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Legendary bluegrass singer Smokey Greene gets a little help on stage at the Upper Hudson Bluegrass Festival Aug. 18 from 3-year-old Kristopher Barnes, of Corinth. His mother, Kristin Lyng, watches from the doorway. The festival was held Aug. 17-19 at the Ski Bowl Park in North Creek. Photo by Andy Flynn
Johnsburg board: No ATVs on roads By Mike Mender newsenterprise@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — After 90 minutes of public comment by impassioned partisans on each side of the ATV issue, the Johnsburg Town Board voted 4-1 Tuesday against a proposed law that would have been a preliminary step to allowing all-terrain vehicles on certain town roads.
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OLMSTEDVILLE — U.S. Department of State officials recently gave the Minerva Central School (MCS) approval to start an F-1 foreign exchange student program. Under this new program, exchange students would pay both tuition and room/board, giving a
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experience rather than an academic one. Under the new F-1 program, students pay tuition ($4,500 per student), but in return they earn academic credit for their efforts. If the student enrolls during their senior year, they can also receive a New York state diploma. However, MCS Superintendent Timothy Farrell said the decision to transition into F-1 visas wasn’t made just to give the school an enrollment
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students only a year later. Minerva has also sent students of its own to study abroad through Rotary International’s student exchange program. All of MCS’s past exchange students studied there under J-1 visas. In a J-1 program, students are not required to pay any sort of fee to the school for their year abroad. They do not earn academic credit for their stay either. The exchange is treated as a cultural and linguistic learning
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boost to enrollment while also providing the school with a little extra revenue. Though the school was only approved two weeks ago, MCS is no stranger to the exchange student business. Its students have been interacting with other cultures since 2008, when Newcomb Central School hosted its first crop of exchange students; Minerva and Newcomb shared a combined sports program. MCS started hosting its own
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the town and be an economic boost. “There’s plenty of revenue to go around,” he said. But Irene Kohn, president of the Garnet Hill Homeowners Association that represents 100 homeowners in North River said her group opposed the plan. “We don’t want to see Johnsburg transformed into an ATV mecca,” Kohn said, citing concerns about liability to the town and a potential negative impact on the environment.
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About 80 people gathered at Tannery Pond Community Center to voice their opinions. Several of them came from ATV clubs from outside the Johnsburg area. The crowd seemed fairly evenly split between those that supported the notion of allowing ATVs on public roads and those opposed. Rusty Heath, an official from a Vermont-based ATV association that represents 22 individual clubs said that allowing ATVs on town roads could draw riders from outside the area to
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NORTH CREEK — The new exhibit in the Corner Gallery of the Town of Johnsburg Library features artwork by Glens Falls native Tom Chard. Chard attended Adirondack Community College and then continued his formal education at SUNY New Paltz, where he pursued a degree in art education. He worked as an art therapy teacher in a home for retarded men, and then became a Veterans Employment Counselor for New York State. After working for the state for 30 years in many different capacities, he retired and opened A Far Shore Studios in Glens Falls and Bridport, Vt. His paintings show that he draws inspiration from mountain scenery and from the shore. Stop in and enjoy Chard’s beautiful paintings. The exhibit will be on display through September. The library is open on Wednesday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The library is located at 219 Main St., North Creek. For more information, call 251-4343.
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