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Garden will help Family Services to grow

SALISBURY — Maybe you don’t have one. Maybe you’re just a gardener wanna-be. Your house is in the woods. Or you rent. Or you don’t really know how to get started.

Salisbury Family Services (SFS), the town’s social service agency, wants to change all that by offering plots to interested area residents in a newly built community garden on Salmon Kill Road.

Kim Fiertz, president of the board of SFS, said, “Our mission is to help feed people. And this way they can help themselves, and others.”

Excess produce will be donated to area food banks, Fiertz said. Clients of SFS...

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A reader’s guide to the codes of ethics under discussion

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:48am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — At the Feb. 7 meeting of the Board of Selectmen, Peter Becket raised his hand from the audience and asked, somewhat plaintively, if someone could prepare a document that pointed out the differences between the various codes of ethics that have been discussed recently.
Bill Morrill and Charlie Vail, in a Feb. 6 letter to First Selectman Curtis Rand, had enclosed a version of a code of ethics that they said they believe “adequately covers the ethical issues encountered in small municipalities and is appropriate for Salisbury.”

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Students step up to fight domestic violence

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:47am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — The gym at the Salisbury School was filled with students last Thursday, Feb. 14, some initially reluctant, dancing in a circle around a group of drummers as part of One Billion Rising, a movement to end violence against women.
Charlie Keil of Salisbury led a percussion group, Drive-By Rumba, that set up a rhythm, assisted by two Salisbury students, Nick Hayman on electric bass and Freddie Mason on electric guitar.
Rita Delgado introduced the concept of making a video of the dancing to add to others shot around the world, and Laura Bushey got the dancers moving.

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Behind the scenes at Downton Abbey

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:46am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — Of course everyone wanted David Kamp to answer this one essential question: Why is everyone so fascinated, even to the point of obsession, with “Downton Abbey”?
And of course no one really knows the answer to that question, not even the show’s writer and creator, Julian Fellowes, whom Kamp interviewed for an article published in last December’s Vanity Fair magazine.

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Blood, guts and creative thinking run in Patton family

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:30am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan

LAKEVILLE — Ben Patton, grandson of legendary U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and son of Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, talked about his famous family and about his work with traumatized veterans at a program at The Hotchkiss School Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Patton, 47, is the co-author with Jennifer Scruby of “Growing up Patton,” a memoir. He is a documentary filmmaker who works with military veterans, helping them turn their stories into short films.
He showed one film, which depicts a soldier going into a military base commissary — a supermarket.

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Blood, guts and creative thinking run in Patton family

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 10:30am
By
Patrick L. Sullivan

LAKEVILLE — Ben Patton, grandson of legendary U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton Jr. and son of Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, talked about his famous family and about his work with traumatized veterans at a program at The Hotchkiss School Tuesday, Feb. 12.
Patton, 47, is the co-author with Jennifer Scruby of “Growing up Patton,” a memoir. He is a documentary filmmaker who works with military veterans, helping them turn their stories into short films.
He showed one film, which depicts a soldier going into a military base commissary — a supermarket.

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Smiles all around at Read Aloud day

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:46am
By
Cynthia Hochswender
cynthiah@lakevillejournal.com

 

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The only event not put on ice by storm: ice carving

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:44am
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Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

SALISBURY — John “J.P.” Hedbavny was checking the blade on his electric chainsaw Saturday morning, Feb. 9, on the snow-covered lawn of the Scoville Memorial Library.
Except for a handful of people who had defied a statewide road closure by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Hedbavny (of Highland, N.Y.) was alone.
Friday night’s snowstorm forced the cancelation of several events in the schedule for the Salisbury Winter Sports Association’s showcase Jumpfest weekend.

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Technology and security concerns for SCS

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:43am
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Patrick L. Sullivan
patricks@lakevillejournal.com

LAKEVILLE — New Salisbury Central School (SCS) Principal Lisa Carter and technology teacher Pamela Sangster encouraged the Board of Education at the board meeting Jan. 30 to upgrade the technology available to students at the school.
Keeping up with technology, Carter said, is “no longer a ‘nice’ thing to do — technology should be embedded in the learning process.”
Carter at that meeting was still the interim principal; earlier in the meeting the board had voted to hire her as the new full-time principal.

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Toasty

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:42am

Salisbury Winter Sports Association volunteer Nic Osborn tended the fire at Satre Hill on Sunday, Feb. 10, during the Human Dog Sled Race. For more on the race, turn to Page A13.

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Town Hall workers explain why they joined union

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 10:40am
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Patrick L. Sullivan
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SALISBURY — Four Town Hall employees who signed a letter contradicting recent statements by Selectman Mark Lauretano met with The Lake­ville Journal Thursday, Feb. 7 — about 90 minutes before that day’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen.
The letter is printed in its entirety to the right.
The employees at the meeting, who are all now members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, are Rachel Lamb (assistant town clerk), Mike Beck (municipal agent, Senior Services), Barbara Bigos (tax assessor) and Stacey Dodge (manager of the Town Grove).

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