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PLATTSBURGH — Emotions flooded Teresa Sayward as she watched her son Glenn marry his longtime partner Ben. As the veteran Assemblywoman announces her retirement, she said her most significant moment as a lawmaker was supporting gay marriage in New York state. The move drew criticism, especially from some of her Republican colleagues, but she said it was the right thing to do and changed many lives.
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Connor Marvin gives the thumbs up a day after receiving a heart transplant at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. Marvin received his transplant 14 months and 19 days after Photo provided by Margot Roemischer his older brother, Brock, went through the same procedure.
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...but he’s now recovering and it’s good knowing that he is well over the hump and on his way to being as strong as his brother is.
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— Walter ‘Smitty’ Marvin, III “He had a successful surgery during the night and it was a good operation,” Connor ’s father, Walter “Smitty” Marvin III, said. “Obviously, you are nervous with what your son and you are about to go through, but he is now
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keith@denpubs.com BOSTON, Mass. — For the second time in just over a year, a local family has reason to be grateful for the gift of organ donation. At around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 1, Elizabethtown-Lewis student Connor Marvin, 16, underwent heart transplant surgery at the Boston Children’s Hospital. His older brother, Brock, had undergone the same procedure at the same hospital Dec. 11, 2010.
pital, something that he also did with Brock. Denny Mitchell, Connor ’s stepfather, said Connor ’s mother, Darlene, was very happy and tired the day after the transplant. “She’s very happy right now,” Mitchell said. “We were on pins and needles for every phone call because you were hopeful. Then, Connor called us last night to tell his mom that it was happening, and we drove all the way down in four-wheel drive to get here.”
LAKE PLACID — Three town supervisors say they may have an interest in running for Teresa Sayward's 113th Assembly seat this fall. Sayward, who has been in the state Assembly for the past 10 years, will be retiring at the end of the year. The chairmen of the Essex and Warren County Board of Supervisors as well as the supervisor of the town of Moriah are seen as possible replacements. When elected to his third term as chairman of the Essex County board, Jay Supervisor Randy Douglas, a Democrat, said that he had no intention of seeking a state office unless there was a retirement.