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April 27, 2019
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Hands off Champ Port Henry seeks sign to solidify status as sea creature’s home By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
PORT HENRY | Sightings of the sea monster known as Champ — and don’t dare call him mythical — have been reported up and down the length of Lake Champlain, but he makes his home in Port Henry, and the Port Henry Chamber of Commerce doesn’t want anyone to forget it. Monster celebrations have been held in the town dating back at least 40 years, and it is in Port Henry that names of those who have seen Champ are dutifully recorded on a sign on the town’s southern edge. (Champ is family friendly, so “monster” has now been replaced with “creature.”) But Port Henry chamber members say other lakeside communities have been making noise about being the “home of Champ,” their case, case, the the chamber chamber is is seeking Cham p," so so to to strengthen strengthen their seeking aa grant grant from from tthe Pomeroy for aa he P omeroy Foundation Foundat ion for folklore laying claim claim to title. folklore sign sign laying to the the title. “We good, solid solid case case that "\V e have have aa good, th at we are the home of we wearethehome of Champ, Champ, and and we want to the want to keep” keep" the distinction, distinction, said said Renee Anderson, ReneeAnder son,owner owner of Little of Littl e Champs Champs Day Care. DayCare.
BEAUTY SWEEP A group from past beautification efforts helps spruce up Ticonderoga for the season.
Ticonderoga to get a Ticonder makeover makeovE to get ready for season for summer sum By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | With a number of special events, in addition to the general summer population expansion of vacationers and snowbirds, Ticonderoga wants to put on its best face. To that end, the Ticonderoga Montcalm Street Partnership (TMSP), the Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Ticonderoga will once again sponsor the Ticonderoga Beautification and Clean Up Week that will take place May 6-12, with a theme of “Show Your Com-
Moriah Chamber of Commerce events coordinator Catherine Sprague and president Renee Anderson show some Champ swag from past and present. Photo by Tim Rowland
» Champ Cont. on pg. 3
munity Pride.” The beautification week has evolved through the years out of several events, including free dump days and student volunteering efforts, said Matt Courtright, president and CEO of the chamber. While there are a number of officially sponsored events, Courtright said it’s the hope of the coalition that private homeowners will catch the spirit as well and use the week to tidy up and make their own plans for a box of flowers or a spot of fresh paint. “It’s a week of putting on our best face for the season ahead,” he said. “Memorial Day will be here before you know it.” A steady stream of new faces will be coming to Ticonderoga throughout the summer, including athletes participating in the first Ticonderoga Triathlon Festival and bicyclists riding in Cycle Adirondacks: The Ultimate Cycling Vacation, as well as traffic to attractions such as Fort Ticonderoga and the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour. Organizers of beautification week said they hope visitors like what they see. » Makeover Cont. on pg. 3
Celebrating Milholland
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Ti Alliance encourages students to peruse lucrative vocational jobs
Big Read encourages community to learn of iconic suffragist
By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | After North Country Community College declined to move forward with a proposed trade school in Ticonderoga, the Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance has decided to move ahead with a more decentralized plan that will help students acquire the skills they need and the resources to pay for them.
By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | In some ways, Inez Milholland was the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of her day: An attractive, flamboyant, unabashed New Yorker — she would have been aces with a Twitter account. And like AOC she had, for her day, some spectacularly radical ideas. Inez Milholland thought women should be able to vote. In her brief, meteoric life, Milholland, a resident of the Adirondacks who is buried in Lewis, became an icon of the suffragist movement, and this summer the Ticonderoga Historical Society is sponsoring a “big read,” encouraging the community to read and discuss the 2016 biography “Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland” by Linda Lumsden.
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The project, which is free to participants, kicked off last week and will continue with email and Facebook updates and discussions. An in-person discussion group will be held at the Historical Society’s Hancock House Headquarters in August. If enough participants are interested, a field trip to the Inez Milholland grave in Lewis will be organized. Readers can chat with each other about their impressions of Inez on the Facebook page North Country Community Read: Inez Milholland. The program, in celebration of the centennial of the 19th amendment giving women the right
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Inez Milholland died young, but she was arguably the most identifiable member of the suffragist movement. Photo provided to vote — passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified Aug. 18, 1920 — is funded by grants from Humanities New York and the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake. Historical Society Program Manager Diane O’Connor said she hopes that as many as 500 people will read the book, and that if it takes off she will contact the author to solicit her involvement. » Suffragist Cont. on pg. 2
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