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BROWN’S RAID RECREATED A famous 1777 battle will be fought again at Fort Ticonderoga pg. 11
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TICONDEROGA | The Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga is making plans to buy the downtown building it’s been renting from a develBy Lohr McKinstry opment venture. • STA FF W RITER • The Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance Board of Directors announced on Monday, Aug. 21 that they’ve received a $300,000 gift to cover the purchase and give the tour a permanent home. The donation is coming from Deborah Clarke Ryan, a longtime Ticonderoga resident and philanthropist, to support the downtown revitalization. » Star Trek Cont. on pg. 11
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Street hill was never even officially established by the now-defunct Village of Port Henry. “We can’t find a resolution where the village board established the truck route,” Scozzafava said at a recent town meeting. “Some homeowners on Grove and College (streets) would like to see that truck route taken out. We’re sending tractor-trailers through the area.” He said he found the authority over the route rested with the town board, not Town Highway Superintendent Jamie Wilson, as had initially been believed.
sidewalks, have been asking for removal of the truck route out of safety concerns. The now-defunct village board took no action, but now that the village has dissolved, the Moriah Town Council has been more receptive to the proposal. Grove Street resident Harold Bigelow recently presented the council with a petition signed by residents along the route. Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said that simply removing the truck route signs might solve the issue. He said it appears the truck route off Broad
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PORT HENRY | Port Henry’s infamous truck route through residential streets may be on its last legs. Following a fatal truck crash in 1974, the Port Henry Village Board created a truck route off steep Broad Street that followed College and Grove streets out to Main Street about a halfmile south of the Broad Street intersection. But residents of those streets, especially narrow Grove Street, which has only partial
» Truck Route Cont. on pg. 21
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