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Elizabethtown mourns loss of community icon Denny Egglefield remembered for love of cars, charitable efforts By Kim Dedam and Pete DeMola STA FF W RITER /EDITOR
ELIZABETHTOWN | The streets of Elizabethtown awoke last Friday with markedly less roar. The community is mourning the passing of lifelong resident, an icon of his estimable family and well-respected businessman Dennis “Denny” K. Egglefield. Egglefield passed away last Thursday surrounded by friends and family following a battle with liver cancer, according to Denny’s daughter, Shelby Egglefield. He was 70. “This community is something my dad has so much pride in,” Shelby wrote on Facebook. “And today, as he passed, was almost as it should be.” Shelby noted the 108th anniversary of the
family’s Egglefield Brothers Ford Dealership on Aug. 1, “which has been a pillar of this community since 1910, and so has my father.” She thanked family, friends, new friends and an entire community who have rallied to support the family in their time of grief. “My brother Cory, Kent, myself and my mother thank you all. We will keep you all posted on future plans for his services.” The loss closes a fourth generation of Egglefield Ford owners in Elizabethtown, handing the oldest Ford sales and service organization in New York state to a fifth generation, Denny’s sons Kent and Cory with guidance from Denny’s uncle Lew Egglefield, a third generation Egglefield Ford owner. Egglefield led the dealership through an era that earned numerous awards while making innumerable contributions for sponsorship and at fundraising events for area civic groups, schools and other causes. “Denny Egglefield was a well-respected dealer here in the region,” said Ford spokeswoman Sherrice Gilsbach. “The Egglefields have been Ford dealers for over 100 years. Denny served many years on the New England FDAF board.” » Egglefield Cont. on pg. 17
The community is mourning the passing of lifelong resident and well-respected businessman Dennis “Denny” K. Egglefield. Photo provided
Essex County-wide EMS nets $6.5 million start Funds will go towards proposed shared district By Kim Dedam STAFF WRITER
With Charter ordered to leave the state, local stakeholders wonder what’s next.
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Provider was poised to expand local service By Pete DeMola EDITOR
lators to revoke Charter Communications’ merger approval with Time Warner has cast North Country broadband expansion efforts into uncertainty. Charter, which does business as Spectrum in New York, was required to expand high-speed internet to 145,000 rural locations throughout the state within four years as part of the 2016 deal.
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TICONDEROGA | It appears New York State is prepared to fund a proposed $6.5 million county-wide shared emergency medical services (EMS) program in Essex County. Chairman of the Essex County Board of Supervisors Randy Preston announced Monday he received word of grant approval from the governor’s office. “We’ve been awarded $6.5 million for the EMS program,” Preston told lawmakers. Grant funding for a five-year term would come from the state’s Municipal Restructuring Fund in increments.
It would build a shared service aimed at hastening EMS response times in Essex County, fi lling significant gaps in a dispersed, widespread population that expands to twice or three times its size in summer. The challenge, it appears, is how to sustain this over the cycle of increasing and decreasing need across mountains as people come and go.
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Based on research study and planning over two years, the program would first bolster emergency medical services in areas where gaps exist in ambulance or emergency medical response, sectors where calls are dropped, triggering mutual aid and elongated wait time. » EMS Cont. on pg. 16
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