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Champlain OKs municipal surveillance system Security cameras to be fully operational in the village by mid July

By Teah Dowling

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CHAMPLAIN — Village officials hope to cull vandalism with the installation of a new surveillance system.

Trustees last week approved the installation of eight cameras on village property, including the playground, dump, wastewater treatment plant, Paquette Park, River Street boat launch and garage.

“Who would have thought we’d come to this point,” said Mayor Greg Martin, shaking his head in disappointment.

The system was prompted by a number of incidents, including graffiti on picnic tables and illegal dumping in the

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village-owned landfill.

Suspicious activity in the gazebo in Paquette Park has been reported on several occasions, the mayor said.

The River Street boat launch, Martin said, is the only site with no issues...so far.

The spate of incidents has officials worried about the security of other municipal assets, including a kayak rack the village hopes will spur activity on the Great Chazy River.

“Someone could come with cable cutters,” said Trustee Amy Gehrig during the April meeting.

The board felt that placing a camera at the boat launch was the best way to ensure the safety of residents’ kayaks from hooligans.

Funds for the $42,000 system were pulled from fund bal-

Natural gas expands to certain streets in Champlain

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CHAMPLAIN — Starting on Friday, boats will once again be floating down the Great Chazy River.

Two big changes in this year’s program: Two six-oared pilot gig rowing boats will now be available, compared to one Teah last year, and the nightly rowing series has Dowling Writer been expanded to twice per week, Fridays and an additional night to-be-determined based on feedback.

The program launched last year after the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vermont, who wanted to expand its program into New York, agreed to send over a pair of boats (the other was a four-oared, 25-foot Whitehall-style unit).

The board decided to incorporate this program to promote more outdoor activity in the village, along with the playground, picnic area, disc golf course, ice rink and community garden already in place.

“We set some very ambitious but realistic goals,” said Janet McFetridge, a village trustee. “One of them was to promote physical activity and recreation and the rowing program really fit that goal.”

Trustees approved the installation of eight cameras on village property.

Pictured above: a camera will be placed in Paquette Park after several reports of suspicious activity were reported.

NYSEG to put lines on Moore Street, Meadow Lane and portion of Route 9

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The Champlain Rowing Club is set to start back up again this Friday. Two six-oared pilot gig rowing boats are now available and sessions are set to take place twice a week instead of once.

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CHAMPLAIN — Last month, officials approved further expansion of natural gas into the village.

About 15 years ago, Mayor Greg Martin said NYSEG brought natural gas into high population densities such as Church Street and Elm Street. The latest expansion after this was two years ago on Willow Street.

The remainder of the streets within the village limits were left out.

Now, NYSEG is back to offer natural gas to residents and business owners on Meadow Lane, Moore Street and a portion of Route 9 from addresses 1273 to 1338. More than 50 property owners, Martin said, could partake in this expansion.

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PLATTSBURGH — The journey from transitioning from male to female was a struggle for Kelly Leigh Metzgar.

The local resident said she lived in fear and hid in shame for much of her life.

But those feelings, she said, diminished as she started to help other local members undergoing the same transition.

Now, that advocating has grown to a larger scale, beginning with a community gathering that took place last week in Plattsburgh.

Metzgar, along with Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition Executive Director Juli Grey-Owens, hosted the event to discover the underlying issues facing the trans community today.

Health services, bullying and employment were a few of the many issues discussed of the transgender and gender nonconforming community.

One meeting attendee, who chose to only disclose her first name, Jamie, shared her struggle with hormone replacement therapy.

Jamie goes to Albany due to a lack of endocrinologists in the area.

Michelle Laurin’s daughter receives hormone therapy in Syracuse.

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this treatment. However, there’s a lack of them willing to do it.

Metzgar said she was refused medical care for her hormone therapy again and again until Adirondack Health President Chandler Ralph found her a doctor in Saranac Lake.

“I could not have transitioned in a better community,” she said.

Besides a lack of services, Metzgar said the community also has a shortage of support services.

Clubs and organizations for the LGBTQ community have formed in local colleges and Plattsburgh High School.

Besides that, “there’s nothing,” Metzgar said.

The fact that the area has no center, or even a pride parade, shocked Grey-Owens.

The closest of those offerings is in Burlington, Vermont.

Due to the isolation, Shelby Davis of Mental Health Association of Essex County Inc. said members of the LGBTQ community between the ages of 10 and 24 are twice as likely to commit suicide than heterosexuals.

The number is continuously growing, she said, and for every reported suicide, there are at least four that go unreported.

“We want to make sure it doesn’t get overlooked,” she said.

Metzgar wants to start a not-for-profit for all LGBTQ community members in the North Country, serving Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties. She’s hopeful to get it up and running in July.

Raising awareness in local schools is another goal.

The overall goal, Grey-Owens said, is to connect all transgender and gender non-conforming people and their families, friends and allies not just in the North Country, but across the state.

In summer 2015, Grey-Owens submitted a grant request to the Long Island Community Foundation to better organize the state’s transgender and gender non-conforming community.

After the grant was approved, Grey-Owens contacted advocates around the state, formed a group and began these town hall meetings.

The get-togethers act as a way to gather issues, come up with possible solutions and put the findings into an legislative agenda to take to Albany.

“We want to see what we can get done,” said Grey-Owens.

“And more importantly we want our voices to be heard.”

In January, the New York State Division of Human Rights adopted new regulations that ban discrimination and harassment against transgender and gender non-conforming persons.

The regulations clarified that gender dysphoria (distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify) is included under the category of “disability” and that gender identity or expression is also included under the category “gender” within the Human Rights Law. These regulations were first introduced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in October — marking the first time that any governor has issued statewide regulations to prohibit harassment and discrimination.

Juli Grey-Owens However, there’s currently no statewide law that explicitly prohibits discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people.

This means that people who are fired from their jobs or are denied housing and services because of their appearance or gender identity do not have legal protection. “It’s not fair,” Grey-Owens said.

The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) is a solution to this problem, said Metzgar.

The Assembly passed GENDA on April 30, but now it needs to pass through the Senate.

The issue: it has never come to a vote on the floor of the Senate even though the Assembly passed it several times.

Nine to be exact.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia protect the civil rights of all their residents, including transgender and gender non-conforming people.

GENDA, if approved, would add gender identity —how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves either as male, female, a blend of both or neither — and gender expression — the external appearance of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut or voice — to the categories currently included in New York State’s anti-discrimination laws, such as sex, sexual orientation, race, religion and disability.

The town hall meetings, Grey-Owens said, is a step in the right direction.

“It’s not lawful to discriminate against transgenders,” GreyOwens said. “We want equal rights.”

For more information about this movement or the next meeting, email nystransth1@yahoo.com or visit www.facebook.com/nytranstownhalls/.

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Solarize Adirondack Coast Campaign hires installers Kick-off workshop slated for June 15

By Teah Dowling

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PLATTSBURGH — Apex Solar and Triangle Electric were selected as installers for Solarize Adirondack Coast, a program designed to make investing in solar power easier and more affordable for local residents and businesses throughout Clinton and northern Essex counties.

The town of Plattsburgh, ANCA (Adirondack North Country Association) and the local solarize planning team chose the two solar installers from Malone and Plattsburgh after a thorough pre-qualification process.

“Apex Solar and Triangle Electric have a strong presence in the North Country,” said Kate Fish, ANCA executive director, in a statement. “We look forward to watching them grow in the coming months.”

Interested parties that sign up for solar installations by Oct. 31 will be able to take advantage of free site assessments, a streamlined installation process and competitive rates.

Plattsburgh Town Planner Trevor Cole said history has shown that participants can receive a 10 to 20 percent installation discount.

“Now is the time to go solar,” he said.

Why go solar?

Peru Free Library went solar in 2009. Since then, the library has not had one electric bill.

There’s no limit to the number of interested participants. However, to apply, applicants must be within the campaign boundaries and on the grid.

“We hope to get as many participants as we can,” said Town Supervisor Michael Cashman.

The town and ANCA announced in March the beginning stages of the campaign, which is part of the second round of Governor Cuomo’s NY-Sun Initiative that launched in December 2014.

A series of campaigns kicked off in 2015 with the Tri-Lakes, Canton and Akwesasne regions.

The second round, which also includes Ogdensburg, is supported by NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority).

NY-Sun will invest up to $1 billion in solar power through 2023 to significantly expand solar installations across the state.

The overall goal of this initiative is to ultimately transform New York’s solar industry to become self-sustaining.

“Cuomo is challenging us to explore different ways to be successful in our communities,” said Town of Plattsburgh Councilwoman Meg LeFevre. “Building relationships and finding common goals is where we start.”

Miner Institute to host open house CHAZY — The Miner Institute will be holding an Open House Saturday, June 25 from noon to 4 p.m. The event offers a great opportunity for visitors to learn about William Miner and the history of agriculture in the Heart’s Delight Farm Heritage Exhibit and to see a modern dairy and equine farm in action. This free, family-friendly event will feature wagon rides around the institute, an equine demonstration, interactive displays and lawn games for kids.

Miner Institute staff and summer interns will be available to answer questions about current agriculture practices and demonstrate some of the activities that take place at Miner on a daily basis. An equine demonstration with Miner Institute Morgan horses will take place at 2 p.m. There will be an equine-themed photo booth and an opportunity to kiss a pony to raise money for an equine rescue charity in the horse barn. Visitors will be able to see how cows are milked in the parlor; learn about what they feed and how they house their cows; and how the research conducted helps the dairy industry.

The campaign kick-off will take place Wednesday, June 15 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Clinton Community College in the Stafford Science Building. There will be client testimonials, a joint solar presentation and a Q&A portion.

For more information about Solarize Adirondack cost, email solarize@townofplattsburgh. com.

(L-R) Bill Kruegar, Suzy Johnson, Susan Angell and Supervisor Michael Cashman advocated for the Solarize Adirondack Coast campaign during the CV-Tech Open House.

