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The Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School Teacher’s Association helped raised $6,930 for Darlene and Denny Mitchell, of Elizabethtown, through a volleyball tournament and raffle on Saturday. Darlene is currently waiting for a heart transplant in Boston. A second benefit, The Charles Pratt Run, 408. is scheduled for May 12, with all proceeds going towards the family. For more information, contact the Elizabethtown Social Center at 518-873-6408.
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• Proposed WCS budget exceeds tax cap Lobdell Photos by JillII Lobdell
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majority taxpayer approval. As proposed, the budget would raise $3,856,968 from taxpayers to support a total $6,562,000 in the 2018-19 spending plan. The board adopted the proposed budget last Thursday.
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WESTPORT| Westport Central School is looking for a 9.98 percent tax levy increase for the 2018-19 school year. The school board’s request exceeds the state-allocated tax cap of 2.42 percent and therefore requires 60 percent super-
The override seeks to preserve 2.5 teaching positions and thus retain high school programs amid rising costs of health insurance and net reduction of state aid. “The budget proposal would increase a homeowner’s school tax bill for the 2018-19 school year by an estimated $102.19 for each $100,000 of assessed property value,” said Interim
Superintendent A. Paul Scott in a district budget bulletin. A homeowner may have STAR or other exemptions that would be factored into that individual’s school tax bill. Meeting the 2.42 percent tax cap, he said, “would almost certainly require eliminating the equivalent of approximately two-and-one-half full-time equivalent teaching positions (2.5 FTE).” And it’s “very likely,” he said, that at least some of those cuts to teacher positions would result in reducing secondary grades course electives and reducing the total number of course sections available for students next year. » WCS budget Cont. on pg. 2
Teens imprisoned: Vice as vise Research book sparks discussion, questions effectiveness of juvenile incarceration
intervention and evidence-based treatment. Raise the Age ensures that 16 and 17-yearolds won’t be incarcerated at Rikers Island and provides individual pathways for teens to seal prior convictions after a 10-year period free of further criminal behavior. The law becomes effective for 16-yearolds on October 1 this year and for 17-yearolds on Oct. 1 2019. Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is working to update Adirondack facilities ahead of that deadline. But others are watching to see how programs adapt for youth within the same prison walls. Opening discussion locally, Dr. Alexandra Cox, a college professor who has worked with youth inside five New York juvenile facilities, suggests the system itself is a vise, thus a vice. Her research is presented in a new book: “Trapped in a Vice: the Consequences of Confinement for Young People” published by Rutgers University Press on January 30. » Incarceration Cont. on pg. 5
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Dr. Alexandra Cox discussed her research and experience working in five juvenile detention facilities around New York State in light of ongoing reform under new Raise the Age legislation. Adirondack Correctional Facility is being renovated as a facility for 16- and 17-year-old non-violent offenders. Photo by Kim Dedam
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LAKE PLACID | Prison programs for juveniles age 16 and 17 are in the midst of major reform in New York state. The Adirondack Correctional Facility in Ray Brook is undergoing a $23 million renovation project, preparing to house teens as part of New York’s Raise the Age reform legislation. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last October that the new laws look to change the way 16and 17-year-olds are processed in the criminal and youth justice systems and changes the placement (in prison) they may receive. The new law ensures that adolescents who commit non-violent crimes receive
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ELIZABETHTOWN | There will be no Republican primary for the Essex County sheriff ’s race. Essex County Sheriff ’s Office Deputy Major David Reynolds was endorsed by the Essex County Republican Committee in a 2-to-1 margin over his prospective primary opponent on Thursday. » Sheriff Cont. on pg. 14
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