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Saturday, July 19, 2014
Let MEAT AT THE MARKET them vote!
North Hudson board opts to let voters decide on Frontier Town
Town prepares for 250th events, StreetFest CROWN POINT
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NORTH HUDSON Ñ Ghosts haunt this town from each cardinal point. Route 9, to the north, is flanked with the corpses of roadside motels decaying in overgrown lots. Some are still outfitted with furnished rooms, with retrograde televisions ready to be flicked on and stacks of pillows waiting to be fluffed. From the southwest, wooden structures quietly moulder into the pines before disappearing and giving way to the tony homes circling Schroon Lake and the warm glow of commerce. And from Exit 29 on the Northway, the A-Frame that once anchored Frontier Town, a formerly popular wild west theme park, is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Broken glass rings the entrance, boards rattle in the wind. Vines reach upward, a cathedral of gloom. There is no indication that the structure has been given more than errant glance this year, far after the snow melted and cast the blight into sharp, even biting, relief. CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
Student to participate in leadership event PAGE 10 MORIAH
Amy Russel and Anne Lamb display products from Willow Wood Farm at the Ticonderoga Farmer’s Market this summer, which opened for the season recently. Photo by Mauranda Stahl-Sorensen
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School announces elementary Honor Society members PAGE 11
Public hearing a success, more on the way in Moriah By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
MORIAH Ñ Calling it a learning experience for himself and the board, Moriah Supervisor Tom Scozzafava is looking ahead to the next round of public hearings. Ò We have been getting a lot of positive comments about the hearing,Ó Scozzafava said. The town board invited residents to share their comments and concerns at an initial public hearing night June 19 at the Moriah firehouse. Scozzafava said the format was set up because it gave residents more of a chance to speak. Ò You have time constraints during a town board
meeting and you have to get the townÕ s business accomplished,Ó Scozzafava said. Ò This meeting was all about the constituents and what they wanted to say.Ó While some topics of discussion were expected by Scozzafava, others were not. Ò When you are out and about you feel like you can take the pulse of the community on different issues, and I can tell you I was flat wrong on some of them,” Scozzafava said. Ò It was made very clear that the people want more police instead of less, and this has made me rethink my position in regard to the need for more deputies at the SheriffÕ s department and State Police presence in the town. The
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majority of the community wants to see more of a police presence.Ó Scozzafava said many of the needs come down to a problem facing many North Country communities on both sides of Lake Champlain. Ò The drug issue was brought up at the meeting and that is a real problem right now not only in Moriah but in most communities,Ó he said. Ò In my opinion, this is the number one problem that we all are facing and how do you deal with it.Ó CONTINUED ON PAGE 11