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State report rips prison for failing to prevent escape Systemic failures, chronic complacency led to prison break, says scathing report issued on one-year anniversary of escape

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ALBANY — One year to the day that a pair of convicted killers broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility and led authorities on a three-week manhunt, the state Inspector General’s office released a scathing report detailing the conditions that led to the escape.

General Catherine Leahy Scott skewered the overall operating culture of the prison in the long-awaited report, which chalked the escape of inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat up to the “chronic complacency” and “systemic failures” of security procedures at Clinton Correctional in Dannemora.

“The extent of complacency and failure to adhere to the most basic security standards uncovered by my investigation was egregious and inexcusable,” said Scott.

The 154-page report, released on Monday, traced how the inmates manipulated employees into giving them the tools that facilitated their escape, which they then used to cut through cell walls, carve a hole in a steam pipe, slither through the bowels of the prison and break through a concrete wall with a found sledgehammer before emerging through a manhole outside the walls of the maximum security prison.

“Over the course of approximately 85 nights that Sweat was working in the tunnels under the prison, more than 400 inmate bed checks should have occurred, any one of which, if conducted properly, would have detected Sweat’s absence and instantly foiled the escape plot,” read the report.

The findings, which included testimony from 170 witnesses, painted a damning portrait of a culture of neglect in the prison, where lapses in basic security were described as “longstanding,” allowing the pair to escape “almost in plain sight.”

Prior to the breakout on June 6, the first in over a century, correction officers regularly cut corners, declining to search cells, conduct night counts and perform the searches of employees’ bags that would have likely led to the confiscation of the contraband the pair used to escape the facility.

Two employees were arrested in connection with the incident.

The report described the relationship the inmates cultivated with Joyce Mitchell, the civilian employee who supervised the pair at the prison’s sewing shop, and a guard, Gene Palmer, to obtain the tools and privileges needed to execute the plan, which was hatched in January 2015.

Palmer, a long-term employee who referred to himself as a “go-to guy,” developed a close relationship with the two inmates, both of whom lived on the honor block he was tasked with guarding.

The relationship appeared to go far deeper than what many correction officers who spoke in his defense argued was a necessary part of keeping the lid on an simmering and hostile environment.

Sweat and Matt, both talented artists, created elaborate paintings in exchange for prison intelligence (which prison brass later testified wasn’t useful or particularly reliable) and special privileges, including access to the catwalk behind their cells.

Palmer granted the access so Sweat could re-wire circuitry to allow for higher-amperage hotplates, which inmates used to cook food. But the prisoner also used the time behind the walls to map out the pair’s future escape route.

Both inmates were allowed to bypass metal detectors — Matt would often be transported from the workshop to his cell indirectly by way of the infirmary, where he often requested to be taken for “back pain” — and helped facilitate Sweat in his reassignment back to the tailor shop from the prison library, where he was temporarily exiled for making “inappropriate com-

ments.”

The guard tipped Matt off to cell searches and helped aid Sweat’s relocation to a cell next to Matt, where they worked on their escape plan, passing tools back and forth and refining their strategy to manipulate Mitchell, who by then, had developed a deep infatuation with both.

Palmer’s relationship was so close with Matt, the guard testified, that the inmate had vowed to kill any inmate who assaulted him.

Officers also failed to properly conduct at least 15 required weekly inspections of “cell integrity” to include examination of bars, floors, vents, walls, and rear of the cell from the catwalks.

“These inspections, if performed as required, would have revealed the breaches in the walls of Sweat’s and Matt’s cells,” read the report.

A pre-escape inspection of Matt’s cell, for instance, failed to find the 18” x 14” hole cut using the hacksaw blades and a screwdriver bit smuggled in by Mitchell.

Palmer, in fact, testified that officers on occasion would “forge” reports falsely indicating that searches had occurred and no contraband uncovered.

Even more damning is that DOCCS’ central office failed to approve a lockdown requested just one week before the breakout by the prison’s now-deposed superintendent, Steve Racette.

DOCCS internal affairs division also failed to uncover an inappropriate relationship between Mitchell and Sweat despite repeated documented allegations, including an incident that resulted in a write-up in September 2014, just seven months before the escape.

“As noted, based on past experience, supervisors were reluctant to bring charges against, or even reprimand, Mitchell for such behavior,” read the report. “To do so, they feared, would likely provoke claims of harassment from Mitchell and possibly from her husband, Lyle Mitchell, as well.”

All told, monitoring and inspection programs failed to detect any of what the report referred to as “security deficiencies.”

Once Sweat successfully cut through his cell wall, he spent weeks searching for an escape route, returning each morning looking visibly “frail and exhausted,” according to Mitchell’s supervisor. “[I]t felt good, because you kind of felt free,” Sweat testified. “You know, you weren’t caged up in the cell no more. Nobody knew where you were. I always left my ID in my cell, you know, when I left the cell, so I didn’t feel like I was an inmate anymore. It gave me that little feel of freedom because whenever I left my cell, on a normal basis, I always had my ID. And it was different for me, you know, after 14 years, or 13, or whatever it’s been. It was something new, it was doing something that I could actually use my mind for, that I could apply myself to.”

After discovering a toolbox left behind by a contractor, Sweat convinced Mitchell into smuggling in additional tools, including the concrete bits necessary to operate a power drill, which she promptly delivered within days (But much to the inmate’s chagrin, the contractor later retrieved the box before Sweat could use the device).

Sweat continued to work. After sketching out an escape route, the inmate cut through a chain securing a manhole cover, popped his head up and surveyed the landscape: Perfect.

Sweat preferred the spot, shaded by a pair of leafy trees, because it was out-of-sight of two guard towers. But, as the report noted, it didn’t matter because neither had been staffed at night for decades.

Mitchell, who backed out of a plan to serve as a getaway driver, was sentenced to 2-1/3 to seven years in state prison in September and ordered to pay $80,000 in restitution costs.

Palmer pled guilty to promoting prison contraband and was sentenced to six months in county jail, and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, in February.

Sweat was sentenced 3 1/2 to 7 years on top of his lifetime sentence for killing a Broome County Sheriff ’s deputy in 2002. >> See Prison Break | pg. 5

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Three high-ranking officials, including Racette, were terminated in the aftermath of the escape, as were nine other staffers.

And Lyle, also a civilian employee at the prison, appears to be sticking by his wife. If given the chance, he said he would “probably not” tip off prison management about his wife’s inappropriate behavior, instead placing blame on front gate security staff for not inspecting bags.

The report also appeared to put the kibosh on a broader conspiracy.

For instance, Scott instructed staffers to cut through a 18” steam pipe using similar tools.

They did so in two hours. A similar test to cut through a 3/16-inch-thick steel plate that served as their cell walls was completed in less than four hours.

As part of the report’s findings, Scott issued a number of recommendations to safeguard against another incident, which terrified the region and led to overtime costs upwards of $23 million.

Among tightening up the procedural gaps that led to the escape, Scott announced the creation of a specialized team within her office to “independently audit and monitor adherence to statewide and facility specific operations policies and procedures across all correctional facilities in the state.”

Since last June, DOCCS has instituted a number of reforms to “strengthen operations” at Clinton Correctional, including installing new cameras and security gates, retraining staff, disciplining responsible employees, appointing a new superintendent and replacing other senior administrative personnel, said Thomas Bailey, a DOCCS spokesman.

“We are reviewing the Inspector General’s findings and will work with her office to implement her recommendations to improve operations at Clinton and throughout the entire system, and help ensure this incident is never repeated,” Bailey said.

The escape immediately drew comparisons to the iconic prison escape flick “Shawshank Redemption.”

The similarity wasn’t lost on the inmates, who joked about the film several times, according to testimony provided by Sweat.

At one point, they cracked that while it took protagonist Andy Dufresne 20 years to escape, they could do it in 10.

After burrowing their way to freedom shortly before midnight on June 5, the pair waited for 10 minutes before emerging from the manhole: “Shawshank ain’t got s**t on me,” Sweat told investigators.

Notes left by Richard Matt in his cell prior to his escape from Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, 2015.

Village of Champlain begins strategy for revitalization Community Workshop to take place Wednesday, June 22 CHAMPLAIN — The village of Champlain is kicking off an exciting new strategy for downtown and riverfront revitalization with a community workshop to gather ideas and input on Wednesday, June 22.

Residents, business people and property owners are encouraged to attend.

“This project is the first community planning effort the village has undertaken in a long time and it will help us as village board members to identify projects and make our village ready to seek outside investment,” said Mayor Greg Martin.

The planning process is funded under a grant from the New York State Department of State Office of Planning and Development’s Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. The program helps communities to develop visions and goals for their waterfront, understand the current state of the downtown, address issues like flooding, identify projects and funding sources and develop graphics that can help people to visualize change.

“This is an exciting opportunity for our village,” said Janet McFetridge, village trustee and chair of the Project Advisory Committee. “It will give us new ideas and guide our actions in the future that can reestablish downtown as the center of the community.”

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A team of consultants, including River Street Planning & Development from Troy and PLACE Alliance NY from Schenectady, are helping to prepare the plan.

“One of the expectations is that this strategy will focus on the best use of the village owned lands and adjacent Main Street and riverfront,” said Margaret Irwin, principal of River Street Planning. “We will identify a range of possible opportunities related to economic development, recreation, housing, community character and quality of life.

“It’s important that we hear from as many people as possible to build agreement about the village’s path forward.”

The first community workshop will be held Wednesday, June 22 at the Knights of Columbus between 6:30 and 8 p.m. The village Project Advisory Committee and its consultants will introduce the project, share research, gather initial thoughts, work with the audience to develop a vision and discuss opportunities for bringing downtown back.

Village set family activity goals

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CHAMPLAIN — The village of Champlain recently launched the Champlain Valley Challenge. The overall goal is to get families to partake in a number of opportunities in the village. Participants are asked to pick up a sheet at the village office, complete 10 out of the 15 activities listed and have each one signed by the person in charge. All sheets must be signed by a parent/guardian as well. After completing 10 tasks, return the sheet to the village office. Participants will receive a patch for completion. Activities include biking, fishing and yoga. For more information, contact Janet McFetridge at janet@vchamplain.com.

