Lake Placid Middle High School (News photo Andy Flynn)
LAKE PLACID Three people have been chosen as finalists in the search for Lake Placid’s new school superintendent. They will be appointed by the school’s Board of Education. The current superintendent, Roger Catania, is retiring at the end of this school year. Catania has been Lake Placid Central School District’s superintendent since 2013, though he worked at the high school as a counselor for several years before that, starting in 1997. The three candidates who are being considered as his replacement are Timothy Seymour, the current superintendent of the St. Regis Falls Central School District; Saranac Laker Dana Wood, former principal of the Lake Placid Middle-High School and current assistant superintendent for business, finance and support services at LPCSD; and Margaret Wright, a Canandaigua resident who has served in various administrative roles in school districts throughout the Finger Lakes region.
ALEXANDRIA BAY â U.S. Customs and Border Patrol is expanding its facial recognition systems, and on Tuesday announced they have installed the technology at all pedestrian border crossings in northern New York.
The technology, called Simplified Arrival, captures a photo where travelers typically present their passports, which is then compared against an existing passport or visa photo, called up from the travelers identification documents, using a facial comparison algorithm.
âI am excited to announce the deployment of biometric facial comparison technology to these additional border crossings,â said Buffalo Director of Field Operations Rose Brophy. âThis new cutting-edge technology will help secure and streamline travel while providing a safe, touchless identification process for travelers.â
Johnson Newspaper Corp. ALBANY Tenants, landlords and property owners months behind on rent or property taxes can start applying for billions of dollars of available relief at the end of the month, officials said, as the state Legislature voted Monday to extend the state’s eviction moratorium four more months. Until Monday, state executives did not release a time frame or other details as New York waits to distribute its total $2.4 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Program COVID-19 rent relief for tenants, homeowners, small landlords and business owners. The state budgeted $100 million toward the fund. North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones of Chateaugay Lake broke ranks with most of his fellow Democrats by voting against the extension “To date, we have yet to provide direct support to the small landlords who are still without the rent income they need to pay their own bills,” Jones said in a statement. “It is not the fault of the small landlords that their tenant
eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID Three people have been chosen as finalists in the search for Lake Placid’s new school superintendent. The new superintendent, who will be chosen and appointed by the school’s Board of Education, will replace Roger Catania, who is retiring at the end of this school year. Catania has been Lake Placid Central School District’s superintendent since 2013, though he worked at the high school as a counselor for several years before that, starting in 1997. The three candidates who are being considered as his replacement are Timothy Seymour, the current superintendent of the St. Regis Falls Central School District; Saranac Laker Dana Wood, former principal of the Lake Placid Middle-High School and current assistant superintendent for business, finance and support services at LPCSD; and Margaret Wright, a Canandaigua resident who has served in various administrative roles in school districts throughout the Finger Lakes region.
Malone Telegram BURKE The Swanton Border Patrol Sector awarded both the New York State Police and Franklin County District Attorney’s Office with disbursement checks totaling $106,512.80, each, Thursday, with the funds originating from an asset forfeiture following a bulk currency seizure in 2020. On March 23, 2020, Border Patrol agents received information about a suspicious vehicle involved in illicit cross-border smuggling, according to a press release from Steve Sapp, of the public affairs office for the U.S. Border Patrol’s Swanton Sector. According to the press release, the vehicle involved in the illicit incident of cross-border smuggling was located, and a traffic stop was initiated by state troopers in Chateaugay.