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July 18, 2015

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SOUNDS AT SHEPARD

Ballots take shape as petitions for public office filed

This Week WARRENSBURG

Some candidates face rejection

Echo Lake town park enhanced

By Thom Randall

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QUEENSBURY Ñ Politics in Warren County took some unexpected detours this week as  deadlines  passed  for  fi ling  petitions to run for public offi ces  in  affi liation  with  mainstream political parties. Three of the many candidates  for  local  public  offi ces  aren’t  likely  to  be  getting  the  Republican ballot line as they had  been  seeking,  as  several  sets  of  petitions  were  judged  invalid by the county election  commissioners this week after challenges  were  fi led  by  local  citizens. Petitions  for  Warrensburg  Town Board member Linda Baker  Marcella,  Thurman  highway  superintendent  candidate John M. Haskell Jr. and Stony  Creek  Highway  superintendent candidate Leon B. Bills,  were  all  determined  to  be  invalid.  All  three  can  submit requests by Friday, July 17  CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

Autosaver Ford celebrates 1 year PAGE 8 WARRENSBURG

Trombonists of the Honeoye Falls Community Concert Band perform during the 2011 edition of the Lake George Festival of Community Bands. The 2015 festival is to be held the evening of Friday, July 17 and from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday July 18 in the Shepard Park amphitheater. Photo by Thom Randall

Open house held at Small Tales PAGE 11

Stolen historical marker to be replaced this fall 6

LETTERS

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TURNING BACK

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RICHARDS LIBRARY

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NEWS IN BRIEF

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CLASSIFIEDS

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Funds raised by Internet crowd-funding campaign By Ryan Edwards ryan@denpubs.com JOHNSBURG — A  mysterious  theft  that  has  baffl ed concerned citizens and local law enforcement for

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nearly a year, while still unsolved, is set to be rectifi ed  later this year. Last  August,  a  $1,200  blue  and  yellow  historical  marker  placed  by  the  Johnsburg  historical  society  along the side of Route 28 between the Glen and Weavertown was stolen less than a year after its Fall 2013  installation. The  sign  commemorated  the  birthplace  of  Civil  War  photographer  Mathew  B.  Brady,  who  became

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famous for his ground-breaking battlefi eld photography and his portraits of celebrities and politicians of the day — including the portrait of Abraham Lincoln  which adorns the current $5 bill. The sign was placed at a pull-off about half a mile  from what remains of the foundation of the home in which Brady was born in 1822, now on private  CONTINUED ON PAGE 9

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