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SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2012
CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK
This Week
COMMENCEMENT 2012
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Plenty of free acts, food, music and talent. PAGE 3
By Stephen Bartlett
SARANAC GRADUATES
stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH – The Plattsburgh City School budget passed by a vote of 952 to 726, but it didn’t come without a price. More than 56 percent of voters approved the plan that included roughly $1.5 million in cuts, on top of the millions in reductions school officials have already made over the past few
Saranac High School’s Class of 2012.
Plattsburgh High School’s Class of 2012 enters to the cheers of family, friends and educators. (Story page 7)
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PERU GRADUATES
The Adirondack Jazz Orchestra delivers By Stephen Bartlett
Peru students learn how to make change.
stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH – The music slipped softly into the room, grabbed you by the shirt and shifted your focus to the 19-member orchestra playing their instruments in front of you. It hits you before you realize it and your body gyrates, a steady thump-thumpthump in your belly. The horn snakes you side to side as the sound intensifies, until there is only the music, and it owns you, and that is all right, no worries, no past, no present, just the sound, a welcome master on a sticky Wednesday night. “The idea for an Adirondack Jazz Orchestra came about in late 2003, when I was finishing my last year at the Crane School of Music,” said Matthew Pray. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
Adirondack Jazz Orchestra playing at Olive Ridley’s in Plattsburgh.
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Bass fishing hits Lake Champlain in a big way.
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