NCCS presents Night of One Acts CHAMPLAIN — A Night of One Acts featuring Check, Please and It’s Not You, It’s Me will be presented Friday, June 10 and June 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 12 at 2 p.m. at Northeastern Clinton Central School.

The theme for the presentation is trying to find love and then losing it. Check, Please by Jonathan Rand showcases the extreme side of first dates and trying to meet that special someone. It’s Not You, It’s Me by Don Zolidis looks at the more comical side of long overdue breakups. Both one act comedies bring home the concept of how tricky finding true love and keeping it can be.

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s America really all that angry or are we just feeling frustrated over hearing lots of talk and seeing very little action?

We know whichever side may be speaking, they will twist the statistics to justify their points, providing ammo for either side to believe what they choose to believe, but I think more than anything America is frustrated over too many promises and not nearly enough action, especially where it counts.

Angry voices and political candidate bluster seems to have captivated our fighting spirit. Look around our country today or even our local communities; you’ll see far more brotherly love and good works than riots in the streets and destruction over limited necessities.

Oh sure, we all long for positive change and prosperity. We would all like to quit complaining about the state of so very many things but we always need to take a step back and look at our own situation.

Is our glass half full, half empty or somewhere in between?

It’s easy to get caught up in the foul language and get your blood boiling when we are bombarded with destructive images and out of character activities by a very few who are trying to make a statement, but when calmer heads prevail far too many are reacting to nothing more than bluster and not real action.

In many ways we’ve been asleep at the voting booth for too many years. The majority of eligible voters have failed to engage in the system by casting a vote, a trend that has continued to grow.

In 2008 just the promise of hope and change was enough to get Senator Obama elected.

Sadly, hope and change became more of the same and keep on hoping.

Regardless of who is elected, once the elections are over the wheels of bureaucratic government will move at a slow pace.

Every candidate running for president always says: “On the first day in office I will….”

Well just remember, that first day is chocked full of ceremonial things, but little of it has anything to do with changing our lives.

The experiment that we call the United States of America has always been a nation of change, adjusting and reacting to the forces applied, both internally and externally. What doesn’t change is our ability to adapt and meld the new into the old, like it or not, we are a resilient people.

Despite our many mistakes we’ve been able to take corrective measures and keep the vision of America alive for all who continue to seek her promise of opportunity and freedom. This election is not going to change that in the slightest.

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CNN’s great 1670 iPhone mystery W There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission... ith America going to hell in a handbasket, you can always rely on one of our most turned-to national television news outlets to provide us with vital, breaking news—such as the recent CNN report of Apple CEO Tim Cooke spying an iPhone in a 346-year-old Dutch master’s painting.

Cooke was on an European junket when CNN reported that he had just finished a tour of Amsterdam’s famous Rijks Art Museum. Apparently, the Apple chief found something there of profound historic import—and for a day it made the news feeds.

The morning after the museum visit, in a televised gathering with international business writers, Cooke was asked by a reporter (in what has all the earmarks of a sly setup) about the invention of the iPhone.

“You know, I thought I knew until last night. Last night, Neelie took me over to look at some Rembrandt and in one of the paintings I was so shocked. There was an iPhone in one of the paintings,” the CEO told the reporter.

The mysterious art work Cooke referred to was a painting by Pieter de Hooch created in 1670.

The Apple CEO must have been facetious about his firm’s invention (the iPhone) appearing in the circa 1670 painting; however, it was delivered deadpan and we never did hear the “rest of the story”, as the late Paul Harvey used to say.

So what about this overlooked 17th-century Dutch masterwork?

Perhaps the spirit of the French occultist Nostradamus was in the studio to guide the brushstrokes of De Hooch?

Nah—how about a little dab of Occam’s Razor, the skeptic’s pocket tool which works 99.9 percent of the time in solving mysteries. So, if taken as a real story about a spooky anachronism, is it really an iPhone or something far less sexy in the De Hooch painting?

According to TruNews website, this weird coincidence was not the first time “modern technology” appears in pre-modern history.

“In 1901 an artifact dubbed the Antikythera mechanism was recovered from a shipwreck off of (the island of) Antikythera (in Greece). When the device was analyzed with X-ray technology by Scientist Derek de Solla Price in 1974, it was

discovered that the mechanism was an ancient analog computer, produced likely between 150-250 B.C.... Another example from history of advanced technology being found in the ancient world is the Baghdad Battery... dated between 220-320 B.C.” Sure, most of us know that ancient civilized peoples were just as intelligent as we moderns. Still, we don’t have to swoon over fantastic TV reports about “lost advanced technologies” such as seer Edgar Cayce’s channeled Atlantean nonsense of the 1940s.

Consider Egypt’s pyramids, Rome’s Pantheon, and Anatolia’s vanished towers of Illium; even the ancient Minoans, whose destruction gave rise to the myth of Atlantis, had cushy creature comforts at home—well, sort of.

On the island of Crete, you hear that wealthy Minoans had “flush toilets” and central air conditioning at home around 1500 B.C. Sure it sounds fantastic on the face of it, but Minoan A.C. was nothing more than partitioning a room with wooden shutters that were used to control the inside air flow. And those ancient “flush toilets” often described? Running water systems that were certainly far less advanced than our modern plumbing.

Nor would I proclaim the Bagdad Battery, a clay jar that may have (may have) been a primitive electroplating device, and the Antikythera mechanism (a decidedly less than high-tech clocklike navigation device) “advanced technology”.

No matter, the reporters writing about Tim Cooke’s 2016 encounter with a 1670 smartphone had some fun, but buried the story’s lead.

And what was the lead? The title of the painting—“Man Hands a Letter to a Woman in a Hall”, so named by the artist himself.

De Hooch’s artwork portrays a seated woman and a man holding what appears to be a modern smartphone. Look closer and you’ll see it’s nothing more than a folded, handwritten paper letter. Sorry to disappoint. Occam’s Razor rules out all other explanations.

“I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I’m not so sure anymore,” Cooke said during his televised meeting. Eh? The popular communications gadget was, in fact, introduced in 2007.

We now return control of your television set to you.

Lou Varricchio is an editor with Sun Community News.

He may be reached at lou@addison-eagle.com.

LETTERS

TownÊ boardÊ meetingsÊ areÊ notÊ intendedÊ toÊ beÊ openÊ discussionÊ forums To the Editor: “The recent two letters that you published from Keith Parent Sr. require some correct information to both Mr. Parent and to others in our community.

• Town Board Meeting is for the Board to conduct business. The public is invited to LISTEN to their deliberations. It is NOT an “open” meeting, nor a workshop nor a hearing where public participation is necessarily expected and invited.

• By law, the Board and Supervisor MAY chose to open “privilege of the floor” for people to speak to the Board about an issue or concern. Many towns do not have privilege of the floor on any regular basis.

• By resolution passed several years ago, a speaker

may speak for three minutes or read a one page letter, choosing to “submit it for the official minutes” of the meeting.

• Letters sent to the Clerk, are by this resolution, to be announced as to issue and writer and then placed in the file for public perusal. They are not to be read nor entered on the minutes.

• If participants cannot abide by the guidelines of the public participation, it is totally within the rights of the Supervisor and Board to ask the speaker to yield the floor, ask them to leave or have them removed in order to continue the meeting. The meeting can, if needed, be ended. Mr. Parent would certainly find in the minutes a “second to the motion” to close the meeting.

• Responsibility comes with rights! The intent of the guidelines is to run a democratic meeting where different viewpoints may be heard and where no one person or group shuts down the rights of others to speak.

If you want to fault Ms. Wood, fault her for believing that “privilege of the floor” is important; fault her for not taking the advice of other Supervisors to not open the floor for comment; fault her for listening to tirades with rudeness and attack; fault her for not insisting on the guidelines for public participation so that many have pushed the envelope and we are out of control; fault her for not having inappropriate participants removed; fault her for her patience in trying month after month to open the floor and fielding “gotcha” questions.

I, too, Mr. Parent, arrived at the last meeting 24 hours home from the hospital and wearing a mask for self protection, wanting to speak. I find it offensive that “privilege of the floor” and the whole Board Meeting had to be closed down because a few people cannot understand nor respect the democratic rights of others to speak or to have a different opinion.

Marilyn Hoy-Youngblood Warrensburg

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GUEST VIEWPOINT

Transparency in medicine isn’t a one way street Peter J. Pitts> Center for Medicine in the Public Interest

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majority of Americans believe increased healthcare transparency should be a top national priority. It’s easy to understand why. Rising healthcare costs, coupled with high profile stories of pricegouging at some small pharmaceutical companies, have left consumers feeling ripped off, especially when it comes to drug prices.

But most drug companies aren’t whimsically increasing prices. In fact, if the healthcare industry was really transparent, people could see the truth: drug companies often aren’t the culprits behind high costs. In fact, they’re the best hope for dramatically lowering healthcare spending. The so-called pharmaceutical “transparency” bills under consideration around the country won’t solve the price gouging problem, but they will make it harder to create the medicines that will actually reduce healthcare costs.

The prices patients actually pay aren’t set by drug manufacturers -- they’re determined by pharmacy benefit managers, insurers, hospitals, and pharmacies.

And these third parties frequently engage in … price-gouging.

Consider the “prescription price shell game” uncovered in Minneapolis, where a local CVS jacked up the price of a kidney medication to more than $6 per pill from 87 cents. Or the Levine Cancer Institute in North Carolina, which collected nearly $4,500 for a colon cancer drug that hospitals typically buy for $60.

Unfortunately, the media largely ignores such abuses, preferring to concentrate just on alleged misbehavior or greed by pharmaceutical companies.

When one drug maker released a breakthrough Hepatitis C cure, headline after headline blasted the company for the drug’s initial $84,000 price tag.

Few follow-up stories have noted that, because of competition from other drug makers, the manufacturer granted such big discounts -- often in excess of 50 percent -- that the medicine now costs less in the United States than in price-controlled Europe.

Even fewer stories put America’s healthcare spending in perspective.

