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Jack Woods, long-time president of the Moriah Chamber of Commerce, was honored during Champ Day festivities in Port Henry. The flower planter/traffic circle in the center of the village was dedicated in his name. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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Phone issues frustrating Crown Point Local telephone company not at fault By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com CROWN POINT — Crown Point Telephone customers are frustrated. So is the company. Phone patrons are reporting problems receiving long distance calls to the company — but the issue isn’t a
local one, according to Shana Macey, president of Crown Point Telephone. “When people can’t call into Crown Point via a long distance provider, it’s not Crown Point Telephone that’s failing to complete the call,” Macey said. “That call is being dropped before it ever gets to us.” Rural telephone consumers across
the nation are reporting problems receiving long distance or wireless calls on their landline telephones, Macey said. The issue is known as “failure to complete.” Problems include incoming long distance calls not connecting or, if they do connect, poor voice quality. If a person has a working landline phone — they can make calls and receive local calls — but learn that long-distance or wireless callers
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TICONDEROGA — The Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance no longer has a chief operating officer. J. Justin Woods, who took the job last September, has left because of a funding shortfall. Woods will officially be done Aug. 31, but is using vacation time until that date. “The Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance is in the process of reorganizing to better serve the community while working within a more sustainable financial structure,” said James Major, chairman of the alliance board. “Unfortunately, the challenge of fundraising and capitalizing a new non-profit during a global economic crisis has proved to be more difficult than we imagined. We are sad to announce that the result of our funding shortfall is the inability to sustain the salary of our CEO, J. Justin Woods, who
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