of Brothers.

And while we were at it, we saved a number of lives.

Danny Kaifetz, American Legion Post 1619

EssexÊ residentsÊ needÊ toÊ workÊ together

To The Editor: As a Town of Essex resident, I read with interest your editorial, “A Tiny Town with Not-So-Tiny Problems”. While you expressed numerous concerns about the current town administration being “opaque, cynical and clannish”, I was equally struck by your observation of the tensions between “newcomers” and the “old guard” in Essex.

This observation corresponds with my experience in last fall’s town council election where some candidates and their supporters spoke of mistrusting the “newcomers” in the race. There has been and remains speculation that “newcomers” have, as you describe, “ulterior motives” for their involvement in the Essex community. But this sentiment is not new.

The history of Essex is replete with stories of “newcomers” coming here to develop its landscape and create new opportunities but I’m sure the original “old guard” (Native Americans) had a lot to say about that progress.

When the “newcomers” (the British) took control from the “old guard” (the French) in the 1700’s, there were plenty of tensions. But that provided

“newcomer” William Gilliland (from New York City) the opportunity to permanently settle our area.

From 1800 onwards, a treasure trove of “newcomers” came to Essex to build saw and grist mills, tanneries and distilleries; establish iron, shipbuilding and nail factories; and provide legal, medical and spiritual services for the “old guard”. Somewhere along the way, the “newcomers” became the “old guard” without even knowing it.

Today, “newcomers” have transformed and revitalized the Whallonsburg Grange into a cultural and entertainment mecca; invested in and preserved countless historical architectural gems; and have returned Essex to being an innovative agricultural leader.

To me, the current tensions between “newcomers” and the “old guard” are not about good versus evil, or as you described, between light and dark.

The tensions are simply about the lack of trust. Whether a resident has lived in Essex for twelve months or twelve generations, we must all respect each other and trust that we all want what is best for our community.

While you point out legitimate concerns about how the “old guard” is currently administering our town, rhetoric of “epic battles” will not bring us together and create trust. The “old guard” must understand that “newcomers” have legitimate ideas for improvement. “Newcomers” must respect the past and honor the service of all those who have gone before. Together, with trust, Essex will thrive and prosper.

Jay White Essex

DineÊ UnitedÊ aÊ success

To the Editor: The United way of the Adirondack Region, Inc. partnered with several restaurants from Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties to hold the sixth “DINE UNITED” event on Jan. 28. The Event was a success and helped raise funds to be distributed to 42 health and human service agencies in the tri-county area.

The United Way would like to send a heartfelt thank you to the participating patrons and restaurants: Arnie’s Restaurant, Blue Collar Bistro, Burgoyne Grille, Butcher Block, Charlie’s Inn, Donavan’s Steak & Ale, Inc., Ground Round, both Gumas Restaurants, Koto Japanese Steak House, Lake Placid Pub & Brewery, Mo’s Pub & Grill, My Cup of Tea, Pizza Palace, Sandy’s Deli, The Pepper, Uno Pizzeria & Grill and Zukes Corner Store & Deli.

We would also like to thank the following for donating prizes for the free raffle: NY Jets, Buffalo Bills, NY Giants, Anthony’s Restaurant & Bistro, Mickey’s Restaurant, NinePlatt (Ground Round/Best Western Inn at Smithfield).

The support from participating restaurants will touch all walks of life from southern Essex County to northern Clinton County to western Franklin County and all points in between. Again thank you for your generosity.

Kathy Snow Director of Development

OBITUARIES

DanielÊ RobertÊ Linder,Ê Sr.

SHELBURNE, Vt — Daniel Robert Linder, Sr., age 72, died peacefully Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at The Arbors Senior Living Community.

He leaves his wife of 28 years, Carol Danielson Linder; his son, Daniel; and his daughter, Kristin. He also leaves his twin brother, David and companion, Paula Wilson; his brother Stanley and wife, Margaret; his sister, Luise Norton and husband, Bob; his sister Loretta Crow (husband, Ron, deceased); and many nieces and nephews.

Daniel was born in Estherville, Iowa on June 24th, 1943, the son of Elsa Ella Linder née Mulhauser and Melvin Stanley Linder. He was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Dunnell, MN and attended grade school in Dunnell, MN. He graduated from Sandstone High School in Sandstone, MN and joined the U.S. Navy shortly thereafter in 1961. He served on the U.S.S. Casa Grande LSD-13 with his two brothers as part of the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, and was involved with the Cuban blockade in October 1962.

After his military service, he attended the University of Minnesota on

Legislative breakfast From page 1

MOVING ON UP According to the chamber’s survey, 60 percent of businesses are expecting growth this year, while 32 percent believe their business will remain steady.

With a slight 8 percent difference of expected growth from last year, the total confidence level of business success stayed the same at 92 percent.

“Now, there’s a lot more optimism about our own backyard,” said Garry Douglas, president of the North Country Chamber of Commerce.

Stephens Mundy, president of the University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH), mentioned how they’re on the final phases of the Family Medicine Residency — a training program for up to 12 residents in emergency medicine, pediatrics, cardiology, orthopedics, OB/GYN and behavioral health.

The incorporation of this program will create 30 new jobs for the area, he said during the forum.

Jobs in manufacturing have also increased tremendously, Douglas said.

Although the minimum wage hike has not ful-

the GI bill. Among other things, he worked as a draftsman and leased a Dairy Queen in Minneapolis, MN. In 1974, Dan moved to Moriah, New York where he established his own business, Creative Log Homes. He particularly loved log home building and restoring historic buildings and barns.

Dan married Carol Danielson in 1987 and the couple settled in Westport, New York, where they raised their two children. He designed and built a home for his family in the town. Dan earned membership into the Institute of Assessing Officers and worked for many years on the Westport Board of Assessors. He sponsored many Central American children as a member of World Vision.

Dan loved the Adirondack woodlands, and was passionate about music and the arts. He enjoyed many years performing with the Pleasant Valley Chorale.

Dan struggled with early onset Alzheimer’s disease and spent the last twenty months of his life at The Arbors Senior Living Community in Shelburne, VT. A memorial service with United States Navy Honor Guard was held at the Westport Federated Church on Friday, February 26th, 2016.

ly taken effect, other problems concerning jobs in the North Country were also voiced, such as funding for job training.

JOB TRAINING NEEDED One attendee during the forum stated how although there are available jobs for those unemployed, the people applying lack the necessary skills in order to fit that certain job.

Some community colleges, such as Clinton Community College, are working toward fixing that issue.

The school is currently in the planning stages of building a new manufacturing institute to provide educational programs and training in the fields of transportation, aerospace and manufacturing.

The college is looking to add certificates and credentials that can take as little as four hours or as long as a year based on the training needs of local manufacturing businesses.

However, not everyone can afford college.

“We need to pay attention to those who aren’t in college,” said Assemblywoman Janet Duprey.

The ADK P-Tech Program at Peru High School offers students a chance to earn a high school diploma while gaining relevant work experience and skills in a growing industry-recognized field.

Champlain Valley Educational Services also

offers a variety of high school career and technical program training from veterinary assistant to early childhood education, she said.

