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Concerns raised over nuisance law
Saturday, October 18, 2014
This Week
BALLOON MAN
By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
CROWN POINT Ñ Crown Point officials will look to smooth out the rough edges of a proposed new local law that would address nuisance properties in the municipality. Supervisor Charles Harrington said the local law had been tabled by the town board after an Oct. 8 public hearing on the new regulations, giving the board and town attorney Cathi Radner time to go through the suggestions and thoughts expressed at the meeting. Ò The hearing was a good give and take,” Harrington said. “I thought there were some concerns raised we need to investigate, so we tabled the law to look at those concerns and it may come back up again in November.” Harrington opened the public hearing Oct. 8 by saying while the town has laws governing zoning and upkeep of property, they have never had a law to deal with properties where tenants or others are creating a public nuisance. Ò The activities we saw on Main Street this summer warranted we look at this,” Harrington said. Ò We had instances of public intoxication, people urinating on the sidewalks, physical confrontations and intimidation of the citizens using the sidewalk, loud music late at night and lyrics being used that would only be acceptable at a white supremacist rally.” Moriah juniors Victoria Smith, Jarod Garrison, Paige Lane and Meaghan Lee took part in the festivities at the Moriah Homecoming pep rally Oct. 10. Photo by Keith Lobdell
Index TICONDEROGA
2-9
Ticonderoga starts budget process for new year
EDITORIAL
6
By Keith Lobdell
LETTERS
7
keith@denpubs.com
MORIAH
12-13
CALENDAR SCHROON LAKE CROWN POINT
4 16-17 18
BRIEFS
20-21
SPORTS
22-24
CLASSIFIEDS
25
PAGES 10-11
TICONDEROGA Ñ The town of Ticonderoga is dusting off a committee assignment to help prepare for the 2015 budget process. Supervisor Bill Grinnell said he has relied heavily on the operations efficiency committee, being chaired by councilwoman Chattie Van Wert, to help find areas where the town can cut into the 2015 spending plan. Two areas where Grinnell said they have found
potential savings points are energy and highway. Ò We are really starting to formulate our thoughts right now but we want to act on these things quickly,” Grinnell said. “There are budgetary issues that need to be addressed. We are trying to control our costs and we are determined to meet the tax cap and we have a good start on that.” Ò Bill wanted us to focus on these two areas and we talked to the people who had the information to come up with our data,” Van Wert said. Grinnell said one change the town is already in the process of making is returning to National Grid as its energy provider.
Ò Our energy costs in the last two years have gone through the roof, which coincided with the change in electricity providers,” Grinnell said, adding that increases were between 25 and 30 percent over the two years. Ò They were also overcharging the town on taxes and items that municipalities do not have to pay,” Grinnell said. Ò The good news with that is we received a refund for over $17,000. Going back to National Grid as our supplier should save the town additional funds, as well.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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