Name-brand drugs accounted for just 7 percent of $100 billion increase in healthcare spending from 2013 to 2014.

Of course, medicines aren’t cheap to create. The average cost of developing an FDA-approved prescription medication is $2.6 billion, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. That represents a 145 percent increase over the past decade. For every successful new compound, hundreds of others once deemed promising end up abandoned.

Understandably, pharmaceutical companies don’t love to publicize their frequent failures. As a result, everyday Americans only see the successful, profitable drugs -- and the high price tags that stem from the cost of research plus the markups tacked on by third parties.

Misguided activists in multiple states, including California and New York, are capitalizing on public anger about seemingly overpriced drugs to advance legislation that would require companies to disclose their profits on certain high priced medicines, and the costs associated with developing them.

Such “transparency” bills won’t paint a representative picture of pharmaceutical profits or stop healthcare price gouging, especially among hospitals, insurers, and pharmacies. But that’s not the real purpose of the bills anyways.

The proposed laws are prerequisites to price control bills that would let the government cap drug prices.

Consumers are justifiably mad about healthcare costs. But their anger is misdirected. If the healthcare industry was truly transparent, Americans would see who’s really to blame for rising prices. With rare exception, it’s not the companies creating lifesaving medicines.

Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA Associate Commissioner, is the president and cofounder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TLYPÊ workingÊ toÊ keepÊ youngÊ peopleÊ inÊ ADKÕ s To the Editor: As the community foundation of the Adirondack region, we spend a lot of time in the community. Lately, we’ve noticed a promising trend: more and more young people are visiting the Tri-Lakes, and some of them are starting to move here to open up businesses or join the workforce.

Sure, it’s anecdotal—but sometimes you have to trust what you’re seeing.

We commend the Tri-Lakes Young Professionals (TLYP) for convening the young people who’ve decided to make the Adirondacks their home, and for building a network that keeps growing by the day.

On May 12, Adirondack Foundation teamed with TLYP to host a mixer at Heaven Hill Farm. With our special guest, Lansie Sylvia of Here’s My Chance, we explored how young people can give back and get involved.

We look forward to working with TLYP and the Adirondack Nonprofit Network to promote ways for our young residents across the Adirondacks to stay engaged with their communities.

Special thanks to TLYP’s board for helping organize the mixer: Ashley Andrews, Sarah Wheeler, James Maswick, Kerry Blinn, Betsy Baxter, Jess Collier, Jeff Farrell, and Stephanie Gysel. Thanks also to Chris and Catherine Ericson of the Lake Placid Pub & Brewery for donating beer for the evening, and to the Uihlein Foundation for providing a beautiful space.

We encourage you to stay connected to TLYP by following them on Facebook. To learn how Adirondack Foundation and the Adirondack Nonprofit Network are working to foster the next generation of nonprofit leadership, visit adirondackfoundation.org or call 523-9904.

Cali Brooks & Chris Morris Adirondack Foundation

WhatÊ moneyÊ isÊ beingÊ saved?

To the Editor: I do not understand how the five year $3.6 million county highway bond for county highway equipment approved by the Essex County Board of Supervisors Highway Committee will save tax money. The bond issue actually creates an automatic payment of $700,000 a year into the budget, takes away the authority of the supervisors and the taxpayers to question equipment at the budget preparation and hearings.

The county should explore equipment and highway construction programs with a town and county shared program that does not charge each other for services and use. The taxpayers will get more for their tax dollar.

The duplication of town and county highway departments’ equipment and road construction is a large cost to the taxpayers.

I am quite sure allowing the county highway to spend taxpayers money on a bond note will cause other county departments to do the same. One must remember that it is the responsibility of the board of supervisors to control spending and question the need for spending.

Ed Hatch Willsboro

ThanksÊ toÊ LakeÊ PlacidÊ volunteers To the Editor: The 54th annual Village Clean Up (VCU) held Saturday, May 21, broke the record for most volunteers. Over 270 people volunteered either on the day of or in the weeks leading up to the event. Part of what makes this a great community to live in is that we know we have the support of our local businesses,

organizations and municipal agencies and the hardworking folks who run them.

It is a joy to see the overall sense of pride and accomplishment on faces of our residents young and old when the community gets together to take ownership for the cleanliness and beauty of our local environment. The annual Lake Placid VCU is a wonderful opportunity for residents and visitors alike to show the love for this community by giving their time and energy cleaning our streets. The annual event is a perfect reminder that it only takes a moment to stop and pick up a piece of litter and put it in its proper place.

Clean Up Day organizers Andrea Grout and Tricia Garrett would like to send a big thank you to the many enthusiastic volunteers for your efforts, your great attitude and your stewardship of our beautiful Adirondack town.

Congratulations to the annual VCU Poster Contest winners: Grades 1-3: first place Josephina Portal-3rd grade, St. Agnes School; second place Willow Wood-1st grade, LPES; third place Haileigh LaMare-3rd grade LPES. Grade 4-5 winners: first place Jesse Marshall-4th grade LPES; second place Olivia Scutt-4th grade LPES; third place Nadia Phillip-4th grade LPES. Additional thanks go to the many donors listed below for their contributions: Central Garage-Jay Strack; Creambelt Seed Company-Sarah Morley; Kinney Drugs, Lake Placid; Lake Placid Police and Fire Departments; Lake Placid Pub & Brewery; Lake Placid Garden Club; Mrs. Patty McConvey; McDonald’s; The Garden Center-Dan Wikoff; The Mirror Lake Inn; Mr. Mike’s Pizza-David Nicola; ORDA (Olympic Regional Development Authority); ROOST (Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism)-Sue Cameron; Starbucks, Subway-Mike Ames; Town of North Elba-Butch Martin, Zach Clark, Shannon Porter, Larry Brockway and Larry Straight; The UPS Store-Debbie McClean; Village of Lake Placid-Ellen Clark; The Whiteface Lodge, Rebecca Philion at Lake Placid Elementary School and Catherine Bemis at St. Agnes School.

For more information, contact Andrea Grout at 524-3832 or Tricia Garrett at 524-5974 or email lpvillagecleanup@gmail.com.

Andrea Gout Lake Placid

StewartÕ s,Ê moreÊ thanÊ aÊ business To the Editor: Stewart’s Shops are a familiar sight in many area towns. They are a convenient stop if you need gas, groceries, or a delicious milkshake! The next time you visit a store, consider that Stewart’s is more than a local business, it’s a supportive, generous community partner.

The Elizabethtown Library Association would like to recognize Stewart’s Holiday Match Program and say thank you for the funds we received this year. New children’s books will be added to our collection. Books we couldn’t have purchased without Stewart’s valuable assistance.

Thank you, Stewart’s, for your commitment to our community’s children!

Lora Langston, Director Elizabethtown Library Association

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COMMENTARY

Little Bits Obey? Really?

Gordie Little

Columnist

“To honor and obey.” They were part of our vows when Kaye and I exchanged rings in 1974.

We still love and honor each other.

We hold hands like young lovers when walking down the street. But, “obey?” Not so much.

Someone commented on how “quaint it is” after watching us hold hands walking on the sand at Myrtle Beach. Are we an anomaly? I hope not.

I understand why couples these days, eliminate the “obey” part. Even though theologians argue the point, I do not miss “obedience” in the vows.

One of our most cherished possessions is a marriage certificate from Kaye’s ancestors. The wording is unique from that union in Montreal more than two hundred years ago.

Our friend Les Bradford visited last week. He reminded me that he let me borrow a tiny book that is special. That was a while ago and, for a few minutes, I couldn’t remember it.

Noting my immense chagrin, Kaye jumped up, left the room and in two minutes, strode back, handing me that little book. The sweat around my neck began to dry and all was right with the world. How I love that woman.

Inside the cover is a depiction of “The Marriage in Cana,” the first miracle attributed to Jesus, when he turned water into wine. Next, comes the two-page spread certifying that Mr. Joseph W. Bradford and Miss Celia C. Walch are “united in marriage.”

It’s a time capsule from Middleborough, Massachusetts, November 4, 1858. J. W. Putnam, pastor of “1st church” made it official with his signature.

The tiny tome is titled “The Christian Minister’s Affectionate Advice to a Married Couple.” At 4 ½ inches by 3, it contains 97 pages and took a lot of squinting for me to get through it.

Those people in the mid 1800’s must have had excellent vision.

I doubt if that newly married couple sat down on the bed prior to the consummation of their marriage and read it cover-to-cover before hitting the sheets. But, some of the advice is interesting. In referring to “conjugal affection,” it warns, “sullen taciturnity checks its growth.”

Another quote: “A woman must guard against the tormenting disappointments to which childish expectations render her liable.” What?

My favorite is: “There should likewise be some allowance made for what is natural to men, especially Englishmen: namely, a certain bluntness, through which they seem to be indifferent when they are really not so.” Sound familiar, ladies?

Some of you might not agree with advice from Ephesians 5:22: “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands..for the husband is the head of the wife.” Sorry, those tenets don’t apply in our household. Although I am more than three times bigger than Kaye, we take turns being boss. And when it comes to important decisions, her opinion is always tantamount or better than mine.

It’s a treasure for Les and a delight for me to hold and read 158 years after that Massachusetts marriage.

Love, live and be happy. It works for Kaye and me. This husband is definitely not the head of this wife and I like it this way.

Columnist Gordie Little may be reached at gordie@suncommunitynews.com.

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WWIIÊ vetÊ getsÊ surpriseÊ of Ê aÊ lifetime

Joe DeMarco honored with flagpole, medallion in surprise ceremony

By Pete DeMola

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JAY — The past week had been a good one for Joe and Norma DeMarco.

Joe turned 90 on May 22 and the couple drove to Ohio to spend time with five generations of their big Italian family.

As they were cruising up the Adirondack Northway last week, the last leg of an 800-mile trip that saw them stay overnight in Syracuse, Joe was primarily concerned with picking up a gallon of milk.

Until they saw the pair of motorcycles waiting for them at the exit.

Danny Kaifetz and a pal escorted the DeMarcos back to their cozy alpine-style chalet in AuSable Acres, where a delegation of friends and neighbors were waiting for them.

