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April 3, 2010
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The Inter-Lakes Health campus is going smoke-free and offering stop-smoking help. See Page 3
The Ti High quiz bowl team has challenged faculty to a ‘Jeopardy’ showdown April 6. See Page 4
Hammondville, the extinct hamlet in Crown Point, is the subject of a study by a college student. See Page 16
Fort Ti names director Conference names all stars The Mountain and Valley Athletic Conference has named its 2009-10 basketball all stars. Schroon Lake’s Jocelyn Bowen and Crown Point’s John Budwick garnered Most Valuable Player honors. See sports.
Dinner to benefit Port Henry FD The Port Henry Fire Department will hold its 11th annual benefit dinner Monday, April 26, at the King’s Inn on Broad Street. Seatings will be at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets, priced at $15, must be purchased in advance from the King’s Inn (546-7633) or the Port Henry village hall. A limited number of take-out meals will be available. The menu will include roast beef or chicken cordon bleu, salad, bread, baked potato, vegetable, dessert and coffee or tea. John Brooks will provide entertainment. Proceeds will benefit the fire department cold water/ice rescue team.
THIS WEEK Ticonderoga...................2-8 Opinions ......................6-7 Schroon Lake ................14 Crown Point ..................16 Moriah ..........................17 Sports ..........................18 Calendar ......................19 Obituaries ....................20 Classifieds....................21-24 Auto Zone ....................25-28
North Carolina woman assumes position May 1 By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com TICONDEROGA — Fort Ticonderoga has a new executive director. Beth Hill, manager of a French and Indian War fort in Statesville, N.C., has been named to the post. “Beth Hill arrives at the fort with the enthusiastic support of the board of trustees,” said Peter S. Paine, Jr., president of the Fort Ticonderoga AssociaBeth Hill tion. “She brings a proven track record, enthusiasm and confidence to her new responsibilities.” She will begin work at Fort Ticonderoga May 1. “I am honored and look forward to serving the many Fort Ticonderoga partners at the local, state and national levels,” Hill said. “We will strive to offer a comprehensive historical experience that is diverse, authentic, relevant and engaging. The fort is a significant and tangible link to how we, as a people, became America and has every reason to be the nation’s most successful historic site,” she said. “Fort Ticonderoga is indeed America’s Fort.” Kelly O’Neil-Teer, who has been acting director at the fort the past 18 months, has been named deputy director. Hill has been manager at Ft. Dobbs, the site of a French and Indian War fort in Statesville the past six years. While there she developed strategic and comprehensive site plans which provide the foundation for the capital campaign to
See FORT TI, page 4
-Drew Malone and Brittani Boyle perform in You Can’t Take It With You, a presentation of the Crown Point Central School drama club March 26 and 27. Photo by Nancy Frasier
Schroon Lake
School mulls staff cuts By George Earl
in expenditures in a document obtained by the Teachers Association through a Freedom of Information Law request. Several items were given priority over SCHROON LAKE — Painful budget others, such as elimination of teaching decisions have teachers and parents on positions, reductions in teacher supedge in the Schroon Lake Central School plies and field trips. District. During a board of education meeting With student enrollment trending on March 25, Teachers Association Presdownward—leaving some lower eleident Mary Gereau asked school board mentary classrooms with as little as sevmembers if they had decided whether to en pupils—the relatively new school cut any teachers. board is faced with the challenge of School Board President John Armphasing in reductions in the number of strong responded that no final decisions classes per grade. Mike Bonnewell had been made. Whether any classrooms will be con“The budget is being decided in one solidated this year remains an open month,” Gereau said. “It’s awfully late to be making question, but declining tax revenue and state aid, along with looming costs for ongoing school renova- such drastic decisions and it concerns me that you tions, have put pressure on its administrators to cut don’t know the answer to that yet.” One parent at the meeting asked that staff decisions costs.
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