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HOMES EVERY WEEK! Valley News
July 13, 2019
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Boquet Valley Central School Board readies for district start Transition Team recommendations set athletic venues, district offices By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
Frontier Town Campground is officially open and taking camping reservations.
WESTPORT | School Board members of the Boquet Valley Central School made key decisions as they prepared to close existing district operations. The new district officially merged Westport and Elizabethtown-Lewis Central schools effective July 1. To help draw input from community, parents, students, teachers and staff in the past five months, the board established Transition Advisory Teams (TATs) that assessed segments of the merger process and logistics, including School Identity, Athletics, Policy and Special Education. Several reports with major recommendations were made in the last week of June.
GRIFFIN SPORTS VENUES
Spearheading the Athletic TAT, coach, physical education teacher and athletic director Paul Buehler shared decisions they reached by consensus as to where teams would play and what new sport clubs might be introduced next year. » School board Cont. on pg. 2
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Frontier Town Campground officially opens for reservations
Camping, RV, hiking, day use, equestrian amenities add luxe to DEC’s newest outdoor camping area STAFF REPORT NORTH HUDSON | Construction of the new Frontier Town Campground is complete. New trails, tent sites, RV sites
and horseback riding amenities are fully operational and open. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the official completion at of the end of June. The new public campground, on the site of the former Frontier Town theme park in the Town of North Hudson, is a signature piece of the Governor’s ‘Gateway to the Adirondacks’ tourism hub. The project cost an estimated total of $25 million in public and private resources. “Generations of New Yorkers remember the Frontier Town theme park as the place their childhood dreams became real, and
County students are ‘Girl Strong’ Area schools participate in event to provide youth with personal confidence
risk factors and increasing protective factors related to such behaviors,” Nancy Paquette, Prevention Team CFO, said about the organization. “We were established in 1986 and currently have 10 employees. We have contracts with county schools to provide prevention education and student support counseling to students. We currently have a coalition in one community trying to deal with heroin/Rx opiate abuse and recovery. Essex County is one of the largest and most rural counties in NY and it also has a very high poverty level.”
By Laura Achouatte STA FF W RITER
SELF-AWARENESS AND COMMUNICATION
WESTPORT| The Prevention Team of Essex County based in Ticonderoga — a New York state entity focused on prevention of alcohol and substance abuse and youth — wrapped up its annual Girl Strong program this past May. The program was previously known as Girls Run 4 Fun/GR4F.
Girl Strong pairs fourth- through sixth-grade girls with mentors and coaches during the months of March through May twice a week to participate in structured activities that help to “improve girls sense of self and self-efficacy, and selfcare through physical activity and education, as well as selfawareness and communication,” states the program flyer.
THE PREVENTION TEAM
“The Prevention Team works with families, schools and communities to reduce high risk youth behaviors by decreasing
» Girl strong Cont. on pg. 4
now with the restoration of this campground, new generations of New Yorkers will get to experience some of that same excitement,” Cuomo said. “North Hudson is a prime location to introduce visitors to all the Adirondack Park has to offer and encourage travelers to further explore New York’s great outdoors.” The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will manage the campground, which was designed in collaboration between the Office of General Services and C.T. Male Associates. » Frontier Town Cont. on pg. 10
Bass Fishing, Costa up next for FLW on Lake Champlain Community outreach among tour goals By Nathan Ovalle EDITOR
PLATTSBURGH | Lake Champlain will be alive with anglers hoping for the big prize as the Fishing League Worldwide (FLW) returns to Plattsburgh for a pair of events. The FLW’s Bass Fishing League (BFL) tournament season continues Saturday, July 13, with a T-H Marine tournament presented by Navionics. The tournament — hosted by the City of Plattsburgh and the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau — is the third event of 2019 in the Northeast Division. Up to 400 boaters and co-anglers will be competing for top awards of up to $8,000 and $3,000, respectively, in the one-day tournament. Takeoff is set for 6 a.m., with weigh-in scheduled for 2 p.m. at the Plattsburgh City Marina, 5 Dock St., Plattsburgh.
‘WEEKEND ANGLERS’
Girls attending Girl Strong activities this year rely on each other, blindfolded and being led by coaches and mentors.
“Fresh off this weekend’s FLW Tour event, Lake Champlain is set for more FLW tournament-fishing action,” a press release from FLW said. The FLW offered tips and a prediction. “Anglers in this BFL tournament will again have to choose between targeting largemouth, smallmouth, or both. For those chasing largemouth, working a ChatterBait around scattered milfoil, a crankbait around sparse grass and rocks, or a swim jig near lily pads and reeds around Ticonderoga (as FLW Tour champion Casey Scanlon did) will likely be a good bet. Swimbaits, jerkbaits and drop-shot rigs should entice smallmouth, especially near rocks and points. Five bass in the 20-pound range should be enough to take home top honors at this mid-July BFL derby.”
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» Fishing tournament Cont. on pg. 5
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