So was a gleaming new flagpole.

Kaifetz owns Adirondack Flagpoles, the only wooden flagpole maker in the country. Each year, the Vietnam veteran gives away one handcrafted Northern Red Oak pole to a combat vet.

Since meeting DeMarco through the North Country Honor Flight Program, the pair have struck up a close friendship.

Joe and Norma, he said, have treated him like a third son.

“Joe is pretty much my hero,” Kaifetz said. “He’s one of the finest men I’ve ever known.”

DeMarco, who fought at the Battle of Iwo Jima, became a regular at Kaifetz’s workshop in Keeseville.

Kaifetz had long eyed him to be a recipient of a flagpole, but keeping the project under wraps would have been impossible while he was still in town.

Preparations began shortly after the DeMarcos left for Ohio.

Craftsmen immediately had the steel mounting base fabricated. Concrete work began the day after. The pole was fabricated and finished with eight coats of hand-sanded varnish in record time, Kaifetz said.

In fact, work was completed at precisely 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, the National Moment of Remembrance.

A bronze plaque bears a special inscription: My friend, my hero.

The motorcycles roared around the corner, followed by the couple.

DeMarco got out of the car.

“What’s going on here?” he asked.

He walked over to the flagpole: “Look at this — you see this?”

He beamed.

“I knew something was up when they met me at the exit,” DeMarco said, “but I couldn’t figure it out.”

Kaifetz parked his motorcycle, removed his helmet and escorted DeMarco to the handsome new pole.

“Mr. DeMarco, raise your flag,” he said.

A bugler performed “To The Colors” as DeMarco worked the pulley system.

The group, including friends and neighbors, placed their hands over their hearts and looked skyward as the national anthem rang through the neighborhood. Levity followed with the old navy tune “Anchor’s Away.”

DeMarco laughed.

“I feel like the luckiest guy in the world right now,” he said.

“After coming home from Ohio with my family, this is the icing on the cake.”

The vet was also presented the prestigious Armed Forces WWII Legacy Medallion by Mike Derrick, a retired army colonel from Peru who is running for New York’s 21st Congressional District.

“Joe is an example of a life well-lived,” Derrick said.

DeMarco put his arm around his friend Rodney Wright, of

Rouses Point, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

“Band of brothers,” DeMarco said.

WWII vets are dying at a rate of 800 per day, said DeMarco.

The number has dwindled from 16 million to 800,000 since the war ended in 1945.

“All the heroes are the ones that didn’t come back,” DeMarco said.

WWII navy veteran Joe DeMarco was surprised with a custom-made wooden flagpole when he returned home from a trip to Ohio to visit family. Adirondack Flagpoles’ Danny Kaifetz gives away one each year to a combat veteran. DeMarco was an easy choice, he said. But the difficulty came in preparing and delivering it to his friend without his knowledge.

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CLINTONVILLE — A host of athletes from Section VII will be making their way to Syracuse this weekend for the NYSPHSAA Track and Field Championships, set for June 1011 at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.

Athletes prepared for events during the Section VII state qualifier meet June 3 at AuSable Valley High School, where Saranac’s Mitch Fink and Desiree Dashnaw each claimed the pentathlon.

Fink scored 2,869 points to win the boys five-event contest, placing first in the 110-hurdles, high jump, shot put and long jump. He placed fourth in the 1,500. Fink beat out AuSable Valley’s Joseph Forker, who scored 2.233 points(first place in the 1,500; second place high jump and long jump), while Ticonderoga’s Cody Huestis finished third with 2,069 points (second place 110 hurdles and shot put). Peru’s Aaryn Clark finished with 1,940 points.

In the girls pentathlon, Dashnaw scored 2,274 points thanks to wins in the 100 hurdles, long jump, high jump and 800. Teammate Hannah Desserault had won the shot put to finish second with 2,072 points, while Peru’s Kira Fisher scored 1,509.

The Chiefs held down the top podium spot in the steeplechase as Zach Lapage ran the 3,000 meter race in 10:31.24 while Elysha O’Connell ran her 2,000-meter competition in a time of 7:33.14. Plattshurgh High’s Ryan Flora and Seton Catholic’s Sofia DeJordy each finished in second place in their respective events.

In the 4-by-800 boys relay, the Lake Placid Blue Bombers reversed their second place finish at the Section VII championship meet, beating Saranac by almost four full seconds to earn the NYSPHSAA bid, with Saranac Lake, AuSable Valley and Peru following. The Peru girls team won the 4-by-800 ladies event, with Saranac and Lake Placid following.

EKMW’s Jarron Boyle earned a spot on the state roster with a time of 16.24 seconds in the 110 hurdles, defeating Saranac’s Noah Pearsall (17.04) and Talon Bushey of PHS (18.64).

Beekmantown’s Tristen Redi scored the victory in the ladies 100 hurdles in a time of 16.64, followed by Jessica Cartier of NCCS (17.14), Brandi Lavarnway of Beekmantown (17.84) and Madison Baker of PHS (18.14).

In the 100, it was a three-tenths of a second which separated Peru’s Evan Palmer (11.34) and Beekmantown’s Daryn Nephew (11.64) as Palmer scored the win, with Eric Delutis of Saranac, Carter Grady of Lake Placid and Dylan Ferrigno of Beekmantown following. In the girls 100, Elisabeth Plympton (Beekmantown) won in a time of 12.94 seconds, defeating CorrieAnne Stoner (EKMW) and Hannah Glicksman (PHS) by six-tenths of a second (13.54). AuSable Valley’s Brinn Peck, Lake Placid’s Grace McGrew and Beekmantown’s Mikayla Hamel rounded out the field.

In the 1,600, EKMW standout Jon Gay scored a time of 4:43.54 in winning the event by 14 seconds over Saranac Lake’s Anderson Gray (4:57.84). EKMW’s Logan Van Buren finished third, followed by Lake Placid’s Henry McGrew, Plattsburgh High’s Ryan Flora, Seton Catholic’s Jake Glicksman. Saranac’s Brexton Montville and Peru’s Ben Post. In the ladies 1,500, Seton Catholic’s Margaret Champagne scored the win in 4:57.14, defeating Lake Placid’s Marli Damp, Seton Catholic’s Sofia DeJordy and AuSable Valley’s McKenna Christiansen.

In the 4-by-100 relay, Beekmantown scored a three second win (43.94 seconds) over Ticonderoga (46.84) in the boys event, while Beekmantown (51.54 seconds) defeated Saranac Lake, Peru, PHS, Ticonderoga and Saranac.

Saranac’s Rory Patterson got the Chiefs back to the top of the podium with a time of 52.34 seconds in the 400, defeating Beekmantown’s Everett Sapp by two-tenths of a seconds (52.54). Luka Tsikluari (PHS), Luis Medina (EKMW), Dillon Crowe (Ticonderoga) and Gage Ducatte (Chazy) followed. In the girls 400, Claire Deshaies of PHS (1:01.74) scored a one second win over Juliette Baker of EKMW (1:02.74). They were followed by Ticonderoga’s Delaney Hughes, Saranac’s

nah DeJordy along with PHS’s Kristen Karkoski and Saranac’s Angelique Moore.

Peru swept the 4-by-400 relay events, with the boys defeating Beekmantown, Saranac, PHS and Lake Placid and the girls winning over PHS, Saranac, NCCS, Ticonderoga and Saranac Lake.

Ticonderoga’s Colvin Chapman scored a win in the high jump, hitting the mark of 5’11” in defeating teammate Collin Bressett.

“I think the extended rest I had (did not compete at sectionals) helped and I was jumping against my teammate, so it was a fun event,” Chapman said. “Jumping is really a psychological game.”

However, it was not a sweep for the Sentinels in the high jump, as Peru’s Ella Messner was able to clear the 4’-10” mark in less attempts then sectional champion Meg McDonald. The duo were followed by Beekmantown’s Olivia Boyette.

In a competitive boys long jump, Saranac’s Tyler Blair (20’-10.75”) scored a narrow win over Beekmantown’s Brogan Arthur (20’-10.0”), followed by Ticonderoga’s Justyn Granger, Lake Placid’s Trent White, Saranac’s Ben Ayock, Northeastern Clinton’s Valerie Simmons earned a spot on the Section VII state team which will compete in Ticonderoga’s Lance Shaner Syracuse June 10-11 with a win in the discus, with a winning throw of 109-feet. and Beekmantown’s Dylan FerPhoto by Jill Lobdell rigno. Beekmantown’s Plympton scored her second win of Rebekah Hilpl and Northeastern Clinton’s Ashley Monette. the event in the girls long jump with a mark of 16’-5”, three In the 400 hurdles, Jared Banker of Peru was the only com- inches ahead of teammate Reid. AuSAble Valley’s Brinn Peck petitor to finish the lap around the AVCS track in under a and Saranac’s Kayla Myers followed. minute with a time of 58.54 seconds, followed by Saranac’s Watson of PHS scored the win in the boys triple jump with Cameron Duffield and Peru’s Cody Gonyea. Jessica Cartier of a mark of 42’-7”, almost two feet ahead of runner up Luke Norteastern Clinton won the girls race in a time of 1:06.64, Maye of Saranac (40’-9.25”). They were followed by Saranac’s defeating Peru’s Taylor Canet, Beekmantown’s Lindsey Gon- Eric Delutis, Joe Lyons of PHS, Taylor Whitcomb of AVCS yea, Saranac Lake’s Ashley Grimone, Lake Placid’s Lissy Ash- and Collin Bressett of Ticonderoga. Saranac’s Janyll Barber ley and PHS’s Madison Baker. scored with win in the ladies triple jump with a mark of 34’In the 800, Peru’s Isaiah Maddix dominated the second 8.5”, beating Peru’s Messner by two-plus inches (32’-11”). half of his race against EKMW’s Gay, scoring a four second PHS teammates Makenzie Baker and Brianna Coon followed, win with a time of 2:00.84. The duo were followed by Saranac along with Lake Placid’s Esther Munoz and Beekmantown’s Lake’s Tyler Martin, Ticonderoga’s Brandon Romaca, Lake Lilly Wister.

