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CommunityÊ stageÊ proposedÊ inÊ Ticonderoga By Lohr McKinstry
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TICONDEROGA – A community pavilion for the performing arts is on the drawing board at the Ticonderoga Festival Guild. The permanent pavilion would be built on the green space next to the town parking lot that’s behind the Ticonderoga Elks Lodge. Festival Guild Executive Director Judy Walker said the idea would be to pull people to the center of town with concerts, shows and events and maybe a future music festival. “We can hold our Festival Guild concerts
there,” she said. “It will replace our tent.” The guild had to take its circus-type tent out of service a couple years ago because of continuing tears in the canvas. Walker said they had three concerts for the 2016 season, held on the Ticonderoga Community Building porch. “We want to keep doing that and a pavilion would build attendance,” Walker said. The pavilion would have a high roof and a stage. Ticonderoga architect Joseph Vilardo has been pressed into service to design the pavilion. “We’ll hopefully get it defined in the next couple of months,” she said.
The multi-purpose structure could also be used for the Ticonderoga Farmers’ Market, Walker said. “We’ll raise money and look for grants (to fund the pavilion),” she said. “We’re kind of struggling.” The guild has been working to get younger people involved, and it’s starting to show success, Walker said. “They’re coming in and they’re enthusiastic,” she said. In 2014, when the director before her retired, they decided to make the Festival Guild totally volunteer, Walker said. Previously, the director
had received a stipend. “We’re working hard to recruit people to serve on our board,” she said. “Many people want to help, but don’t know what to do.” Beside their six-week Arts Trek program for children, the guild is doing Arts In School, which brings classical music to kids at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, St. Mary’s and Putnam schools. The guild-sponsored Beethoven’s Wig program has been popular teaching kids about classical music in area schools. “We started a community theater group,” Walker said. “It’s in its third year.”
Snowmobilers mobilize at Boreas hearing
Access to newly-acquired state lands critical to jumpstarting local economies, say local biz, sportsmen groups at Schroon Lake hearing By Pete DeMola
pete@suncommunitynews.com
The Canadian Pacific Railway Holiday Train arrived in the North Country Sunday night, bringing thousands of colored LED lights and donations for local food banks. A crowd of hundreds turned out at the Port Henry Train Station to greet the train and drop off canned goods for the Moriah Food Shelf. The Port Henry Volunteer Fire Department raised $500 for the Food Pantry, with Fire Chief James Hughes (in fire coat) presenting the check. The train, in its 18th year, also made stops in Ticonderoga, Plattsburgh and Rouses Point. Photo by Lohr McKinstry
SCHROON LAKE — Plaid outweighed green last week at Schroon Lake Central as the Adirondack Park Agency hosted the latest public hearing as part of the classification process for Boreas Ponds, the newly acquired parcel of state land located in the central Adirondacks. Local sporting groups, snowmobilers and business leaders said it is critical to allow as much recreational use as possible on the tract in order to accommodate aging sportsmen and to facilitate recreation that will aid the local economy. Many speakers endorsed Alternative 1, which cleaves the parcel in two, allowing a split between Wild Forest and Wilderness. Three other Adirondack Park Agency proposed alternatives >> See BOREAS HEARING | pg. 22