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Search committee to visit bidders By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
Superintendent to retire PAGE 8 WILLSBORO
Board adopts budget for vote PAGE 11 WESTPORT
‘Beer tent’ may be back at fair
AuSable Valley shortstop Kodie Simpson applies the tag to a Northern Adirondack baserunner during the opening of the 2012 Champlain Valley Athletic Conference baseball season April 16. Second baseman Shane Douglas backs up the play. Simpson pitched 3-2/3 innings as the Patriots recorded a 9-2 victory over the Bobcats in the game, as Dillon Photo by Keith Lobdell Savage had four RBIs at the plate. Photos of this and other games can be found at thevalleynews.org.
Lewis Family Farm files suit v. Essex
PAGE 16 SPORTS
By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com
Baseball, softball season open PAGE 19
ESSEX — Salim “Sandy” Lewis is headed back to court. Lewis, who famously defeated the Adirondack Park Agency over a challenge to houses on his property in 2009, now has his sights set
on the town of Essex. A lawsuit was filed through the Essex County Clerk’s office last month, claiming that a pair of parcels at the Lewis Family Farm were unfairly assessed at a higher value than they were worth. Lewis and his legal counsel, Martina Baillie, had pre-
viously filed a pair of grievances in the town about the assessments on the two parcels: a field crops parcel of 1,111 acres assessed at $6,033,190; and a 5.2-acre family residence assessed at $412,900. The grievances were both taken into consideration by the town’s zoning board of
appeals, which cut the first parcel’s assessment to $4,811,112 while leaving the second parcel’s value the same. Currently, the six-parcel farm totals $5,333,512 in assessed value. The two disputed parcels are assessed at $5,224,012. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
E L I Z A B E T H TO W N — A sub-committee of five will start to take a deeper look at three potential buyers of the Horace Nye Nursing Home. The Nursing Home Committee recommended that a sub-committee consisting of Lewis Supervisor David Blades, Elizabethtown Supervisor Margaret Bartley, Minerva Supervisor Sue Montgomery-Corey, Office For the Aging Director Patty Bashaw and Horace Nye Director Deborah Gifford research and visit each of the three organizations that have bid to purchase the home. Upon appointing the board, there was discussion regarding the addition of Gifford to the five. “I think it does make sense to have Deborah or someone from Horace Nye be a part of this,” North Elba Supervisor and Horace Nye Committee Chair Roby Politi said. “Deborah works for this board and for Essex County and my personal opinion is that she would give us an unbiased view of what she sees. There is nothing that says she would be out of a job because of this.” While Politi endorsed the appointment, which County Manager Daniel Palmer said was made in part because she had requested to be on the sub-committee, others were skeptical. “Just because she asked to be on this committee, does that mean that she is the best choice for the committee?” St. Armand Supervisor Joyce Morency asked. CONTINUED ON PAGE 17
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BAKERY Fresh Baked Apple Cider Raisin Bread..............$3.59 loaf
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P6 P7 ADIRONDACK OUTDOORS P18 DEATH NOTICES P7 LOCAL COLUMNISTS P10 SPORTS P19 CALENDAR OF EVENTS P21 CROSSWORD P21 CLASSIFIEDS P22-24 AUTOMOTIVE P25-28
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