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In SPORTS | pg. 29-31
Running in states
Local athletes on the big stage
It’s so, Joe
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In OPINION | pg. 6
What have we learned
Hopeful lessons from #PrisonBreak
Final Four
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In LOCAL | pg. 2-3
Small Business Saturday is back Chamber, businesses team up Nov. 28
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Count shows write-in candidate has insurmountable lead By Keith Lobdell
keith@suncommunitynews.com
ELIZABETHTOWN — Stacks of white ballots on the desk of, “the pod,” proved why the Ticonderoga election count received its own day Nov. 13. Almost 800 ballots had to be inspected by hand by Essex County Board of Elections Commissioners Allison McGahay and Mark Whitney, finding that, once regular, affidavit and absentee ballots were counted, write-in candidate Joseph Giordano was the Supervisor-elect in the town of Ticonderoga, defeating incumbent Bill Grinnell by a margin of 792-374. One twist to the canvassing of the vote was commissioners were able to count votes for Giordano that had only his first or last name written. “In the town of Essex (Nov. 12), we ran into a situation
Members of the Ticonderoga Sentinel football team raise the 2015 Regional Championship trophy after defeating Whitehall, 32-0, in their Nov. 13 matchup. The Sentinels will nest face Tuckahoe in the Eastern semifinal round at Dietz Stadium in Kingston. For more coverage, see the Final Four Preview salute pages 19-22 and game story on page 28. Photo by Jill Lobdell
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Upstanders unite! By Christina Scanlon
christina@suncommunitynews.com
SCHROON LAKE— Moriah graduate Nicholas Allen took to the stage Tuesday morning at Schroon Lake Central School, along with former classmates and other members of On Common Ground. Together, with aid from the Prevention Team, a Ticonderoga-based non-profit agency, the group of more than a dozen students travel to schools in Essex County with an anti-bullying and suicide prevention message in the form of a moving and emotional short play. Allen takes on a challenging role, a bully viciously attacking students. His character, John, has a change of heart, realizing the damage his actions have causes and joins oth-
ers in battling bullies in the fictional school setting. For Allen, the change of heart isn’t fiction. While not indicating the level of bullying he’d previously engaged in, “I was a bully,” he admitted. It was seeing such a performance that immediately affected him. “I felt it here,” he said touching his chest. “I realized what I’d been doing and I stopped.” He didn’t just stop, he joined the group, now reprising his role for the third year, returning though he graduated last year. The students, led by Melissa Reilly, a Moriah teacher and the group’s director, drafted the script themselves, tweaking it each year >> Story Continued | pg. 5