CANADIAN DOLLAR TROUBLES Besides the American dollar, its Canadian counterpart has also been a concern to North Country businesses over the past couple months.

Currently, the Canadian dollar is worth just .71 cents in the United States.

While the North Country Chamber of Commerce has seen a decrease in Canadian visitors spending the night, Vice President for Marketing at the North Country Chamber of Commerce Kristy Kennedy said, they have not witnessed a drastic decrease other border states have been seeing.

“I am not confident we can remain immune,” said Colin Read, county legislator and owner of Champlain Wine Company.

The Plattsburgh Downtown Association met earlier this year to discuss the decrease in Canadian visitors.

Although affordable options, lower taxes and prices, discounts, packages and travel deals through local businesses help cope with the nonideal exchange rate, they’re still concerned, Read said.

COMMENTARY

Little Bits And so it’s March Gordie Little

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o, now it’s March. Big deal, you say. How much stock do you place in the centuries-old adage, “In like a lion; out like a lamb?” For me, it’s just a matter of hope. I hope for nice weather at the end of the month, no matter how it started.

Predicting, based on the lion and lamb model, is at least as good as using a groundhog and his shadow. Based on the historical mildness of this winter, I’m not complaining.

This is the month we look forward to clocks moving ahead, the official first day of spring, Easter and a sports season called March Madness. I can find lots to be happy about in March.

I looked across the room to Kaye as I was writing this and asked her what she most looked forward to in the springtime. The answer was instant: “Digging in the dirt.” I agree. Our green thumbs are revealed and we’re in heaven holding our trowels and hoes.

I’m ahead of myself. That won’t be happening here in Morrisonville for months. However, as soon as morning temperatures reach 50 degrees or more, can you guess where we’ll take our morning coffee? Yes. Out to our screened-in back deck on the edge of the Saranac River. For us, it’s nirvana.

March conjures up fun history for me and I’m delighted to share it. March was originally the Latin Maritus and was part of the old Roman Calendar; but it was the first month rather than the third.

The Roman god of war was Mars, for whom the month was named.

March 1 is also National Pig Day in America, but that’s another story entirely and is only significant if you want to celebrate pigs.

If you were born in March, it’s less complicated than February 29 in a leap year. Your birthstone is aquamarine. Your birth flower?

Daffodil.

Now, let’s get down to the really important stuff. “Mad as a March hare” is a phrase that can be traced back to at least the 16th century. Female rabbits were said to go a little nutsy-cuckoo during this time of year when they were in heat. Without going into detail, they were observed to jump up and down and use their front feet to fight off enthusiastic suitors.

That’s why Lewis Carrol developed his odd-acting male character called the March Hare in his Alice books, immortalized later in movies and on television. My mother often called me “harebrained” but I doubt that she was referring to mating season.

Now for the trivia question most of you won’t be able to answer without checking Lewis Carrol’s books. What was the Alice character March Hare named?

Give up? I did, too, until I looked it up. Answer: “Haigha.” If anybody ever offers you big money to pronounce it correctly, take my word for it, Carrol himself said it rhymes with “mayor.”

Happy March.

Columnist Gordie Little may be reached at gordie@suncommunitynews.com.

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Friday: 5:00 pm

“A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM” @PERU HIGH SCHOOL.

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12 Sat.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 7:00 pm Saturday matinee: 2:00 pm

WCS faculty & staff, community members & students grades 7-12 form teams of 6 (3 male, 3 female). Cost: $5 students, $10 adults. Registration forms available at wptso.com.

Details: westportptso@gmail.com, wptso. com, Holly at 518-546-8255.

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Peru Drama Club presents! When Pseudolos the slave sees his chance to earn his freedom, he jumps at it and nothing goes according to plan.

Tickets: $8 in advance, $10 at door.

Details: perudramaclub@gmail.com, 518-643-6499 ext. 5184.

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ST. PATRICK’S MAR. DINNER@ST. 13 Sun. ELIZABETH’S PARISH HALL, ELIZABETHTOWN.

MAR. K OF C FISH FRY DINNER@ 04 Fri. HOLY NAME PARISH CENTER GYM.

Sunday: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Dinner includes: battered dipped cod fillet, baby/ young red & white potatoes w/melted unsalted butter & parsley, coleslaw, dinner rolls, lemon wedge, coffee, water, tea, iced tea, or lemonade, ice cream or sherbet. $10 per person, under 12 $6.

Takeouts available. Enjoy a delicious meal while supporting the charitable work of the Knights.

Details: Jack Dirolf 518-578-0360.

Menu includes: corned beef, ham, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, bread, milk, coffee, tea and gingerbread.

Adults $12, under 12 $5.

Takeouts available.

Details: Patty Doyle 518-873-9821.

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MAR. NCSPCA SPAY-GHETTI 11 & MUTT-BOWL Fri. EXTRAVAGANZA@ MINEVILLE VFW.

MAR. ROAD TO RESURRECTION 12 Sat. @WESLEYAN CHURCH, 2083 RT. 3, CADYVILLE.

Friday: 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Saturday: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

People will visit different rooms with different events leading up to Easter.

People need to sign up for tour.

Free for all!

Details: Marcy Bova 518-569-0433.

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Italian buffet (vegetarian-friendly) includes: spaghetti with variety of sauces, baked ziti, broccoli alfredo, parmesean crusted chicken, tossed salad, bread & butter, variety of Italian pastries & cookies. $10 with cash bar available.

Proceeds support the SNIP, Spay & Neuter program.

Details: 518-873-5000.

MAR. MOUNTAIN LAKE SERVICES 19 Sat. BOWLING TOURNAMENT@ BOWLING LANES, AUSABLE FORKS.

Saturday: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm

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5 person teams - mixed teams permitted. $80 registration fee per team. all teams must pre-register & prepay. Registration forms & money can be sent to: Mountain Lake Services, Attn. Administration, 10 St. Patrick’s Place, Port Henry, NY 12974.

1st place prize: $100, 2nd place prize: $75.

Raffles all day!

Details: 518-546-3381, contactus@mountainlakeservices.org.

Saturday: 7:30 pm

This Burlington based quintet brought the house down three years ago with bluegrass with folk, jazz & blues influences delivered delivered by one of the finest singers & songwriters in the region!

Members include Colby Crehan, Ryan Crehan, Charley Eiseman, Stephan Waud & Mitch Barron. $10 Adults, $5 under 18.

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ADIRONDACK MAR. THUNDER 13 Sun. VS READING ROYALS HOCKEY@ HERB BROOKS ARENA, LAKE PLACID. Sunday: 7:00 pm

Watch the NHL stars of tomorrow kick off season for the first professional hockey game in Lake Placid history! Group tickets available $14 per ticket. Group packages available. Details: 518-480-3355, 86464 info@echlthunder.com.

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12 Sat.

Saturday: 7:30 pm

Steven Spielberg & Cohen Brothers bring to life this Cold War spy thriller based on true events. Beth Amorosi, granddaughter of James Donovan of the real life hero of the movie, will introduce the film & autograph copies of his memoir, Strangers on a Bridge.

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testimony. “His arms were moving... He said he just wanted to get up.”

EMT Roderic Kenyon also said Morette wanted to move.

