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PRIDE leader is leaving Sharon Reynolds is departing the community preservation group By Lohr McKinstry STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | Longtime PRIDE of Ticonderoga head Sharon Reynolds is getting ready to set sail. Reynolds is leaving as executive director soon, after starting at the community preservation group as a consultant in 2006. Maria Tedford will be taking over as ex-
ecutive director after she leaves. Reynolds said she’d been working at Silver Bay YMCA Conference Center when thendirector of PRIDE Walter Lender called. “He asked me if I could help,” she said. “It wasn’t long before I felt a connection. They had two grants that needed to be administered. That was the foray into downtown revitalization.” Those state grants, combined with their residential home repair grants, have amounted to millions of dollars for local communities, she said. “We incorporated Hague and Putnam, our neighbors, into the program,” Reynolds said. “We became an organization that municipalities call.” They did a grant for the now-dissolved Village of Port Henry, and the Town of Moriah recent-
ly asked them to come back and do another, a technical assistance grant, she said. “We’re known for Main Street grants,” she said. “We get calls from all across the state on how we do it.” Besides the Main Street revitalization grants, they also established the Ticonderoga Natural Foods Cooperative and the popular LaChute Trail around the community. “We’re really hitting community needs,” Reynolds said. “It’s a beautiful trail. We’ve created an incredible foundation. Grants are really our thing. PRIDE can be proud of what we’ve accomplished.” PRIDE Board President John Bartlett said that just how the group’s governing board feels. “During her years at PRIDE, Sharon’s contributions to our local communities have
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Owner Muhammed Aslam said the corner store at 3217 Plank Road has expanded. “We opened a deli, with subs, meats, salads, cheeses, many kinds of pizza,” he said. “We’re doing good. We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everybody loves our pizza.” The store is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, and takes call-in orders at 518 942-7159. Mineville Rexall also got its state license to sell beer recently, and offers a variety of tobacco products. » Rexall Cont. on pg. 17
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