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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG Ñ One person may soon be serving as sole assessor for two northern Warren county towns, if plans endorsed by both municipalities’ leaders materialize. The town boards of Warrensburg and Chester have endorsed the idea of sharing the services of Greg Klingler, now serving as Warrensburg Town Assessor. At a town board meeting last week, the Warrensburg town board approved sharing Klingler’s services with the town of Chester, if suitable agreements can be worked out with Klingler and the town of Chester. Warrensburg Supervisor Kevin Geraghty said the board is seeking to work out such agreements before Jan. 1, when the new work arrangement would begin. Geraghty continued that the Warrensburg council members were expecting Chester would be paying more than half of Klingler’s salary, because Chester has substantially CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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Dignitaries and residents gathered for a special Saratoga & North Creek Railway event at the North Creek train station in 2011. The railway resumed service Aug. 9 after a minor derailment shut down the operation a week earlier. File photo
Derailment disrupts train service By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE Ñ A minor derailment on the Saratoga & North Creek Railway suspended passenger train service for several days last week, but repairs to the track had the railway operating again by Friday Aug. 9, according to a railroad representative. A locomotive being pulled behind
a tourist train jumped the track on the morning of Aug. 2, which didn’t affect passenger cars, according to Luisa Sherman, spokeswoman for the railway. The derailment happened in Thurman between Thousand Acres Ranch and Thurman Station. Sherman said that although the passengers onboard weren’t affected, they were shuttled back to the North Creek station via buses. Repairs have been made, and inspections have been conducted by Federal rail
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LAKE GEORGE Ñ For decades, the state of New York has been discharging water into town-owned sewer mains, and local municipal officials said this week they are going to charge them for the expense
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administration inspectors, she said. Railway General Superintendent Justin Gonyo said the inspectors Ò found no defects or violations with equipment or trackÓ despite the derailment on the railroad, owned by Warren County. Kevin Geraghty, Chairman of the county Board of Supervisors, said that the derailment caused the track to twist, but it has since been repaired.
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of sewer treatment — and assess fines if they don’t pay up. This announcement by town Supervisor Dennis Dickinson touched on one of several water and sewer problems that the Lake George Town Board focused on during their Aug. 12 meeting. Town Board member Dan Hurley said that a broken sewer pipe underneath state land Ñ either Bat-
tleground Park or the adjacent state campgrounds — was allowing groundwater to infiltrate and flow into the town’s sewer main. He said that engineers operating a remote camera in the main observed that when it was raining, the camera would become submerged with water. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13
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