Placid’s Forest Ledger, Peru’s Paul Ryder, Saranac Lake’s Bryce Beekmantown’s Matthew Villa and Saranac Lake’s David Hartman and Caranac’s Logan Clark. Kirsten Villemaire Sullivan had a showdown in the boys shot put, with both hitof Beekmantown won the ladies event in a time of 2:23.14, ting a mark of 40’-7.5”, with Villa earning the victory. Anthofive seconds faster than Saranac Lake’s Brittany Shumway ny Jensen of NCCS, Clay Watts of Beekmantown, Jared Pike (2:28.94). Makayla Stockwell (EKMW), Hailey Christiansen and Riley Quigley of Ticonderoga and Alex Dumas of Peru (AVCS) and Kiersten Harvey (Beekmantown) followed. followed. Coon scored a win for PHS in the girls event with a Palmer again struck gold for the Peru boys team with a throw of 36’-7.5’, almost three feet ahead of runner up Valerie 22.94 second time in the 200, while Carter Grady finished sec- Simmons of NCCS (33’-10”). Saranac’s Logan Thatcher and ond for Lake Placid in 24.44, followed by De’Andre Watson of Kylie Wiedman were the next two in line, followed by StephaPHS and Lancs Shaner of Ticonderoga. Deshaies also picked nia Zelinski (EKMW), Alexis Sanders (Ticoneroga), Allison up her second win for the Lady Hornets in the 200 in 26.84 Houle (Saranac) and Hayley Disco (NCCS). seconds, followed by Jayda Meadows of Saranac Lake, Brinn After losing a close shot put contest, Sullivan scored the Peck of AuSable Valley, Nora Canning of Saranac, Grace Mc- win in the discus with a throw of 136’-7”, scoring a six-plus Grew of Lake Placid and Mikayla Hamel of Beekmantown. foot win over Tim Bedard of NCCS (130’-4”). The BeekmanIt was a Seton Catholic sweep in the biggest distance events, town duo of Clay Watts and Trevor Drapeau followed, along as Caleb Moore scored a win in the 3,200 (10:02.64) and with Saranac’s Noah Pearsall, EKMW’s Jason Zerube and PeChampagne scored her second win in the 3,00 (10:45.84). ru’s Dumas. In the girls event, Simmons earned the win with a Moore was followed by Lake Placid’s James Flanigan, Gray of throw of 109’, beating Saranac’s Logan Thatcher, who finished Saranac Lake, Post of Peru, Dylan Trombley of AVCS, Lauch- with a top mark of 100’3”. They were followed by Maddie lan Cheney-Seymour of Saranac Lake and Justin Burdo of Sa- Hoath (Saranac), Coon (PHS), Wiedman (Saranac), Zelinski ranac, while Champagne defeated teammates Lea and Savan- (EKMW), Maddie McBride (Peru) and Disco (NCCS).

Kroes leads Section VII golfers at state tournament

By Keith Lobdell

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ITHACA — Lake Placid’s Bjorn Kroes was the low man for the Section VII team as they competed in the NYSPHSAA state championship meet at Cornell University June 5-6.

Kroes, the Section VII tournament runner up, opened the tournament with a 77 and fired an 80 on the second day for a two-round score of 157 (9-over par), placing him in a tie for 28th place and only six

shots behind champion Connor Daly, who shot even par on the second day to hold a 3-over score.

Overall, the Section VII golfers fared better on day one, posting higher scores on the second day.

Lake Placid’s Drew Maiorca was the next Section VII golfer to place, as he had rounds of 81 and 85 to finish wit ha 23-over 165, tying for 53rd.

Nate Devins of AuSable Valley followed

with rounds of 84 and 86 for a 28-over final score of 170, finishing in a tie for 71st.

Saranac Lake’s Mike Rice improved his score on day two, hitting and 85 to go with an opening day 89 to finish at 32-over (174), alone in 83rd place. Peru’s Gavin Plympton also had a better day two, shaving seven strokes off his score for a 91-84-175 (33over), tied for 84th.

Meanwhile, Saranac Lake’s Tristin Fitzgerald dropped 14 strokes off his day one pace, moving up 12 positions and finishing with a

95-81-176, placing 86th.

Fitzgerald’s teammate Zach Ellsworth finished in 88th place with a two day score of 36-over (87-91-178).

The Moriah duo of Kyle Wilson and Section VII champion Joe Stahl rounded out the field at states, with Wilson shooting rounds of 92 and 88 for a 38-over 180, while Stahl had a rough second day, shooting a 22-over 93, falling 11 positions to 91st place with a two day total of 181 (39-over).

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questions.

Despite the results of the public information meeting, Martin said the lines will be placed regardless of the number of interested participants.

The mayor, however, is hopeful the residents affected by this expansion will partake in the offering.

The amount of savings from transitioning to natural gas from propane and oil, he said, have helped numerous residents, including himself.

“Natural gas is definitely a cleaner and cheaper form of energy,” he said.

NYSEG intends to cover the cost of the main line and the laterals from the main line to the house. Also, the water meters will be provided.

The interested participants will have to pay for the internal piping and installation.

The exact cost of the internal piping and installation depends on the property.

Property owners on those said streets do not have to hook up to natural gas and there will be no extra costs.

There will be no additional cost to the village either.

Martin said the expansion is expected to start at any time.

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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) received the “Spirit of Enterprise” award from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, June 2.

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This year, McFetridge is hoping to form a teenage rowing team for competitions in Vermont sponsored by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum on Lake Champlain.

McFetridge attempted to make a team last year. However, not enough teens signed up.

She said she would like to see a new team form.

Last year, McFetridge said about 20 participants rowed on a regular basis.

She said she’s been receiving phone calls every day about when the program would start back up again.

The village would like to see new community members come forward and participate in the program not just from the village, but from throughout the region.

“To be out on the river is so calming and it’s a great community activity,” she said. “Anyone can do this and everyone is welcome.”

The village also plans on adding two more coxswains this year for extra instructional purposes.

Champlain Rowing Program: Friday nights at 6 p.m. Life jackets will be provided to all participants throughout the program.

Participants must be 12 years or older to row. Passengers as young as a toddler are allowed on the boats. For more information about the program or updates, visit vchamplain.com or call 518-298-4152.

ance.

“If everyone behaved, we wouldn’t need them,” Martin said.

“But that’s not the case anymore.”

The system should be fully operational by July, the mayor said.

A planned second phase will see the installation of four cameras to monitor the two new water towers, water treatment plant and the old storage tank in the town.

Costs are slated to clock in at $14,450.

The mayor is hopeful this portion of the project, along with the cost of the server and recorder, will be covered by leftover monies of the $13.4 million loan for the comprehensive joint townvillage water project.

Martin said the village won’t know how much money, if any, will be allocated until all the bids are made.

The last two are set to go out in about a month, he said.

All 12 cameras will be streamed into the village office for proper surveillance.

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CadyvilleÊ FieldÊ DayÊ Ò TakeÊ TwoÓ Ê

Cadyville Volunteer Fire Department trying again for 50th annual event on Sunday.

CADYVILLE — The Cadyville Volunteer Fire Department is looking forward to its second attempt of the 50th annual Cadyville Field Day this Sunday.

The firefighters, Field Day Chair Chuck Kostyk said, refers to this day as “take two.” The 50th celebration was supposed to happen June 14 of last year.

But plans were nixed when Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. Six days later, the search made its way to nearby woods and communities in Plattsburgh and Cadyville.

With nothing else to worry about, so far, they’re ready to give the celebration another shot.

The day will kick off with a “huge” parade, said Kostyk, honoring all law enforcement involved in the prison escape.

After several years, the carnival rides and games are back and provided by Green Mountain Amusements. Live bands will provide the entertainment.

New this year is a waterball competition for firefighters where two teams of local firefighters will battle with hoses to see who can move a volleyball-like ball down a wire, over 10 feet from the ground, furthest and fastest.

The Clinton County Firefighters Association will bring in their 32” long Scotty Fire Safety House trailer, which features three different rooms for face-to-face instruction on fire safety topics.

The front room is a kitchen setting that features a series of fire safety violations or problems that participants are asked to identify. A second room is a living room with violations, including a faulty fireplace, and a door to check for heat. The last is set up as a mock bedroom that can be filled with smoke, which activates smoke detectors so that participants can practice a home fire drill and evacuate the house. And who can forget the food?

Classic fair foods such as hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages, French fries and cotton candy will be served, along with clams

and clam chowder.

Adult beverages will also be available.

The event started as a fundraiser for the fire department to raise additional funds for equipment.

Exactly, 50 years later, its purpose is almost the same.

All proceeds will benefit the Cadyville Fire Department.

Kostyk is hopeful the event will raise over $1,000. He’s more hopeful of a large turnout.

“This event isn’t about the money but keeping the community active,” he said. “It’s one of our dwindling number of community events available.

“It’s just a good opportunity for people in the area to get out and get together.”

The CFD’s 50th annual Field Day “Take Two” will take place Sunday, June 12 from noon to 5 p.m. at St. James Church.

Admission is free. Rides, games and food cost money. Parking will be available at the field day grounds and on the field of a local farmer between the grounds and the fire station.

For more information, email Kostyk at cadyfd130@charter. net.

Church to host 35th Strawberry Festival

Golf Tourney to benefit scholarship

BEEKMANTOWN — The 35th annual Strawberry Festival and Book Sale will be held Thursday June 30, at the Plattsburgh United Church, from noon to 7 p.m., where they will be continually serving in the Social Hall. This includes a bake sale and children’s games. There will be a book sale from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wood, Wire and Voice will provide live entertainment on the front lawn at 6 p.m. Bring blanket or lawn chair The menu includes Michigan or barbecue meatball sandwich, baked beans, macaroni salad, coleslaw, strawberry shortcake or sundae, lemonade, iced tea or coffee. All proceeds benefit Neighbors in Need.

For more information, call 563-2992 or visit plattsburghumc.org.

