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• EDITION •

Residents, local officials air broadband grievances Clock ticking on ambitious statewide broadband project

what is available at her home in New Russia.

“I think people with medical issues like mine should be a priority,” Virella told Empire State Development at a public hearing on broadband build-out efforts last Friday. “For me, it’s really important and for my family.”

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By Pete DeMola EDITOR

ELIZABETHTOWN | Deborah Virella lives in a broadband dead zone.

She and her husband, both retired, want to start a business.

But it’s next-to-impossible without highspeed internet. Even more troublesome is that Virella has a life-threatening heart condition that must be continually monitored.

Virella had an upgraded device implanted in her heart last March, but cannot connect it to her phone because the technology surpasses

Virella was among the dozen-or-so residents, community stakeholders and local lawmakers who came seeking clarification on the state’s universal broadband program, which has long pledged to fully wire the state by the end of the year.

The hearing was designed to brief attendees on Slic Network Solutions’ build-out as part of the third and final round of grant awards announced last February, a $26.4 million project that will provide service to 4,610 locations across the North Country. » Broadband Cont. on pg. 4

Voters torpedo $4.6 million Keeseville Civic Center rehab

Supervisor: Town board plans to regroup, demolition not yet on the table

By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER

AUSABLE | Voters in the Town of Ausable sunk a proposal to bond $4.6 million for the rehabilitation of the old Keeseville Civic Center.

Of the town’s 1,920 registered voters, 403 showed up to the polls last week to weigh in on the referendum — 318 voted no, 85 voted yes.

So what happens now?

“The town board is going to have to work a little harder to figure out where we go with this building, and come up with a plan that the community will embrace,” said Ausable Town Supervisor Sandra Senecal, who went on to thank the workers who manned the polls in the un-airconditioned civic center in the sweltering heat on Aug. 28. » Rehab vote Cont. on pg. 2

Michael Hopmeier, who purchased a former missile silo in Lewis to house his business, said he must outsource work elsewhere due to the lack of high-speed broadband coverage in the area.

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Voters grapple with tough questions as merger timeline tightens

ELCS, WCS host discussions ahead of preliminary vote

By Pete DeMola EDITOR

WESTPORT | Voters at Elizabethtown-Lewis Central and Westport Central have reached a decisive moment that will chart their future trajectory for generations.

The school boards will vote next week on if each voters in district should approve a merger referendum.

If approved by each board, voters in each district will vote on Dec. 4.

Officials from both districts indicated they will allow voters to make the final decision.

“We encourage the community to be participating,” said Westport Central School Board member Sue Russell at a community discussion at Westport Central last Thursday. “We feel it’s essential for all of you to have a say in this decision — not us.”

NOT ‘US VS. THEM’

About 50 people attended the informal meeting to further probe some of the open questions surrounding a potential merger.

The final merger referendum vote will require voters to authorize the size of a reconstituted school board of either 5, 7 or 9 board members.

Incumbency does not guarantee a position on the new board,

and there’s no way to assure residents of Westport, Elizabethtown and Lewis would be guaranteed equal representation despite WCS containing fewer registered voters than ELCS. “The people on the board are acting in best interest of the new school district,” said Westport Central School Board member Jim Carroll. “The ‘us and them’ mentality — set it aside because it’s going to disappear.”

In an emotionally-charged meeting, residents also pondered the role of Elizabethtown-Lewis Superintendent Scott Osbourne in a potential combined district, citing his recent contract extension.

Osbourne’s contract was scheduled to expire in 2020, but ELCS unanimously extended it through 2023, a move that some voters in WCS perceive affords Osbourne an advantageous position in a prospective merged district and portends a lack of transparency with their ELCS counterparts.

“That bothers me that that is what they promised him,” Sheera Broderick. “They did everything they could to make that happen.”

Osbourne previously served as shared superintendent between the districts in 2016-17, an experiment that ended one year early.

Broderick said while she respected Osbourne, WCS faculty didn’t feel appreciated by the educator during his tenure.

She feared as superintendent of a combined district, Osbourne would push for a new building and the current location on Cisco Street would be shuttered.

“I think losing our school is a death knell for this community,” Broderick said. » Merger Cont. on pg. 3

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» Rehab vote Cont. from pg. 1 The town had planned to issue the $4.6 million bond to fund a major infrastructure overhaul of the 82-year-old building. The money would’ve brought the building back into code compliance, replacing the electrical and plumbing systems.

Future tenants would’ve been responsible for aesthetic upgrades.

The town hoped to ultimately rent out sections of the building, and explore the idea of moving the town’s offices there.

The Village of Keeseville’s offices were also once housed there.

By issuing the bond, taxpayers would’ve seen a tax increase of $1 per $1,000 in assessed value for the first few years until the principle was paid off, then $1.60 per $1,000 in assessed value for the next 25 years.

A total of $700,000 in grants from state and local agencies was awarded to help offset taxpayer costs; $500,000 from Restore NY, $100,000 from the Dormitory Authority of New York through state Sen. Betty Little’s office and $100,000 from the Moore Foundation. The town also applied for a $300,000 community block grant.

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Town Councilman Steven Sucharski told residents at a forum last month that if voters turned down the bond issue, the town would return all grant monies.

DEMOLITION?

Asked if demolition of the building was now on the table — a suggestion that multiple residents voiced during a public meeting on the project last month — Senecal said that demolition wasn’t yet being considered.

“Not at this point, no,” she said.

“We will continue to investigate all avenues and come up with something that everyone will embrace.”

Senecal told The Sun last month that the town hadn’t explored the cost of demolishing the building, and though the Village of Keeseville had explored the cost in 2009 and estimated the demolition at around $800,000, they “didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to it.”

The village also attempted to market off the building to a private buyer in the past, she said, to no avail.

Since absorbing the building in 2015 after the Village

of Keeseville dissolved, the town has spent a $49,000 state community block grant on services and studies designed to test the waters on the feasibility of rehabbing the building.

They’ve also budgeted approximately $20-25,000 per year on maintenance and utilities since acquiring the property, according to Senecal.

HISTORY

The 55,000 square-foot building at the heart of the old village was formerly the Keeseville High School, before it was consolidated in the early 1970s with schools in Au Sable Forks to form the AuSable Valley Central School District.

It was originally built in the late 1930s.

After that, it was used by the village as a civic center, before closing in 2010. A number of agencies and non-profits have used the space for short periods in the past — including the New York State Police — but as of this year, the building’s sole occupant is the Development Authority of the North Country, a telecommunications and broadband company.

The town also uses it as a polling station. ■

Horse show to benefit children with cancer

Gymkhana will be held day of Essex County harvest festival

A gymkhana is a lineup of games and races on horseback. The event will be held in conjunction with the Adirondack Harvest Festival, dog shows, and a hike sponsored by Champlain Area Trails, with plenty of food and farm vendors at the fairgrounds. There will also be opportunities to donate to the Riley’s Wishes, a South-Essex County volunteer group formed in memory of Riley James Louis Knight.

It was Riley Knight’s wish that other children in the community be given the same generous Christmases that he had received during his illness.

Last year Riley’s Wishes, which depends on donations, was able to give three local children a better Christmas, and it also offered a $500 music scholarship for a member of Riley’s class at Ticonderoga High School.

By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER

WESTPORT | Any equestrian will tell you that horses aren’t all fun and games.

But sometimes they are. Nowhere will that be more apparent than at the Essex County Fairgrounds in Westport on Saturday, Sept. 15, when the Northern Adirondack Riding Club presents a gymkhana to benefit Riley’s Wishes, a nonprofit group supporting children with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses.

During the year, the organization provides financial relief to families running back and forth to hospital and doctor appointments, with gas and gift cards.

Other fundraisers this year include a basket raffle on Sept. 29, and a craft fair and penny social on Nov. 24.

For more information, or to donate, Riley’s Wishes can be reached at 518-741-0940 or at rileywishesinc@aol.com. The group’s Facebook page is facebook.com/4riley Moreen Roy, of the Northern Adirondack Riding Club, said the gymkhana is a good way to raise money, and is also fun for participants looking for riding opportunities.

The club has about 100 members and 70

riders, about 50 of whom are young people.

“We’re a close knit group and we’re very big on sportsmanship, and encouraging each other,” she said. Young riders also get a chance to show off their riding skills and the progress they have made over the summer.

“You can see (a rider) in May, and then in October you’ll be saying ‘look at him or her go now!’” Roy said.

Entry prices to the day’s event is $15 for lead line and peewee, and $30 for all other divisions. Games will include Turn ’n Burn; Arizona Keyhole; Washington Poles; Boot ’n Hook; and Streaking Poles. There will be a jackpot barrel race for $10.

“It’s fun to watch,” Roy said. “We tell them, run it like you stole it.” ■

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WHAT COMES NEXT

The ELCS and WCS School Boards will vote Sept.

12 and Sept. 13, respectively, to authorize a merger referendum. If one or both school boards declines, the process is terminated.

Residents of each district will vote in a preliminary advisory referendum on Oct. 9.

If the straw polls are approved by each community, voters will head to the ballot box for a final public referendum on Dec. 4.

Voters in each district must approve the merger.

If each votes yes, the district is effectively merged.

“If either votes no, everybody walks away,” Meyer said.

Sun Community News is hosting a community forum on the proposed school merger at The Depot Theatre in Westport on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. ■ About 50 people attended an informal meeting at Westport Central on Aug. 30 to probe some of the open questions surrounding a potential merger with Elizabethtown-Lewis Central.

By Pete DeMola » Merger Cont. from pg. 1 Westport Central K-12 Principal Josh Meyer said the district is awaiting a legal opinion on Osbourne’s contract.

The final merger report suggests a new school could be built sometime in the next 10 years at a cost of approximately $50 million.

The state would fund 90 percent of new construction, or approximately $45 million, and district taxpayers would provide the balance.

Officials have said while it’s too early to detail where a potential new central building would be located, both districts are in need of a new bus garage, and have long floated the idea of a shared facility located central to the two campuses.

Each school board has accepted the findings of a merger study that was concluded earlier this year following work sessions spread across nearly 10 months.

But several voters said they didn’t have enough information to make a decision.

“There are other alternatives,” said Scott Gibbs, who said he was undecided. “The pro-merger argument is articulated everywhere. I really feel like the message we’re getting is we have no choice but to do this.”

STORM CLOUDS GATHERING

OPEN WOUNDS

Bette Fox recalled when the former Hague Central School District was incorporated into Ticonderoga Central four decades ago.

“The people were so upset, the superintendent had sugar put in his radiator,” Fox said. “There was so much bitterness.”

No jobs were lost due to attrition, Fox said, but open wounds remained in the community for years.

“That happened about 42 years ago, and it’s still going,” Fox said.

Micha Stewart lives in Westport and teaches at Moriah Central. He wondered how to get the public to understand the gravity of the situation.

“It’s of vital importance that this gets out to more people than just us,” he said.

The ELCS School Board facilitated an identical discussion with voters last Thursday.

Meyer acknowledged the deep questions.

“There’s no doubt there are real concerns moving forward,” he said. ■

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The prolonged merger talks have opened up broader, more existential questions that continue to gnaw at the community — including its very survival.

