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September 5, 2009
Remembrance
Leg Up!
Sports
Hundreds attended service to pay tribute to friend and civic leader Wayde Earl.
A new dance studio is opening in Chestertown.
Rosters, schedules and predictions all in our fall sports preview.
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Bolton doctor’s film on health care crisis garners national audience By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com BOLTON LANDING — Friday, the PBS television program Bill Moyers Journal aired segments of a documentary film examining perplexing aspects of the national health care crisis. Excepts of the film, “Money-Driven Medicine,” had been presented earlier on ABC’s Nightline.
Local viewers were likely unaware that Bolton Landing’s own Dr. Walter McConnell, a retired physician, conceived and produced the documentary. Also, they may not have realized that a few scenes in the documentary were filmed in the Chestertown Health Center, featuring Dr. Dan Larson of parent organization Hudson Headwaters Health Network expressing his views on the
health care crisis. McConnell, who lives yearround on the shore of Lake George, is the executive producer of the documentary which details how health care in the U.S. has become expensive, is mired in bureaucracy and litigation, and has eroded the traditional doctor-patient relationship. The documentary is headed for national release for showings in up
to 14,000 theaters nationally, McConnell said Monday. McConnell, who has personally experienced how health care has changed radically since the 1960s, said that a strong doctor-patient relationship — now threatened by the way medicine is controlled by corporations — is vital to providing effective care that promotes health.
See HEALTH CARE, page 11
Dr. Walter McConnell
Schumer seeks to curb milfoil, ash borer, other destructive pests $94.6 million, 70 new DEC jobs eyed
Visiting the Adirondacks Aug. 24, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, pictured with Congressman Scott Murphy (left), announced that he is seeking nearly $100 million to curb the spread of invasive species By Jonathan Alexander denpubs@denpubs.com TUPPER LAKE — Visiting the Adirondacks Aug. 24, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer announced that he is seeking nearly $100 million to curb the spread of invasive species, particularly insects – which Schumer said could greatly devastate the upstate economy if left unchecked. Botanists have warned that the Emerald Ash Borer, now sweeping across the Midwest, and the Asian Longhorn Beetle, now invading New York State, could both destroy many millions of hardwood trees throughout the Northeast.
During this year’s Kindergarten Roundup event, a local youngster takes a comprehension skills test administered by a Warrensburg Elementary staffer. The girl will be headed off to school this next week, as school resumes for the 2009-10 year. Read the full story on page 3. Photo by Thom Randall
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