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September 12, 2009
Maneuver
Kiwanis meet
Candidates
The Ti High School Booster Club will hold its fifth annual ‘Great Cow Maneuver.’ See Page 4
Ti Kiwanis held their August meeting aboard the Lake George Assn.’s floating classroom. See Page 8
Ticonderoga, Moriah, Schroon and Crown Point supervisor candidates seek office. See inside
Port Henry to discuss dissolution Information session slated Sept. 17 PORT HENRY — Residents of the village of Port Henry and the town of Moriah are invited to a public information meeting on Thursday, Sept. 17, to learn more about a study
Football season opens for locals Tanner Purkey and Ticonderoga lost its first football game of the season to Beekmantown. Moriah posted a shut out win over Bellows Falls, Vt. See sports.
Moriah PTA plans meeting The Moriah Central School Parent-Teacher Association has scheduled its first meeting of the 20092010 school year for Monday, Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. in the high school library. Anyone interested in joining the PTA is encouraged to attend this meeting. There is a $5 annual fee to cover both local and national PTA membership dues. This year ’s meetings will be held bi-monthly. The 2009-10 officers are President Brenda Baker, Vice President Shelley Winters, Secretary Adele Huchro, Co-Treasurers Tara Mero and Erica Kazlo and Corresponding Secretary Rose Rice.
THIS WEEK Ticonderoga...................2-8 Opinions ......................6-7 Schroon Lake ................13 Moriah ..........................14-17 Obituaries ....................19 Crown Point ..................20 Sports ..........................22-23 Calendar ......................24 Classifieds....................25-29 Auto Zone ....................29-32
investigating dissolving the village. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus building located at 4253 Main St., Port Henry. A dissolution study has recently been initiated with funding provided through a state grant. The study is designed to: — inform residents about the ad-
Do you favor Port Henry dissolution? Take our online poll at www.timesofti.com vantages and disadvantages of dissolving the village; — provide a decision-making tool
for village residents to determine whether or not to dissolve the village government; — provide a dissolution plan that village voters can vote on in March, 2010; and — identify other options, including enhanced service sharing with
See PORT HENRY, page 15
Crown Point Sept. 19
Champlain celebration scheduled By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com CROWN POINT — The region’s Champlain quadricentennial celebration will conclude at the Crown Point State Historic Site and Campground. The New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission will mark the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s discovery of the lake that bears his name in ceremonies Saturday, Sept. 19, beginning at 4 p.m. The event, which concludes a year-long celebration in the Champlain Valley, will include the rededication of the renovated Champlain Memorial lighthouse at 7:45 p.m. It will conclude with a fireworks display over Lake Champlain. Throughout the day there will be performances and presentations by Martin Sexton, The U.S. Merchant Marine Corps Band, Piers Faccini, Justin Jones and the Driving Rain, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer, Stephanie Wrembel, Bear Tracks, Tim Jennings and LeAnne Ponder, Darren Bonaparte and a screening of the soon-tobe-released documentary Dead Reckoning. Admission is free that day. As part of the quadricentennial events, the
Robert Alkinburgh arrives for his first day of kindergarten at Ticonderoga Elementary School. Classes started at all area school districts this week. Photo by Nancy Frasier
See CROWN POINT, page 20
Schroon to host Adirondack Marathon By Fred Herbst fred@denpubs.com SCHROON LAKE — Athletes from around the country — around the world — will be in Schroon Lake Sept. 19-20 for the 13th annual
Adirondack Marathon Distance Festival. Past races have attracted runners from Japan, United Kingdom, Egypt, Alaska, California, Oregon and a host of other locales. Highlighting the festival will be
the Adirondack Marathon, a 26.2mile road race around Schroon Lake, Sept. 20. It includes a two-person marathon relay. The distance festival also includes a half marathon in Schroon Lake on Sunday, Sept. 20, and a 5 and 10-kilo-
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