“I tried to stabilize Tony’s head,” Kenyon said in a Dec. 17, 2009 deposition. “He was combative. He was moving his legs, moving his head back and forth and flailing his arms. He said he needed to sit up and stretch... He was alert and he knew where he was and stuff, yeah,” “I heard Tony say he wanted to get up,” said EMT Joelle Stonitsch in another Dec. 17, 2009 deposition.

Kenyon, Stonitsch and Anne Taylor-Robinson all said Morette related to them he was hit by a “blue tractor trailer.” Watts joined them in saying Morette asked several times for people to contact his wife and a priest because he felt he was going to die.

“He kept talking the whole way to the hospital saying he wanted us to call a priest and his wife,” Taylor-Robinson said in a Dec. 17, 2009 statement. “After we got to the hospital Tony kept asking for a priest and his wife... Mike told him to keep his eyes open because his wife was on the way.”

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a.m. and saw no one at the site when he left, heading toward Blue Ridge Road in North Hudson.

“I’m willing to cooperate with this investigation to the fullest,” Steady said at the end of his deposition. “Anything I can do to help. I’m willing to take a polygraph test if necessary. I hope the police catch the person responsible and get the book thrown at him/her.”

Steady later declined to take a polygraph test.

Conflicting stories David Carr of Crown Point told members of the Ticonderoga Police Department he was on his way to the Ticonderoga Elks Lodge at 5 a.m. the morning of Dec. 2 to have coffee with his fellow members of the “5 a.m. Club.”

Carr said he took his normal route into town, coming down the mill road toward the hamlet, stopping to look both ways before crossing the intersection, where he reported there were no cars in the area.

“Upon starting across the road I noticed something in the road to my left which I first assumed to be something that had fallen from someone’s truck,” Carr said. “As I drove slowly by, I realized that it may be a person lying in the road.”

Carr said he then stopped to check for sure, glancing quickly at his automobile’s clock, which read 5:04 a.m., between nine and 14 minutes after Steady said he was on the scene.

Carr said by the time he got out of the car, two more vehicles had stopped and were approaching the person in the road.

“None of us had a cellphone but I recognized the individual as Tony Morette of Ticonderoga,” Carr said. “I told those standing there to continue to direct traffic and I would continue onto the Elks Lodge to call 911.”

Carr said when he reached the lodge, the call had already been placed to emergency services. He listened to the police scanner then drove back to the scene.

In a deposition by Robert Johnston, one of the people Steady spoke directly to on Dec. 2, Johnston said as he was leaving the mill at approximately 5:33 a.m., he saw Steady’s rig pull up to the scale. Steady told Johnston a red car had blown through the intersection, cutting him off, then bouncing and coming to a stop. He described the occupant to Johnston as a woman with blonde hair who gave him her information before the two left the scene, leaving the body in the roadway.

In the deposition, Johnston said he believed Steady was involved in the incident and left the scene because, “he was scared and did not want to be tested for drugs.” Johnston said Steady was known to have pot in his truck.

In all, lawyers for the defense noted 11 calls made by Steady after the time of the accident, including several to Johnston and one to Steady’s wife, Holly, which he made at 5:08 a.m., approximately one minute after the accident occurred accord-

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A memorial for Anthony Morette still stands at the corner of NY-22 and Shore-Airport Rd. Photo by Mikaela Foster

ing to police.

“My husband... called me at home and said that he had just witnessed a car hitting a jogger,” Holly told Ticonderoga officer Dan Lafrance and BCI investigator Marshall Rocque Dec. 4. “He said that the car had a smashed windshield and there was blood all over the place. My husband don’t usually call me at that time in the morning.”

“He sounded very upset,” she continued. “He said he called 911 and the company he works for. Chris called me from the Ticonderoga Paper Co. He said police officers with K-9 dogs were going truck to truck checking bumpers at the mill. My husband didn’t say whether or not he stopped to render help (in a single-crossed out line previous to the last sentence, the hand-written text appears to say ‘My husband stated he didn’t stop to render help’).”

She said she tried to speak to her husband at home that evening, but he refused.

“I told Chris that the jogger had died. He said, ‘no (explitive).’ He ate his supper and went to bed. My husband refuses to speak to me about the accident.”

Holly Steady added he never shared with her a description of the car or jogger.

Responders’ statements In testimony taken March 12 of last year, Matthew Watts, working with Lamoille Ambulance Services, said he responded to a page at about 5 a.m., arriving to the scene and seeing Patrolman Quesnel there.

Watts said Quesnel pointed out Morette, who Watts said he had known most of his life.

“He was trying to move around a little bit,” Watts said in

Open case Although the civil suit was settled, to date there has been no one formally charged in the death of Tony Morette.

Both Ticonderoga Police Chief Mark Johns and Essex County District Attorney Kristy Sprague said they did not want to comment on an open case. Former District Attorney Julie Garcia, who was in her last month in office in December of 2009, did not return phone calls seeking comment.

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Susan said with a civil suit, there’s a little bit of closure, but said there’s still no confession. The case was settled for $650,000, but Susan said filing the suit was not about money, it was about obtaining justice and closure.

“I think we’d probably feel better if we got that,” she said.

Ann Morette, Anthony’s sister, said the trial brought back many memories.

“To see his vest... I keep seeing him in the ER, I keep seeing our priest there,” she said. “I can’t imagine the terror he must have felt, laying there by himself.”

Ann said she is pleading for definitive answers.

“Please just tell us,” she said in an interview with The Sun. “Free us from this pain... did you hit him? We just want to know.”

When asked if she could forgive the driver, Ann said “We need to forgive others as Christ forgave us. Yes I forgive him, I don’t want to hate. Just tell us...”

“To hate, eats you alive,” she added. “I’ve gotta let go of the pain,” she added. “But I don’t know how...”

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Salt of the Earth

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or whatever reason, I have never been interested in what many call the finer things.

Glamour, decadence, lavishness; it seems foreign. One of the things I love most about the North Country is that everything is accessible. Most events are open to the public, they’re free, they are all ages. Even something that may seem daunting or sophisticated – an exhibit opening, for example – somehow ends up having a friendly atmosphere open to every level of art appreciation. If there is one thing to be said about us, it is that the area is unwaveringly authentic, unpretentious. We are the salt of the Earth.

PossumHaw will perform at the Grange in Whallonsburg on March 5. The band plays an energized, authentic brand of bluegrass and folk guided by the vocals and songwriting of Colby Crehan. The show will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for minors.

What happens when life and death comes down to a game of rock, paper, scissors? SUNY Plattsburgh’s Theatre Department will present a play by Tracy Rosenquest titled “First Born” that explores this premise. Showtimes are March 3 and 5 at 7:30 p.m., and March 6 at 2 p.m at the Studio Theatre in the Myers Fine Arts building. Tickets are $11 for the general public. To purchase a seat, visit tickets.plattsburgh.edu.

On March 5, Julia and Michael Devine will present their short film “Burgh” at the Upper Jay Art Center. Says filmmaker Michael Devine, “’Burgh’ is a film about place—not this city, not Plattsburgh, but rather the spaces we share as social creatures, and our need to connect to one another.” A Q&A will follow. Manhatta, the classic 1926 avant garde short directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler, will also be shown. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.

