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Northern New York's Greatest Weekly - A Prize Winning Town & Country Newspaper Vol. 103 No. 6 - Gouverneur, N.Y. 0 1989 MRS Printing Inc. Wednesday, September 27,1989 2 Sections - 26 Pages - 35 Cents On Transportation System District Feeling Pinch Of Growing Enrollment By Lisa L. Reape The growing number of students in the Gou- verneur Central School District and how to dis- tribute those students captured the board of education's attention for nearly an hour Monday night. The board listened with a sympathetic ear as three parents voiced their com- plaints with the way stu- dents are moved to other schools to accomodate en- rollment trends and the way they are transported to school. Lucille Moore, Hailesboro, was the first to address the board, say- ing her son was supposed to attend Fowler Elemen- tary School, but that one week before school started she received a letter say- ing he would attend East Side School. . \I moved to Fowler ex- pressly so that he would attend Fowler,\ she said. \Now Fm told h$ has to attend East Side School and that he would have to change the bus at the high school.\ She demanded to know why her son should not attend Fowler. Mary Margaret Small, director of elementary instruction, explained that the district does not make kindergarten as- signments until August, and that in the case of kindergarten, especially, the district does not have an accurate count on the number of students un- less parents bring their children in for pre-screen- -The problem is there were some 27 kindergar- ten students within the Fowler school bounda- ries—simply too many for the school to accomodate. \We made a commit- ment as a district to re- duce class sizes at the elementary level,\ Mrs. Small said. In deciding which chil- dren to move, Mrs. Small said, they first looked at whether the children had siblings in the building, and then based their deci- sion on the shortest dis- tance the children would have to be bused. \We applied used the same criteria for Mrs. Moore's son as the other children,\Mrs. Small said. Students from Fowler assigned to East Side School were then placed on a waiting list for a transfer back to Fowler school, but because Mrs. Moore's son was not en- rolled in any school, he was not in the lottery for an assignment tohishome school. The Town of Fowler is growing at a phenomenal rate,\ said Board Vice President Alex MacKin- non. \It's seeing more than a hundred new houses per year, and that will get worse when the prison opens. We expect to see more growth when the prison opens because there will be people (prison employes) who will ask for transfers here and will want to build homes. \I can see no way to maintain the traditional See District pg. ft Seniors May Have To Earn Privileges By Lisa L* Reape The Gouverneur High School Class of 1990 will be entitled to \senior privi- leges\ like their predeces- sors; however, the Class of 1991 may have to earn them, be ginning this year, under a proposed plan to revamp the senior privi- leges concept. At School Superinten- dent Gary Buehler's re- quest, High School Princi- pal Michael Derrigo made a presentation on the subject of senior privileges to the board of education Monday night. Mr. Derrigo said he looked at information from last spring on the staff % thoughts on senior privi- leges, and also asked staff members this fall to share their thoughts on the subject. majority of the staff feels the original intent of senior privileges—to teach responsibility—is a valid one,\ Mr Derngo said. \However both the staff and I are concerned that jthere may be seniors who are not enrolling in some of the higher level courses for fear of not bei ng able to meet the academic re- quirement and thus los- ing their senior privi- leges .\ Senior privileges, a point of contention each year with each senior class, ml lows students in good academ ic standing to leave the school butldmg dunng study halls rmi during their lunch penod. if they wish Students must be present for first penod; however, a senior with a last penod study ha < could leave the school building early Tra not suggesting we ehimnftte senior pn vtiejes far this das*.' Mr Der- rigo said, adding he thought that \eliminating senior privileges 'mid- stream* would create more animosity\ on the part of the students. In fact, he said, he met with some seniors last week and told them he would like to see them given more privileges, so long as those additional privileges came with ad- ditional responsibilities. 4 *The majority of the staff is in favor of maintaining senior privileges, with some modifications,\ Mr. Derrigo said. One thought being con- sidered is to eliminate the academic average require- ment, allowing everyone to have senior privileges unless a student had dis- ciplinary problems. Mr. Derrigo suggested the board could allow senior privileges during the first 10 weeks of school, based on each student's behav- ior during his or her jun- ior year. Thus, each student would begin earning his senior privileges during his junior year Board President David Sipher said he would like to see the district deckle whether there is educa- tional mem to having senior privileges and if so f to state them Tm not in favor of see ing each class come for- ward and have to beg for senior privileges because that means each class is ti>H£*d on ^hfiw the prrvi- ous year's class ^handled semor privileges ,\hesaid. As it currently stands, he said, there's no way to judge them, you can only judge the previous class * •If you base it on their junior year's behavior, then that's taken care of.