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Journal & Republican
ISSUE NO. 11
$1.00
OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1, 2016
Budget for town
of Lowville to see
a decrease in taxes
LOOKING TO 2017: Tentative budget will see
increase in spending by drop in overall tax levy
BY STEVE VIRKLER
Johnson Newspapers
LOWVILLE — The town’s
tentative 2017 budget would
increase spending by 0.6 percent, but the overall tax levy is
expected to drop slightly due
to lower fire protection payments.
“That gives us a little cushion,” Town Supervisor Randall
A. Schell said.
The tentative budget, adopted by the Town Council
on Thursday, would increase
spending — not including water and sewer districts — from
$1.59 million to $1.6 million.
However, the overall tax levy,
or amount to be raised by property taxes, would be $910,216,
down $3,580 from this year’s
$913,796. That would be a 0.4
See BUDGET, Page 5
JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS PHOTO BY STEVE VIRKLER
Several participants during a poverty simulation Oct. 18 at the Howard G. Sackett Technical Center in Glenfield seek assistance at a
homeless shelter.
Contract gets OK
GETTING A CLOSER LOOK by board for sewer
‘VERY FRUSTRATING’: Simulation gives service providers a taste of poverty-related hardships
BY STEVE VIRKLER
Johnson Newspapers
GLENFIELD — Evicted
from their home. Unable to
secure adequate transportation. Effectively forced to
leave their son in jail to ensure he was safe and secure.
That was the situation
faced by the “family” of
Lewis County Legislator Andrea N. Moroughan, R-Watson, during the Oct. 18 pov-
erty simulation held at the
Howard G. Sackett Technical Center.
“It was very frustrating,”
Mrs. Moroughan said.
In the exercise, people
were given different identities, placed into low-income families with varying
challenges and forced to
navigate an array of services, including the Bank
of Little Hope, Big Buck$
Supermarket, Spend-ALot Gas and Utilities and
Happy Feet Day Care, some
of which had limited hours
of operation. It was broken
down into four, 15-minute
segments, each of them
simulating one week of poverty.
Mrs. Moroughan said the
lack of available resources
required participants to
make tough decisions and
even skirt the rules in some
cases. “We had to do a lot of
thinking and figuring,” she
said.
Fifty-five people, most of
them working in social or
human services, took part
in the simulation, conducted by Coordinated Care Services Inc. with support from
New York State SuccessSystem of Care and Lewis
See SIMULATION, Page 6
aeration upgrades
STAMP OF APPROVAL: Final portion of plan
receives approval 4-1 following private meeting
BY STEVE VIRKLER
Johnson Newspapers
LOWVILLE — Village trustees on Oct. 19 signed off on the
final portion of its emergency
sewer system upgrades.
However, Deputy Mayor
Joseph G. Beagle remained
apprehensive about moving
forward without more formal
agreements in place with Kraft
Heinz, even after he and the
mayor had an unusual private
meeting with a company representative during a recess in the
regular board meeting.
Trustees voted 4-1, with
See CONTRACT, Page 6
Outdoor photographers stress viewing nature artistically
FOCUSING ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT: Experts give tips to novice shooters
BY STEVE VIRKLER
Johnson Newspapers
LOWVILLE — While monsoon-like conditions kept a
small group of would-be nature
photographers from hands-on
training over the weekend, it
didn’t stop them from getting
prepared for their next outdoor
excursions.
Stephen and Vicki Diehl, Antwerp, who have photographed
and taught nature photography workshops for more than
36 years in Northern New York,
told participants at a Oct. 22
session in the Blue Room at the
Lewis County Historical Society that their main focus should
be on seeing nature artistically.
“It doesn’t matter what your
equipment is,” Mrs. Diehl said.
“It’s how you see things.”
The session, organized by
“It doesn’t matter what
your equipment is. It’s
how you see things.”
Vicki Diehl
Photographer
the Tug Hill Tomorrow Land
Trust, gave several amateur
shutterbugs the opportunity
to view images captured by the
Diehls and discuss both the
technical and aesthetic decisions that went into producing
them.
Mr. Diehl said that much of
the process of nature photography is identifying a primary
subject and removing extraneous items that could distract
away from that object. “It’s a
process of excluding things
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Like the sky, for example.
Unless there is something
particularly interesting in the
sky, Mr. Diehl recommended
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“It’s a waste of pixels,” Mr.
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“Everybody knows the sky is
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The Diehls also stressed the
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Using such equipment, even
for close-up shots of items like
rocks, leaves and running water, allows the photographer
to experiment with shutter
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See PHOTOS, Page 6
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