Sam Sherman noted the school building acts as an economic driver in the community and fretted what would happen if students were shuttled elsewhere.

“I look at the school as a business in the community, and they spend money in Westport,” Sherman said.

Meyer repeatedly said he’d work to execute whatever decision is made by district voters in December. But he painted a bleak portrait of Westport Central’s future if voters nixed a merger.

The total sum of all extracurricular activities, including sports, is roughly the cost of one full-time teacher, he said, and slashing extracurriculars isn’t enough to reverse budget trends.

“We would have to look at the entire extracurricular program for it to truly be impactful to our budget,” he said.

WCS could also pursue an endowment like Keene Central or Chazy Central Rural School, Meyer said, or import foreign exchange students, 30 of which would be needed to be viable to generate revenue.

“I think that they all have their own drawbacks,” Meyer said.

But without those sources of revenue, the district would be likely forced to tuition out 7-12 students to other districts and slash teaching staff, neither of which appeared to particularly attractive, he said.

Furthermore, doing so would also be procedurally tricky, he admitted, because eliminating teaching positions and tuitioning out students would still require a vote by voters.

But if residents opt to torpedo a merger, Meyer assumed they would also decline to tuition out students.

WCS would also be required to pay the transportation costs of busing students to neighboring districts.

The district could also reduce the school day to 5.5 hours and shut the building at 1:30 p.m., but doing so would likely pose child care issues for parents.

“I would be impressed if we can get that to last 5 to 10 years with these projects,” Meyer said, pointing towards budget forecasts. “It’s more like 3 to 4 years.”

A school district can’t go bankrupt, he said. But if a district can no longer teach what is mandated by the state Education Department, the state would take over operations.

Westport Central School Board member Tom Kohler wished the district wasn’t presented with the question, calling the prospects “unsettling.”

“These numbers are inching closer year by year,” he said.

“I want to save the school. But what does it mean to you to

save our school?”

He painted a gloomy portrait of students trapped in a building “rotting” around them.”

“What are the real options that we have?” he said. “That’s what we’re stuck with. It’s upsetting but we have to stick with it and make it work for the future.”

Rachel Dowty Beach appeared frustrated that a third option forward did not appear to be viable.

Beach asked what the community could do on their own, whether it be applying for grants or other measures.

And she feared how the district could remain attractive to parents if it began to hemorrhage programing and staff.

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» Broadband Cont. from pg. 1

Elizabethtown Social Center

Slic’s grant award will allow the Nicholville-based provider to string as much as 865 miles of fiber in large chunks of Willsboro, Lewis, Johnsburg, Stony Creek and Thurman, as well as small pockets of locations in Chesterfield, North Hudson, Schroon, Ticonderoga, Essex and Warrensburg.

The remaining un- and underserved areas in Essex and Warren counties, as well as Harrietstown, will largely be mopped up through satellite service provided by HughesNet. Frontier and Verizon have also received contracts to provide services to locations in Hamilton and Clinton counties, respectively.

Back to school with the E-town Social Center In continuing the theme of last week’s column of caring for mind and body, the Elizabethtown Social Center has more new opportunities coming this fall.

Free computer basics classes

By Arin Burdo • COLUMNIST • will be offered at the center beginning Wednesday, Sept. 12.

Self-taught computer lover Jessica Green wishes to share what she has learned with anyone struggling with using a computer to meet their needs.

Jessica hopes to offer this free class on a weekly basis on Wednesdays at 1 p.m.

The introductory session on Sept. 12 will include a brief introduction of the instructor as well as a short history of how she gained her knowledge of computers and computer software.

It will also include an overview of upcoming course topics and a discussion of additional topics of interest that could be included later on.

These include a wide range of themes for a wide range of interests and abilities such as: how to use Windows 10, finding software, internet safety, social media, 3D modeling, simple game development, coding exercises and more. Come freely with ideas and feedback on your interests!

Michael Fergot will begin offering “Yoga: Basics for Wellness,” at the Elizabethtown Social Center on Wednesdays and Fridays at 9 a.m. starting Sept. 26.

Fergot began his studies of yoga in Madison, Wisconsin in 1982. In 2002, Michael took his first teacher training and has been teaching yoga fulltime in New York City since 2003.

He and his wife moved to Westport in Sept. 2017.

As an E-RYT 500 YA Teacher with over 13,000 hours of teaching experience, Fergot loves that yoga is perpetually inviting us to begin again.

“Yoga: Basics for Wellness,” will be accessible for every level of participant. The cost is $8 per class or $60 for a ten-class punch card. Please bring a mat and block. Some supplies are available to borrow.

Please feel free to contact Fergot for more information at 917-319-1022 or yogifergot@gmail. com. More information can also be found on his website, michaelfergotyoga.com.

For more information about social center programming, visit elizabethtownsocialcenter.org or call 518-873-6408. ■ — Arin Burdo is the Executive Director of the Elizabethtown Social Center.

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RENEWED COMPLAINTS

Elizabethtown-Lewis Chamber of Commerce spokesman Margaret Bartley said the lack of high-speed internet is crippling the county seat.

While Charter provides service to the downtown core, the outskirts are spotty.

Real estate agents say it’s “virtually impossible” to sell homes without broadband, Bartley said, and businesses will not relocate without the proper infrastructure.

“It’s killing the real estate business,” Bartley said. It’s reducing and depressing property values.”

Stakeholders renewed long-standing concerns that satellite service provided by HughesNet is insufficient.

Michael Hopmeier purchased a former missile silo in Lewis and envisioned the Cold War-era relic as the new home of Unconventional Concepts, an engineering consulting fi rm.

“From a technical point of view, the service provided

by Hughes is totally technically unacceptable and there is nothing that they can do to change it,” said Hopmeier, who said he must ship projects out to Virginia and Florida for completion.

Hopmeier came armed with questions for the state Broadband Program Office (BPO), seeking to discern the metrics used to measure performance; how officials define “99 percent” coverage; how contracts were issued to grant awardees; how to correct problems once they’re discovered and what will happen if the program ultimately underperforms.

Local officials submitted a Freedom of Information Law request to the BPO in May with those same questions.

“The gist of the responses we received was either no answer, ‘we won’t answer that’ or the answers made very little sense,” said Hopmeier.

State lawmakers have issued similar concerns, including state Sen. Rob Ortt, a Buffalo-area lawmaker who called for a state investigation into the program earlier this year.

“HughesNet is not broadband,” said Lewis Supervisor James Monty. “It’s a gross waste of public funds to use something that isn’t going to work.”

The BPO and HughesNet have repeatedly pushed back on those concerns.

HughesNet, which received $4.6 million in subsidies to serve roughly half of the remaining underserved locations statewide, contends the newest version of their satellite technology is capable of providing the 25 mbps required by the state agency as part of the grants.

But the Maryland-based company has acknowledged data will be capped, and speed throttled at 3 mbps once users reach that limit.

ROCKY RELATIONSHIP

The BPO has long had a whipsaw relationship with local officials.

Following lawmaker complaints on the lack of detailed information on build-out plans in their communities, agency brass held a public meeting in Willsboro in July that appeared to paper over their concerns.

But the détente was brief.

Lawmakers were apoplectic last month when they learned the original public hearing on Slic’s build-outs was being conducted at the same time as a county committee meeting in the same complex.

Members of the public came to the session on Friday armed with questions, but appeared disappointed to learn the session was designed strictly for public comment — not an extended Q&A. Some stakeholders appeared frustrated they could see fiber lines running through their yards en route to other locations, but the service was not being deployed at their homes.

Both lawmakers and members of the public called for additional public hearings and information sessions, joining those held in North Creek and Willsboro earlier this year.

“We’d like Empire State Development to pay careful attention that this is happening in the Adirondacks,” said Adirondack Council spokesman John Sheehan.

Essex County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Shaun Gillilland likened the program to a covenant with the public.

“The state made a promise and we’re all here expecting them to carry out that promise,” Gillilland said. “What we’re finding is the promise is falling very short, and it will be left to various counties to fulfill the promise.”

State officials have claimed “99 percent” of the state will be covered.

But they’ve tacitly acknowledged the project will not meet the 2018 deadline goal by allowing providers who received funds in the fi nal round of grant subsidies — including Slic — to apply to waivers requiring them to achieve “substantial completion of project construction”

by Dec. 31, 2019.

Local officials say additional federal funds will inevitably be required.

Essex Supervisor Ron Jackson likened existing infrastructure in some pockets of his community to Siberia.

“I hope that’s what’s been done is not considered final,” said Jackson. “It’s obvious that by the end of this year, not everyone is going to have coverage.” ■

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Connect to Jesus and others, Engage your local community, Involve yourself in ministry. LIFE Church service Sunday 10:30 am. LIFE Groups (see webpage for local groups) . AO Cafe open Monday-Thursday 8:30am-12pm. www.adklife.church - 209 Water Street Elizabethtown - lifechurchetown@gmail.com - (518)-412-2305 St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church - Court Street. 873-6760. Father Francis Flynn, Mass Schedule: Saturday 4:30 p.m., Weekdays: Consult Bulletin. Thursday 10:15 a.m. Horace Nye Home. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Website: wewe4.org Email: rccowe@gmail.com United Church of Christ (Congregational) - Court Street. 873-6822.

Rev. Frederick C. Shaw. Worship Service: Sun. 11 a.m.; Sunday School ages 4 - grade 6. Nursery service Email: FShaw@westelcom.com ESSEX Essex Community United Methodist Church - Corner of Rt. 22 and Main St. 963-7766. Peggy Staats Pastor, Sunday Worship - 10:15 AM, Sunday School - 10:15 AM. web page: https:// essexcommunitychurchny.org Foothills Baptist Church at Boquet - 2172, NY Rt. 22 in Essex.

Formerly Church of the Nazarene. Wednesday Night Service at 6 p.m.

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Email: foothillsbapt@netzero.net St. John’s Church - 4 Church Street, Essex, NY 518-963-7775 Holy Communion Sunday 9:15am; Morning Prayer- M, Th, Fri at 8:30am; Silent Prayer-Tues. 8:15; Contemporary Bible Study – Tues.

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10am. Father Craig Hacker email – frcraigstjohns@gmail.com and stjohnsessexny@gmail.com

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church - Rt. 22. 963-4524. Closed for the Winter.

HARKNESS Harkness United Methodist Church - Corner Harkness & Hollock Hill Rds., Harkness, NY. 834-7577. Rev. Edith Poland. Worship 9:30 a.m. ediepoland@aol.com JAY First Baptist Church of Jay - Andy Kane, speaker. Wednesday Prayer Service 6:30 p.m. Sunday Worship 9:30 a.m.

KEENE Keene Valley Congregational Church - Main Street. 576-4711.

Sunday Worship Services 10 a.m.; Sunday School 10 a.m. Choir Wednesday evening 7 p.m. and Sunday 9:15 a.m.

St. Brendan’s Catholic Church - Mass Saturday at 4 p.m. & Sunday at 11:15 a.m. from first Sunday in July to Labor Day. Saturday at 4 p.m. the rest of the year. Pastor: Rev. John R. Yonkovig; Pastor. Rectory Phone 523-2200. Email: stagnesch@roadrunner.com St. Hubert’s All Souls Episcopal Church - Sunday Holy Eucharist 9 a.m. (on some Sundays, Morning Prayer), July 3 through September 4.

