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Southern Ess«x Bur*ou 585-4070 »#> Montcolm St., Wednesday, March 21,1979 11 2 orea villages elect new mayors PLATTSBURGH - Two North Country villages elected new mayors in Tuesday's elections. Unofficial results are: In Westport Carl Floyd ran unop- posed for the mayoral position. He received 70 votes. Samuel Sherman received 73 votes for village trustee. He also ran unopposed. A total of 84 voters turned out for the election. In Keeseville 94 voters turned out to elect two trustees, Gerald Laun- dree and Raymond Harper, who both ran unopposed. Laundree received 45 votes and Harper received 49 votes. In Dannemora village Gloria Ryan was elected to the trustee position with 248 votes. Clarence \Ting\ Breyette received 100 votA and Richard Cusprinie received 91. Also in Dannemora Mayor William Donahue was re-elected with a total of 342 votes. He ran unopposed. It was noted there was a heavy turnout of voters for the elec- tion. Ticonderoga has its first woman mayor and first Democrat mayor in almost 60 years with the election of Virginia \Babe\ Smith, who scored a resounding victory. She beat Republican candidate Fayette 0. Spring by a margin of 200 votes. Spring received 451 votes to Mrs, Smith's 648 votes in a heavy turnout for the village. Of the four candidates vying for the two trustee positions, the Republican distanced their Democratic op- ponents with Carlton Stacy and Donald Cook becoming the new trustees. Democrats Lewis Morett and Coile Strange received 439 and 405 votes, respectively with Stacy and Cook receiving 655 and 636 votes, respectively. A local proposition to allow village firemen a $500 exemption on their assessed valuation also was passed. These figures were not known late Tuesday. In Port Henry, Robert Brown, the only mayoral candidate received 272 votes. There were no write-in ballots. Wallace Edwards and Louise Celotti were elected to the two trustee positions with 272 votes and 218 votes, respectively. Michael Trybendis was defeated with 212 votes, only six votes behind Mrs. Celotti. In the only contested election in the Tri-Lakes region Timothy Jock grabbed the mayor's seat from two-term Republican incumbent Charles Keough in Saranac Lake. The Republican Party managed to garner only one of the four spots open in the village with John Pickreign gaining another term as trustee with a total of 660 votes. William Woodruff, a Democrat, outpolled Republican Lee Haig for the post of village justice by a vote of 956 to 325. The other trustee slot was won by Bill McLaughlin, who earned another term on the board by topp- ing all trustee candidates with 709 votes. Dave Seymour, Democrat, received 587 votes and Gerald Branch, Republican, received 553 votes. In Lake Placid, Mayor Robert Peacock and trustees Gerald Cassidy and G. Christian Ortloff ran unopposed as did Mayor Donald Smith and trustees Alvin Connor and Roger Pickering in Tupper Lake. In Bloomingdale, Marge Wolfe and Charles Whitson also were elected unopposed. No vote counts were available late Tuesday. In Rouses Point Richard Favreau and Cyril Manor were elected to trustee positions. Richard Collins -and MarirL Barte test in their 1jids~ for the positions. Manor received 460 votes. Favreau, 600 votes, Col- lins, 345 votes and Barie, 161 votes. In Champlain Mayor Aurel Par- sons was re-elected with a vote of 144. A totai of 163 persons voted in the election. Richard Critchton who was runn- ing unopposed for a one-year trustee position received 123 votes. Homer Miller was elected to a two-year trustee position with 124 votes as was Joseph \Tony\ Filion Kith 82 votes. Losing this race was John Wells who received 74 votes. Also running unopposed was Mayor Richard L. Favreau in Mooers. Donald R. Rabideau also ran unopposed for a two-year trustee seat. No figures were known late Tuesday. McEwen announces academies nominees young peo- ple trim Essex County have been nominated W competitive appoint- ment to service academies by Rep. RobertC. McEwen (R-N.Y.). The congressman's nominations were based on scholastic records, college entrance examination scores and the students' activities. Selection of the appointees will be made by the academies. Nominated to the United States Air Force Academy was Deborra J. Hills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hills, Warner Hill Road, Ticonderoga. She is attending Ticonderoga High School. Nominated to the United States Military Academy were Kevin T. Karkoski, now attending AuSable Valley Central School in Clin- tonville, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil F Karkoski, Prospect Road, Keeseville; Thomas K. McCarthy, currently attending Ticonderoga High