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By Thom Randall
Supervisor to be county leader?
thom@denpubs.com QUEENSBURY — Although Warren County’s leaders have all but wrapped up their 2013 budget which includes eliminating 11 government jobs, continuing financial challenges persist that may prompt other cost-cutting initiatives, according to county Administrator Paul Dusek. Warren County’s $149.9 million spending plan, featuring a 1.99 percent increase in the county’s property tax levy, is headed for a public hearing at 10 a.m. Friday Nov. 16. “This budget is just the start of a long-term process,” Dusek said, noting that decreased revenues and ever-increasing employee health care and pension costs will continue to pressure the county’s finances. Also, the county’s Westmount nursing home is expected to cost taxpayers millions of additional dollars over the next six years due to declining state reimbursements — a prediction that
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Listening to a prayer during Veterans Day ceremonies in Warrensburg are VFW Post 4821 Color Guard members (left rear to right): Wayne Steves, Bob Therrien, Bob Newton, Monty Fish and Eddie Bates.
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Warrensburg veterans honored for sacrifices By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — In a solemn ceremony at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, about a dozen local war veterans honored the sacrifices their comrades made during various wars in protecting liberty and freedom.
Standing in Frederick Flynn Memorial Park on Veterans Day, local VFW commander Phil Baker gazed into the steely sky. “Courage is our willingness to die for something greater than ourselves,” he said. “Today, we honor those who had the courage and bravery to fight for our freedom — Let us never forget them.” Local V.F.W. President Debbie Walsh
offered her thoughts. Her father, the late Kenneth Johnson, was a sergeant in the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, fighting in Sicily for the 110th Mountain Division. Hit by shrapnel in a conflict, he suffered injuries. “My Dad was preparing to become a physical education teacher — then he CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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Town of Thurman yanks support for EMS squad By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com ATHOL — The Thurman Town Board has proposed to withdraw its financial support for the Thurman Emergency Medical Services, a move which agency officers said
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The budget was presented at the monthly Thurman town board meeting held Tuesday Nov. 13. In August, squad officers submitted a proposed EMS budget to the town, citing they needed $115,000 from the town to maintain the round-the-clock services they are now providing.
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threatens the squad’s existence. Thurman’s preliminary 2013 budget, calling for a $625,528 tax levy, doesn’t list any money toward the independent agency’s operation, as it has in past years. The budget does include, however, a final payment of $12,685 towards the squad’s ambulance.
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