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Saturday,ÊS eptemberÊ24,Ê2016

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www.SunCommunityNews.com

In SPORTS | pg. 22-24

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Sentinels, Storm vie for 4-0

In OPINION | pg. 6

Convince me

Game to be played in Mineville

Thoughts from behind the pressline

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In REGION | pg. 3

A new area code

Three new digits may be coming to the region

Dissolution creates town budget chaos Port Henry village dissolves into the Town of Moriah not gently By Lohr McKinstry

lohr@suncommunitynews.com

MORIAH – With the Village of Port Henry dissolving, there may be problems coming up with an accurate Moriah town budget for 2017.

The Moriah Town Council recently prepared to pass a local law to override the state tax cap of 2 percent for the town’s 2017 budget. “Our entire budget changes (because of dissolution),” Moriah Town Supervisor Thomas Scozzafava said at a recent town meeting. “This (override) has to be in place. There’s a good chance we will have to (exceed the cap).” Port Henry is scheduled to end its exis-

tence March 31, 2017, and the town will take over its functions and responsibilities. Residents voted in October 2015 to dissolve the village, then voted again, in August, to approve the plan for dissolution. Scozzafava said officials work on dissolution issues almost every day. He said they may not be ready with a budget by the state deadline in November. “I don’t think we’re going to meet that deadline,” he said. “The village, the entire

staff, has been very cooperative with the town. We’re moving forward as a team for the betterment of the community.” Scozzafava said the town has been in contact with the state Comptroller’s Office about the new town budget, and has been receiving advice on how to proceed. He said rumors that the town will sell the Port Henry Village Campground and Beach are not true. >> See MORIAH | pg. 18

Town hall flood repairsÊ made

A broken water pipe gushed water into the Crown Point Town Hall By Lohr McKinstry

lohr@suncommunitynews.com

Boreas hearings upcoming By Kim Dedam

kim@suncommunitynews.com

NORTH HUDSON — Boreas Ponds landuse classification scraped the edge of the Adirondack Park Agency meeting last week. A draft of possible dates for public hearings on the as-yet-undetermined classification of the state’s new 20,758-acre tract are not set in stone. And they wouldn’t begin, according to APA staff, until Nov. 9. With those dates pending, APA may visit

the first draft Boreas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the Department of Environmental Conservation next month, says Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway. “The public hearing dates were placed on the (projector) screen and in a handout,” Janeway told the Sun. “It is tentative, a draft, and that could change. APA may or may not approve the EIS for public release. It is not yet done and out,” Janeway said. >> See BOREAS | pg. 14

CROWN POINT – Damage from a flood at the Crown Point Town Hall has been repaired and things are getting back to normal. Town Supervisor Charles Harrington said a water pipe broke to a toilet at the Town Hall in August, flooding the building. “The water ran overnight, causing substantial damage,” he said. The Town Water Department, ServiceMaster of Albany, Crown Point Telephone Co. and town maintenance workers all pitched in to clean up the building and repair the damage, he said. Board meetings had to be moved to an alternate site, and at least one public hearing cancelled because the new location had not been advertised, he said. The town has awarded a low bid of $7,125 to John Hayes Contracting to do outside painting and renovations at Town Hall #2, the town court building, on Creek Road. The work includes scraping the exterior, replacing damaged clapboards, and two coats of paint. The town was also preparing to designate four more roads for travel by all-terrain vehicles: Buck Mountain Road, Bush Road, Warner Hill Road and Towner Hill Road. The additions would have amended a 1987 local law establishing roads for ATV use. The resolution was shelved after former town supervisor Bethany Kosmider, who lives on Buck Mountain Road, asked that it be removed from the list. She told the board the road is too narrow for ATVs and is unsafe for them. She said the road is 12 feet wide, with a drop-off on one side and rock ledge on the other. Kosmider said there are no ATV trails running off Buck Mountain Road. State law stipulates public roads can be designated for ATV use only to connect trails. The entire resolution was withdrawn.


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