School, son of John E. McCar- thy, Third Avenue, Ticonderoga; and Jeanie A. St. Andrews, cur- rently attending Ticonderoga High School, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles St. Andrews, 65 Schuyler St., Ticonderoga. Girl Scout Council to fete volunteers SARATOGA SPRINGS - Adirondack Girl Scout Council is holding its fourth annual recogni- tion dinner on Thursday, March 29, at the Holiday Inn in Saratoga Spr- ings. Speaking at the dinner, which is in honor of Girl Scout volunteers, will be prominent volunteer Nancy Law of Saratoga Springs. Law is chairperson for Citizen Ac- tion of Church Women United, New York State and program coor- dinator for Literacy Volunteers of Saratoga. She is an active volunteer cm the board of directors of the Saratoga League of Women Voters. Law recently attended a national spoMored by Church Women United at the church center at the United Nations on the Year of the Child. Most recently, she represented the Troy Conference of United Methodist church at an Im- pact briefing held m DC. Impact ^Jqr4enominationai organization, \^monitors and informs its members of proposed legislation of particular interest to them on subjects such as world hunger and criminal justice. Edna Miller, Adirondack Council board member and chairman of the recognition dinner committee, said the dinner is on* way of honoring ''the many men and women who br- ing their talents, experience and skills to Girl Scouting.\ She said a^nurober of volunteers will receive special recognition. Working on the committee with Miller are: Nicolle Alonzo. Ray DeSorbe. Donna Gelder. Marilyn Green and Dorothy Olson. A14 G«i Scout volunteers, their husbands and wives, friends of Girl Scouting are invited to send their paid ($& ) reservations to the Adiron- dack Girl Scout Council. Meadowbrook Road. Glens Falls. - MY tt»61. by M*iOi » A fucial D reim i 11 e r ra ps S m i t h, wa Je r ByTOMBERGIN Staff Writer Southern Essex Bureau TICONDEROGA — The elections are over but, political squabbling hasn't disappeared from local government. Ticonderoga Village Mayor John C. Dreimiller, presiding over his last official board meeting the night before the elections, took a political swipe at mayoral candidate Virginia \Babe\ Smith and an- nounced that he was opposed to the Ticonderoga townwide water district. While Dreimiller went to great • lengths to praise almost everyone connected to village government, including the individual board members, Smith's name was con- spicuously absent among **Dreimiller's accolades. The soon-to-be former Ticonderoga mayor read from a prepared text which he distributed to the local media earlier in the day. His first statement dealt with the townwide water district, recently approved by the town board but almost certain to be the subject of a public referendum this spring. Dreimiller confirmed that there never has been any discussion bet- ween the town and the village about the new district or the proposed water rates, which will have to be negotiated between the two govern- ments. Town residents currently pur- chase water from the village at a rate of $120 per year. Under the pro- posed new townwide district, the engineer's study has recommended a reduction .in the water rate to $84.20 annually. Considering increased costs, in- flation and the fact that the'propos- ed rate was never discussed bet- ween the two boards, Dreimiller said the $84.20 was \highly speculative.\ JSmitlrwas then put on the hot seat by the outgoing mayor who broughT\ up the subject of a recent \select\ dinner party attended by all the town board members save one; the town engineers and Smith. The missing board member was town councilman Andrew Powvorz- nik, a Republican, and the only Republican on the town board. Dreimiller Jbjmself a Republican, said Powvorznik had not been in- vited, \and worse still, had not been told anything about this closed-door, non-public meeting at which, I ex- pect, decisions on the Wdtef district were made.\ Continuing to read from the prepared statement, Dreimiller said, \The town engineers were pre- sent and I don't think that they and Babe Smith, the chairman of the village board's water committee, who was also there, had anything in common other than the village's water supply. \Neither town councilman Andy Powvorznik, nor any other village representative was there. I don't think that our minutes will show that Mrs. Smith was delegated by her fellow members of the village board to attend any dinner meeting with the town board and town engineers to discuss anything. \Doesn't it seem strange in this day of sunshine laws and open meetings, that Mrs. Smith, our water committee chairman, was in- vited to a dinner meeting with the town engineers and almost all of the town board, while a town council- man was not? \Maybe it has something to do with why Mrs. Smith has launched her campaign against water meters, while refusing to study them. I seriously don't know and I leave that issue for speculation by the next village board.