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In Arts | pg. 9
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In opinion | pg. 6
The season of giving It’s good for the soul
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In SportS | pg. 13
All-Valley teams cited Our all-star picks for 2016
Innovation and Design Thinking: A space to make, design and build Northwood School purchased former With Pipe and Book building on Main St., with construction underway for innovative educational center in Lake Placid
The new facility, locally referred to as “Northwood on Main,” is an extension of the boarding school campus just across Mirror Lake. Northwood Head of School Michael Maher said five disciplines will be taught in the three-story building, which was formerly home to With Pipe and Book, a beloved book and tobacco store. By Kim Dedam “Within the facility, there will be Entrepreneurship, a Maker kim@suncommunitynews.com Space for design and digital fabrication, filmmaking, a robotics lab and arena and a presentation theater for TED Talks,” LAKE PLACID — With a green light from the North Elba/ Maher told the Sun. Lake Placid Joint Review Board, Northwood School has be“We look at this as a facility that would be quite open, first gun building its Center for Innovation and Design Thinking at serving Northwood students and then adding very exciting 2495 Main Street here. programming in summer and off hours for local students.”
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>> See NORTHWOOD SCHOOL | pg. 15
In election’s wake, region grapples with racial incidents
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Visions of youth, elders clash in third Adirondack Park Agency public hearing on recreational use NEWCOMB — Scott Remington nearly died in a logging accident on Gulf Brook Road. On May 25, 1999, the lifelong Adirondack resident broke his neck, back and all but three ribs. Pete Now in a wheelchair, Remington reDeMola Editor mains an avid outdoorsman, and even enjoys heading back to the site of the accident, located within the Boreas Pond Tract, the parcel pending classification by the Adirondack Park Agency. But his future access to the site, once owned by a timber company, now remains in the hands of the state, which is weighing a number of proposals that will govern access to the 20,543-acre parcel. The discussion unfolded in the literal and figurative heart of the debate last week in Newcomb, just a few miles from the site, which the state purchased in May for $14.5 million. While nearly 100 parcels are pending classification, the Boreas Tract dominated discussion at the Nov. 16 public hearing, the third in a series of eight planned sessions across the state held at Newcomb Central School.
Additionally, Northwood on Main is planning a fullyequipped apartment, which Maher said in announcing the facility would allowing provide “residencies to experts in different fields, who would work with our students, faculty and the community.” Northwood is a private boarding school founded in 1905. It has about 165 high school students. Tuition with room and board is $55,640 for the current school year. Day student costs are reported online at $32,600. The main campus occupies four or five buildings on Northwood Road. The 10,000 square feet of space in the Main Street building
The Adirondack Park Agency is hosting a series of public hearings on the classification of the Boreas Pond Tract. Pictured above: Peter Bauer, executive director of Protect the Adirondacks, and Fred Monroe, executive director of the Adirondack Local Government Review Board, wait for their turn to speak at Newcomb Central on Nov. 16.
Racial incidences are on the rise across the country, and Empire State officials are speaking out Pete DeMola, Elizabeth Izzo pete@suncommunitynews.com
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PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh City Council has condemned the wave of racial incidents that have reportedly rippled across the country in the wake of the presidential election. “There’s been some things that have gone on around the nation that are, that I think are deplorable,” said Plattsburgh Mayor James Calnon at last week’s meeting. “I really didn’t expect to find any type of event like that at home.” Calnon didn’t mention president-elect Donald Trump directly — nor a specific incident. But the mayor appeared to allude to a series of experiences that a local restaurateur, an ethnic Tibetan, shared on Facebook. In a post dated Nov. 11, Tenzin Dorjee cited a number of racially tinged incidents he said have left he and his family shaken.
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>> See RACIAL INCIDENTS | pg. 11
‘WE ARE THE FUTURE’ Fifty-one people spoke over a three-hour stretch. While the comments largely followed the familiar contours sharpened over decades of discussions — the state’s legal responsibility for environmental stewardship weighed against access and economic development — a new element has cleaved the discussion along generational fault lines. Young people lobbied during the public hearing for the most stringent environmental safeguards. Protecting vulnerable lands are why they are choosing to relocate to the Adirondack Park, they said, reversing longentrenched demographic trends that have seen young people fleeing the region. But, said their older counterparts, more access is needed for an aging population, including sportsmen, who are chief