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TICONDEROGA | There’s nothing funny about catastrophic bridge failure. Unless it happens in a middle school, at which point it can get pretty hilarious. For 11 years, the Ticonderoga Kiwanis has sponsored a bridge building competition, in which students have an hour and a half to build a bridge out of Popsicle sticks and hot glue. The bridges are then tested for efficiency and strength by spanning them across two abutments and adding more and more weight. As the weight builds, so does the suspense, until down comes the bridge in a woody heap. “It’s fun, we get to destroy something,” said Madeline Lender, a 7th grader at St. Mary’s. Madeline teamed with 8th grader Kathryn Moran to win the prize for the best-looking bridge. » Bridges Cont. on pg. 3
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Madeline Lender and Kathryn Moran won the prize for the best-looking bridge.
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ELIZABETHTOWN | Now that he’s formally been sworn into office, Essex County Sheriff David Reynolds will continue to fine-tune his proposal to station school resource officers (SROs) in school districts across the county. The Essex County Board of Supervisors last November approved $441,000 for the program in the 2019 budget. But the agreement includes a $260,000 revenue stream that would require each of the county’s 13 school districts to contribute $20,000 towards the plan. » SRO Cont. on pg. 2
Special lady, special day Dozens help Ti resident celebrate turning 100
said of the crowd of family and well-wishers swirling around, posing for pictures and giving her gentle pecks on the cheek. The young people, she said, were the product of a life well lived. Cruickshank had five children, three of whom she outlived. She has 12 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren and 22 greatgreat grandchildren with two on the way. Few in the Cruickshank family could name them all, but Joyce could, and was fastidious about sending them cards, said her son Dan and daughter Judy. Joyce, when younger, helped kids in 4-H. When older she gave help and assistance to senior citizens, many of whom were a decade younger that she was. She was still cooking large family meals well into her 90s. “I asked what she thought about living to be 100, and she said she wouldn’t even think about dying until 105,” Judy said.
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TICONDEROGA | It was part birthday party, part family reunion, as dozens of people from across the country assembled in Ticonderoga on a frigid mid-January afternoon to wish a “special lady” a happy 100th birthday. Joyce Cruickshank, with a tiara and sash to mark the occasion, spent the afternoon basking in the love of family and friends at the Elderwood nursing home and reflecting on a life that has gone through many changes, some joyful, some tragic, and has left a vibrant living legacy. “It’s nice to know that you have this,” she
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