Varying roster of priests celebrate communion each week.

KEESEVILLE Front Street Fellowship - Front Street Fellowship - 1724 Front Street, Keeseville, 645-4673. Pastors Rick & Kathy Santor. Sunday: Worship Service 10 a.m. Tuesday: Ladies Coffee 9:30 a.m. Wednesday: Prayer Fellowship 6 p.m. Website: www.frontstreetfellowship.org Email: kathy@frontstreetfellowship.org Immaculate Conception Church - Rt. 9, Keeseville, 834-7100.

Rev. Kris Lauzon, Pastor; Deacon John Lucero; Mass: Sunday 11:15 a.m. Confessions: Sunday after Mass.

Independent Baptist Church - Rte. 22 & Interstate 87, P.O. Box 506, Keeseville, NY. 834-9620. Sunday School 10:00 a.m., Sunday Morning Worship 11 a.m., Sunday Evening Worship 6 p.m., Prayer Meeting & Bible Study - Wednesday 7 p.m.; Youth Group Sunday 6 p.m. Website: ibck.org Email: oneillr@ibck.org Keeseville United Methodist Church - Front Street, Keeseville.

834-7577. Rev. Edith Poland. Sunday School 11:00 a.m.; Worship 11 a.m. 834-7577. Email: ediepoland@aol.com St. John the Baptist Catholic Church - Rt. 22, Keeseville, 8347100. Rev. Kris Lauzon, Pastor; Deacon John Lucero; Mass: Saturday 4:30 p.m. Confessions: Saturday 3:45-4:15 p.m.

St. Paul’s Church, Episcopal/Anglican - 103 Clinton Street, Keeseville. 518-563-6836. Sunday Sung Service 9 a.m. Email: bcbiddle@aol.com, Rev. Blair C. Biddle, Deacon Vicar.

The Good Shepherd Church of the Nazarene - 124 Hill Street, Keeseville, NY. 834-9408. Pastor Richard Reese. Sunday Service 10:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; Sunday School 9:30 a.m.; Tuesday Prayer Service 7 p.m.; Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.

LEWIS First Congregational Church - Lewis, 873-6822. Rev. Frederick C. Shaw. Sunday Services 9:30 a.m.; Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Email: Fshaw@westelcom.com www.firstcongregationalchurchoflewis.com MIDDLEBURY Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Middlebury Ward) - Sacrament Worship Service: Sunday 9:00am. Meetinghouse-133 Valley View, Middlebury, VT 05753.

REBER Reber Methodist Church - Reber Rd., Reber. 11 a.m. Sunday mornings. Pastor Ric Feeney.

PORT HENRY Lake Champlain Bible Fellowship - 6 Church Street, Port Henry, NY (518) 546-1176. Service 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Office hours - 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Other hours by appointment only. Pastor Ric Lewis.

WESTPORT Federated Church - Our worship service is at 9:00 a.m. We offer a blended contemporary and Christian service, along with Children’s Church.

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St. Philip Neri Catholic Church - 6603 Main St., Father Francis Flynn, Pastor. Residence, 873-6760. Mass schedule: Sun., 8:30 a.m.

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Cuomo foe Nixon brings insurgent message to Saratoga Springs “Sex and the City” actor faces Cuomo in Sept. 13 primary

By Pete DeMola EDITOR

SARATOGA SPRINGS | Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon stumped in Saratoga Springs on Sunday.

The brief stop at the Saratoga Arts Center was the furthest north she has steered her insurgent primary campaign since announcing a challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in March.

The “Sex and the City” actor delivered comments to an energetic, sign-waving crowd of about 120 people who were shuttled from a narrow hallway to a larger room shortly before the event.

Nixon sailed through a progressive wish list, including full funding for public education, single-payer health care, voting reform, giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, universal rent control and criminal justice reforms.

The self-described democratic socialist repeatedly excoriated the governor for not being suitably progressive, accusing him of “governing like a Republican.”

She repeatedly highlighted his governing partnership with the now-dissolved IDC, a group of breakaway Senate Democrats who caucused with the GOP until their return to the Democratic fold earlier this year.

“Andrew Cuomo handed over to the Republican Party of New York the ability to block almost every progressive piece of legislation we have had in this state,” Nixon said, citing campaign finance reform, public education funding and the Dream Act as examples.

The state Assembly has passed the New York Health Act numerous times and is just one co-sponsor away in the Senate of having a majority. Nixon repeatedly stressed the need to flesh out Democratic ranks, and as

governor, she pledged to sign the bill.

She also criticized Cuomo as a “corporate Democrat,” citing his lack of small dollar donations.

UPSTATE AGAIN OVERLOOKED

Last week’s debate between Cuomo and Nixon was widely criticized for a lack of emphasis on upstate issues. (Nixon has since challenged the governor to a second, upstate-only event.)

But despite the upstate swing which also took Nixon to Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, Ithaca and Schenectady, those issues again largely took a backseat during her half-hour stemwider.

Nixon did not mention economic development, rural transportation, shared services and local government in her remarks, and largely glossed over upstate infrastructure needs and environmental programming.

The first-time candidate did, however, criticize the governor’s two percent tax cap, referring to it as an “austerity budget” balanced on the backs of the state’s most economically disadvantaged residents.

“He has starved our cities and our towns and our rural areas of the most basic services,” Nixon said.

On environmental issues, the candidate called for a “polluter’s tax” she said would generate $7 billion in one year and subsequently “turbo-change” a shift to renewable energy that would create 100,000 jobs statewide.

Following the event, Nixon cited broadband, marijuana legalization and low milk prices crippling the state’s dairy industry issues important for rural voters.

“We need to do a much better job supporting our farmers,” said Nixon. “Certainly our dairy farmers are in a real crisis right now with the falling prices of milk. I think we need to do a better job supporting them; for local banks, to have more pressure put on them to fund local farmers, and I think we should really consider when you’re talking about the multi-state dairy co-ops that are hogging the lion’s share of the industry, I think we need to think about putting caps

Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary on Sept. 13, stumped in Saratoga Springs on Sunday.

Photo by Pete DeMola on milk production so that we’re not just driving the price of milk down and driving our dairy farmers out of business.”

WAVE PREDICTED

Unlike Cuomo, who has made attacking President Trump the centerpiece of his bid for a third term, Nixon gave the president scant mention.

Electing progressive Democrats in November is an opportunity for “real foundational change,” she said.

“I am tired of California getting all the glory,” Nixon said. “New York is the rightful seat of the Resistance.”

A Quinnipiac University poll released in July revealed Cuomo leading Nixon 59 to 23 percent.

Nixon acknowledged she faces a “David and Goliath” moment in her effort to dislodge Cuomo in the Sept. 13 primary.

But she cited what she said was surging Democratic voter registration alongside come-

from-behind victories like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Rep. Joe Crowley earlier this summer as evidence that a progressive moment is brewing, and that her support may be underestimated.

“This is why they didn’t see us coming,” she said. “This is a real moment.”

The Cuomo campaign batted away Nixon’s criticisms.

“No matter how many times Cynthia Nixon reads the same scripted lines, she cannot turn fiction into fact,” said Abbey Collins, campaign spokesman. “Governor Cuomo has the most progressive record of any governor in the nation — passing marriage equality, toughest gun safety laws, comprehensive paid family leave, a $15 minimum wage and banning fracking. The governor is focused on results. We’ll leave the baseless election year rhetoric to others.” ■ — This story has been abridged for print. To read this story in its entirety, visit suncommunitynews.com.

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Survey says…but can it be trusted?

We have so much information at our fingertips today, it’s no wonder people are beginning to realize the difference

By Dan Alexander between the news they • PUBLISHER • can trust to be accurate and the information that appears to be realistic on the surface, but upon closer review may not stand up.

Over the weekend, I caught a portion of a news segment regarding a Harris Poll on job satisfaction produced by an Oklahoma City-based firm called Express Employment Professionals.

The numbers sounded pretty good, especially for blue-collar workers and the segment featured Bob Massi, a legal analyst, who touted the report and stressed how the results reflected on the strength of the U.S. growing economy.

I wanted to follow up on the report and use it for my column this week.

Unfortunately, when I tried to find the actual report on the poll, all I could locate were other reports on the poll results.

After further searches, I found the details with same lead information and same infographic — but for Canadian blue collar workers.

It got me thinking about how could a major news network make such an error?

Then I thought about it being a holiday weekend with fill-ins, likely interns, assuming they didn’t invest the time to notice the results were based not on the United States workforce, but instead on Canadian workers.

So before scrapping the column idea, I continued looking further, only to discover two separate reports. One for each country.

The U.S. results are as follows: • 91 percent are proud of the work they perform; • 86 percent are satisfied with their jobs; • 85 percent believe their lives are headed in the right direction; • 80 percent say their jobs provide a good living; • 74 percent see a good career path in their chosen line of work; • 68 percent report a wage increase of 5 percent or more in the past year.

In the end, while I was skeptical that the news station had misrepresented the poll as an American one when it appeared it was a Canadian poll, further efforts to find more information found the details reported were based on U.S. respondents.

This exercise only serves to underscore the problem we have today believing what we read, see and hear, without following through further.

None of us can depend on the information we choose to believe unless we take the time to verify the source from various perspectives to determine its veracity. ■

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Upstate voters unserved by debate Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon squared off in their first and only debate last week ahead of the Democratic primary contest on Sept. 13.

As expected, upstate concerns were ignored.

Following a prelude in which the campaigns reportedly squabbled over the temperature of the venue, Cuomo and Nixon instead boasted over who could pose a more formidable challenge to President Trump — “He tweets at me weekly,” crowed Cuomo.

“I welcome it” — as well as bickered over their tax returns.

At one point, Cuomo repeatedly called Nixon a “corporation.”

“I’m a person,” she shot back.

New York City-centric issues dominated the hour-long event at Hofstra University, including who controls the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Tappan Zee Bridge and if state troopers should patrol the Big Apple.

The Adirondacks and its unique challenges were ignored completely.

Also not discussed:

Rural transportation challenges, mandate relief for local governments, environmental policy, clean water drinking infrastructure, property tax reduction, the effectiveness of the state’s economic development initiatives and the brain drain sapping rural areas.

New York is a big, diverse state and it’s tough to pack its myriad issues into just one hour.

But Cuomo has done a lot for upstate, something even his most staunch critics begrudgingly acknowledge.

Th e two percent property tax cap is broadly popular. So is the broadband program, despite its hiccups.

The governor also has a strong record when it comes to balancing economic and preservationist concerns in the Adirondacks.

And while the jury is still out on the effectiveness of economic programs and downtown revitalization efforts, other initiatives appear to be working — including relaxations to the craft beer industry and campaigns to promote upstate tourism.

Obviously many of the issues discussed at

the event have statewide implications, including single-payer health care and marijuana legalization — which could be a boon for upstate farmers tasked with growing the product — but we can’t help but feel as upstate voters were left lacking.

