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March 17, 2018

Valley News

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VALLEY GROCERY DESTROYED BY FIRE

APA SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT IN DEFINING ADIRONDACK “TRAVEL CORRIDOR”

State Land Master Plan amendment to specify uses for state-owned railroad lines and railroad beds By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER

RAY BROOK | Adirondack Park Agency commissioners took a first look at proposed changes to the definition, management and use of Adirondack Park State Land “Travel Corridors.” They did not weigh in last week on the proposed State Land Master Plan (SLMP) amendment, but they did open discussion to public hearing and review. APA Deputy Director Kathy Regan outlined six options clarifying land-use and regulation of a Travel Corridor. » APA Cont. on pg. 11

Over a dozen agencies responded to blaze at local grocery shop on Route 73 » Fire Cont. on pg. 5

Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department brought an aerial ladder truck to help contain and extinguish the fire Sunday at Valley Grocery, a local mom-and-pop market in Keene Valley Photo by David Thomas-Train

County ponders higher age to buy smokes Essex County is considering restricting tobacco sales By Lohr McKinstry STA FF W RITER

ELIZABETHTOWN | The Essex County Board of Supervisors moved forward Monday on a local law that would raise the purchase age in the county for tobacco from 18 to 21. After an hour of discussion that included how much businesses would lose from reduced cigarette sales to restricting a person rights, the board’s Human Services Committee voted 6-3 to go to public hearing on the proposed ordinance. The hearing was set for 9 a.m. on Monday, April 9 in the Old County Courthouse at Elizabethtown. Essex County Public Health Director Linda Beers asked the committee to move forward on the law. She said it was part of the Adirondack Health Institutes’s regional Tobacco 21 effort to discourage youths from becoming addicted to tobacco use. Beers said studies show 96 percent of smokers start before

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the age of 21. She said estimates are that about 145 county residents die from smoking-related diseases annually. The statewide minimum tobacco purchase age is 18, but counties can raise it by local law. “By moving this legislation it is our hope it removes the pipeline to younger children,” Beers said. “My dad was addicted at the age of 16, suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 44. He was chronically ill. “It was completely due to his excessive smoking as a young person.” She said Tobacco 21 can remove the possibility of addicting another generation. Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School senior Lee Turner, a member of the anti-tobacco group Reality Check, addressed the board. “I have asthma from being exposed to second-hand smoke as a kid,” Turner said. “The first time I was ever offered a cigarette was when I was 13 years old. I said no, but a lot of kids my age did not say no. There are kids in my class addicted to tobacco, 17, 18 and some 19 year olds.” She said some students in her school give tobacco to younger children. » Smoking Cont. on pg. 5

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