PORT KENT — The 12th annual Mark Rabin Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Wednesday, July 27 at Harmony Golf Club. The tournament this year has been divided into a morning flight with up to 14 four-person teams that will tee off at 8 a.m., and an afternoon flight with up to 14 four-person teams teeing off at 1 p.m. Fee includes 14 holes of golf; the use of a golf cart; a barbecue chicken buffet lunch; goofy hats; and prizes for everyone. There will be a $5,000 hole-in-one prize and the Sledgehammer Putting contest, both sponsored by Shumway Insurance Agency. Other prizes will be awarded for longest drives, shortest drives, closest to the pin, and longest putt, among others.

Mulligan tickets and 50/50 raffle tickets will be on sale. All

proceeds from the tournament will support the Plattsburgh College Foundation and the Mark Rabin Memorial Scholarship in Marketing, established through previous tournaments.

For more information, contact tournament director, Dr. Nancy Church at 564-4169, or nancy.church@plattsburgh.edu.

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SARANAC - Chair Yoga Classes to be held at Will Rogers. Amy Kohanski will hold a series of chair yoga classes at Saranac Village at Will Rogers on Thursdays from 3:30 4:30 p.m., beginning January 14th through June 23rd. Pre-registration is not required. No experience is necessary. For more information, please call Amy Kohanski at 518-524-6888 or email her at akohanski@roadrunner.com.

LAKE PLACID – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Thomas Shipman Youth Center December 1, January 5, Feb 2, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, December 6 , 9:30 am - 2:15 PM November 24, December 22, January 26, Feb 23, March 22, April 26, May 24, June 28, July 26, August 23, September 27, October 25, November 22, December 27 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296

CHAZY – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Friday at Sacred Heart Church, 8 Hall Street, Chazy 7:30pm-8:30pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

PLATTSBURGH – ALATEEN Meeting every Thursday at United Methodist Church, 127 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh 7:30pm8:30pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

ELIZABETHTOWN – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Sunday at Elizabethtown Community Hospital Board Room, 75 Park St., Elizabethtown, 4pm-5pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

SARNAC LAKE – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Wednesday at Baldwin House, 94 Church Street, Saranac Lake 7pm-8pm.

For more information call 1-888425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AUSABLE FORKS – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the Ambulance Building-Ausable Forks December 2, January 6, Feb, 3, March 2, April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3, September 7, October 5, November 2, December 7, at 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 ELIZABETHTOWN - Al-Anon Family Group, family, friends of problem drinkers. Elizabethtown Community Hospital Board Room. 4 to 5 p.m. Anonymous, confidential, free. Details: 518-962-2351, 518873-2652. Every Sunday.

ELIZABETHTOWN – 2015-2016 WIC Schedule at the Public Health Building December 3, January 7, Feb 4, March 3, April 7, May 5, June 2, July 7, August 4, September 1, October 6, November 3, December 1, 8:00 - 3:30 PM November 19, December 17, January 21, Feb 18, March 16, April 21, May 19, June 16, July 21, August 18, September 15, October 20, November 17, December 15, 11:30 am - 6:30 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296 KEESEVILLE – 2015-2016 WIC schedule at the United Methodist Church November 25, December 30, January 13, Feb 25, March 24, April 28, May 26, June 23, July 28,August 25, September 22, October 27, November 23, December 22, 9:30 am - 2:15 PM Call us to schedule an appointment or find out more information at 518-873-3560 or 518- 569-3296

TICONDEROGA - Essex County Lethernecks, Marine Corps League, Det 791, Ticonderoga American Legion Post. 6 p.m. Active Marines and Marine Veterans invited. First Thursday of every month.

WILLSBORO - The Willsboro Farmers' Market will begin on Thursday, June 16 and be held every Thursday until September 8, at the Town Pavilion on Route 22.

DINNERS & SUCH WESTPORT - Chicken & Biscuit Dinner, Thursday, June 16, 2016 at the Westport Federated Church, 6486 Main St., Westport, NY. Serving starts 4:30pm with takeouts available. $10.00 Adults, $5.00 Children 12 & under, Preschool free. Donations of non-perishable food items for the Westport Food Pantry are appreciated.

LECTURES & SEMINARS PLATTSBURGH - twice-monthly Public Science Forums on interesting topics in science and the social sciences at The Champlain Wine Company, 30 City Hall Place, Plattsburgh NY 12901. First and third Mondays of each month at 5:30 pm. Beginning Monday Feb. 1st. Local Scientists and Social Scientists present provocative public forums free to the public. For more information, please call 518564-0064.

PUBLIC MEETINGS ELIZABETHTOWN – Elizabethtown Thrift Shop will have it's Monthly Meeting Second Monday of Every Month at 7pm @ The Episcopal Parish Hall.

CADYVILLE – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Sunday 7pm8pm, Wesleyan Church, 2083 Rt. 3, Cadyville, NY. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

LAKE PLACID – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Monday at St. Agnes Church Basement, 169 Hillcrest Avenue, Lake Placid 8pm9pm. For more information call 1888-425-2666 or 518-561-0838.

PLATTSBURGH - BREASTFEEDING - LA LECHE LEAGUE Do you have questions about breastfeeding? Do you have support you can offer to others? Do you need information about returning to work and nursing? Please join us for mother-to-mother sharing. All mothers, mothers-to-be, and children are welcome. Meetings are twice monthly: the first Monday at 7 P.M and the third Friday at 10:00 A.M at the Family Connections, 194 U.S Oval, Plattsburgh. Info: 518-643-9436.

PLATTSBURGH – Al-Anon Adult Children Meeting every Monday at 7pm-8pm, United Methodist Church, 127 Beekmantown Street, Plattsbugh. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-5610838.

PLATTSBURGH – Al-Anon Family Group Meeting every Tuesday at United Methodist Church, 127 Beekman Street, Plattsburgh Noon-1pm. For more information call 1-888-425-2666 or 518-5610838.

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WHALLONSBURG - The Pleasant Valley Quilters will hold their annual potluck picnic meeting on Tuesday, June 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall, located at the corner of Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road, Whallonsburg, NY. Contact janiceorlowski@gmail.com for details.

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[SSNY] on March 8, Court of the State of Plattsburgh, New York Index No.: 2016-0305 2016. Office location: New York, dated May 6, Stafford, Owens, Piller, R.J.I. 09-1-2016-0110 2016, and filed along Murnane, Clinton County. SSNY is TO THE ABOVE NAMED with the supporting pa- Kelleher & Trombley, designated as agent of DEFENDANTS: NOTICE OF QUALIFICAPLLC the LLC upon whom YOU ARE HEREBY SUM- pers upon which such MONED to answer the By: Brendan P. Owens, process against it may order was granted in the TION OF RAD NY Complaint in this action Esq. be served. SSNY shall Clinton County Clerks PLATTSBURGH PROPand to serve a copy of Counsel for the Plaintiff mail a copy of process Office. This is an action ERTY OWNER LLC. App. your Answer, or, if the to 30 Boulder Ledge to compel the determi- One Cumberland Avenue for Auth. filed with Secy.

Complaint is not served Post Office Box 2947 Way, Keeseville, New NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- of State of NY (SSNY) Split River Property nation of claims to the LEGALS York 12944. Purpose: TION OF Jam Industries with this Summons, to real property located at Plattsburgh, New York on 5/26/16. Office loca- Services LLC. Filed with USA, LLC. Authority BALL AIR LLC Articles of 12901 Any lawful purpose. tion: Clinton County. SSNY on 5/3/16. Office: serve a Notice of Ap- 9 Vaughn Rd., Town of filed with NY Dept. of LLC formed in Delaware Clinton County. SSNY pearance, on the Plain- Plattsburgh, County of NC-06/04-06/25/2016Org. filed NY Sec. of NC-05/14-06/18/2016State on 4/28/16. Office 6TC-118009 (DE) on 5/25/16. SSNY designated as agent for tiff's Attorneys within State (SSNY) 5/11/2016.

Clinton, State of New 4TC-120231 location: Clinton County. designated as agent of process and shall mail twenty (20) days after York, and designated on Office in Clinton Co. Princ. bus. addr.: 310 LLC upon whom pro- to: 54 Haven Ln Peru NY the service of this Sum- the tax map of Clinton SSNY desig. agent of NOTICE OF FORMATION 12972. Purpose: any mons, exclusive of the County as 205.1-2-15?

LLC upon whom pro- OF LIMITED LIABILITY West Newberry Rd., cess against it may be TWIN ELLS CAMPSITES Bloomfield, CT 06002. served. SSNY shall mail lawful cess may be served. COMPANY (LLC) This is an action to com- & day of service (or within MOBILE HOME LLC formed in DE on NC-06/04-07/09/2016process to: 100 Wilshire SSNY shall mail copy of Name: Genuine Ground pel the determination of PARKS, LLC thirty (30) days after the NY Sec. of Blvd., Ste. 1750, Santa 6TC-120364 process to 4082 State service is complete if claims to the stated real NOTICE OF FORMATION LLC Articles of Organiza- 10/2/14.

Route 9, Plattsburgh, NY tion filed with the Secre- State designated agent Monica, CA 90401. DE this Summons is not property pursuant to Ar- of a domestic Limited 12901, which is also the personally delivered to ticle 15 of the Real Prop- Liability Company (LLC): tary of State of New of LLC upon whom pro- address of LLC: 850 STATE OF NEW YORK New Burton Road, Ste. SUPREME principal business loca- York (SSNY) on May 19, cess against it may be COURT you within the state of erty Actions and Pro- DATE OF FORMATION: served and shall mail 201, Dover, DE 19904. tion. Purpose: Any law- 2016 Office Location: New York), and in case ceedings Law, to estab- The Articles of OrganizaCOUNTY OF CLINTON ful purpose. lish that plaintiff is the tion were filed with the of your failure to appear Clinton County. The process to: c/o CT Cor- Arts. of Org. filed with SARANAC CENTRAL DE Secy. of State, 401 NC-05/21-06/25/2016or answer, judgment will sole owner of the title to New York State SecreSSNY is designated as poration System, 111 SCHOOL DISTRICT 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, the stated real property Federal St., Ste. 4, Plaintiff, 6TC-118789 be taken against you by tary of State on May 5, agent of the LLC upon Dover, DE 19901. Pur- ~against~ default for the relief de- in fee simple absolute, 2016. whom process against it regd. agent upon whom pose: any lawful act or the respective heirs at manded in the Com- and to forever bar the NEW YORK OFFICE LONOTICE OF FORMATION may be served. SSNY process may be served. defendants and any per- CATION: Clinton County activity.