Perhaps cognizant to the criticisms, Nixon embarked on a whirlwind upstate tour following the debate, including a stop in Saratoga Springs on Sunday.

But we can still drive a truck through the holes left by her lack of familiarity with upstate issues.

She also challenged Cuomo to another debate. But with just days until next week’s contest, we don’t see that happening.

Both Cuomo and Nixon will both on the ballot in November regardless of next week’s results.

The now-settled pack of gubernatorial hopefuls — including Republican Marc Molinaro, Green Howie Hawkins, Libertarian Larry Sharpe and independent candidate Stephanie Miner — should hold regional forums across the state to ensure no New Yorker feels left behind. ■

Trump to blame for uninsured costs

Outraged over armed guards

intellectually narrow as it was shallow, is embarrassment enough.

“Mr. Altona” cheekily suggested that his political tribe prefers settling issues through “secret ballot” rather than “demonstration and mob violence.”

He conveniently ignores Republican selfserving, racially-driven voter suppression tactics and hyper-partisan gerrymandering which corrupts processes at the very heart of democracy.

He’s also seemingly oblivious to the Isislike terrorism of Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally and its shielded phalanxes of armed Neo-Nazis and Klansmen, both welcome in the Republican tent.

Flat rock man thinks that oxymoronic conservative compassion is the panacea for immigration ills and “border anarchy.”

I offer that blocking immigration reform, denying refugee families asylum, deporting the parents, kenneling their children in cages with no re-unification plans is the ultimate in border anarchy.

“Mr. Altona” believes that adding to the national debt is cruel and inhumane.

Fair enough.

But Republicans’ recent strong-arm taxation exercise in greed and economic malfeasance will add another $1.9 trillion to that debt, give 83 percent of the benefits to corporations and the top one percent, while ravaging working Americans and our most vulnerable and trigger efforts to pay for their thievery by cutting funding for our social safety nets.

The coda to his pettiness is calling liberals self-loathing and guilt ridden.

Letters

To the Editor: Editor’s note: Th is letter is in response to Bert Windle’s letter, “Displeased with attacks on Trump,” which appeared in the Sept. 1 edition of The Sun. Mr. Windle asks me to “get your facts in order.”

Before giving such advice, Mr. Windle needs to more carefully read what I wrote.

Specifically, I reacted to the previous letter-writer on the subject of “welfare benefits,” including the laundry list of programs I cited for which illegal aliens are not eligible. I made no reference to emergency room costs.

While I would wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Windle on the subject of uninsured emergency room costs, he fails to get his own facts in order.

While illegal immigrants account for a fraction of those uninsured costs, the substantial majority are caused by fully legal American citizens. That was one of problems which the Affordable Care Act was designed to address through its individual mandate.

Until Mr. Trump, with the able assistance of Elise Stefanik, decided to repeal that mandate.

It forced every taxpayer, legal or otherwise, to carry insurance which would address those very expenses which Mr. Windle rightly deplores.

If Mr. Windle shares my concern with those expenses which he and I have to support through our own insurance premiums, not our tax payments, I hope he will plead with Ms. Stefanik to join her Democratic colleagues in an effort to reinstate the individual mandate.

- Richard Barney, Ticonderoga ■

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To the Editor: It outrages me that the City of Plattsburgh School District has decided to bring guns into school instead of caring about their students getting to school.

They have decided not to help the poorer families by paying for public transportation to and from school. This was inadequate because the children arrived 55 minutes early and weren’t allowed on school property or 22 minutes late, but allowed poorer families to pay bills instead of being in debt.

The district promised more meetings with parents and residents on these subjects and never provided them. Instead, they chose armed guards in body armor like the NRA suggested and decided poor children in the district will be left behind.

Thank you Jay LeBrun and David Baroody for showing me you think inside the gun box.

- Patricia Blanchard, Plattsburgh ■

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In a victory for newspapers, ITC rejects newsprint tariffs Hikes jeopardized industry already contending with massive shifts

By Pete DeMola EDITOR

ELIZABETHTOWN | The U.S. International Trade Commission has nixed tariffs implemented by the Trump administration on imported newsprint, delivering a victory for the newspaper industry.

“Today is a great day for American journalism,” said David Chavern, president and CEO of News Media Alliance, which represents about 2,000 newspapers in North America.

The ITC ruled Wednesday U.S. newsprint manufacturers weren’t harmed by Canadian imports, dismissing a chief criticism of a hedge fund-owned paper mill in Washington state » Letters Cont. from pg. 6 Well, I’m quite comfortable in supporting universal, affordable health, equal rights for all, a healthy planet, addressing climate change, protection for the indigent, children and elderly, a living wage and an increased emphasis on education, infrastructure, cyber-security and the truth.

All things ignored by the “compassionate conservatives.”

- Kevin Breyette, Rouses Point ■

McCain should have been mentioned

To the Editor: President Trump recently came to Fort Drum at the request of Rep. Elise Stefanik for a highly publicized event where together they gloried in having authorized the new defense budget bill which gives our troops a well-deserved pay raise.

Not once did Elise Stefanik or President Trump mention that this bill is named the “John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act” in honor of a man who has served this country valiantly.

More recently, Rep. Stefanik, in her weekly newsletter, touted this bill and celebrated her appearance onstage with President Trump.

Again she avoided mentioning the name John McCain. This behavior is typical of these two individuals who are greedy for the limelight but shameful in acknowledging when credit is due elsewhere.

In this same newsletter, representative Stefanik proudly reported on her activity in promoting health care programs.

But it was she who voted to end the Affordable Care Act, while in the Senate, John McCain cast the deciding vote that canceled that effort and temporarily at least saved the act from recall.

McCain said there should be no recall until the Republican-controlled Congress presented a viable replacement plan, and they offered none. They still have not done so.

- Robin Brown, Plattsburgh ■

Russia collusion investigation designed to discredit Trump victory

To the Editor: Day after day, year after year, we suffer through the Russian collusion ghost story as if it actually happened and isn’t costing tens of millions of tax dollars.

Yes Russia was doing their best to disrupt our affairs, elections included, as they have done for many years, but fixing that is not the objective of the Democrats, nor was it ever.

Undoing a Republican presidential victory is the real objective.

When Obama mockingly announced just prior to the 2016 election that the Russians couldn’t possibly rig our elections and that no reasonable person should believe they could he was anticipating a Clinton win.

When he reversed that opinion immediately after the election it became clear that it

who argued the low prices put American mills at a disadvantage.

The tariffs caused prices of newsprint to increase by as much as 22 percent before the U.S. Commerce Department slightly reduced the tariffs earlier this month to about 17 percent.

Newspapers across the U.S. have been contending with seismic shifts in subscription and advertising models over the past decades, and many publishers said the tariffs had the potential to be devastating to their survival.

The hikes have led to increased newsstand prices across the country. Other newspapers have chopped sections, reduced page counts and cut down on the frequency of publication, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which said it would stop printing papers Tuesdays and Saturdays this week.

“The ITC’s decision will help to preserve the vitality of local newspapers and prevent additional job losses in the printing and publishing sectors,” said Chavern. “The end of these unwarranted tariffs means local newspapers can focus once again on playing a vital role in our democracy by keeping citizens informed and connected to the daily life of their communities.”

Lawmakers have urged the ITC to reconsider the rules

didn’t matter which Republican won.

It happened to be President Trump, but the same attack would have been used against Cruz, Rubio, Bush or any other Republican winner.

The Russian collusion story was going to be the vehicle used by the mainstream media, the Justice Department, FBI officials, and the Democrats to discredit a Republican victory.

There is still nothing to substantiate Trump/ Russia collusion, but there doesn’t need to be.

All that’s needed is to convince you voters that it happened.

The media and the Democrats do not care how much tax money is spent chasing that objective.

Hate Trump if you wish, but to base it on him being a Russian puppet is ridiculous.

It may not have been obvious initially, but it’s become clear that the investigation

by Special Investigator Robert Mueller is part of the same scam since he has zero interest in the Clinton or Obama connections to Russia, nor the Mitch McConnell or Joe Biden family financial connections with China, even though those collusions are known to exist.

- Ken Fenimore, Elizabethtown ■

Walks back health care criticism

To the Editor: This is a reply concerning my own letter “Boos” in the Aug. 25 edition of The Sun. My first comment is an embarrassed, very sincere apology to the “top echelon” and everyone who has MVP insurance who may have felt compelled to contact their insurance company due to my letter.

I received a telephone call on Aug. 28 from the offices at Elizabethtown Community Hospital concerned about the letter I had written to The Sun. I was informed in a very kind and polite conversation that MVP was still a viable insurance with them and would cover services acquired at Moses Ludington.

I then contacted MVP again on Aug. 28 and the customer care person I talked to explained the mix up to me in a different way than the person I had spoken to on Aug. 9.

On Aug. 9, stated to me was the fact that since Moses Ludington is no longer considered a “hospital,” services obtained there would no longer be covered by MVP. And that the Elizabethtown Community Hospital was not on the list for MVP coverage.

The MVP employee I spoke to on Aug. 28 explained that the MVP contract with Moses Ludington was eliminated when the UVM-E-Town-Moses Ludington merge happened in April.

Since MVP has a contract with the Elizabethtown Community Hospital, any services obtained at the Moses Ludington site that are billed via E-Town CH will be honored.

I was misled by MVP on Aug. 9 and will never again put my faith in the word of just one person in a search for answers. Aug. 29, at 10:31 a.m.,I received a telephone call with an apology from MVP.

following their implementation in January, appealing to Trump administration officials and co-sponsoring legislation to suspend the duties and further study the issue.

“This is tremendous news and I applaud the ITC for this important decision,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Willsboro) in a statement. “Our district is home to a thriving local press corps that would be unfairly burdened by these costs, harming local journalism and the families across our district that rely on these important organizations. I was pleased to lead the effort in Congress to push back against these tariffs and will continue to support our local press corps.”

U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Charles Schumer, who railed against the tariffs in a visit to Quad Graphics in Saratoga Springs earlier this summer, also welcomed the decision.

“These tariffs were extremely harmful to our regional newspapers — the lifeblood of our local communities — and I worked hard to remove them,” Schumer said in a statement. “The International Trade Commission made the exactly right decision today to completely eliminate them. I will remain vigilant to make sure that they never return.” ■

If anyone suffered or felt indignation from my written words, I again apologize.

I wish the best of health to all.

- Michele Gautreau, Hague ■

MVP health care still accepted at ECH

To the Editor: Providing high quality health care close to home is our number one priority at the University of Vermont Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital (UVM-ECH).

That’s why we were concerned by the recent letter to the editor, “Moses Ludington leaves locals out of the loop” (Aug.25 edition).

You can be assured that the former Moses Ludington Hospital, now our Ticonderoga campus, continues to participate in a wide range of commercial and government health insurance plans and accepts all major insurers in our region, including MVP Health Care.

We recognize that name changes can be confusing – for both our patients and our partners in health care. Patients with questions about their individual health plans can call our business office at 518-585-3700.

There are many exciting changes taking place at our Ticonderoga campus beyond our name change.