The newly formed Mike + Ruthy Band will play at the Crandall Public Library in Glens Falls on March 10. Their debut album, “Bright as You Can,” was hailed as “one of the year’s standout Americana albums” by the Boston Globe. Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

The Mountaineer in Keene Valley will host their fourteenth annual Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival on March 5-6. Backcountry skiing is done on natural snow in natural terrain, and combines all of the elements of touring, climbing and downhill skiing. Guided tours for several ability levels will be available for a limited number of participants on Saturday and Sunday. As part of the festival, Patagonia Ambassador Leah Evans of Revelstoke, British Columbia – winner of the Freeride World Tour and founder of Girls Do Ski – will be presenting a lecture at Keene Arts. Advance registration for all guided tours and instructional clinics will

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be required. To pre-register, call 518-576-2281 or contact mountaineer@mountaineer.com.

The NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery in Saranac Lake will host an exhibition by guest artist Becky Pace. The exhibition, titled “Sky Light,” opens Friday, March 11. Pace’s work will be on display and available for sale through the month of March. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 518-354-1875 or visit northwindfineartsgallery.com Blues For Breakfast, who have for nearly thirty years been a local favorite, will perform at Delta Blue in Lake Placid on March 5. Since 1991, the band has focused primarily on “Grateful Americana,” but the group loves to mix classic rock, reggae, Motown and originals into their shows if the room calls for it. The band’s set will begin at 9 p.m. Tickets are free.

On March 5, local jam band Lucid will perform at Olive Ridley’s in Plattsburgh as part of their “Off the Bus” tour. The Blind Owl Band and the Coydogs will open. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10. This event will be 21+.

Elizabeth Izzo is the arts and entertainment columnist for Sun Community News. Reach her at Elizabeth@suncommunitynews.com.

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were seen on video but eluded capture. All five fish continued their upstream migration, which culminated in some of them spawning successfully. We are very excited to announce confirmation of this milestone fisheries event.

The termination of the restoration program is regrettable, but the fact that wild Atlantic salmon have once again spawned in their native rivers is reason enough to celebrate as it underscores the value of ongoing salmon legacy programs.

Barring evidence in the future that Atlantic salmon stocks elsewhere in North America are rebounding strongly, the goal of restoring a run of thousands of salmon to the Connecticut River watershed has officially been abandoned.

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or millenniums, prior to the arrival of Europeans, their annual spawning runs filled the Connecticut, Penobscot and a variety of other rivers on the Northeast coast with millions of fish.

On the Connecticut,the Northeast’s longest river at a distance of over 407 miles from the mountains of New Hampshire to Long Island Sound, salmon were considered extinct in the early 1900’s due to over harvesting, dams, mills and the resulting pollution.

Historically, Atlantic salmon migrated into the region’s rivers and streams every Fall, to access traditional spawning waters throughout New England and Canada. Over the intervening years, a variety of efforts were put forward in an effort to restore Atlantic salmon to their historic waters, but despite more than a half-century of work and investments that have included over $25 million in hatcheries, dam removals and stocking programs. Although there is evidence that a few salmon have successfully spawned in the nearby Salmon River, the status of wild Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River was finally downgraded to extinct in 2015. As costs continued to soar, State and federal agencies were ready to pull the plug.

But in nature, bad news doesn’t always travel so fast, and it often pays to bet against against the odds. And sometimes it’s actually good to fool with Mother Nature. At least it was for the five wild Atlantic salmon that didn’t allow news that they were supposed to be extinct, prevent them from continuing upstream on their annual spawning run. In November 2015, a fisheries biologist walking along the banks of the Farmington River,recognized unusual divots in the river bottom, where the rocks had been cleared on the bottom of a tributary of the Connecticut River. The river bottom had not been cleared in such a manner since the time of the Revolutionary War. Upon closer inspection, the divots were determined to be redds, a scientific term for salmon nests and all three of them were full

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of salmon eggs. Welcome home, salmo salar, welcome home� During the fall of 2015, fisheries biologists discovered five adult Atlantic salmon swimming above the Rainbow Dam on the lower Farmington River. On a hunch, they decided tp search for likely upstream spawning habitat, andthey found three redds that were full of eggs.

In the spring of this year, it is expected those redds will produce the first wild salmon to hatch in that river in over two centuries. In 1991 a few wild salmon were spawned for the first time in Connecticut’s nearby Salmon River. It was likely to be the river’s first natural spawn in centuries.

However, despite the recent success, the ongoing effects of climate change may have more drastic affects on the status of Atlantic salmon, which travel long-distance from the rivers of New England and Canada on a two-year, 6,000-mile migration to the food-rich Labrador Sea off of Greenland. Following the extended journey they will return to the rivers of their birth.

A salmon stocking program will continue on several Connecticut River tributaries with especially good habitat, such as the Farmington and Salmon rivers in Connecticut, in an effort a way to preserve a strain of salmon that had adapted to the Connecticut, but the number of fish stocked will be drastically reduced as a result of the damage that occurred at the federal hatchery.

With the end of the restoration program in 2013, adult fish were no longer being retained but instead, tagged and released to continue their upstream migration. In 2015, three adult salmon were captured and tagged while two others

WILLSBORO — The Town of Willsboro will be hosting a Salmon Symposium at Noblewood Lodge on Friday March 11 to discuss the Lake Champlain Salmon Restoration Program starting at 9 am t0 4 pm. This free event (lunch provided) is sponsored by the Greater Adirondack Resource Conservation and Development Council, the Willsboro Community Foundation, the Lake Champlain Basin Program and the AuSable and Boquet River Associations. Presenters from regional partners including NYS DEC, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Lake Champlain Sea Grant, Concordia University, ROOST and the Ausable River Association will discuss the fisheries management objectives for the Boquet River and Lake Champlain as well as the history of the Atlantic Salmon fishery, current management objectives, ongoing research, potential natural resource concerns, economic impact of fisheries development, opportunities, challenges and potential for the future.

Pre-registration is required as there is limited seating. Contact Justin Drinkwine at the Willsboro Town Hall at 963-8933 to confirm your attendance and directions.

Meet legendary fly tier Hap Wheeler PLATTSBURGH — Come to Lake Champlain Trout Unlimited’s March meeting at 7 p.m. on the March 8 at the Clinton County Fairgrounds and meet master fly tier Hap Wheeler who will be on hand to share the secrets of his “Golden Retriever,” a fly true to its namesake for good looks, loyalty and effectiveness.

That’s not the only secret in Hap’s fly box, and maybe attendees can entice him to share a few more. Extra vises and flytying material will be available, to try your hand at a Golden Retriever or a fly of your choice. The event is free and all are invited.

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Danny Kaifetz (left), medical information officer for the American Legion Post 1619, assists Veteran and Peru Dog Control Officer Dave Drollette (right) in signing up for the first hep-c testing clinic Feb. 26.

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Hep-c

From page 1 “There’s a little concern,” he said. “But at least I’m going to see if there are any surprises in me.”

About 50 veterans got tested within the first hour of the clinic, said Danny Kaifetz, medical information officer of Post 1619, exceeding his expectations.