\ ^ Dreimiller, who is expected to run for town supervisor in November, said he did not favor the townwide water district, \because a lot of peo- ple would have to pay taxes for it that would not get any water or benefit from it out in the township. That's not fair.\ He then thanked the people of Ticonderoga, the local media, the village superintendent of public works, the village clerk, the village attorney, and went to great lengths to praise each trustee individually for their service. Smith's name was not included in Dreimiller's state- ment. As the mayor concluded his state- ment, Smith leaped tp her own defense. She said the dinner party was a Democratic meeting for party members. She also stated -that the townwide water district was merely one of a number of topics discussed at the dinner. Smith said she had no intentions of making any decisions or sugges- tions without authority from the village and she was in favor of open meetings. This was simply- a Democratic party meeting, she em- phasized. She criticized Dreimiller's stand on the townwide district, because, in the past, his position was that the village wouldn't allow new water hookups outside village limits until new water districts were formed. \Now you're saying just the op- posite of what you've been spying for the past two years,\ Smith charged. Dreimiller countered by saying the village had favored \selective\ water districts not one townwide district. He said Smith should have had the \courtesy\ to notify the board about the dinner meeting because business affecting the village was being discussed. . Having the last word. Smith reaf- firmed her position that the meeting was a Democrats only gathering and she was not there as a represen- tative of the village board. Park review board to meet March 28 LONG LAKE — The Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, March 28 at 10 a.m. in the town hall at Long Lake. The agenda will include 1979 legislation. APA rules and regula- tions — private land use. ^sements, designations, amend- ments and other matters of mutual concern. The public is welcome to attend. Moriah'Westport health care topic of special meet tonight WESTPORT — Further negotiations between the town of Westport and Moriah in their attempts to secure the services of physicians from a federal government program will continue tonight at a special meeting. Interested parties will gather in Westport at 7 p.m. in the former village hall on Main Street to continue their attempt at staffing two doctors from- ween the two towns which would have equal representation. This organization would allow them to apply for the National Health Service Physi- cians. If it is formed, a board of directors consisting of six members from each town would be established. The board would be headed by the town supervisor -from each town. the National Health Service. Earlier this month, the Moriah Health Care Ad- visory Board held a public meeting, attended by Westport residents to take steps in attracting medical help to the understaffed region. The Mineville Health Clinic's only doctor. Dr. Bery Englebretsen, is reported to be closing his practice on July 1. At prior meetings, definite steps were taken to secure the services of at least one, and hopefully two, doctors to fill the area's medical needs. Westport and Moriah have agreed to work together in a joint venture. Some Westport and Moriah residents are in- ~tefested in forming a non-profit corporation bet- The Moriah Advisory Board and the Westport Ad- visory Board would act in a financial capacity to in- sure proper health facilities and care in their own town and be of assistance to the nonprofit cor- poration's board of directors. The Moriah Board, for example, would oversee the use of money from the recent fund drive, now totaling $7,310. The Moriah Town Board recently secured the ser- vices of a grant specialist to write the application for the National Health Service doctors. The Moriah Health Care Advisory Board reported that, the Mineville Health t&nid^was operating in the a national in- hour will be held at 6 30 p.m.. dinner is at 7pm St. Mary's slates sock hop Saturday TICONDEROGA - The tock bop red by St. Mmry • Auxiliary' will be Saturday. March 24. from I to 1] p.m m Sv M&ry'f gym featur- Disco Doc A4mtmxx\ will be limited to those tchooi H> cards m grades 9 to 12. 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