Over the past few months, we’ve opened a new state-of the-art emergency department, along with an updated and renovated laboratory services area, hired a full-time emergency department medical director, expanded our specialty clinics so patients no longer have to travel as far or as often for specialty services and we’re close to completing the facility’s $9.1 million physical transformation and modernization project so our patients can receive the best care in the most efficient, well-designed space.

If you haven’t been on campus recently, we invite you to come see how we’re transforming health care in the community.

- John Remillard, president UVM-ECH ■

Disagrees with merger proposal

To the Editor: I have worked in Vermont for the last four years as well as over four years in the 1990’s.

I have watched as their merger school experiment has killed the small communities that were unlucky enough to get just an elementary school.

Now, Vermont scrambles to close down these elementary schools with dwindling enrollments. It turns out families prefer to move to a community that can educate their children K-12.

What happened to the elementary school in Lewis after the Elizabethtown Central School and Lewis Central School merger?

So that brings us to Westport. How long do you seriously think an old monstrosity of a building will remain open when Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School (ELCS) enrollment is projected to continue to drop and their building can handle all the stu-

dents from both districts.

Which brings us to the tax savings: $0 for ELCS. So why the interest? Building aid.

By merging, ELCS can get bags of free money in aid from the state. Yes ELCS, suck the life out of Westport Central School and you get the jackpot!

And how about WCS $1.31 savings per $1,000. A $150,000 home saves less than $200 a year. Close your school, watch the families leave, destroy the community for a couple hundred dollars.

Part of a community’s duty is the responsibility to educate our posterity. Are we the generation that will throw that duty to our neighbors?

ELCS, if the tables were turned and Westport was to keep K-12 and ELCS was to loose their high school, would you vote to merge?

The “plan” is not what is being voted on, just a merger. With large expanses of flat valley land, a new construction building could end up in Westport.

Are you ready for that possibility?

Please vote no on this merger proposal and tell the school boards to give us a merger plan to vote on.

- Tim Sherman, Westport ■

Logical conservatism has been abandoned

To the Editor: Editor’s note: This letter is in response to Kenneth G. Barcomb’s letter, “Conservatives governed by ‘cold logic’ — not emotions” which appeared in the Aug. 18 edition of The Sun. If conservatives are indeed governed by “cold logic” and not emotions, as Mr. Barcomb claims, then the Republican Party has abandoned conservatism.

Republicans from Teddy Roosevelt to Richard Nixon were the leaders of governmental adherence to conservation and environmentalism with the creation of the National Forest System and the Environmental Protection Agency, among other initiatives to conserve and protect the natural environment which sustains all life on Earth.

That is logical conservatism. The Republicans are now taking a wrecking ball to environmental measures nationwide.

Conservatives want lower governmental spending and deficits. The Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the 2017 Republican-created tax cut bill will rocket the national deficit to over $20 trillion. This is not logical conservatism.

“Competing civilly with quiet discourse in the marketplace of ideas” is neither a conservative nor liberal principle, but it is a far, far cry from what the Republican Party now endorses, with its complete surrender to the loud-mouthed snake oil salesman at its helm.

There is no “self-loathing” in pointing out errors that one or one’s country has made.

Learning from one’s mistakes and correcting them is honorably conservative.

- David Thomas-Train, Keene Valley ■

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Essex County OKs raising legal age to purchase tobacco products New law narrowly passes

By Pete DeMola EDITOR

ELIZABETHTOWN | Essex County has become the latest county in New York state to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

The Essex County Board of Supervisors voted 1,755 to 1,116 on Tuesday to approve the measure, becoming the first county in the North Country to do so.

Advocates appeared thrilled at the new law, which was backed by the Adirondack Health Institute.

“Tobacco 21 is a win-win,” said Julie Hart, a spokesman for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. “I’m glad (the board) put the health of their constituents before special interest groups.”

DIVIDED LAWMAKERS

Ahead of the vote, retailers and convenience store owners spoke out against the measure, claiming raising the age would do little to help to curb adolescent smoking and would harm business.

Lawmakers echoed those concerns on Tuesday.

North Hudson Supervisor Ron Moore said he agreed with advocates that youth smoking should be curbed, but most communities are within 20 to 30 minutes of a neighboring county or Vermont, making the

law easy to skirt.

“It’s really a state issue just like alcohol was,” Moore said.

Essex Supervisor Ron Jackson questioned why the state Department of Health is examining the legalization of recreational marijuana, but have issued no guidance raising the age statewide.

“They’re more interested in making people happy by letting them get toked up,” Jackson said.

Minerva Supervisor Stephen McNally feared the impact on his town’s two convenience stores.

With the age now raised to 21, he said patrons may be more inclined to purchase groceries in those communities when they stop to buy a pack of cigarettes on the way home from work in Warren County.

“That is taking from pockets of my local businesses that struggle to survive,” McNally said.

Newcomb Supervisor Robin DeLoria instead called for an increase in educational programming at public schools.

“I think there’s so much more to the issue than what meets the eye,” DeLoria said.

Other lawmakers questioned how the new law would be enforced and said raising the age would present a “legislative nightmare” for the 18, 19 and 20-year-olds who are now prohibited from purchasing tobacco.

Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava said the law should be been drafted to phase in current tobacco users, who will now likely ask their older peers to purchase items for them.

“Tomorrow you stop them, and that’s wrong,”

Scozzafava said. “What are you really accomplishing here except making people do things that are more unethical?”

‘COMPLAINT-DRIVEN’

Essex County Attorney Dan Manning said the new law will be complaint-driven and enforced by the county health department director or their designee, likening the judicial process to a “mini-trial.”

“Fines are the penalties for it,” Manning said.

Supporters of the measure acknowledged potential speedbumps — “This law is not perfect, but it does do something to address health issues in our county,” said Ticonderoga Supervisor Joe Giordano — but also said local government has a moral imperative to improve public health.

“I feel this is a positive step and I can’t ignore that moral question,” said Keene Supervisor Joe Pete Wilson.

Chesterfield Supervisor Gerald Morrow said he has received feedback on both sides of the issue.

“I would not put the health of youth above profits,” Morrow said.

Joining Morrow, Wilson, Giordano and Jackson in supporting the measure were Roby Politi (North Elba), Charles Harrington (Crown Point), Jim Monty (Lewis), Mike Marnell (Schroon) and Randy Preston (Wilmington).

The measure was previously brought up to a vote June, but lawmakers voted narrowly to snuff out the measure, a decision advocates chalked up to the three lawmakers whose absence automatically counted as “no” votes.

All 18 lawmakers voted on Tuesday.

Joining McNally, Moore, DeLoria and

Scozzafava in voting “no” were Noel Merrihew (Elizabethtown), Archie Depo (Jay), Dean Montroy (St. Armand), Michael “Ike” Tyler (Westport) and Shaun Gillilland (Willsboro).

RESPONSE TO CRITICISMS

Dana Bushey Isabella, program director for Tobacco Free Clinton-Franklin-Essex Reality Check, acknowledged lawmaker concerns.

“In a perfect world, we’d like everybody to be on the same page,” Isabella said. “But I think part of what makes us a democracy is that we have both sides to things.”

She continued: “With more conversation, we can help people understand and we will through our education efforts.”

Reality Check Program Coordinator Scott Ruch said he hoped the new policy would reduce pressure on teenagers to use tobacco products.

“With more time and more education with people working with them, I would hope that even a small percentage of kids who are using nicotine devices, I would hope that would go down,” he said.

Essex County Health Director Linda Beers said the measure was “extremely enforceable.”

“I’m so glad it moved within the board and resurfaced,” she said.

Other counties that have pushed the tobacco purchasing age to 21 are Albany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Cortland, Nassau, New York City, Onondaga, Orange, Rockland, Schenectady, Sullivan, Tompkins, Ulster and Westchester.

Beers said she hoped the vote in Essex County would act as a springboard in counties across the region. ■

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Wilmington » Festival Of

Colors held at the tee-ball field on Springfield Road; 10:00 a.m.

- 5:00 p.m. The event features local artists, produce growers, bakers, homemade crafters, and a Battle of the Cupcakes, a live children’s comedy, live music, arts demonstrations, food vendors, and many children’s activities. Free Admission

SEPT. 8

Plattsburgh » “Fire Maidens of

Outer Space” Film Screening held at Newman Center; 7:00 p.m. See a rare 16mm print projected on the big screen, famous for the line: “Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the firiest maiden of them all?” Free Admission (including food and soda), donations welcome.

SEPT. 8

Plattsburgh » Free Dance Lessons Lessons held at held at

Plattsburgh’s Recreation Center; 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Hosted by the Plattsburgh’s USA Dance chapter. No dance experience or dance partner necessary. Both singles and couples are welcome.

Attire is “dressy casual”, and clean, dry shoes are required on the dance floor. Free and open to the public.

SEPT. 10

Plattsburgh » Clinton County

Historical Association Presentation held at Lake Forest Senior Living Center; 4:00 p.m. Please join the CCHA for “Not Just a Sunday Man: The Civil War Story of Reverend Charles Luther Hagar, Chaplain of the 118th New York Volunteers”, presented by Helen Nerska’s. Free and open to the public.

SEPT. 12

Plattsburgh » Free Square

Dance Lesson held at North Country Squares,; 7:00 p.m.

-9:00 p.m. Come join us for a free square free squared,dancing lesson.

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The concerts are free of charge and open to all. Lawn chairs and picnic blankets are welcome. No alcohol,

smoking or glass containers are permitted. For details visit cvph.org/ About-CVPH/Summer-ConcertSeries.

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Keene Valley » Seagle Music

Colony Fall Revue held at Keene Valley Congregational Church; 4:00 p.m. Featuring four talented post-season young singers and a pianist in a show titled “Hey Big Spenders”. It features the music of Broadway composer Cy Coleman, including tunes from shows like Barnum, Sweet Charity and many others. Suggested donation $10, students free. Sponsored

by East Branch Friends of the Arts. Details: 518-576-9739 or eastbranchfriendsofthearts@gmail. com.

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Friday: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or other form of dementia can be challenging and often overwhelming. We invite you to attend our Support Group. This program is supported by a grant from The New York State Department of Health. Free event. Details: 518-873-3810 or www.wehelpcaregivers.com 194452

Caregiver support initiative’s memory café provides a gathering place for friends with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias and their caregivers and families to relax and enjoy social events, refreshments, and entertainment. This program is supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Health. Free and open to the public. Details: (518) 564-4322 or www. wehelpcaregivers.com 192795

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DEMENTIA MEMORY CAFÉ FEATURING MUSICAL ENTERTAINER MITCHELL WILLETTE held at

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Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or other form of dementia can be challenging and often overwhelming. We invite you to attend our Support Group. This program is supported by a grant from The New York State Department of Health. Free event. Details: (518) 481-1534 or www.wehelpcaregivers.com 192794

Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or other form of dementia can be challenging and often overwhelming. We invite you to attend our Support Group. This program is supported by a grant from The New York State Department of Health. Free event. Details: 518-873-3810 or www.wehelpcaregivers.com 194450

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Art that called America to action World War I posters found decades ago in Hand Ave. attic

By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER

ELIZABETHTOWN | A hundred years ago, World War I was a contentious “sell” to people across the U.S. Bright, vivid and compelling posters were created by government and civic groups in an all-out campaign to build the military and win American hearts, minds and funding.