Within 20 minutes, each veteran learned whether they contracted the blood borne virus that can go unnoticed for decades while slowly causing irreparable damage to vital organs, such as the liver.

According to the American Legion’s Take Down Hep-C Campaign, more than 5 percent of veterans enrolled in the care of the Veterans Health Administration have hep-c. It is believed to have infected as high as 40 percent of Vietnam era veterans.

The American Legion Post 1619 decided to start an awareness campaign earlier this year about this epidemic, not only in the North Country, but in all of New York with the goal to get all New York Vietnam veterans tested for hepatitis C. “Hep-c is out there and it’s in our community,” said Christopher Krieg, airport manager at Plattsburgh International Airport who is currently in the airforce reserves. “People need to be aware of it.”

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Despite injury, Gough still at center of Willsboro hoops After injury, junior turns into sparkplug for Warrior Nation

the Class D title game.

Not only did Gough invest in being the Warrior’s No. 1 fan, she also had the chance to pursue other interests.

By Keith Lobdell “I have found time to mange the keith@suncommunitynews.com theatre and musical aspect of my life also,” she said. “With not being able to play any sports, I decided WILLSBORO — On Jan. 12, to keep myself into something by the Willsboro girls varsity basketbeing in the musical this spring ball team was getting ready to play and also being in chorus. I have alLake Placid the following day. ways had a passion for performing It was a practice just like any in the musical eye, but never had other, until junior center Payton time to because of school sports.”

Gough made contact with another Gough said her biggest strength player. has come through the band of sis“I was in total shock,” Gough ters she has made. said, recounting the feeling of pain Ò My teammates are like sisin her knee at the time. “I didn’t ters to me, they are their to help know what was going to happen you when you are feeling down, — I only knew I was hurt. I knew and there to share a laugh with,” it was something serious.”

Gough said, adding her coaches, It was, indeed, as Gough was Gail “Spike” Wilkins and Charlene diagnossed with a vertically torn Lobdell, have been big supports as meniscus and ACL tear — words well. that process only one way to any “Spike is like a grandfather, athlete.

Willsboro junior Payton Gough, front row center, cheers on the Willsboro varsity boys team at the Section VII finals Feb. 27. Since suffering bringing back memories from a severe knee injury, Gough has become the Warriors’ No. 1 fan, helping promote the team and get the word out to schoolmates and the Your out for the year. community.

Photo by Jill Lobdell when he was a coach and reflectWhile Gough faced the prosing it on today to show how we Gough, who was recently scheduled for with time and location for the games, asking pects of not playing the sports she can become better people,” she said. “Charloved — including basketball and soccer, surgery, started to help organize cheers and everyone to come out wearing red and white lene is like my second mother. She has been where she plays goalie for the Warriors — heckles in the student section, which started to support the team. a very important person to me these past she quickly turned her attention to her team- to grow bigger and bigger throughout the “It has been a plus,” boys coach Jim Spring couple of years that I have been on her team. school year. She helped make player signs and said. “The bigger crowds have been amazing, mates.

She has helped me through this injury be“They had been there for me during those other items for students and parents to hold and you see her right in the middle of them. cause she is always motivating me, telling first weeks, so I knew I needed to be there for in the stands. During the sectional run which It has definitely been a motivation for the me that I am going come back and because them,” Gough said. “I knew if I was down, saw her team make it to the Class D semifi- teams.” a better/stronger person than I already am they would be down, and I wanted them to nals and the boys varsity team make the Class “It’s great to see them all come out and sup- next year.”

D finals, Gough canvassed social media sites port us like this,” senior Lucas Cross said at be up.”

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Willsboro brings a battle, but falls to top-ranked Vikings

By Keith Lobdell

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PLATTSBURGH — While it was business as usual for the Moriah Vikings in capturing their fourth straight Section VII/ Class D basketball championship, it was a return to glory for the AuSable Valley and Northeastern Clinton boys basketball programs Feb. 27.

The Patriots scored their first sectional championship since 2013, while the Cougars were back on top for the first time since 2011.

ClassÊ D

Moriah 62, Willsboro 44 It was a case of the score not showing how close the Class D final was, as the Warriors were there to prove they belonged on the same stage as the top ranked team in New York State.

The Warriors, ending the first half down 17-14, took a 2524 lead at the 2:58 mark of the second quarter, staying within three points heading into halftime at 30-27.

The Vikings responded coming out of halftime, opening on a 7-0 mini-run while ending the third quarter up 12 at 47-35.

The Warriors were able to cut the lead to 50-40 early in the fourth, but foul trouble and fatigue caught up to the underdog as they faded in the final minutes, giving the Vikings everything they could in defeat.

“I knew they were good,” Moriah head coach Brian Cross said. “Jimmy (Spring) had them well prepared and they played really tough.”

“They never went away,” Adam Jaquish said. “They always played hard. We knew they were going to be tough and coach told us not to overestimate them.”

“We tried our hardest in that first half,” Willsboro senior Lucas Cross said. “We fought them as much as we could. We knew they liked to run and I thought we controlled their transition game well.”

“To come in when no one was expecting this game to be close and be down only three at halftime was incredible,” senior Zach Pierson said. “We knew what we had to do. I wouldn’t have wanted to spend my senior year with any other team.”

“I can’t explain this heart the team showed today,” Spring said. “They all believe in themselves, each other and what the coaching staff asks them to do.”

The Vikings said the key to the second half was their ability to get back to doing what they do best.

“We wanted to pick up our intensity, crash the boards and play faster,” said Dylan Trombley, who had 10 points to go with nine rebounds, six assists and four steals.

“We knew we had to rebound better, and coach got on us about rebounding and breaking out better,” said Jaquish, who finished with 20 points along with eight rebounds, five steals, five blocked shots and four assists.

“We had a tough time shooting in the first half and needed to get used to the environment again, but we wanted to come out strong in the second half and did,” said Taylor Slattery, who tallied 12 points along with six rebounds and four assists.

“We relied on perimeter shooting when we didn’t have to in the first half,” Cross said.

Joe Stahl had 9 points along with six rebounds, while Jarrod MacDougal finished with 6 points and two steals. Todd Clarke and Noah Gilbo scored 2 points each, with Billy Larrow adding four rebounds.

For the Warriors, Jesse Hearn scored 16 points while recording eight rebounds, along with 13 points from Cross, who also tallied three assists.

Pierson, Sean Lincoln and Warren Jackson each scored 4 points, as Pierson added seven rebounds and Lincoln five.

Trevor Bigelow had six assists.

ClassÊ C

AuSable Valley 67, NAC 51 The Patriots pulled away in the second half, outscoring the Bobcats 39-27 over the final 16 minutes, including a 23-15 fourth quarter, to earn the Class C title.

“We wanted to get the ball into the paint in the second half and we know that is when good things can happen,” said Kobe Parrow, who finished with 23 points and 20 rebounds, a mark he has always had as a goal.

“A 20-20 is something I have always wanted and to get it here on the big stage is great,” Parrow

Willsboro center Sean Lincoln looks for clear space facing a double team from Moriah’s Todd Clarke and Adam Jaquish in the Section VII/Class D finals Feb. 27.

said. “We know we are going to have a hard week of practice and when we play our style of hoops we are a hard team to beat.”

