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March 23, 2019
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Essex County Bova faces intentional moves forward murder charge in with proposal shooting death to increase bed tax — again Proposed 2 percent occupancy tax hike headed to Ways and Means By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | The Essex County Board of Supervisors’ Economic Development Committee voted last week to move forward with a controversial proposal to raise the county’s tax on hotel rooms by 2 percent. Under the proposal — which would require the state legislature to approve a change in the home rule law before it can be formally enacted — new revenue generated through an increase in the so-called county “bed tax” from 3 to 5 percent would be directed to community-level quality of life projects. With the committee’s approval March 11, the measure moves to Ways and Means on March 25, the final step before going before the full board. The change was previously approved in committee last month before ultimately dying at Ways and Means on Feb. 25.
COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT FUND
The tax increase and creation of a Community Enhancement Fund (CFE) was proposed by ROOST CEO James McKenna Feb. 11. » Bed tax Cont. on pg. 2
Police cordon off road after shooting in AuSable Forks.
Magen Goyette died of single gunshot wound By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
AUSABLE FORKS | The shooting death last week of Magen Goyette of AuSable Forks was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner. Goyette, 30, died of a single gunshot wound to the head, according to Clinton County District Attorney Andrew J. Wylie.
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Wylie said David J. Bova, 30, of 31 Seperator Road in AuSable Forks was arraigned in the Town of Black Brook court and charged with second-degree intentional murder, a class A felony. Clinton County’s DA appeared in court for the hearing and said Bova waived a formal reading of the felony complaint. Bova pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded to custody of the Clinton County sheriff. He is being held at the county jail without bail. Latham-based attorney James E. Tyner is representing Bova.
STATEMENT
According to the DA, Bova is charged with shooting Goyette on March 13
INSET: David Bova
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at 9:15 a.m. with a 9-millimeter HiPoint rifle, causing her death. The DA released Bova’s police statement last weekend. In it, Bova recounts a call he made to police about 11 p.m. the night before the shooting incident, saying they had had a verbal argument. At dinner time, Bova said, “I told her I was depressed and she called me names like a cry baby back bitch. I was supposed to work the night shift again and we argued and she said she was going to break my guns which are very important to me and she said she was going to f*** other guys.” » Bova Cont. on pg. 3
High Peaks Health Center opens in new building Expansion in Wilmington designed to improve patient access to network care By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
From left to right, Tammy Devlin; Cody Whitney, RPA-C; Vanessa Desmarais, MD; Courtney Marcotte, RPA-C; and Amy Langford celebrate the opening of High Peaks Health Center in Wilmington. Photo by Gayle Alexander
WILMINGTON | The newly built High Peaks Health Center opened here last week. Officials from the University of Vermont Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital (ECH) broke ground on the new facility last summer, moving to expand from much smaller space in the Wilmington Town Hall. The $1.3 million investment came with
support from town officials as the hospital network purchased about two acres of open land behind the town’s Community Center. Dr. Vanessa Desmarais is a family medicine specialist and will serve as medical director at High Peaks. “We are a full-service primary care health center, focused on health management, and acute and chronic condition management,” Desmarais told The Sun. “We’re fully connected to the hospital in Elizabethtown and to the University of Vermont Health Network.”
‘MORE COMFORTABLE SPACE’
Last year, from their rooms adjoining Wilmington town offices, High Peaks provided some 2,500 patient visits. Health-care providers and staff hope to expand services at their new center. » Health center Cont. on pg. 2
County poised to select Elizabethtown land for fire safety building Supervisors to vote on moving forward with proposed firefighter training facility By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | Local firefighters may soon have a new place to complete hands-on field training. A location in Elizabethtown for the proposed Essex County Fire Training Facility — a long-discussed outpost for firefighters to complete mandatory training hours — has been informally selected, and supervisors are poised to move forward with soliciting bids for construction. “We have the money, we have the site,” Moriah Town Supervisor Tom Scozzafava said last week. “I think it’s time that we get moving on this so we can get this thing built.” The Essex County Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety Committee last week voted to move forward a resolution that would
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authorize county officials to negotiate with the Town of Elizabethtown for the purchase of a property on Woodruff Lane, across the street from the Elizabethtown Volunteer Fire Department. Supervisors also agreed to move forward with soliciting bids for two construction projects related to the building, one for the foundation and another for the structure. Those resolutions will move forward to Ways and Means. If approved in that committee, the resolutions will be voted on by the full board April 1.
FUNDING
Altogether, the project is projected to cost roughly $530,000, according to Essex County Emergency Services Director Don Jaquish. Based on that estimate, the building would be nearly 95 percent funded by a state grant secured by Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury). “There’s no defined county share because there’s no final cost,” County Manager Dan Palmer told supervisors last week. The goal, Jaquish told The Sun, is to limit expenses in excess of the grant. “I’m confident we can keep it under 500,” he said. » Fire building Cont. on pg. 5
The proposed Essex County Fire Training Facility would be modeled after a training facility built two years ago in Madison County, pictured here. Photo provided/Madison County Emergency Services
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