An isolationist country at the time, the U.S. had little appetite for war when it first began in Europe in 1914.

By mid 1918, thousands of troops from America were streaming to the battle front.

And people stepped up to buy Liberty Bonds from the U.S. Treasury, support the Red Cross, conserve food and expand agricultural production.

To tell the story and mark local military service in World War I, curators at the Adirondack History Museum mounted several exhibits with artifacts and photographs from families around Essex County.

Among them is one display that takes up an entire second floor room: “Artists of War: Posters as Propaganda in World War I,” curated by Aaron Noble, senior historian at the New York State Museum in Albany.

The series was among historic documents collected by late Gretna M. L. Longware.

The posters were found in an attic on Hand Avenue, apparently left behind as a storied local home changed hands years ago.

Mrs. Longware’s daughter Alta Jo “A.J.” Longware recalled the day she found them with her mother, whose family has lived in this area for generations.

Sitting surrounded by the posters, A.J. thought back.

The family had recently purchased the W. Hustace Hubbard home on Hand Ave. “My father (the late Melvin C. “Stubby” Longware) was in the oil distribution business, so he told us one day to go up and clear the attic. He was going to insulate for winter,” A.J. said, laughing.

“I was a junior in high school; it was in the heat of summer when mom and I went up there.”

Work was mostly just painting an cleaning.

“And we started moving things, we saw, in a corner, there was a pile covered with a green canvas. I pulled it out and started to open it and realized it was a tent.”

Underneath the tent were several large boxes.

“We found they had all of these war posters, all almost 50 years old,” A.J. said.

Mrs. Longware, long a historian with a focused eye for research and detail, was intrigued and delighted, A.J. said.

“It, to her, was another research project,”

Posters as Propaganda in World War I features some of the striking work of early 20th century artists and illustrators who were called to help raise support, funding, service and awareness as American forces ramped up and joined in the Great War in Europe.

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of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1933, A.J. said.

“We started taking them out of the box Hubbard retired here and served for almost 30 years on town and county civic commitand realized they were probably fragile.”

In time, Mrs. Longware mounted each to tees, including the tuberculosis society.

As World War II broke out, W. Hustace historical preservation linen, shrink-wrapped them, and placed typewritten notes on an Hubbard became chairman of the Essex County upper corner, indicating what she had dis- War Fund, tasked with drumming up donations for the New York United War Fund. covered in her research.

He also spearheaded the county’s War “On many, she had a label saying who the Rations Committee; was an executive of artist was,” A.J. said.

The posters have thus retained their vivid, the Essex County Chapter of the American bright colors and jarringly sharp images calling Red Cross; local Boy Scouts; the Y.M.C.A. and other civic groups. for public support.

Many of the same groups sponsored proMany feature children or women who, left paganda posters to draw attention to their on the homefront, were to find other ways role during World War I and World War II. to support American troops abroad.

Hubbard likely had access to a trove of Some are bright and heartfelt, others issue the posters, even early editions, through his dire warning: “That Liberty Shall Not Perish.” civic connections.

It is a jarring collection seen in one place.

One of A.J.’s favorites asks “Have YOU Very few have torn corners or any damage. a Red Cross service flag?” It shows a young Our featured pet this week is “But to me, if something is 100 years old, boy kneeling, placing the Red Cross poster AUTUMN, a terrier-labrador reit’s amazing if they don’t have a corner torn,” in a window below a Christmas wreath. triever/mix with a pretty white coat A.J. said. and the sweetest doggy smiles you’ve The illustration was the only work done ever seen. Autumn is a springy, playful, Noble, the State Museum historian, created by illustrator Jessie Wilcox Smith, a woman lovable little girl who is under a year a small catalogue with the artist and title artist, in 1918. old. She is a bit shy, but warms up and brief explanation for most posters. It is A.J. said after the exhibit closes later this quickly, and once she knows you, she available beside entryway. fall she may keep this poster and one other is truly a friend for life. This youngThe 27 posters shown at the museum are featuring Joan of Arc. ster has a fun-loving, affectionate only half of the Gretna Longware World Most of them, though, will be donated to personality — she will easily blend War I collection. the museum for auction during fundraising into any home.

There are another two dozen in Mrs. Long- in November.

Autumn is very vocal when meeting ware’s collection from World War II. The Adirondack History Museum at 7590 new dogs so a slow introduction They all came from the W. Hustace and Court St. is open Tuesday through Saturwill be needed. If you’re looking Ednah Hubbard home. day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sundays for a nice, happy young dog, you “It’s almost like someone collected them from 12 to 4 p.m. have to come check out Autumn. ■ but didn’t distribute them,” A.J. said.

The musuem will remain open through — Kat Wilcox’s weekly column works October 13.

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Registration 11:00 AM at the Westport Heritage House, Main St. Westport, NY Kickstands up 12:00 PM. $20.00 Bike, $25.00 W/Passenger. Cookout following ride at the Westport Federated Church, 6486 Main St., (Stone Church), Westport, NY. Fee includes cookout. Registration form is available at westportfederatedonline church.org. For information call 518-524-8826. Ride sponsored by Westport Federated Church for the benefit of the Medical Assistance Program (MAP) Gas Card/Ferry Pass Project. Cookout is open to the public $10.00 adults, $5.00 children 12 & under, pre-school free. In case of rain both the motorcycle ride and the cookout will be delayed until Saturday, Sept.

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ELIZABETHTOWN - The diabetes support group meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Elizabethtown Community Hospital, 4:30 pm-6pm.

PORT HENRY - Grief Support Group First Thursday of Each Month, St Patrick's Parrish Center 11:00-12:00pm Marie Marvull 518743-1672 PUBLIC MEETINGS

CADYVILLE – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Sunday 7pm8pm, Wesleyan Church, 2083 Rt. 3, Call 1-888-425-2666 or 518561-0838.

ELIZABETHTOWN – Al-Anon Family Group meetings every Sunday 4:00pm-5pm, Board Room in Elizabethtown Community Hospital, 1888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838 PLATTSBURGH - Adult Children of Alcoholics meeting Wednesdays at 8:00 pm at Auditorium B at CVPH. More information can be found at www.adultchildren.or or by emailing adkacoa@mail.com PLATTSBURGH - Celebrate Recovery Meeting every Monday, 6:00 pm, Turnpike Wesleyan Church. call 518-566-8764.

PLATTSBURGH – Al-Anon Adult Chidlren meeting every Monday 7pm-8pm & Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Thursday 7:30pm8:30pm at United Methodist Church. Call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

PLATTSBURGH – ALATEEN Meeting every Thursday at United Methodist Church, 127 Beekman Street. 7:30pm-8:30pm. Call 1888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

WESTPORT - The Westport Central School District Board of Education will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 6 PM in the library. Agenda items will include a preliminary K-12 student enrollment report, introduction of new employees with a brief meet and greet reception, a preview of monthly snapshot reports on instructional programs and support operations, a status report on the voting process associated with the prospective merger and any other business that may come before the Board. Community members and interested others are welcome to attend.

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ELIZABETHTOWN | The Section VII fall sports season begins in earnest this week as the regular season starts for almost every sport while the football season heads into week two.

While the CVAC volleyball season starts with games Tuesday and Thursday, the Saranac varsity team will host their annual tournament Saturday, Sept. 8, starting in the morning.

Last year, Peru came away with the tourna-

ment win over Beekmantown.

In soccer, the Crown Point and Schroon Lake Division III rivalry helps to kick off the season, with Schroon Lake hosting the Panthers Sept. 6 and Crown Point hosting the Wildcats Sept. 7.

Other matchups include the youthful Elizabethtown-Lewis/Westport Lady Griffins hosting Seton Catholic; the Saranac Lady Chiefs playing at Beekmantown; and the Lake Placid Lady Blue Bombers traveling to Class D defending champion Moriah Lady Vikings Sept. 6; while Beekmantown

will travel to Saranac and Peru will travel to Plattsburgh High in boy’s soccer under the lights Sept. 7.

The Section VII gymnastics season gets underway with defending champion Peru hosting Plattsburgh High Sept. 7. The swimming season also gets underway with a quad scrimmage hosted by Moriah with the AuSable Valley, Peru and Plattsburgh High swim teams.

The cross country season started earlier in the week, but will continue Sept. 11 with Lake Placid, EKMW and Plattsburgh High

traveling to Northeastern Clinton; Beekmantown and Saranac Lake running against host Seton Catholic at the Cadyville Recreation Park; and AuSable Valley, Saranac, Schroon Lake and Ticonderoga traveling to host Peru at McComb State Park.

Week two of the football season opens Sept. 7 as Ticonderoga (0-1) will host Beekmantown (1-0) and AuSable Valley (0-1) will host Plattsburgh High (1-0) at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8 games will include Peru (1-0) hosting Moriah (0-1) while Saranac (1-0) hosts Saranac Lake (0-1) at 1:30 p.m. ■

Beekmantown, PHS post season opening shutouts

By Keith Lobdell SPORTS EDITOR

CLINTONVILLE | The first-week jitters were noticeable as the Beekmantown Eagles and AuSable Valley Patriots opened the CVAC regular season Aug. 31 at AuSable Valley High School.

It was Beekmantown who was able to overcome them first, as Brandon Belrose sparked his team with a long kickoff return and Connor McGinnis ran the ball in from 23 yards out to plays later as the Eagles would go on to defeat the Patriots, 41-0.

“I feel the team did extremely well but there are always things you can work on,” said Belrose, who finished the game with 95 passing yards and a touchdown while running for an effective 14 yards with two scores.

“We started off with plenty of mistakes, but I think our first touchdown calmed us all down,” said Alex Trudeau, who had 24 receiving yards and an interception on defense.

“This was a great way to start,” said McGinnis, who also caught a touchdown pass to go with his rushing score in the win. “We want to build off everything we were able to do in this game.”

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Belrose’s first touchdown came on a seven yard quarterback sneak after connecting with Trudeau on a 24 yard pass play to give the Eagles a 14-0 lead to start the second quarter.

Trudeau’s interception later in the quarter set up Belrose on his second scoring run, this time from 4 yards out.

Cade Preston connected with Trudeau on a 10 yards scoring strike to open scoring in the second half, while McGinnis caught a 12 yard pass from Belrose and Garrett Stevens scored on a 68 yard run play to close out the scoring.

“Our staff has been coaching long enough to know how to use the numbers we have to our advantage,” Beekmantown coach Jamie Lozier said. “On defense, we had a lot of new kids with little varsity experience and they played well. We are excited for this year and we have some high hopes. If we can stay healthy and clean up the mental mistakes, we will have a good season.”

Stevens’ one carry led all Beekmantown rushers, as eight backs carried the ball to total 190 yards with four touchdowns. Belrose (95) and Preston (27) combined for 122 passing yards with each throwing a scoring pass.

For the Patriots, their best drive came in the third quarter, when they were able to move the ball 25 yards in nine plays.

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The Hornets opened their season with a 32-0 win over the Saranac Lake Red Strom Aug. 31, as Lestyn Williams ran for 121 yards and two touchdowns in the victory.

