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CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK

Clinton County Fair

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SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2012

This Week

WHAT BIG FEET YOU HAVE

Fried dough and fun

ELIZABETHTOWN CITY BEACH

People near and far increasingly flock to the beach.

By Stephen Bartlett

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METH LABS BUSTED

MORRISONVILLE — I scolded myself for forgetting my sunglasses as I walked around the corner and into the Clinton County Fair. I winced against the sun’s glare, sweat dripping down the center of my back, my armpits wet. To my right, a towering snow cone and candy apple, a pair of sweet giants, offered no shade as their flapping pink and yellow flags taunted me with an elusive breeze.

Police shut down two separate meth labs. PAGE 3 & 5 EXCHANGE

Karsen Colby hangs out with a clown before going to see the horses at the Clinton County Fair. Photo by Stephen Bartlett

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Archeological dig uncovers rare treasure By Stephen Bartlett stephen@denpubs.com

Keeseville Elementary School teacher Sheila Taylor spent part of her summer at an archaeological dig. Photo by Stephen Bartlett

PLATTSBURGH — With a small pick, Sheila Taylor removed debris from what at first glance looked to be a pile of rocks. But as a whole it began to resemble something placed with a purpose in the middle of the woods in a hole in the ground shaped like half a rectangle. “You have to have patience and do it level by level,” said Taylor, a teacher at Keeseville Elementary School. “We determined that this was their hearth.” She and other teachers and students recently participated in a dig at the site of Pike’s Cantonment in

Plattsburgh, a military encampment during the War of 1812 that may be the only one intact today. Zebulon Montgomer Pike, Jr., a United States military officer, led the Pike expedition to explore and document the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase and to find the headwaters of the Red River. During that time he recorded the discovery of what was later called Pikes Peak, in Colorado. He served during the War of 1812, eventually reached the rank of brigadier general and was killed during the Battle of York. Pike’s Cantonment was the location of a military encampment during the War of 1812, at which forces

Visiting Plattsburgh from abroad. PAGE 4 AIRBORNE

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