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PRIDE gets housing grants
TICONDEROGA | PRIDE of Ticonderoga is seeking contractors and a program administrator to put into motion $1.5 million in housing-related grants that have been awarded to the community-development organization since April. Read more
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Village’s sewer plant costs continue to increase
LAKE GEORGE | The projected cost of Lake George Village’s wastewater treatment plant increased this week as the village board learned that engineering oversight and inspection and related costs will rise by $248,690. Read more
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Power of Produce
ELIZABETHTOWN | Scattered on the riverside green of Jewtraw Park, near the old railroad museum, the local farmers market convenes every Wednesday from 2 to 6 p.m. in Lake Placid. Read more
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Local officials hail $500k grant towards new sewer plant, but call for more help
LAKE GEORGE | Local municipal officials and leaders of environmental organizations expressed appreciation to U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik last week for her help in lining up a $500,000 grant to pay toward construction of the village’s new sewer plant... Read more
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Stewart’s awards grant to PRIDE of Ti
TICONDEROGA | PRIDE of Ticonderoga recently received a $2,000 grant from the Stewart’s Holiday Match Program. Read more
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Common Council agrees to form master plan for harborside
PLATTSBURGH | Adopted by the Plattsburgh Common Council on a majority vote, the idea of a master plan for the city, which will cover all projects, including the DRI plans, and ideas the council has for the future of Plattsburgh was approved July 3. Read more
Ready4Real receives grant funding
PLATTSBURGH | Ready4Real, education programming powered by ETS, has received a $5,000 grant from the Adirondack Foundation - Generous Acts Program, Generous Acts Fund, and a $110,000 grant from the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act... Read more
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Aviation Day shows students potential careers
AUSABLE | A little more than half of the 2,000-plus students who participated in Aviation Day recently had never flown in an airplane before. Read more
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County steps in to help ‘New Beginnings’
BEEKMANTOWN | The Clinton County Legislature authorized a contract with a local housing cooperative recently that local officials hope will facilitate the overhaul of a failing wastewater treatment system. Read more
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Middlebury receives Amtrak platform funds
MIDDLEBURY | Downtown Middlebury has received a $100,000 taxpayer grant from the Vermont Downtown Development Board for a new Amtrak passenger train railroad platform and associated parking spaces. Read more
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Vergennes, other towns receive taxpayer funds
VERGENNES | Thanks to an allocation of $2.2 million in federal taxpayer-funds earmarked for municipal projects, the City of Vergennes will be getting a new salt shed to store the winter season road additive. Read more
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Celebrating Milholland
TICONDEROGA | In some ways, Inez Milholland was the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of her day: An attractive, flamboyant, unabashed New Yorker — she would have been aces with a Twitter account. Read more
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Trade wins
TICONDEROGA | After North Country Community College declined to move forward with a proposed trade school in Ticonderoga, the Ticonderoga Revitalization Alliance has decided to move ahead with a more decentralized plan... Read more
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Ecology project receives funds
CASTLETON | The Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership has awarded the South Champlain Historical Ecology Project a $9,000 Collections Grant to initiate a 3D imaging project. Read more
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North Creek streetscape upgrades closer to reality
NORTH CREEK | After multiple delays over the last several years, the project to make North Creek’s Main Street more attractive and safer for pedestrians is now moving forward. Read more
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Board mulls Chester’s municipal water clarity, tank renovation
POTTERSVILLE | The Town of Chester’s project to paint its municipal water tank on Spring Street will likely be costing taxpayers far less than estimated late last year. Read more
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Chaffee offers free teen classes, activities
RUTLAND | Rutland’s Chaffee Art Center is currently welcoming teens and young people to the new Open Studio Hub. Read more
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$18M slated for farmland protection
AUSABLE FORKS | The state Farm Bureau and farmland conservation groups found good news in New York’s State Budget. Read more
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Middlebury boosts its computing power
MIDDLEBURY | A group of Middlebury College faculty members across a range of academic disciplines has received more than $150,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation to install a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster on campus. Read more
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Middlebury to receive downtown funds
MIDDLEBURY | The town of Middlebury is the recipient of a nationally recognized, taxpayer-funded grant to help mitigate stormwater-related problems in the downtown area. Read more