“It’s great to finally get this title for this team,” said Nate Manning, who scored 11 points and dished out six assists.

“We were able to come out stronger defensively in the second half and still keep pushing the tempo on offense.”

“I’ve always wanted to play here,” said Joel Martineau, who seemed to be one of the few not effected by the perspective in the PSUC Fieldhouse, connecting on a trio of triples as part of a 15-point, eight rebound night.

“It’s just like shooting in my backyard with the distance between the hoop and the wall,” Martineau said.

“The main this was to stay within ourselves and play our type of basketball,” head coach Jamie Douglass said. “We had to get to the offensive boards. We went to a 1-2-2 zone and our bigs played well.”

Alex Knapp added 8 points and six rebounds for the Patriots, while Brandon Snow had 6 points and five rebounds.

Lucas Perez added 2 points and a pair of assists.

For the Bobcats, Stephen Peryea led the team with 20 points, while Josh Juntunen scored 13 points. Bailey Cross added 8 points and rebounds, while Cody Peryea had 6 points and Cory Lafountain 4.

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Dessureault scoring 12 points with 11 rebounds and Nick Mather adding 10 points and 10 boards.

Austin Myers scored two points and grabbed four rebounds, while Brian Menia had one point and two assists.

Logan Matthews added three rebounds.

Up next The Vikings and Cougars will both play regional semifinal games Wednesday, March 2, as top-ranked Moriah will face No. 6 Chateaugay out of Section X at the PSUC Fieldhouse at 6 p.m. The winner will face Section II’s Argyle, ranked eighth in the Class D polls, at Hudson Valley Community College Saturday, March 5, with 2 p.m. tip. Northeastern Clinton will travel to the Glens Falls Civic Center the same day for a 7:30 p.m. tip against Hudson, the seventh ranked team in Class B (NCCS is an honorable mention). The winner will face OFA at SUNY Potsdam Saturday, March 5, 4:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, the fourth-ranked Patriots will face the winner between No. 17 Bristhon-Moira and unranked Spa Catholic Saturday, March 5, 3:30 p.m. in the Class C regional finals.

ClassÊ B

NCCS 52, Saranac 41

After falling behind early, the Cougars controlled the final three quarters of the Class B finals, outscoring the Chiefs 17-7 in the second quarter and 30-23 in the second half.

The Chiefs, who started on an 11-5 run, held their last lead at 18-16 before Melik McLeod connected on the three-pointer to put the Cougars ahead to stay at 19-18.

McLeod led the Cougars with 20 points, while Zavion Beasley had 12 points and 11 rebounds in the game.

Rylee Hollister added 9 points and four boards, with Nick Duffy scoring 8 points and giving out five assists, and Devin McManus scoring three points with five rebounds.

AuSable Valley’s Kobe Parrow scored 23 points and grabbed 20 reFor the Chiefs, Zach Faus bounds in the Class C final. Here, Parrow shoots over NAC defenders had 16 points and 12 reStephen Peryea and Josh Juntunen. bounds in the loss, with Isiah Photo by Jill Lobdell

Northeastern Clinton’s Melik McLeod controls the ball for the Cougars.

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Beavers fall to Vikings in girls Class D championship

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PLATTSBURGH — The Moriah Lady Vikings and Northern Adirondack Bobcats successfully defended their Section VII championships Feb. 26 at the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse, while Northeastern Clinton returned to the top of Class B for the first time since 2011.

ClassÊ D

Moriah 42, Keene 31 Falling behind 8-2 early in the first quarter, the top-seeded Lady Beavers clawed their way back against the Lady Vikings, tying the game 29-29 heading into the fourth quarter.

However, the second seed Lady Vikings would go on a 13-2 run over the final eight minutes to pull away and earn their third straight Class D crown and fourth sectional title in five years (also won the 2012 Class C championship).

Moriah freshman Madison Olcott, who finished with 12 points, 10 rebounds (eight offensively), six blocks and three steals said the message was clear heading into the fourth quarter.

“We had been working for this all season and we had to give it our all and show how bad we wanted it,” Olcott said. “We had a really good game and if we play like this, we are going to do well.”

Sophomore Sarah Snyder connected on a pair of three pointers in the final quarter, the first opening scoring and giving the Vikings a 32-29 lead, while the second came after an Olcott rebound and pass off a missed free throw, leading to a 38-31 lead.

“That was pretty awesome,” Olcott said of the play. “When I got the rebound, I looked around and I saw her open.”

“I was so nervous,” Snyder said. “I really didn’t want to shoot, but I knew I was open so I had to put it up. It’s a great feeling to defend this title because we are so young and a lot of people didn’t think we would be here and we were able to prove to everyone we belonged.”

Snyder finished with 10 points along with 11 rebounds and four assists.

While Snyder hit the long shots late, McKenzie Sprague was connecting early, hitting a trio of triples in the second quarter as she finished with 12 points and seven rebounds.

“Our team is a great team, and so is Keene,” Sprague said.

“In the fourth, coach (Stephan Pelkey) told us it was all or nothing. I can’t thank coach enough for all he has taught us.”

McKenna Harris finished with three points and four steals, while Halee Calabrese added four points.

“We worked on our defense all week in practice,” said Harris, who split time with Olcott in guarding Keene point Hanna Whitney. “It means a lot to do this and defend this title.”

“I feel very proud of this team,” said lone senior Jordan Speshock, who played solid defense against Keene forward Elaina Smith. “We knew she was a good shooter and aggressive with the ball. All I practiced this week was how to play defense against her.”

For Keene, Whitney finished with 10 points and three steals, while Elly Smith scored 8 points to go with seven rebounds. Elaina Smith had 7 points and nine rebounds to go with four steals and six blocked shots, as Daria Venner scored 4 points (four rebounds) and Madison Gifford added 2 points and three rebounds. Marta Padura added five rebounds, with Caitlin Lopez grabbing one rebound and steal.

ClassÊ C

NAC 50, Seton Catholic 46 An 17-4 run for the Lady Knights got them within striking distance of the defending Class C and state finalist Lady Bobcats, but experience proved to be the difference for Northern Adirondack.

After the run between the third and fourth quarters trimmed a 37-23 lead to 40-41 for Northern Adirondack, the Bobcats went on a 4-0 minirun.

The Knights kept the game close, cutting the lead to one point again before Taylor Durnin connected on a pair of free throws for a 49-46 lead.

On the next play, the Knights

Moriah’s Madison Olcott handles the ball against Keene defender Hanna Whintey in the Section VII/Class D title game Feb. 26.

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got the ball into the hands of Sam Bashaw, who released a Steph Curry-esque shot from 30-feet out which glanced off the rim, ending all hopes of a comeback.

Durnin finished with 20 points along with seven rebounds and five steals for the Bobcats, while Paige Chilton scored 16 points with six rebounds and three blocked shots.

Avery Lambert added 8 points and a quartet of rebounds, while Danya Burl scored four points and dished out three assists with Emily Peryea scoring 2 with five boards. Juliana Gardner added two rebounds.

