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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2011
CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK
Peru residents complain about sewage in homes
This Week
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Hot rods revving up for Hospice. PAGE 3
Town board gets an earful
MORRISONVILLE
By Jon Hochschartner jonh@denpubs.com PERU — Residents challenged Per u T own Boar d members over the town’s response to ongoing sewage problems at their July 25 regular meeting. Mike Settevendemio was one of two audience members who complained about the issue at the meeting, saying his basement flooded in April. “I thought it was on account of my sewer lines, so I hired a plumber to come over with an electric snake to clean it out,” Settevendemio said. But the flooding was found to be the result of the town sewer line, accor ding to Settevendemio. The town reimbursed him with $106 for the cost of the plumber’s work. Settevendemio had 4.5 inches of water and sewage
Gillespie reflects on this year's county fair. PAGE 8
PERU
Examining the Bluff Point Lighthouse. Julia Ruff of Peru performs the Taylor Swift song “Story of Us” during the North Country Has Talent competition at the Clinton County Fair in Morrisonville July 22. See more photos from the Clinton County Fair on page 8.
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Board of education petitioned to reverse principal swap
EYE ON BUSINESS
By Jeremiah S. Papineau jeremiah@denpubs.com BEEKMANTOWN — The Beekmantown Central School District Boar d of Education has come under fir e for a r ecent decision to switch the r oles of princi-
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pals at Beekmantown High School and Cumberland Head Elementary School. The boar d was served a petition Tuesday night containing 185 signatur es of district residents against r eassigning high school principal Garth Frechette to the
role of principal of Cumberland Head Elementary and Diane Fox — who held that position — into Frechette’s post at the high school. The decision was made at the July 5 meeting of the board of education, with boar d members Cathy Buckley ,
Leonard King, Stanley Kourofsky, Richard Lavigne, Carole Race and Pauline Stone voting for the swap. Board pr esident Steve Trombley and boar d members Kar en Armstrong and CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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