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October 26, 2019
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Bova pleads guilty to gunshot death of Magen Goyette Guilty plea on five of six counts related to shooting in AuSable Forks last March By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
PLATTSBURGH | As jury selection was set to begin Tuesday, David J. Bova, 31, pleaded guilty to five of six counts, including second-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Magen Goyette. Bova’s gunfire on Silver Bay Road last March left Magen, 30, with one fatal gunshot wound to the head as she sat in the front passenger seat of her parents’ truck. Magen’s mother, Michelle, sat behind the wheel. Magen was transported to University of Vermont Health Network, C h a m p l a i n Va l l e y Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh where she was pronounced dead March 13. As outlined in police reports, the encounter began after Bova sped away from an argument with Magen at her parents’ home that morning. He crashed his Jeep on a David J. Bova Photo provided corner off Silver Bay Road in AuSable Forks. A group of people standing at a nearby repair garage offered to help Bova out of the vehicle. They asked if he needed an ambulance, but watched instead as he drew a gun from the Jeep, stepped into the road and started firing. In a statement given at the time of his arrest, Bova told police he grabbed his 9-millimeter High Point rifle and a loaded magazine from the Jeep. Bova said he put the magazine in the gun and racked the action. “I saw Magen’s parents truck coming up the road toward me,” he told police in the statement. “I was walking toward the truck, heading back toward my house ... After everything that has happened, I just snapped, I was pissed at her. The gun safety was off and I raised the gun up and began to fire in the direction of the truck.” See BOVA » pg. 7
EAGLE ISLAND CAMP WINS MAJOR SAVE AMERICA’S TREASURE GRANT $320,774 award to be used for detail work, foundations at historic camp By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
UPPER SARANAC LAKE | Ongoing preservation at Eagle Island Camp (EIC) here won significant funding through the Save America’s Treasure grant program. The $320,775 award is funded by the Historic Preservation Fund, administered by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of Interior. EIC Executive Director Paula Michelson is thrilled the historic camp, one of the most intact examples of architect William L. Coulter’s Great Camp designs, won this grant award. “These funds will enable Eagle Island to continue major historic rehabilitation projects to support full resumption of camping operations,” Michelson told the Sun late last week. “Through this grant, eight buildings and structures will receive critical stabilization, including foundations, roofs,
railings, and detail work.” Eagle Island Inc. was founded nearly 10 years ago by a group of former campers. The group has owned and sustained restoration at Eagle Island Camp since 2015. “EI is in the initial stages of developing the plans for this grant and donor supported work that is scheduled to be staged over the next three years,” Michelson said. “Current fundraising, through 2019, is specifically for projects necessary to open and operate overnight camp in 2020,” the executive director added. “Following a very successful inaugural 2019 summer season, which included two weeks of day camp, the plan is to again offer day camp experience for local youth and expand to offer two weeks of overnight camp for girls and women’s weekends. Readying the sleeping areas, kitchen and facilities are the top priority.” The Save America’s Treasure grant requires an equal match and is only available to nationally significant sites. The youth camp is a National Historic Landmark and sits on its own 30-acre wooded island, Eagle Island, on Upper Saranac Lake. See EIC GRANT » pg. 2
Traffic lights change soon at Town Hill in E’town Four-way flashing red lights to signal all-way stop By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
Google Maps show the State Rtes. 9 and 9N intersection in Elizabethtown where DOT is preparing to change traffic light patterns to a four-way stop.
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ELIZABETHTOWN | Work on electrical boxes, wiring and sidewalks at the bottom of the “Town Hill” here continued throughout summer. New traffic lights, still unlit, now hang above the intersection of State Route 9 and 9N where Maple Street approaches Court Street. T he Su n reache d out to N YS Department of Transportation, which put a plan in motion last year to change the signal, asking when the new lights would be activated. The all-way flashing red lights will go into effect sometime over the next two months. “To enhance safety at the intersection of Route 9 and 9N in Elizabethtown, traffic signals at that intersection are scheduled to change by the end of the year to
flashing red in all directions, indicating a four-way stop,” DOT spokeswoman Jennifer K. Post said. The lights now operate with flashing red lights on the east-west approach, encompassing the River Street and Water Street entrances to the intersection. The light flashes yellow north-to-south, encompassing the approach from Maple Street to Court Street, which is also Route 9 north and south. DOT said portable electronic message boards will be added to Rte. 9 in both directions, alerting motorists of the signal change. “In preparation this fall, two additional ‘Stop’ signs will be installed there; two ‘Stop Ahead’ signs -- one with flashing beacons -- will be installed, pavement markings will be placed, the sidewalk will be repaired, and the old signal will be removed,” Post said. When the project was announced in April 2018, it drew concern from some residents wary that traffic backup heading down the hill, due north, might become a problem on slick roadways in winter. See TRAFFIC LIGHT » pg. 6
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