For the Knights, Hailey Moore scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in the loss. Sophomore center Gretchen Zalis added 14 points to go with 15 rebounds and five steals, while Bashaw finished with 13 points and two assists.

Caillene Allen scored 4 points with six rebounds, while Olivia Nachbauer had four rebounds. Nicole Bullock added a tally in the rebound, assist and steal columns, while Rachel Racette had one assist and a blocked shot.

ClassÊ B

NCCS 53, Beekmantown 46

In the rubber match between the two top teams in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference, the Lady Cougars pulled out the neutral court win and advanced to state play.

The key for the Cougars was a 6-0 run before halftime, as the Lady Eagles had tied the game, 26-26, in the final minutes of the second quarter. From that point, the Cougars never relinquished the lead.

Shaylyn Rowe scored the final four points of the first half for the Cougars, scoring 11 of her game high 19 in the second quarter, where NCCS outscored Beekmantown 20-15.

“It set us in a good place,” Rowe said. “It allowed us to start well in the second half and build on our offense.”

“We wanted to keep the tempo up after that,” said Emily Sample, who finished with 17 points and five steals. “We played a strong defensive game with a lot of calling out and switching on screens.”

While scoring 4 points, Abbie Sample led the Cougars with 14 rebounds as the team dominated the boards.

“We came in knowing we had to box out and that was the key for us winning,” she said.

“Rebounds were the key part of this and we did a great job on defense limiting them to one shot,” said Kayla Carder, who came into the game eight points shy of 1,000 for her caSeton Catholic’s Hailey Moore battles for the ball against Northern Ad- reer. Carder finished with 4 irondack’s Taylor Durnin in the Class C championship game. points while collecting 12 rePhoto by Jill Lobdell bounds.

Northeastern Clinton’s Shaylyn Rowe drives to the basket against Beekmantown’s Kenna Guynup..

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Natalie Boulerice added 5 points and six assists for the Cougars, while coach Frank Dumas said a pair of substitutes were key in the first quarter.

“When we got in foul trouble, Karen Duffy and Katelyn Southwick came in a sparked us,” Dumas said. I think throughout the whole game we weathered the storm and the run at the end of the first half was quite a momentum builder for us.”

For the Eagles, Jordanne Manney used her quick release to score 13 points to lead Beekmantown. Alyssa Waters added 10 points, four assists and three steals, while Kenna Guynup had 9 points and three assists. Brooke Bjelko had 8 points while leading the team with 12 rebounds and Gabrielle Rowell scored 7 points while pulling in nine rebounds. Courtney Guynup added a rebound and assist.

Up next The ninth ranked team in the state sportswriters’ poll, the Lady Cougars will play Section II champ and 18th ranked Glens Falls in the Class B regional semifinals Wednesday, March 2, 6 p.m. at Saratoga High School. The winner will face Section X’s Canton (ranked 23) at SUNY Potsdam Saturday, March 5, 2:45 p.m.

The Class C and D regional finals will be held at the Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse Saturday, March 5, with Moriah (unranked) opening against Section II champion and perennial final four favorite in fifth-ranked Fort Edward at noon, followed by a matchup between the fifth-ranked Bobcats and either No. 16 Lake George (Section II) or No. 17 MadridWaddington (Section X) at 1:45 p.m.

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AUSABLE - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Tuesday, March 29, Ausable Valley High School, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For more info call (518) 562-7406

LAKE PLACID – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Thomas Shipman Youth Center December 1, January 5, Feb 2, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, December 6 , 9:30 am - 2:15 PM November 24, December 22, January 26, Feb 23, March 22, April 26, May 24, June 28, July 26, August 23, September 27, October 25, November 22, December 27 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296

ELIZABETHTOWN – Sunday March 13th Annual St. Patrick's Day Corned Beef/Ham dinner will be held from 2pm-6pm at St. Elizabeth's Parish Hall. Adults $12.00 Children $5.00.

PLATTSBURGH – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Thursday at United Methodist Church, 127 Beedman Street, Plattsburgh 7:30pm-8:30pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

AUSABLE FORKS – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Ambulance Building-Ausable Forks December 2, January 6, Feb, 3, March 2, April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3, September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7, at 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 CHAMPLAIN - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Monday March 7th, Champlain Knights of Columbus, 3pm – 7pm. For more info call (518) 562-7406 CHAMPLAIN - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Thursday, March 31, Northeastern Central High School, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more info call (518) 562-7406 CLINTONVILLE – Chesterfield Fish & Game Club, Green St., Clintonville, NY has indoor Archery, Pistol & Small Caliber Rifle Shooting.

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ELIZABETHTOWN – 2015-2016 WIC Schedule at the Public Health Building December 3, January 7, Feb 4, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, August 4, September 1, October 6, November 3, December 1, 8:00 - 3:30 PM November 19, December 17, January 21, Feb 18, March 16, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21, August 18, September 15, October 20, November 17, December 15, 11:30 am - 6:30 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 KEESEVILLE – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the United Methodist Church November 25, December 30, January 13, Feb 25, March 24, April 28, May 26, June 23, July 28,August 25, September 22, October 27, November 23, December 22, 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 PERU - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive.

Wednesday, March 23, Peru High School, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.For more info call (518) 562-7406

PLATTSBURGH - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Thursday March 4th Jeffords Steel Noon to 3pm. For more info call (518) 562-7406 PLATTSBURGH - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Tuesday March 8th Plattsburgh State University Angell Center, 11am-3:30pm. For more info call (518) 562-7406 SARANAC LAKE - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Wednesday, March 16, Saranac Lake High School, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more info call (518) 562-7406 SARNAC LAKE - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Wednesday, March 9, Adirondack Medical Center, Noon to 6 p.m. This drive will also include the opportunity to take part in the Be The Match bone marrow registry. For more info call (518) 562-7406 TICONDEROGA - Essex County Lethernecks, Marine Corps League, Det 791, Ticonderoga American Legion Post. 6 p.m. Active Marines and Marine Veterans invited. First Thursday of every month.

WEST CHAZY - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Monday, March 14, West Chazy Fire Department, 4 to 7 p.m. For more info call (518) 5627406 WESTPORT - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Tuesday, March 15, Westport High School, 3 to 7 p.m. For more info call (518) 562-7406 WILLSBORO - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Thursday, March 3rd, Willsboro High School 12:30 to 4pm For more info call (518) 562-7406 WILLSBORO - The North Country Regional Blood Donor Center, with help from a number local businesses and community groups, is conducting A community blood drive. Monday, March 14, Willsboro Fire Department, 4 to 7 p.m.

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LECTURES & SEMINARS BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE – The Adirondack Museum's Cabin Fever Winter Lecture series Sunday March 13th “Fierce and ForeverWild Adirondack Women”, 1:30 pm in the Museum Auditorium, 9097 State Route 30. For more info 518-352-7311. www.adkmuseum.org/exhibits_and_events/ongoing_events PLATTSBURGH - twice-monthly Public Science Forums on interesting topics in science and the social sciences at The Champlain Wine Company, 30 City Hall Place, Plattsburgh NY 12901. First and third Mondays of each month at 5:30 pm. Beginning Monday Feb. 1st. Local Scientists and Social Scientists present provocative public forums free to the public. For more information, please call 518564-0064.

