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By Thom Randall
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thom@denpubs.com IN WARRENSBURG
WARRENSBURG — Warrensburg High School underwent a lockdown at 12:15 p.m. Thursday Nov. 15 due to a bomb threat, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the school building for about an hour. School principal Doug Duell said later Thursday that a student discovered a bomb threat on a bathroom wall and reported it to personnel in the school office, who called the police. Four Warren County Sheriff ’s patrol officers, one county sheriff ’s investigator, and a state Trooper all arrived on the scene shortly afterwards to investigate the incident. At about 1:15 p.m., students emerged from the building, class by class, into the wintry weather and walked about 100 yards down Horicon Avenue where they were told to take
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From left, Cady Loveday, Destiny Barrett, Leah Jenne and Kansey Jones play outside at the Lake George Elementary School. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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County OKs budget, more layoffs possible By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com QUEENSBURY — Although Supervisors voted Friday Nov. 16 to approve Warren County’s 2013 budget which calls for eliminating 11 jobs, as many as 20 more positions may be in jeopardy if the county can’t get concessions in negotiations with its main employee
union, county leaders said this week. County Administrator Paul Dusek told county supervisors Nov. 16 that he’d prepared a “layoff report” that listed positions that could be cut without a favorable contract settlement with the Warren County chapter of the Civil Service Employees Association, which rejected the county’s contract proposal in October. Dusek declined to identify the posi-
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tions at risk, but he did say the county Public Health Department would be spared cuts because it already had several vacant posts open due to a countywide hiring freeze. “We’re hoping we don’t need to employ this list,” Dusek said. “If we have to enact layoffs, services will have to be cut.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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County Tourism Dept. opens new visitor center
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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — For years, Warren County Tourism Department has sought to establish a presence on the so-called Million Dollar Half-Mile — to tout the county’s at-
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tractions to the tens of thousands of people who pass by on Rte. 9 between Northway Exit 20 and state Rte. 149. Years ago, the county leaders nearly bought the former Basketville store for such a purpose. Over the past 20 years, several other sites were also under considera-
tion — to hijack tourists traveling on this principal route from New York City and New Jersey to Vermont. The long-held dream of tourism gurus has now become a reality. As of this weekend, county tourism employees will be publicizing area amenities — in a new county Information Center in the Adiron-
dack Factory Outlet Mall. Warren County Supervisors voted Friday Nov. 16 to allocate $50,000 to the enterprise, and the sum is to pay for mall-space rental, staffing, furniture, and equipment. The county tourism display area is located just past Timberland in the interior mall. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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