OF Francis-Jean LLC. shall mail a copy of any DE addr. of LLC: 1209 law, next of kin, distribu- plaint NC-06/11-07/16/2016Arts. of Org. filed with process to the LLC at: Orange St., Wilmington, tees, executors, admin- Dated: May 13, 2016. sons claiming any inter- AGENT FOR PROCESS: Cert. of 6TC-120821 est in the stated real The Secretary of State is SSNY on 4/29/16. Office P.O. Box 222, Peru, NY DE 19801. istrators, trustees, de- Plattsburgh, New York location: Clinton SSNY 12972. Purpose: To en- Form. filed with DE Sec. visees, legatees, assig- Stafford, Owens, Piller, property by, through or designated as Agent under such defendants upon whom process desg. as agent of LLC gage in any lawful act or of State, 401 Federal St., Reil Commodities LLC. nors, lienors, creditors, Murnane, Dover, DE 19901. Pur- Filed with SSNY on and successors in inter- Kelleher & Trombley, to the stated real proper- against the LLC may be upon whom process activity. pose: all lawful purpos- 5/16/16. Office: Clinton ty more fully described served. The Secretary of est and generally all par- PLLC against it may be served.

NC-06/04-07/092016es. in the complaint in this By: Brendan P. Owens, State shall mail a copy SSNY mail process to 22 6TC-119963 County. SSNY designat- ties claiming by, through NC-06/04-07/09/2016action, and that full pos- of any process against Esq. Alana Way, Plattsburgh, and under Abraham ed as agent for process 6TC-120354 session of the stated the LLC to 255 Laplante NY, 12903. Any lawful Scribner deceased, in- Counsel for the Plaintiff and shall mail to: 5132 NOTICE OF FORMATION real property be exclu- Road, West Chazy, New One Cumberland Avenue purpose. cluding such parties OF LIMITED LIABILITY MB DETAILING LLC Arti- State Route 11 Ellenburg sively granted to the Post Office Box 2947 York 12992.

NC-06/11-07/16/2016COMPANY (LLC) cles of Org. filed NY Sec. Depot NY 12935. Pur- who now may be dePURPOSE: To engage in 6TC-120820 ceased including all par- Plattsburgh, New York plaintiff.

Name: Global Sanita- of State (SSNY) pose: any lawful In the event of a default, 12901 any lawful act or activity. ties who may claim any tion, LLC Articles of Or- 4/18/2016. Office in NC-06/04-7/09/2016a judgment against the NC-05/14-06/18/2016interest in the real prop- NOTICE TO THE ABOVE NOTICE OF FORMATION ganization filed with the Clinton Co. SSNY desig. 6TC-120358 defendants John Doe 6TC-118118 erty described in the NAMED DEFENDANTS: OF A DOMESTIC LIMIT- Secretary of State of agent of LLC upon and Mary Roe, in the ED LIABILITY COMPANY New York (SSNY) on whom process may be REMILLARD FARMS complaint in this action, The foregoing summons is served upon you by sum of zero Dollars ($ [LLC] 3/30/16 Office location: served. SSNY shall mail HOLDINGS, LLC. Art. of if any, all of whose publication pursuant to 0.00) may be entered.

Name: GARAGE DETAIL- Clinton County. names are unknown to The Org. filed with the SSNY copy of process to 675 Dated: May 13, 2016. an order of the Hon. ERS, LLC. The Articles plaintiff, SSNY is designated as Ratta Rd., Chazy, NY on 05/18/16.

Robert J. Muller, a Jus- Plattsburgh, New York of Organization were agent of the LLC upon Office: Clinton County. Defendants.

12921, which is also the Stafford, Owens, Piller, filed with the Secretary SUMMONS WITH NO- tice of the Supreme whom process against it principal business loca- SSNY designated as Court of the State of Murnane, of State of New York TICE may be served. SSNY tion. Purpose: Any law- agent of the LLC upon New York, dated May 6, Kelleher & Trombley, [SSNY] on March 8, shall mail a copy of any ful purpose.

Index No.: 2016-0305 whom process PLLC 2016, and filed along 2016. Office location: R.J.I. 09-1-2016-0110 process to the LLC at: NC-05/14-06/18/2016against it may be served. with the supporting pa- By: Brendan P. Owens, Clinton County. SSNY is 5094 State Route 11, El- 6TC-118003 SSNY shall mail copy of TO THE ABOVE NAMED Esq. pers upon which such designated as agent of lenburg Depot, NY process to the LLC, DEFENDANTS: Counsel for the Plaintiff the LLC upon whom 12935. Purpose: To en- NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- 1127 Fuller Road, Peru, YOU ARE HEREBY SUM- order was granted in the One Cumberland Avenue Clinton County Clerks process against it may gage in any lawful act or TION OF RAD NY NY 12972. Purpose: Any MONED to answer the Post Office Box 2947 Office. This is an action be served. SSNY shall activity.

PLATTSBURGH PROP- lawful purpose.

Complaint in this action to compel the determi- Plattsburgh, New York mail a copy of process and to serve a copy of ERTY OWNER LLC. App. NC-06/04-07/09/2016NC-05/07-06/11/201612901 nation of claims to the your Answer, or, if the for Auth. filed with Secy. to 30 Boulder Ledge 6TC-117259 6TC-119650 real property located at NC-06/04-06/25/2016Complaint is not served of State of NY (SSNY) Way, Keeseville, New 4TC-120231 with this Summons, to 9 Vaughn Rd., Town of on 5/26/16. Office locaYork 12944. Purpose: serve a Notice of Ap- Plattsburgh, County of tion: Clinton County.

Any lawful purpose. pearance, on the Plain- Clinton, State of New LLC formed in Delaware NC-05/14-06/18/2016-

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Coldspring Granite 13791 NYS Route 9N AuSable Forks, NY 518-647-8192

Young Lyon Hardware and Flooring 1923 Saranac Ave. Lake Placid, NY 518-523-9855 INSURANCE Booth Insurance Agency 20 Brinkeroff St. Plattsburgh, NY 518-561-3290 Chauvin Agency Champlain 518-298-2000 Rouses Point- 518-297-6602 Plattsburgh- 518-562-9336

DATE 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 6/1/16 6/1/16

GRANTOR Marie Boulerice 2 Margaret Street LLC Frederick and Barbara Barcomb Helen Doran Fred and Marian Atkinson Michael and Laurie Ralph Korn Property Management Inc Michael Desotell James and Michelene Debella William Rock Andre and Elizabeth Lafountain Stanley Smith and Sandra Agoney Jordan Spinner Kimberly Degon Gabriel Girard Phyllis Sherman Joseph Swinyer Karen Anderson and Eunice Frenyea Kevin and Alfred Strack Terry Baker Sean Boyer and Sonya Turner Tamara and Daniel Herbert

DATE 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/26/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/27/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 5/31/16 6/1/16 6/1/16 6/1/16

GRANTOR Joyce Henklein North Meadow Ranch LLC Ronald and Diana Naspo Helen and Patricia Gibbs Nadim Dergham Treadways Pub LLC Regina and Stanley March Robert and Jean Diehl John Huwler Richard and Karen Giampa William and Karena Gajewski William and Sue Veigele Bernard and Sheilad Bruso Helena, Alexis and Colin Coogan Ronald and Judy Grastorf Sherwood and Maxine Robare Fannie Mae Richard and Kelley Whitney

CLINTON

GRANTEE Kenneth and Rebecca Louden SPM Rentals LLC Kevin and Debra Deyo Lynn Lamere et al Carol, Jessie and Nicholas Brown Raymond and Ann Schauman SPM Rentals LLC Efrosini Tsilivigos Michele McCloud John and Veronica Fenn Raymond and Lola Johnson Lincoln Kilbourne Lawrence Hobson Amanda Grant and Daniel Hill Michael and Laurie Ralph Kyle Bushey Sarah Sherman and Justin Daniels John Laselva Chris Trombley Mary Munim William Hoffnagle Corey Deffina

ESSEX

GRANTEE Mary Raymond Carolyn Delaney Kasey and Kellie Whitman Timmy Eichen and Darlene Dorsett Kaitlyn Jasniewski Maddens Pub LLC Anthony Gianno and Johanna Toth Jacob Diehl Stephanie Pianka Maria and Boris Karpman Lindsay and Joshua Genier Mark and Laurie Randall Carter Rowley and Sierra Grennan Eric and John Johanson Keith and Michelle Usiskin Nicholas and Anna Grubb Jedidiah Shpur Anna Murzhenko and Greg Sautner

LOCATION Mooers Plattsburgh Altona Chazy Saranac Beekmantown Plattsburgh Peru Ausable Ausable Champlain Ausable Plattsburgh Dannemora Plattsburgh Chazy Plattsburgh Black Brook Champlain Ellenburg Ellenburg Beekmantown

PRICE $223,500 $5,000 $89,000 $1 $32,000 $157,000 $350,000 $2,500 $109,900 $91,300 $30,000 $25,000 $139,000 $1 $127,500 $121,900 $55,000 $58,000 $117,000 $304,000 $30,000 $160,000

LOCATION North Elba North Elba Crown Point Ticonderoga Chesterfield Ticondergoa Schroon Lewis North Elba Ticonderoga Moriah Schroon St. Armand Jay Schroon Chesterfield Moriah North Elba

PRICE $147,900 $400,000 $20,000 $90,000 $108,500 $145,000 $175,000 $134,000 $510,000 $440,000 $1 $215,000 $125,000 $30,000 $300,000 $65,000 $145,000 $299,000

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