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denpubs@denpubs.com MINERVA Ñ On June 17, the Minerva Central School budget again apparently failed to result in the 60 percent Ò yesÓ vote result needed to pass it; instead, it received a total of 59 percent yes votes. On May 20, the first budget had gone down, with 56 percent of district voters giving it a thumbs-up. Following the June 17 vote, it was determined that the voting machine used by Minerva Central School may not have recorded votes properly, prompting the school to impound the machine. The results of the second budget vote were declared to be unofficial. The Board of Education (BOE) determined that it would hold a special meeting the evening of June 19 to discuss the results of this latest vote. A crowd of 37 interested citizens attended the boardÕ s special meeting, held in the schoolÕ s cafeteria. Superintendent Tim Farrell began the meeting with a summary of the voting numbers from the second vote, speaking about the issue concerning the machine, and then discussing the schoolÕ s option to file an appeal of the budget vote results to the New York State Commissioner of Education. Minerva Central School has decided to appeal the results of the vote because of the discrepancy between the total number of voters who used the machine on June 17 versus the number of votes recorded on the machine. The difference was nine, which calls into question the voteÕ s overall results. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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Lady Mountaineer swipes her way into record books PAGE 2 SCHOOLS
Minerva teacher earns state certification PAGE 3 SPORTS
First TimesEnterprise baseball team Kim Smith and Casey Orr take part in the Our Town Theatre Group’s reading of “Almost, Maine” recently.
Elise Stefanik wins GOP primary for Congress By Pete DeMola pete@denpubs.com
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ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ Elise Stefanik has handily defeated Matt Doheny in securing the Republican nomination to replace outgoing Congressman Bill Owens (D-Plattsburgh) in the race for New YorkÕ s 21st Congressional District. If elected in November, she will be the youngest woman in history to be elected to the U.S. Congress. She is 29 years old. Once returns started coming in shortly after polls
closed Tuesday night at 9 p.m. Ñ data from polling places was zipped off to each county, verified by officials and uploaded onto their respective websites — Doheny, an investment banker from Watertown, never regained his footing. Stefanik took an early lead over Doheny as returns from Fulton County started coming in at roughly a 2-to1 clip. St. Lawrence, Lewis, Essex, Clinton, Hamilton, Warren Ñ even Jefferson, DohenyÕ s home county Ñ all went to Stefanik.
By 10:30 p.m, with 47 percent of precincts reporting, Stefanik led Doheny 60 to 40 percent, topping her opponent in each of the 12 counties constituting the district. Doheny called Stefanik to concede at 10:33 p.m as AP results showed Stefanik with 11,019, or 60 percent, to DohenyÕ s 7,339. Locally Stefanik bested Doheny 1,428 to 676 in Clinton County; 1,144 to 502 in Essex County; 794 to 311 in Franklin County; 309 to 239 in Hamilton County; 1,872 to 933 in Warren County and 1,745 to 1,056 in Saratoga County. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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