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eaglestarreview.com Volume 119, No. 12 March 23 to 29, 2011
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Taxpayer revolt grows A gift
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Liverpool residents petition FOCUS Academy, firing of Dr. Johns
Late police chief’s family donates cemetery plot for baby Isabella
By Caitlin Donnelly editor@eaglestarreview.com
LPL celebrates National Quilt Day Plank Road Quilters Guild displayed their ongoing and completed quilting projects March 19. ...See page 3
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Clay Senior Luncheon This month, Clay seniors celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with bingo, trivia, chili and plenty of green apparel. ...See page 26
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Nearly 100 Liverpool residents came out on Saturday to sign petitions calling for alterations to the preliminary Liverpool Central School District budget and the resignation of Superintendent Richard Johns. The two separate petitions were made available for signatures to district residents March 19 at the American Legion Post 188 in the village. Concerned residents Sharon Yager, Julie Matson and Pat Ruf provided information to those that stopped by, and encouraged individuals to sign both petitions during the event. “This is by no means a witch hunt,” said Yager. “We just want the board
By Russ Tarby
Caitlin Donnelly
Liverpool residents Sharon Yager, Julie Matson and Pat Ruf hosted a petition-signing event at the American Legion Post 188 in the village on March 19 to remove the FOCUS Academy from the school budget, and have Dr. Johns resign as superintendent.
[of education] to see that people have concerns, and we’d like them to reevaluate the situation.” Yager, the brains behind the petition text, has an eighth grader at Liverpool Middle School
and two children that have graduated from the district. While she has been one of the more vocal residents during this year’s budget season, Yager prefers to think of herself as a “co-leader” of the petition
movement. Red flags were raised for the Liverpool mom starting with the closure of Wetzel Road Elementary. It was then that she began Please see Petitions, page 18
Two and a half decades after his death, former Liverpool Police Chief Floyd Harrison is still on duty, helping to take care of a village crime victim. Chief Harrison’s family has donated a burial plot at Liverpool Cemetery for Isabella Marie, the infant who was found dead in a dumpster on Pearl Street in the village on Jan. 6. The baby’s 29-year-old mother, Nicole DeJaynes of Clay, was charged with seconddegree murder. DeJaynes’ case is pending and will be presented to a grand jury, according Please see Isabella, page 15
CNS girls stand tall with first-ever state Class AA title By Phil Blackwell
pblackwell@eaglenewsonline.com Only one result would bring satisfaction to the Cicero-North Syracuse girls basketball team in 2010-11 - namely, the program’s first-ever New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class AA championship. And on a glorious Saturday night at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, the Northstars climbed to that summit in
its usual emphatic style, unleashing every aspect of its total game in a 75-54 victory over Section V champion Gates-Chili in the AA championship game. Junior center Breanna Stewart, the state tournament MVP, delivered another dominant performance. The Universty of Connecticut-bound junior, named the Gatorade New York State Player of the Year a week earlier, earned 29 points and 16 rebounds, using her vast array of skills
to frustrate the Spartans on both ends of the floor. “She has helped put our program on the map, that is for sure,’’ said CNS head coach Eric Smith. “She’s a good kid, a hard working kid and got us going tonight.’’ Kelsey Mattice, the senior point guard going to Maine next fall, added 13 points, while Sarah Bowles, with 11 points, and Abbey Please see CNS bball, page 11
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