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See sports coverage on page 10. Adirondack Interpretive Center to host hike NEWCOMB — A hike through the trails of the Adirondack Interpr etive Center will be led at 9 a.m. Satur day, May 7. Participants should meet at the main building. The hike will be led by Charlotte Demers and no r egistration is r equired. For more information, visit www.ESF.edu/AIC or call 582-2000.

JOHNSBURG — The Johnsburg Central School Teachers’ Association (JCSTA) is hosting an Alumni Car eer Day on Friday, M ay 1 3 a t 8 a .m. with a keynote addr ess from alumnus W anda Cook Shapir o, Class of 1995. Following the morning addr ess, students and community members will have the opportunity to cir culate throughout the gym and talk to successful JCS alumni. JCS alumni ar e welcome to be featur ed. Call 251-2814 for more information.

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lindsay@denpubs.com JOHNSBURG — Just weeks after ice jams on the Hudson River for ced loca l r esidents fr om their homes, flooding has returned to the region in the wake of r ecent storms. Handfuls of r oads acr oss Warren, Essex and Hamilton Counties wer e closed down last week after rising water undermined and covered local roadways. Sections of Old River Road in the T own of Chester were covered in close to four feet of water, accor ding to W arren County Department of Public Works Superintendent Jeff Tennyson.

At its highest point, the Hudson River br oke historic r ecords and was measur ed at 13.65 feet, according to North Creek Fire Chief Steve Studnicky. It has since r eturned to below seven feet. The last record was set at 12.14 feet in 1948, he said. Tennyson anticipates that Thirteenth Lake Road in the T own of Johnsbur g will r emain closed for several weeks. A 300-foot section of the road was washed out and several culverts wer e clogged with debris, causing more flooding. “I thought we saw all we were going to see with the ice jam, but this was beyond compre hension,” said Studnicky.

Recalling the for ce of the flood waters, Studnicky told of an intact front porch that floated through North River last week — ripped from someone’s home or camp. Tennyson anticipates that the damage caused by the flooding will cost well above $10,000 to repair. Paving is necessary to replace the washouts as well as the r eplacement of damaged culverts, he said. In Johnsburg, the Hudson River had cre pt up its banks to cover the railro ad turntables at the North Creek train station W ednesday afternoon and completely covered Railroad Place by Thursday. See FLOOD , page 5

Science students influence MCS to go green By Lindsay Yandon

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Minerva auction returns MINERVA — Minerva Central School will host their annual auction Saturday, May 7 in the auditorium. A pr eview is scheduled for 5 p.m. and the auction will begin at 6 p.m. Call 251-2000 for more information.

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Members of Minerva Central School’s Green Team from left to right: Sarah Fink, Serena Ruzbacki, Cassandra Wood, Shasti Conlon, Lizzy O’Connor, Massena Green, Amanda Bellotti, M ax Mueller, Wesley LaBar, Conner O’Brien, Calbert Galusha. Missing from photo: Briana Hammond. Photo by Lindsay Yandon

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MINERVA — Minerva Central School (MCS) has gone green. Students in Sarah Fink’s Environmental Science class have spearheaded several environmentally friendly initiatives at their school this year. Shasti Conlon, Serena Ruzbacki and Cassandra Wood attended the Adirondack youth Climate at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake earlier this year. They saw first hand how other r egional schools are making an ef fort to live r esponsibly. They returned to MCS with a wall of ideas — they wrote their ideas on index car ds and stuck them to the wall of their science room. “We wanted to find a way to bring our school onboard,” said Conlon. As a result, a Green Team was formed — a gro up of s tudents d edicated t o s tarting e nvironmental initiatives. Their first pr oject was a community dumpster at MCS for r ecycled paper town-wide. The paper is recycled by GreenFiber out of Albany and used to produce home insulation materials. Lizzy O’Connor researched the process and negotiated with the company to come pick up the er cycled paper products from Minerva.

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