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In SPORTS | pg. 2
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In OPINION | pg. 4
Bernie gets the shaft
System was stacked against Vermont Sen.
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Backwoods Pondfest on tap for Aug. 5-6
Essex County tethering law moves forward Law will be amended based on public, lawmaker input
away from a public hearing, the date of which will be determined next week if the full board signs off on the proposal. If so, lawmakers would then have another month to flesh out the ordinance based on discussion generated at that hearing. By Pete DeMola Lawmakers continued to have reservations over the current pete@suncommunitynews.com draft. Ron Moore (R-North Hudson) called the proposal “seriELIZABETHTOWN — Animal rights advocates scored a ously flawed.” victory on Monday when the Essex County Board of Supervi“At this point, I don’t think I can support this,” Moore said, sors Ways and Means Committee approved the introduction of a local dog tethering law. >> See TETHERING LAW | pg. 10 The greenlight puts the proposed legislation just one vote
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Solomon Northup descendants reflect on visit to Schroon history museum SCHROON — Solomon Northup’s memoir “12 Years A Slave” was written in 1893. But his ancestors find lessons in revisiting the tale today. A group of Solomon’s descendants recently traveled from their homes to Fort Edwards, then to Schroon and on to AuSable Chasm to visit the North Star MuseKim um. Dedam Their sojourn chronicled Solomon NorWriter thup Day, the third Saturday in July, a time that marks the approximate day his autobiographical story was published over a century ago. At the Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society Museum on Main Street in Schroon, the wall along one room pulls facets of Solomon’s experience into modern focus. Photographs, music, a ship’s manifest that names its human cargo, a pin-marked map are made multi-dimensional with the artifacts of slavery: chains, cotton plants, a mannequin wearing a cotton-picker’s clothes and a slave’s tag dangling around its neck. Solomon’s great-great granddaughter Irene Northrup-Za-
The Essex County Board of Supervisors will vote next week on the introduction of a dog tethering law.
Laura Dewey describes her work in researching and sewing the clothes typically worn by slaves who worked on cotton plantations.
Lohr McKinstry, Kim Dedam and Elizabeth Izzo hired; DeMola and Lobdell promoted
hos made what was a two-day pilgrimage for Solomon Northup Day this year and stopped here. “The violin above the mannequin in Schroon was a pivoting artifact in the life of Solomon,” she said of what is reflected in the museum’s telling of her family’s story. “It not only was an instrument that he was adept with, but one which was �instrumental’ in plotting his life with twelve years of slavery,” Zahos said. Solomon was “inveigled,” Schroon exhibit curator Laura Dewey explained. “He was tricked into thinking he could play fiddle for a traveling show and was taken, instead, into the deep south to
ELIZABETHTOWN — Sun Community News in Elizabethtown has added veteran reporters Lohr McKinstry and Kim Dedam to its talented team of journalists. The locally-owned company has also hired news clerk and arts columnist Elizabeth Izzo; named Keith Lobdell sports editor and designated Pete DeMola assistant managing editor. The announcements help solidify the newspaper group as the region’s number one source of superbly written community news. Sun Community News Managing Editor John Gereau said he is excited to welcome the new additions to his editorial team. “I’m ecstatic to bring this kind of talent and experience to Sun Community News,” Gereau said, noting that McKinstry and Dedam are well-known and respected journalists in the
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