PUBLIC MEETINGS CADYVILLE – Al-Anon Adult Children Meeting every Monday at Cadyville Wesleyan Church, use rear entrance, 2083 Route 3, Cadyville at 7pm-8pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

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CHAZY – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Friday at Sacred Heart Church, 8 Hall Street, Chazy 7:30pm-8:30pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

CHAZY – Chazy Public Library Meetings: January 20, 2016, February 24,2016, March 30, 2016, April 27, 2016. Organizational Meeting May 18, 2016.

ELIZABETHTOWN – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Sunday at Elizabethtown Community Hospital Board Room, 75 Park St., Elizabethtown, 4pm-5pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

ELIZABETHTOWN – Elizabethtown Thrift Shop will have it's Monthly Meeting Second Monday of Every Month at 7pm @ The Episcopal Parish Hall.

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PERU – Peru CSD has organized a Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) for revenues and expenditures, components of a balanced budget.

Thursday, February 11th 6pm; Thursday, February 25th 6pm & Tuesday March 15th 6pm, They will share their recommendations with the School Board on Tuesday, March 22nd during a public budget development workshop. To participate in any of the meetings of the BAC, please register by calling 518-643-6004.

PLATTSBURGH – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Tuesday at United Methodist Church, 127 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh Noon-1pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-5610838.

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WESTPORT - The Westport Central School District Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:45 PM in the Teacher Resource Room. The meeting will open with a budget workshop immediately followed by the regular monthly meeting. Agenda items will include personnel appointments, policy readings, acceptance of a letter of retirement and any other business that may come before the Board. Community members and interested others are welcome to attend.

SENIORS ELIZABETHTOWN – Senior Meal Site Luncheon, Every Friday at Church of the Good Shepherd, 11 William Street. Come enjoy lunch $3.50, play Bingo, socialize with friends & neighbors.

ELLENBURG-Adult Center St. Edmunds Church Hall 5538 Route 11 Ellenburg, NY Open Monday Friday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Lunch served at 11:30 a.m. Tel: (518) 594-7311 MOOERS - Nutrition Site Watson Senior Housing 2448 Route 11Mooers, NY Lunch served at 11:30 a.m. Monday Friday. Tel: (518) 236-5111 SARNAC - Food & Wellness at Saranac Village at Will Rogers On Thursday, March 10th at 7:30 p.m., at Saranac Village at Will Rogers, Amy Kohanski will talk about the benefits of healthy living through her program Food & Wellness as part of an Adirondack Wellness Series. Come learn about the positive outcomes when treating the body well. This program is free and open to the public. For more information call Debbie Kanze at (518) 891-7117 or visit www.saranacvillage.com.

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Map viewer From page 1

The map of the county is broken into towns when users first go to the page, but can also be separated by other criteria, including by fire stations, cemeteries, town halls, election districts, Adirondack Park Land Use, state lands, agricultural lands, APA wetlands, village boundaries, flood hazard planes and more.

The site also features several tools, including a measuring tool which allows users to approximately size parcels, distances between locations or even the size of a building.

Arabadjis said there is not a print option for the maps because the county offers maps through the real property department.

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www.suncommunitynews.com “We are going to get the engineering on these bridges down ahead of time,” Palmer said. “This is from funds we had set ahead of time so we can get a jump on those bridges we know we are going to have to replace.”

Amendments were made with contracts granted by the county with Schoder Engineering and Dent Engineering dealing with projects on Hulls Fall Road in Keene, Fraternaland Road Bridge over Paradox Creek in Schroon, the Haselton Road Bridge over New Bridge Brook in Wilmington, Trout Brook Road Bridge over Trout Brook and Trout Brook Road Bridge over Minerva Brook in Minerva.

E-waste As members of the committee discussed its annual hazardous waste collection day, Minerva Supervisor Stephen McNally asked about what was being done at the county level to collect e-waste.

During the business portion of the ways and means meeting, members of the board voted to seek the reclassification of five roads within the county from local roads to federal aid eligible roads.

Ò According to the DEC, every county is supposed to have a free e-waste drop off system in place where people can drop their e-waste off,” McNally said. “I don’t understand why we do not have one.”

“If they are re-classified, the are eligible for 95 percent funding towards their repair,” said county manager Dan Palmer.

As of now, McNally said the town’s e-waste is transported to a company in Plattsburgh for disposal. He added, under the DEC policy, an e-waste station is supposed to be funded with aid from manufacturers e-waste, a popular, informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their useful life such as computers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, and fax machines are common electronic products Ñ many of which can be reused, refurbished, or recycled.

The roads up for reclassification are Wells Hill Road in Lewis, Reber Road in Willsboro, Lake Shore Road between Westport and Essex, Stevenson Road in Westport and Tahawus Road in Newcomb.

The committee also amended several engineering contracts to allow for the performance of subsurface investigations and geotechnical engineering reports.

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Next meeting The Essex County Board of Supervisors will hold its monthly meeting Monday, March 7, 10 a.m. at the Old County Courthouse in Elizabethtown.

Popular fish fry planned for this weekend in Lewis LEWIS — For the 28th year, the Wooden Nickel invites the community to come out for an old-fashioned fish fry to benefit local emergency responders.

The Fish Fry will take place Sunday, March 6, at the Lewis establishment, starting at 1 p.m. and running throughout the afternoon.

The event is an annual fundraiser for the Elizabethtown and Lewis Volunteer Fire Departments, with admission of $7 for an all you can eat feast of beer-battered, deep fried pollock with variety of salads and sides along with rolls and desserts.

Organizers are also asking those who attend to bring a non-persihable food item to donate to the local food pantry.

During the event, there will be a 50/50 raffle along with other prize raffles throughout the day.

Takeouts will be available from noon until 1 p.m.

For more information, call Jean and Jim Olsen at 8739990.

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The Articles of Organiza- SSNY shall mail a copy tion were filed with the of process to: 2611 FoxSecretary of State of hall Rd, NW, WashingNew York (SSNY) on ton, DC 20007. PurFebruary 9, 2016. Office pose: to engage in any location: Essex County. lawful act.

SSNY is designated as VN-03/05-04/09/2016agent of the LLC upon 6TC-110371 whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to C/O Flink Smith Law LLC, 2577 Main Street, Suite 201, Lake MADDEN PROPERTY Placid, New York 12946.

HOLDINGS, LLC Articles Purpose: Any lawful pur- of Org. filed NY Sec. of pose.

State (SSNY) 1/28/2016.

VN-02/27-04/02/2016Office in Essex Co. 6TC-109897 SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

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MADDEN PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/28/2016.

Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 187 River St., Saranac Lake, NY 12983, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

VN-02/13-03/19/20166TC-108789 MM Keene Properties LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 12/22/15. Office location: Essex County.

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General purpose.

VN-02/20-03/26/20166TC-109009 TOUSLEY PROPERTY, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/28/2016. Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 187 River St., Saranac Lake, NY 12983, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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TOUSLEY PROPERTY, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/28/2016. Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 187 River St., Saranac Lake, NY 12983, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Name: VIKING CHIEFTAIN LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 12, 2016. Office location: Essex County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 200 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, New York 12946. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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