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TICONDEROGA — WinterFest, Ticonderoga’s celebration of winter fun, will return. The fourth annual WinterFest is slated for Saturday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Bicentennial Park and surrounding venues. Sponsored by the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership, WinterFest will include snowshoeing, ice skating, sledding, a fun run/walk, broomball, snowmobile rides, wagon rides and a Cook’s Mountain hike. Penelope the Clown will be in the lobby of the Ticonderoga Community Building to entertain children. People are encouraged to bring their own equipment, although there will be some equipment available for use by the public. Registration for WinterFest events will take place in the public parking lot next to the Elks building. At registration people can also sign up to win free raffles, including gift certificates from area businesses. The drawing of all raffles will be at 1:30 p.m. The Snowman Fun Run/Walk, sponsored by the LaChute Road Runners, will be held at 10:45 a.m. It is a one-mile run/walk.
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Jeffrey Jordan, a student at Ticonderoga Elementary School, is looking forward to the big game — the Super Bowl Feb. 3 with the Baltimore Ravens playing the San Francisco 49ers. Photo by Nancy Frasier
Wildcats beat Moriah in boys hoop. PAGE 18
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Guide book marks Crown Point anniversary Town turns 225 this year By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com
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CROWN POINT — Crown Point will celebrate 225 years as a township in 2013 with the publication of a historic guide book. “We hope that this booklet will get into the hands of long time Crown Point natives, visitors to the Champlain Valley and new residents to our
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The Gabriel Fund, White Church III Association and the Honey Bee Fund of Essex. “The history of Crown Point is much, much older than 1788,” Ingleston noted. “Fort St. Frederic was built and occupied by the French in the 1730s and many historians believe that Samuel de Champlain fought the battle with Iroquois in July 1609 on this peninsula.” Crown Point was one of the first towns in the North Country, Joan Hunsdon, Crown Point town CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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