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District 21 congressional primaries slated for June 26 as an independent contractor consultant in the area of global trade and logistics. She also worked as a realtor in Arizona from 2005-2011 and specialized in assisting clients during the housing bust and economic crisis. Kellie has been involved in politics and a GOP Activist for the past 8 years in Arizona. She is a strong advocate of border security.
By Shaun Kittle
shaun@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — The 21st District congressional primaries will be held June 26, with polls open from noon-9 p.m. A total of two incumbents will be challenging Democratic incumbent Bill Owens this election.
Kellie A. Greene, a Republican, was born in Oswego, NY. She has several degrees: an Associate of Science from Bay Path College in accounting and business administration, a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University in logistics management, an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology in international business and a Master of Arts in theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Greene has worked in international trade, and has spent the last eight years working with manufacturing companies
Author from page 1 “Nothing I would publish.” The 34 year old recently started a project that was to be published, a fictional survival story that takes place in the North Country after the dollar collapses and martial law is declared. “I think that could happen, and it probably will,” Raskin said recently during an interview at his Plattsburgh apartment. “It’s a guy and his dog and shotgun out in the woods.” The book was also turning into a love story when Raskin
CVES from page 1 positions, again, largely due to districts pulling special education students back. A few of those positions were reinstated, but the majority remained vacant. CVES officials stressed that they will continue to offer the same programs, just fewer sections of them. At the same time, CVES, which offers technical training and specialeducation services to 17 school districts in Clinton, Essex, Warren and Washington counties, plans to provide at least two new programs under its special education wing. “I certainly think our special education division is evolving based on our districts’ future needs,” Rissetto said. “That is absolutely not a bad thing. I think we will continue to respond to the needs of our districts, and as their needs change, the services we provide will change.” Rising special education costs have long been a burden for area school districts. When the federal government passed legislation in 1975 ensuring all disabled students received
PLATTSBURGH — The Mayor ’s Cup Boat Parade of Lights seeks entries. Businesses and organizations can join by entering a boat in the 2012 parade, competing in a category just for them. The 35th edition of the Mayor ’s Cup Festival will get underway with decorated boats gliding along the Plattsburgh shore of Lake Champlain. Contestants will compete for bragging rights as the best-looking boat on the lake on Thursday, July 12, at 9 p.m. No boat is too large or too small. This year, any boat can represent a business or community organization. Have a boat, but no team? Have a team, but not boat? We can help. A decorating party will take place before the main event, at 7 p.m. at Wilcox Dock. For more information, contact Jake DeSnyder at parade@mayorscup.com, 569-5595, or go to mayorscup.com.
had a change of heart and switched to the memoir. The Plattsburgh-based book is about a small town with big lessons, though it is not a morality tale. It’s mostly a conversational book about nothing, sort of like a Seinfeld episode. It takes place over the course of a day in Plattsburgh and includes flashbacks to experiences with various people Raskin has encountered in the area. Much of it occurs in the local coffee shop, the Koffee Kat. It’s less aggressive than his previous work, but so is Raskin. Much of that is due to his age and the people he fell in with in Plattsburgh. “I’ve met some of the best people I have ever met in my
entire life,” Raskin said. “Plus, it’s hard to be bitter when you are surrounded by lakes and mountains.” And life is simpler now, normal and quiet, with his feet firmly planted. He runs and bikes daily and hikes with his dog. Raskin plans to complete the new book in September, with a possible publishing date sometime next year. He suspects this book and the novel he started will be the last works he publishes, though he will always write for his own pleasure. “I find that publishing is a great invasion of my privacy,” Raskin said. “Plus, I hate deadlines and being beholden to a publisher.”
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expressed by area special education directors. The first is a Day Treatment Program, which would serve students with severe mental-health disabilities. This program could prevent them from being shipped out of the area and away from their families, and should be in place halfway through the 2012-13 school year. The second is a Job Target Program, which would provide special-education students with training in fields such as food-service, hospitality and manufacturing. The handson program could be in place by the 2013-14 school year. “There are a number of hotels and factories in the area,” Pombrio said. “Once they leave this program, hopefully they will have employment opportunities.”
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will impact administrators, faculty, teaching assistants, clerical and support staff. “In the fall, we will have fewer numbers in the programs we offer,” said Roxanne Pombrio, CVES director of special education. “For example, we now have four 6-1-1 classrooms, and in the fall we will have two. The class will run just as it does currently. If a student needs an aid, that student will have an aid. “The students we have remaining will still get the same level of service.” This year, the special-education department provided services to 209 students, and this fall that number will drop to around 130. Classrooms have dropped from 39 during the 2009-10 school year to an anticipated 12 for the 2012-13 school year. Despite the cuts, CVES is planning to offer two new programs in response to needs
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Matthew A. Doheny, a Republican, was raised in Alexandria Bay, NY. He has an undergraduate degree from Alleghany College and a law degree from Cornell University. After college, Doheny became Deutsche Bank’s managing director for distressed assets, where he helped purchase large troubled companies and restructure them so they could once again operate independently. He started his own company in 2010 called North Country Capital LLC. The company lends start-up funds to entrepreneurs who don’t have access to traditional funding streams. It also provides working capital to existing businesses to help them grow. Doheny also sits on the boards of two national companies, Bridge Street and YRC Worldwide.
a public education, it had indicated it would reimburse 40 percent of the costs, but to this day that figure has hardly reached 14 percent. The majority of school officials and the public agree such students should be educated and provided the resources required to participate in and benefit from that education, but the cost burden largely falls on schools and local taxpayer ’s shoulders. CVES, in some instances, has been better equipped to provide special education services to area children. However, rising costs and inadequate aid over the past few years have caused school officials to return special education students from CVES to the districts in an attempt to provide them with services at a lower cost. Parents and concerned educators have said some districts do this well, while others are not providing special education students with adequate services now. Parents wonder how a district that previously said it did not have the resources to educate their children will be able to do so now with less money. The most recent reductions at CVES, which are a direct result of these pull-backs,
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He has taught business at Clarkson University and Jefferson Community College. and is a Flower Memorial Library trustee, a member of the Elks, the Watertown Noon Rotary Club, the North Side Improvement League and the ItalianAmerican Civic Association.
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