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Taxpayers suffer under the heavy weight of specialeducation costs.
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CVES forced to cut more positions
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By Stephen Bartlett stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH – Officials at Champlain Valley Educational Services knew some time ago they would once again be forced to cut positions as local school officials pulled back special education students to save money. Still, the numbers are jolting, a total of 84 layoffs approved from February 2012 until June 2012. “Those are all employees who will not be returning as of Sept. 1,” said Rachel Rissetto, CVES director of human services. Roughly a year ago, CVES was forced to eliminate 93.5
Students learn to grow healthy food. PAGE 2 SENATE HOPEFUL
Wendy Long stops in Plattsburgh.
Kiters hit the waves on Lake Champlain along the Plattsburgh City Beach.
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Local author writes about Plattsburgh in new book By Stephen Bartlett stephen@denpubs.com
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M. Dyland Raskin is at work on his third memoir.
PLATTSBURGH — The rage that fueled M. Dylan Raskin at 22 is fading, as those sporadic spurts of his signature hostility toward the people he loathed become an increasing rarity. That might discourage fans who connected with the author ’s rants against walking clichés and the seemingly endless lack of inspiration in the world. Fortunately for them, Raskin is still able to hurl verbal resentment at the injustices he sees around him while being at peace with his place in an increasingly unstable world he’s once again writing about. “Any given day in Plattsburgh is so rich with material,” said the author of “Little New York Bastard” and “Bandanas & October Supplies.” “A lot occurs in this small town, and it would be foolish to let all of this go untold.”
Raskin once had much to be angry about, growing up in Queens, surrounded by people he detested without the guidance of his father, who had passed suddenly. His first memoir, published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows, detailed a lost, angry young man who briefly leaves New York City and his mother for Chicago in search of inspiration and anonymity. His second memoir, published in 2006 by Avalon, tells the story of a young man who has a nervous breakdown as he bounces from place to place with his mother, who actually passed a few months before after an agonizing battle with ovarian cancer. The book culminated with Raskin unstable, exhausted and in the hospital for three days. Raskin eventually ended up with his dog Esme in Plattsburgh where he has become co-owner of Koffee Kat on Wheels. He hasn’t published since his last book, though he writes for himself in a small space in the back corner of his attic apartment.