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June 8, 2013
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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE „ The premier event to celebrate Warren CountyÍ s Bicentennial „ set for Wednesday June 12 in the old county courthouse „ will undoubtedly immerse participants in history. The countyÍ s supervisors will be convening in a ceremonial session „ where they met until the mid-1900s to conduct governmental business. Featured at the event, which begins at 10 a.m., will be state Historian Robert Weible who is to deliver a Bicentennial address on behalf of state government leaders. Legislative dignitaries are also expected to attend the historic ceremony, said Lake George Town Board member Marisa Muratori, who is scheduled to give a presentation on local history. ñ This will be a landmark event for Warren County,î she said. ñ It continues the historic narrative of our county.î Additional presentations will be made by a re-enactor portraying James Caldwell, founder of the town of CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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A Marine color guard member ceremoniously presents an American flag to Kathy Templeton during interment ceremonies held May 23 in honor of her father Wayne Smith, a Marine staff sergeant who died about seven years ago. Photo by Thom Randall
Local Marine finally honored By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com SARATOGA „ After a volley of shots was fired into the air by a military honor guard, Thurman resident Kathy Templeton took a box containing her fatherÍ s ashes and solemnly placed them in a memorial wall located in the Gerald Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.
Moments before, a group of four Marines from Massachusetts, in full formal uniforms, had unfolded an American flag, held it aloft, and refolded it — all in crisp ceremonial motions. Then one of the Marines knelt in front of Templeton, presenting the flag to her for posterity — while tears welled up in TempletonÍ s eyes. Her father, U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Wayne B. Smith of Johnsburg, had received full military honors in the me-
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LAKE GEORGE „ Rain pelted the metal roof overhead, at times drowning out the words of New York National Guard Colonel Eric Olsen as he spoke at Warren CountyÍ s annual POW-MIA Memorial Cer-
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morial ceremony. It was conducted by Warrensburg American Legion Post 446 Adjutant Gene Pierce, who is also commander of the Warren County American Legion. The service was attended by about a dozen members of the Saratoga National Cemetery Honor Guard. As cemetery workers sealed off the interment compartment with a stone door
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emony held Sunday, June 2. Participating in the event were dozens of veterans, many of them motorcyclists whoÍ d ridden through a drenching thunderstorm that displaced the ceremony from Prospect Mountain to the Lake George American LegionÍ s picnic pavilion off Rte. 9L. ñ You guys have the grit, because youÍ ve seen far worse,î he said to the bikers „ many of them stand-
ing at attention holding flags as a color guard — noting how theyÍ d ridden from the mountaintop to the Legion Post through the downpour. Among those navigating the downpour on two wheels were American Legion Riders groups from Chestertown, Warrensburg, Mechanicville, Hudson CONTINUED ON PAGE 15
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