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Holiday wine tasting tour on tap this weekend.
stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — Impeerium helps people move forward with confidence and skills. The goal is to empower them to begin pursuing their goals and wants. “Whatever that person wants, we are here to assist,” said Sheri King, Program Director at Impeerium Peer Network located at 14 Healey Avenue in Plattsburgh. Impeerium, hosted by NAMI, is a peer-based program to provide support for those who have used mental health services or are currently using them. It opened a few months CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
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More than 40 artists will display their work through Jan. 12. PAGE 3 STONYBROOK GALLERY
Everyone had a ROTAbulous time at the fourth annual ROTA CON, a day of swapping in the name of video game, movie and comic book culture. See related article on page 7. Photo by Shaun Kittle
North Country Chamber turns 100 stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — “I’m here as Frank Hall and I died in 1903,” said John Krueger, standing in front of a large crowd, some silent, a few allowing an uncertain chuckle to escape them. “I am hanging out in Riverside Cemetery,” said the Clinton County Historian and Kent-Delord House Museum Executive Director. “I am available.” Krueger spoke at the North Country Chamber of Commerce’s 100th anniversary celebration in a room packed with members and representatives from various businesses and local officials. Krueger attended the event as Hall, husband of Frances Delord Webb and the
last member of the Delord family to have lived in the home. It was the summer of 1912, Krueger explained, and merchants recognized the need to come together as a formal group to improve Plattsburgh’s prosperity. “Things in Plattsburgh were not moving fast enough,” Krueger said. On April 22, 1912, a group of businessmen formed the Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce, officially incorporating that October with 258 members and annual dues of $10. The Strand Theatre opened in the 1920s, as well as a new hospital on Beekman Street and the beach. The chamber, and many other groups, asked President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 to change Thanksgiving from Nov. 30
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Clinton County Health Dept holds anthrax drill.
Garry Douglas speaks at the 100th anniversary for the Chamber.
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