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Bolton boil-water notice for ruptured pipe begins April 6
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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com
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BOLTON Ñ Planned repairs to a leaking water main has prompted a boil-water order beginning early morning Monday, April 6 for all Bolton residents served by the town water system. After dawn Monday, Town employees are to start working on a 12-inch water pipe along Finkle Road, a main line that delivers water from the town reservoir and water plant to the water system. They workers will be replacing a section of the pipe that has been leaking a substantial amount of water this week. During the repairs, a bypass connection will be made — several firehoses are to be hooked together, connecting hydrants on either side of the leaking portion of the water main. Finkle Road between the transfer station and Valley Woods Road will be closed CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Queensbury Supervisor-at-large Mark Westcott (center left) addresses more than 100 citizens attending an April 2012 rally he helped organize at the state Capital protesting unfunded state mandates. He announced March 21 that he will step down at year’s end. Photo by Thom Randall
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QUEENSBURY Ñ Queensbury Supervisor-at-large Mark Westcott will not be a candidate for his post this fall, he recently announced. Westcott announced that he was stepping down as of Dec. 31 in the latest edition of a newsletter he
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man Chris Gibson to the post as New York State Governor in 2018. Gibson announced in January that he would not be seeking re-election to represent the 19th District, merely a month after he won re-election by a wide margin. Gibson had represented the greater Glens FallsSaratoga region for four years before redistricting occurred. In 2010 when Gibson first ran to represent the 20th Congressional District, Mark had coordinated CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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distributes to thousands of his friends and political supporters. Ò I am in the process of embarking on a number of new initiatives that will require a full-time commitment and a great deal of travel in the future Ñ and for that reason, I decided it was best not to seek reelection,Ó his e-mail stated. Talk has circulated among political observers that Westcott may be helping a fellow Republican launch a campaign for a statewide or federal office. People have mentioned that he may be conducting advance work on a campaign to elect U.S. Congress-
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