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Five earn elected terms as supervisor in Essex County Joe Provoncha wins re-election as County Clerk Crews remove a tree from a road in Wilmington Friday.
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ELIZABETHTOWN | Joseph Provoncha won re-election to the Essex County Clerk’s seat, besting contender Kari Ratliff, a Republican who ran as an independent. The unofficial tally, with absentee ballots not slated to be in and counted until Nov. 18, was 6,126 votes to 2,796. Town proposition no. 1 on the ballot in two towns looked to change the supervisor’s term from two to four years. It was approved in Lewis, 139 to 95 votes. But Ticonderoga voted it down, 641 to 283.
Essex County devastated by scary Halloween storm By Kim Dedam and Tim Rowland STAFF WRITERS
ESSEX COUNTY | Winds from a fast-moving Halloween storm were well out to sea Monday. But it left pockets of homes throughout the North Country without power. The storm started while trick-or-treaters roamed the streets, shuffling fallen leaves and trying to stay dry. The rain increased overnight. Nearly four inches of rain fell in about seven hours in some locales, and the deluge forced major rivers onto roadways, bridges and fields. The USGS gage on the Ausable River topped out at 11.5 feet, according to Essex County Emergency Services. Flood stage on the river at AuSable Forks is 7 feet. High winds arrived as the rain stopped and blew branches, trees, power poles and wires onto flooded roads. In some places, even as rivers receded, the roads remain closed due to downed power lines. The 911 trunk lines for Essex County Emergency Services went down on Friday, forcing 911 calls from Essex County to be routed through Clinton County Emergency Services. Willsboro Town Supervisor and Chairman of the Essex County Board of Supervisors Shaun Gillilland issued an emergency declaration for Essex County, closing county government offices for the day, including Early Voting Polls at the Public Safety Building. Most area schools followed suit. See STORM DAMAGE » pg. 3
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SUPERVISORS
Elections in Essex County seated five new supervisors with the race in Chesterfield awaiting a final count of absentee ballots. In North Elba, Jay Rand Jr. (R) earned 940 votes, besting three challengers, Derek Doty (D), 648 votes; Gary Kaltenbach (Integrity), 318 votes; and Fred Balzac (Green Party), 56 votes. In the Town of Essex, independent Kenneth Hughes beat Emily Gardner (R) with 203 votes to 76. In Wilmington, independent Roy Holzer, who was appointed interim supervisor last summer, won the seat 393 votes to 24 for Xiaoyan Saunderson, an independent. With absentee votes still uncounted, Chesterfield Republican Clayton J. Barber stands with 339 votes over Democrat Russell L. Blaise who garnered 318 votes. According to officials at the Essex County Board of Elections, 41 of 48 absentee ballots have been returned so far. Counting begins on Nov. 18. Libertarian candidate Terry Gordon received 73 votes. Flooding affects a home along Elizabethtown-Wadhams Road.
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SROs at work in Lew ‘Bud’ Egglefield, Korean War veteran Of music and miliEssex County tary service Program blends safety, mentorship, education
By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
ELIZABETHTOWN | This year, six Essex County school districts introduced school resource officers (SROs) to their hallways and various programs.
Willsboro Central School SRO Kaycee Kolodzey
Boquet Valley Central School SRO Robert Rice
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ELIZABETHTOWN | Essex County is fortunate to have many long-living veterans of wars dating back to World War II. Their presence is welcomed often in area classrooms, at Honor Flight ceremonies, in new veteran memorial works and at civic groups in every town. But at age 90, it is Lew Edsel “Bud” Egglefield who so often lifts a gleaming brass trumpet and plays the long, sonorous notes of taps at ceremonies honoring veterans who served and came home, and for those who did not. His steady fingers push somber notes over memorial stones as people gather to remember and offer thanks. “I don’t think anything when I play,” Bud said. “It’s played slowly, because it’s
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Bud Egglefield and his wife Marijane at their home in Elizabethtown.
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meant to remember.” A veteran of the Korean War, Bud Egglefield served as a navigator on a B-36 bomber. His family has a long history of
serving in military conflict. His father, Cpl. Spencer R. Egglefield, fought in World War I and was honored with the Croix de Guerre in Paris, France, for his service with the allied forces. See EGGLEFIELD » pg. 4
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