Williams scored both of his touchdowns in the opening quarter on runs of 32 and 4 yards, respectively. Zach Bieber then scored on a 23-yard pass from Ian Detulleo to close out the first half.

It did not take the Hornets long to score in the second half as Tyler Phillips scored on an 86 yard kickoff return to open the half, while Andrew Swiesz scored on a 65-yard run in the late stages of the game.

The Hornets finished the game with 274 rushing yards, while holding Saranac Lake to 220 yards of total offense for the game. Brett Munn led the Red Storm with 64 rushing.

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“The one thing is these kids did not give up,” AuSable coach Ed McAllister said. “They played hard and through the end of the game.”

The Eagles travel to Ticonderoga Friday for a matchup with the Sentinels at 7:30 p.m., while the Patriots start the season with a homestand, hosting the Plattsburgh High Hornets Friday at 7:30 p.m.

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AUSABLE VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL

PATRIOTS AuSable Valley Sport Schedule Tuesday, Sept. 25 — v. Beekmantown Monday, Oct. 1 — v. Saranac Wednesday, Oct. 3 — at Saranac Lake Friday, Oct. 5 — at Plattsburgh High Wednesday, Oct. 10 — at Northeastern Clinton Friday, Oct. 12 — v. Peru ■

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VOLLEYBALL

Tuesday, Sept. 4 — at Saranac Lake Thursday, Sept. 6 — v. Peru Tuesday, Sept. 11 — at Lake Placid Thursday, Sept. 13 — v. Northern Adirondack Monday, Sept. 17 — v. Plattsburgh High Tuesday, Sept. 18 — at Northeastern Clinton Thursday, Sept. 20 — v. Beekmantown Tuesday, Sept. 25 — at Saranac Tuesday, Oct. 2 — v. Saranac Lake Thursday, Oct. 4 — at Peru Tuesday, Oct. 9 — v. Lake Placid Thursday, Oct. 11 — at Northern Adirondack Monday, Oct. 15 — v. Northeastern Clinton Tuesday, Oct. 16 — at Beekmantown Thursday, Oct. 18 — v. Saranac Tuesday, Oct. 23 — at Plattsburgh High ■

FOOTBALL

Friday, Aug. 31 — v. Beekmantown Friday, Sept. 7 — v. Plattsburgh High Saturday, Sept. 15 — at Saranac Lake Friday, Sept. 21 — v. Saranac Saturday, Sept. 29 — at Peru Friday, Oct. 5 — at Moriah Friday, Oct. 12 — v. Ticonderoga ■

Tuesday, Oct. 16 — at Lake Placid Tuesday, Oct. 23 — at Saranac Lake Saturday, Oct. 27 — CVAC meet at Cadyville Recreation Park Friday, Nov. 2 — sectionals, PSUC Field House ■

GIRLS SWIMMING

Friday, Sept. 14 — at Peru quad meet Tuesday, Sept. 18 — v. Moriah Tuesday, Sept. 25 — v. Plattsburgh High Friday, Sept. 28 — at Plattsburgh High Friday, Oct. 5 — at Plattsburgh High quad meet Friday, Oct. 12 — v. Peru Tuesday, Oct. 16 — at Peru Thursday, Oct. 18 — at AuSable Valley quad meet Thursday, Oct. 25 — sectionals at AuSable Valley ■

CROSS COUNTRY

Tuesday, Sept. 4 v. Northeastern Clinton and Seton Catholic Tuesday, Sept. 11 — at Peru Saturday, Sept. 15 — Champlain Valley Athletic Conference (CVAC) invitational at PSUC Field House Tuesday, Sept. 18 — at Elizabethtown Keene Moriah Westport combined (EKMW) combined, to be determined Tuesday, Sept. 25 — v. Plattsburgh High and Saranac Lake Tuesday, Oct. 2 — at Seton Catholic Tuesday, Oct. 9 — at Ticonderoga

BOYS SOCCER

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JAY | Project engineers spoke with area residents last Wednesday about work underway to remove Rome Dam on the West Branch of the Ausable River.

Low water levels in river is a subject of concern to many here who wonder if work on the dam in Jay or elsewhere could be part of the problem.

Nearly two-dozen local residents and area business owners attended the meeting, including staff and owners of Ausable Chasm and Essex County Department of Public Works staff Chris Garrow and Jim Dougan.

Several people asked about sediment washing downstream as the dam is removed, fearing it could change the river’s water quality.

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Roy Schiff is a water resource engineer with Milone and MacBroom, the civil engineering firm that studied the dam and river hydrology.

Deconstruction of Rome Dam has not impacted water flow on the river, he said.

A sharp drop marked by a USGS river gage on the Ausable River’s main stem last Saturday, he said, was due to equipment malfunction.

Readings on Aug. 25 initially showed a steep drop to 67 cubic feet per second (cfs), where the median daily statistic is around 210 cfs.

“The actually replaced that equipment,” Schiff said of USGS hydrologists who came here when they saw the anomaly.

The gage is monitored by USGS at the New York Water Science Center in Troy.

Hydrologist Christopher Gazoorian told the Sun they investigated the problem last Monday evening.

“It was not functioning property, so it wasn’t able to sense the water level properly,” Gazoorian said.

USGS staff physically measured the water flow, Gazoorian said, Data last Saturday indicates water flow did drop in the morning from a point near 180 cfs to around 160 cfs.

Running about 150 cfs now, the Ausable River is below the median (marked on charts with a small triangle) of around 210 cfs for late August.

USGS has 86 years worth of data of Ausable River flow, including the huge spike during Irene in 2011.

RAFTING OPEN

Ausable Chasm Manager Tim Bresett said their experience finds the river lower now than usual for August.

The river rafting ride is open, he told the Sun in an interview after the meeting.

River rides are busy.

“It’s still a great experience,” he said, “it’s just as beautiful as ever.”

Ausable Chasm has provided river attractions, interpretive tours and boat trips at the gorge since 1870.

They too have a long-held knowledge of how the river runs. The property has been locally owned for almost 150 years.

And the chasm’s interaction with dam operations upriver go back just as far.

Dam structures on the West Branch were built, destroyed and rebuilt several times by J & J Rogers Co. Known historically as the Pulp Mill dam, the barrier provided water power for various ore, pulp and paper industries from about 1848 to 1971.

The dam created man-made changes to the West Branch waterway.

Sediment trapped behind it helped form a 19-acre impoundment about a foot deep, an expansion of the West Branch waters. » Dam Cont. on pg. 19

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DAM REMOVAL PROJECT EXTENDED

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JAY | The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has extended engineers’ request to have more time to remove the Rome Dam. Deconstruction will continue through Nov. 15.

Initially, the project had to be completed by Sept. 30 with all equipment removed from the water by that date.

Roy Schiff, water resource engineer with Milone and MacBroom, said he spoke with the DEC engineers after they visited the site on Tuesday.

DEC was there last Tuesday for a routine compliance check.

“We were told everything was fine and that the site is in compliance with all permits,” Schiff said.

The extension is needed in part because of the project’s size and scope.

“The state (DEC) gave us permission to extend that time. It’s really about construction, feasibility and safety. The contractor is moving along really well.

They’ve already got the dam down 10 feet and the sediment is drying out,” Schiff said in an interview with the Sun. DEC spokesman Kevin O. Frazier said inspectors made a routine check of dam construction operations.

“DEC issued a permit for removal earlier this year and a construction project is currently underway to remove the dam.

A work-window extension was granted through November 15th to do in-water work in order for the project to be completed this year,” Frazier said via email.

The town-owned structure is what’s known as a “high hazard” dam. The town acquired it after the dam’s owner, a corporation, went out of business.

DEC determined a net environmental benefit will be gained by the dam’s removal in one construction season.”

A $2.3 million grant to fund the project comes from the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, part of the New York Rising initiative to repair and mitigate damage after Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.

The funding is processed through Essex County.

Construction start was set for late summer because the Ausable River is typically at its low point, Schiff said.

The window from August to late fall provided the best chance to get in the river with normally stable water levels.

Water runoff changes with the season.

Once trees lose leaves and stop growing, they also stop pulling water from the soils.

“When the trees are shut down for winter. you tend to have a little bit more runoff,” Schiff said.

INCREASED TRUCK TRAFFIC

The other change near the project site that residents should watch for, Schiff said, is an increase in truck traffic on Ausable Drive.

Sediment removed from the dam and river behind it will be moved to storage areas for use by the Town of Jay or for river bank stabilization projects.

“People will begin to see a lot of truck traffic on Ausable Drive; there could be five or more trucks moving in the area at one time,” Schiff said.

Loaded and heavy with material, the trucks could be moving slow.

Digital road signs have been posted near the Rome Dam worksite, warning people of increased truck traffic.

Project engineers encourage residents to watch for trucks and travel slowly on that stretch of road. ■

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WORK CONTINUES

Bresett asked Schiff how lowering the impoundment behind Rome Dam would impact the water flow and storage.

“Rome Dam has no ability to hold back water,” Schiff said of the structure and unnatural river bed full of sediment behind it.

As they slowly remove concrete, the engineer said, release at times sends more water downriver, dewatering the impoundment.

He pointed to a few spikes on last Tuesday’s USGS chart that show when that happened.

Removal of sediment is coordinated in step with dam deconstruction to carefully to throttle water flow into the head of what is a likely gorge structure and natural waterfall under the dam, Schiff said.

“We are incrementally working the concrete down,” he said, “then we start removing sediment.”

So far they have taken 10 feet off the top of 38-foot-tall dam.

The structure is 103 feet long.

By Pete DeMola EDITOR

SARANAC LAKE | The Tops Market on Lake Flower Avenue in Saranac Lake is among the 10 underperforming stores in upstate New York slated for closure by the end of November, the grocery chain announced last week.

“The vast majority of our stores are profitable and we are seeing strong customer support continue to drive growth in these locations,” said Tops CEO Frank Curci in a statement. “That said, there are a few stores that are not performing to our standards due to a number of factors including location, store size, lack of visibility, and lease costs.”

The other stores are located in Elmira, Fulton, Perinton (Monroe County), Lyons (Wayne County), Geneva (Ontario County) and two each in Rochester and Syracuse.

Approximately 600 jobs will be affected, according to the grocery chain, which is based in Williamsville, Erie County.

“We have many openings across our chain of stores and to the extent possible, we will work with impacted associates to find them placement at nearby store locations,” Curci said.

Tops filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February. Their financial troubles, said the chain, “come from the competitive industry and falling food prices that has hurt supermarket chains across the U.S.,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

The company lost about $80 million on

Roy Schiff, a water resource engineer with Milone and MacBroom, the civil engineering firm that conducted water resource research at Rome Dam and its site on the Ausable River, said dam removal has not impacted water flow on the West Branch.

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Engineers project four years worth of sediment cover the river’s true channel behind the dam.

They also project deconstruction would allow about a year’s worth of that sediment to move downstream and essentially restore the river’s stony bed.

Rebecca Kelly is the owner of Tahawus Center dance and arts complex, the large Masonic building just above the confluence where West meets the East Branch.

She asked Schiff if sediment washed down the West Branch would impact river habitat.

Fish and merganser ducks are a common view from windows three floors above the river.

Lately they’ve been elsewhere, she said.