\ noted board member Nancy Cappelhno See Seniors pg. t. A In Gouverneur Inmates Expected As Early as July fr*>%4& WILLIAM GIVEN, 16-year-old son of Bill and Sandy Given of Richville, practices hunting with his 65-pound compound bow in preparation for bow hunting season, which starts Oct. 1. ..-•• *-•*;\-* — :•\\ : \*-;••• -•*?* * - Tribune Photo.Jan PhilJips BARBARA TOWNE, board of education member, iprMents a dedication balloon to sixth grader Marcy Taylor at tha 4*dlcatk>n caramon** for Xfm naw Edwarda-KnoX School, on Sunday. Sept. 24. Abova, band mambars gtt ready to ptay The Star Spangled Banner\ for the dedication caremony. From Itft ara Marci Plk*. Amy Perkins. Dante I* LaPoint, and Mich* •to Bristol. For othar photo*, turn to p»g* 3. Trtbum PhotofJan PhtiUps By Lisa L. Reape The GouverneurCorrec- tional Facility could see as many as 400 inmates as early as next July. That was the word given by state Corrections De- partment officials last week as Gouverneur's 21 - member Community Prison Planning Task Force met for the first time. Sil Martinage, facilities planner for the state Cor- rections Department, told task force members that the project would be a-i- vertised for bids on Oct 11, with bids bein£ opened on Nov. 8 \Early comple- tion\ is set for Julv 1 990, with final completion in October 1990. . \Early completion\ means four of the seven buildings used to house inmates would be ready for use. along with the other amenities essential for running a prison, such as the food service build- ing, the central admini- stration building, the Of Edwards power ho»ui>e and, of course, the security sys- tem. The remaining build- ings would be brought on line as completed. In all, the facility will consist of 21 buildings as follows: seven housing -units, a central admini- stration building, the visi- tors building, a health clinic ''recreation building, a food service building, a .horticulture building, an activities building, a laun- dry/com missary building, a program building, a fa- cility maintenance build- ing, and a special housing unit consisting of individ- ual cells, used for discipli- nary purposes). Outside the peri meter fence are the heating plant, emergency generator, vehicle main-- 'tenaru.c building and a visitors waiting building. Other amenities include basketball courts, hand- ball courts, and baseball fields. ;• • Task force membershad an opportunity to visual- ize what Gouverneur's . See Inmates pg. 6 Revitalization Bug Bites Community By Lisa L. Reape Hoping to reverse a trend of decline dating back over the past half century, a handful of resi- dents in the Town of Edwards have launched a revitalization effort that has attracted community- wide interest. The effort i s bei ng spear- headed by Jeffrey Cass>dy, a fourth grade teacher in the Edwards-Knox School System, who approached the town board last sum- mer about establishing a committee to look for ways to spruce up the town .Although it had no' money to lend to the ef- fort, the board gave n> consent, and Mr Cassidy and a few other civic- minded residents began meeting tn address how they might improve the looks of the town The committee began researching trrant oppor- tunities, and quickly learned of the National Renter of Historic Placer-. A short time later, the committee organized a meeting with Assembly- man John O'Neil. and Michael Quencer, of the state Office of Parks. Rec- reation and Historic Pres- ervation regional office at Alexandria Bay, who said he felt there were several buildings in the town that could be put on the Na- tional Register. Once so listed, those buildings could qualify for special grants for their preserva- tion. . u We're concentrating our efforts on the down- town area,\ said Mr. Cas- sidy. \If enough of those buildings could be named to the National Register, we're hoping to receive grant money to rpbuild it to the way it looked back Apparently the town hall, built in the 19th century, is thought to be of historic interest Tm told the town hall is one of s;x buildings like it See pg. 6 Edwards Residents Hoping To Restore Town's Former Glory Edward? wasfounded in 1*12. as a small village along the Russell turn- pike, with businesses suited to the needs of an agriculturally based econ- OTT.V The rapids of the OswegatchaeRiver it that site were used to produce water power few gnst m ills and sawmills General stores, hotels, and other locally owned businesses opened near the river as more settlers came over the years The community of 75 years ago was «till a bus- tling town, as evidenced by a map of the village dated 1914 Main Street at that time boasted three grocery stores, three dry goods stores a meat mar- ket, twocobb'ershops two saloons, a millinery shop, a furniture store, a hard- ware store.tinsmith shop. and two general stores In addition, there was a ho- tel, I OOF hail two churches, a post office, and a bank The bank and See Edwards pf . 6
