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By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com TICONDEROGA Ñ Ticonderoga Central School District voters approved a 2013-14 $18.5 million budget that cut employees and academic programs in May. Two months later, all programs and most staff have been reinstated. The Ti school board voted to restore 20 positions during its July 9 meeting. When the 2013-14 budget was adopted 25 employees were cut, totalling 11.6 full-time equivalent positions. Ò Everything is back at 201213 levels,Ó Ti Superintendent John McDonald said, Ò except two teaching assistants and four retirements we havenÕ t replaced.Ó What happened? New teacher and non-instructional union contracts, approved after the budget vote, created enough savings to rescue the previously-cut jobs. Also helping was a late $100,000 grant from State Sen. Betty Little. The major savings is in the new Ti Teachers Association contract. Teachers, who had given up $1 million in pay by taking salary freezes the past three years, were scheduled to return to their contractual pay scale this academic year. That CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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John McDonald, Black Watch Memorial Library trustee, speaks in front of a plaque honoring the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment — The Black Watch Regiment — during a ceremony to dedicate a new exhibit at the library. The exhibit depicts the Battle of Carillon on July 8, 1758, when the regiment had 305 men killed and another 323 wounded. The exhibit was created by Denise Huestis. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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