“Are the fish so smart that they’ve gone someplace else?”

Kelly queried.

Schiff said fish do retreat to cold pools in hot weather.

But, he said, once the river’s channel is restored, fish habitat will improve.

“You should see an improvement in fishing on the West

Tops in Saranac Lake slated for closure Lake Flower Avenue location to be closed by late-November

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about $2.5 billion in revenue last year, the newspaper reported.

Tops said it intends on filing a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking authority to assume the leases of continuing stores and reject leases and conduct closings at the 10 affected locations.

The chain has 169 stores and employs 14,000 in northern Pennsylvania, western Vermont and New York, including Elizabethtown, Peru, Au Sable Forks, Schroon Lake, Chestertown and North Creek, among other locations in northern New York.

All other locations are expected to remain open — including the store on Church Street in Saranac Lake.

“The grocery store business is especially tough these days, facing fierce competition from online retail giants such as Amazon and others,” said Village of Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau. “I am grateful Tops will keep its downtown store going, as it is vital to so many, while the space they will vacate on the south end of our village offers a new opportunity to yet another supermarket.”

The Village of Saranac Lake was awarded $10 million in state economic development funds earlier this month, and local officials have flagged renovation of the Church Street location as a priority project.

The $500,000 proposed project contains plans for an updated facade and numerous internal upgrades, according to the grant application.

“Additionally, it could attract new tenants to lease the remaining available portions of the property, which may in turn create more jobs,” the application stated. “Most importantly, it will entice Tops Friendly Markets to stay at this location and retain its 27 employees that it currently has on staff.” ■

Branch, but it may take a few years,” Schiff said.

Engineers estimated about 3,000 truckloads of sediment exist in the impoundment.

As it is removed, it is dried.

Then trucks are hauling it offsite to two piles, one for use by the Town of Jay and another with larger stone for use in future river remediation projects.

Engineers believe the project will reveal another natural gorge under the Rome Dam. They believe they will find a unique waterfall, a feature of the West Branch unseen for over 150 years.

Work crews on the West Branch have uncovered wooden cribbing related to early use at the dam site.

They’ve also found serious damage previously unseen in the Rome Dam structure, which was deemed a “high hazard” by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) 10 years ago.

The potential for sudden dam failure lead town officials to approve the plan to remove it. ■

CLINTON COUNTY TRANSACTIONS DATE

GRANTOR

GRANTEE

LOCATION

PRICE

06/28/18

Mary Catherine Stewart

Aaron Ishmael

Plattsburgh

$199,000

06/28/18

Charles R. Conner

David A. Boucher

Plattsburgh

$99,900

06/28/18

Winter Lane, LLC

Donald L. Hubbard

Plattsburgh

$270,650

06/28/18

Michael W. Lagree

Betsy Lashway

Clinton

06/28/18

James Racine

Maribel T. Morgan

Beekmantown

06/28/18

Charles J. Lapier

Denise Matton

Chazy

06/29/18

Teresa A. Murray

Justin F. Provost

Plattsburgh

$275,000

06/29/18

Alex S. Fregeau

Kenneth F. Plunkett

Plattsburgh

$122,000

06/29/18

ACJ Development, LLC

Kye A. Ford

Plattsburgh

$35,000

07/02/18

Roger T. Long

Bryce H. Thompson

Peru

$185,000

07/02/18

Edward J. Larow, Jr.

Benjamin T. Tentis

Peru

$327,500

07/02/18

Piper L. Wells-Bruce

Damon Branon

Plattsburgh

$160,000

07/02/18

Robert S. Harris

Glenn Fessette

Beekmantown

$185,000

07/02/18

Jeff J. Pitcher

Yang Shun Lu

Plattsburgh

$375,000

07/02/18

Winter Lane, LLC

Ashley M. Whitty

Plattsburgh

$275,000

$55,000 $250,525 $41,000

ESSEX COUNTY TRANSACTIONS DATE

GRANTOR

GRANTEE

LOCATION

PRICE

05/15/18

Gregory Dennin

Brianna Mccormack

North Elba

$875,000

05/16/18

Daniel Hanczyk

Anne-Marie Fitzgerald

Westport

$225,700

05/16/18

Stephen Agus

Scott Hoffman

North Elba

$397,500

05/17/18

Douglas Allen

Linda Johnson

Wilmington

$65,000

05/17/18

William Brown

Hurricane Road LLC

Keene

$180,000

05/18/18

Paul Seward

Michael Harter

Keene

$370,000

05/18/18

Craig Nasholds

Clifford Jordan

Jay

$125,000

05/18/18

John Tierney

Sinda Tomy

Lake Placid

$390,000

05/18/18

David Deyo

Wilderness Friends LLC

Keene

$260,000

05/21/18

David Pelkey

Julianne Budwick

Crown Point

$138,000

05/21/18

B&J NY Holdings LLC

153 Victory Herbert Road LLC

Lake Placid

$3,500,000

05/21/18

G Hayden Brown

Adam Allman

Chesterfield

$275,000

05/22/18

Thomas Rath

Sabine Weber

Lake Placid

$310,000

05/23/18

William Bell

Sharon Mclaughlin

Ticonderoga

$545,000

05/24/18

Anne-Marie Serre

Jeffrey Smith

Lake Placid

$310,000

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Daniel G. Belzer

ELIZABETHTOWN | Daniel G. Belzer, 93, of Elizabethtown passed away Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018.

He was born in Cato on May 11, 1925, the son of John and Julia Belzer.

Dan was a pilot during World War II. He graduated from Oswego College and came to teach industrial arts in Elizabethtown in 1952. He married Mary Jean Denicore in 1955. He and a co-teacher purchased a lumber business and started Elizabethtown Builders and Hardware, which he ran for 34 years.

Dan is predeceased by his son Jeffrey, two brothers and seven sisters.

He is survived by his wife Mary Jean; his sons Joe (Bonnie), John (Susanne) and Peter (Colleen); eight grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Dan loved gardening, stain glass work, wood-

working and designing homes, but not scrabble.

A graveside service was held Friday, Aug. 31 at 2 p.m. in St. Elizabeth’s Cemetery in Elizabethtown. To leave condolences for the family, visit harlandfuneralhome.com. ■

Carlos R. DeGroff

WESTPORT | Carlos R. DeGroff, better known as “Denny,” went home to be with the Lord he loved on the evening of Aug. 26 at CVPH Medical Center in Plattsburgh with family by his bedside.

He was born in Westport, the son of Chester R. and Clara (Edwards) DeGroff.

He grew up in Westport, graduating from Westport Central School in 1952. He went to work for Brigadier and Mrs. J.W.F. Treadwell in October of that year and remained with them until he retired in 1993.

In October of 1952, he married the former Mary Cheney at the First Presbyterian Church in Port Henry. Their marriage lasted almost 66 years.

Denny had a great sense of humor and was cheerful and fun loving. He loved his

job, employers, people he worked with, his dogs, community and his family. He enjoyed snowmobiling, camping, fishing, hunting and a good time with friends.

Denny was, at one time, a member of the Westport Hose Company, rising to the post of first assistant chief for some years. He was also a member of the Westport Emergency Squad.

He was instrumental in the founding of that squad, pairing with other interested men on many evenings to go canvass, to ask for and collect donations to help purchase a vehicle.

They used Richard Parkhill’s funeral hearse as a first ambulance until they had enough money to buy an emergency vehicle.

In 1981, he was appointed to the Westport Village Board. He was re-elected twice to that board. He liked to serve his community.

He became the much loved father to Carlos R. DeGroff Jr. and to Derianne Lynn DeGroff (Codraro).

Surviving him are his wife, Mary; son “Rob” DeGroff and wife Diane; son Matthew, all of Plattsburgh; Jeremy DeGroff, wife Cheri and son Denali of Lewis; Justin Codraro,

wife Jamie-Lee and son Jareth of Austin, Texas; Mylea Ann Raquet (great-granddaughter) of Homosassa, Florida; and one sister, Gladys Mauran.

He also leaves to mourn him several nieces and nephews whom he dearly loved, including Sandra McQueen and her daughter Kellie and husband Robert King; Heidi Doyle and Ian DeGroff; one brother in law, Alex Cheney, of Mineville; and Steven Codraro of Florida, Justin’s father.

Predeceasing him were his parents; his daughter, Derianne, in 1997; his brother, Chester; and sisters Vivian, Vera and Rosemarion.

A memorial service to celebrate his life will be held Sept. 8 at 5 p.m. at the Westport Bible Church on Young’s Road, Westport, with Pastor Chad Carr and Pastor Philip Kneller officiating. Donations in his memory may be made to this church where he was a member for many years or to the Westport Emergency Squad.

Interment will be at the convenience of the family in the Union Cemetery in Port Henry. Arrangements are by the Harland Funeral Home in Port Henry. ■

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2435 E. North St., 1108- the Referee named in Tammy L. Garcia-Klipfel, VN-08/04-09/08/2018Plaintiff and LAURA ESSEX, AND STATE OF VN-08/04-09/08/20186TC-191983 said Judgment, will sell Esq. 6TC-192182 102, Greenville, South EHRHART A/K/A LAURA NEW YORK Carolina, 29615. General in one parcel at public J. EHRHART, INDIVIDU- Premises will be sold Woods Oviatt Gilman auction on September LLP Purpose.

ALLY AND AS CO- subject to provisions of 25, 2018 at Essex Coun- Plaintiff's Attorney VN-09/8-10/13/2018TRUSTEE OF THE LAU- filed Judgment Index # ty Courthouse, 7559 6TC-195239 RA J. EHRHART REVO- CV16-0175.

700 Crossroads BuildJudith Court Street, Elizabeth- ing, 2 State St. CABLE TRUST, DATED Pareira, Esq. - Referee. town, County of Essex, THE 7TH DAY OF JAN- RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Rochester, New York State of New York, at 14614 UARY, 2013; ET. AL. are Merchants Concourse, 11:00 A.M., the premis- Tel.: 855-227-5072 the Defendant(s). I, the Suite 310, Westbury, es described as follows: VN-8/25-09/15/2018undersigned Referee will New York 11590, Attor66 Water Street sell at public auction at neys for Plaintiff.

194226 Elizabethtown, NY the ESSEX COUNTY VN-09/8-09/29/201812932 COURTHOUSE, 7559 4TC-193603 SBL No.: 55.75-3-9 COURT STREET, ELIZAALL THAT TRACT OF BETHTOWN, NY 12932 PARCEL OF LAND situon October 9, 2018 at Stevens ate in the Village and Construction 1x2 84768 - Page 1 - Composite 11:00AM premises Town of Elizabethtown, known as 2208 JERSEY of Essex SWEEP and STREET F/K/A RR1 BOX CONSTRUCTION CHIMNEY BUILDING MATERIALS County CONTRACTING ARBORIST State of New York 371A, ESSEX, NY The premises are sold 12936: Section 39.4, subject to the provisions Block 1, Lot 42.000: of the filed judgment, InALL THOSE CERTAIN dex No. CV16-0168 in PARCELS OF LAND SITthe amount of UATED IN THE TOWN CONSTRUCTION $91,536.47 plus interest OF ESSEX, COUNTY OF and costs.

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