BRANTINGHAM — A Pennsylvania man was killed in a snowmobile crash Thursday night in the Herkimer County town of Webb near the Lewis County line.

Town of Webb police said George J. Hollenden, 56, Warrington, Penn., was riding south on Trail C7B, also know as the Brantingham 10 Mile Crossing, at 10:22 p.m. when he lost control, hit a tree and was thrown off his snowmobile roughly 22 feet. His riding party found him a short time later, and a Brantingham Snowmobile Club groomer operator came upon the scene and reported the accident, police said.

Mr. Hollenden was pronounced dead at the scene by the Herkimer County coroner.

Inlet police, Big Moose and Inlet fire and ambulance squads, state forest rangers, Lewis County Sheriff’s Department, Lewis County fire coordinator and Lewis County Search and Rescue all assisted at the scene.

The twice-a-year Outdoor Retailer show is the world’s largest trade exhibition for one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. It’s where companies such as Patagonia, The North Face, REI, Black Diamond and Polartec hawk their coolest winter and summer sports gear to retailers across the globe. It attracts some 50,000 visitors and an estimated $45 million a year to Salt Lake City, where it has been a fixture at the city’s Salt Palace Convention Center for two decades.

For months now, however, some of the manufacturers that exhibit at the show have been threatening to take it elsewhere in protest of efforts by Utah Republicans, including the governor and leaders of the state’s congressional delegation, to end federal control over millions of acres of public lands in the state, and to overturn President Barack Obama’s designation of some 1.35 million stunningly-beautiful acres in southeastern Utah sacred to Native American tribes as the Bears Ears National monument.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch and several of other key Utah congressional Republicans, including House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, have argued for months that Obama should not have invoked his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to protect the site, as The Post’s Juliet Eilperin reported recently, with Hatch claiming support from President Trump for undoing Obama’s decision.

Thursday, after negotiations with Utah Republican Gov. Gary R. Herbert proved fruitless, the primary sponsor of the show, announced that it would be moved out of Utah.

“It is clear that the governor indeed has a different perspective on the protections of public lands from that of our members and the majority of Western state voters, both Republicans and Democrats - that’s bad for our American heritage, and it’s bad for our businesses,” said a statement by the Outdoor Industry Association. “We are therefore continuing our search for a new home as soon as possible.”

“Despite Utah’s robust outdoor recreation opportunities, elected officials, in Utah from Governor Herbert and the state legislature to its congressional delegation, most notably Representative [Rob] Bishop, the Chairman of the House Resources Committee, have all actively embraced the idea of transferring America’s public lands to the state,” the association said. “A move, that in many states, has already resulted in the outright sale or restricted access to the very public lands that have provided hunting, angling, hiking, skiing, and camping to generations of people seeking to skirt the urban hustle for the outdoors - a uniquely American experience.”

“We really can’t stand by” Utah’s efforts, Rose Marcario, Patagonia CEO told the Associated Press. “As an industry, we’re all about defending public lands.”

Emerald Expositions, which owns the show, said in a news release that it would not include Utah in the bidding for future Outdoor Retailer show locations. “Salt Lake City has been hospitable to Outdoor Retailer and our industry for the past 20 years,” Marisa Nicholson, show director for Outdoor Retailer, said in a statement, “but we are in lockstep with the outdoor community and are working on finding a new home.”

The dispute is another chapter in a long-running battle between environmentalists and conservatives in Utah and elsewhere in the West over the vast swath of the country west of the Rocky Mountains owned by the U.S. government. The fight heated up dramatically under the Obama administration in particular, which used its executive authority to declare more than 500 million acres as national monuments under the Antiquities Act. The act was signed into law by Teddy Roosevelt to give presidents the power to protect special natural, cultural and historic areas through the creation of national monuments like Bears Ears.

Environmental groups have praised the conservation efforts, but as The Washington Post reported in December, critics regard them as a federal land grab. Some worry that the new designations could fuel another armed protest by antigovernment forces inspired by the Cliven Bundy family, such as the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon last year.

Reacting to the pullout, Paul Edwards, a spokesman for the governor, told the Salt Lake Tribune that the decision “reflects a gross ingratitude. . . . It perpetuates the false narrative that Utah - a state that derives much of its inspiration and identity from its iconic public lands . . . is somehow hostile to those pubic lands. It shows how a political agenda rather than reason or merit seems to have captured the decision-making at the Outdoor Industry Association.”

It also is yet another example of corporate America using its clout to achieve political results, as scores of companies have done in battling Trump’s immigration ban executive order and before that, the efforts of Republican-controlled state houses in North Carolina and Indiana to resist civil rights protections for the LGBT community.

While the 2017 show will still be held in Utah, after that it will move elsewhere.

Anticipating this possibility, states were already lining up to host the event. Colorado’s Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper has been offering up Colorado from the sidelines for some time. While disclaiming any poaching on Utah, he told the Denver Post before Thursday’s decision, “we are always going to make the argument ‘Here’s why Colorado is better.’”

Peter Metcalf, founder of Black Diamond outdoor gear agreed. “Utah is the birther state of the most anti-stewardship, anti-public-lands policy in the country and, conversely, I would say Colorado ranks very highly as the opposite,” Metcalf told the Denver paper. “If we can’t affect policy by staying, then the next step is leaving.”

Conservation Colorado took ads in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News this week, the Tribune reported, touting Colorado’s bid. “We have stronger beer,” it said. “We have taller peaks. We have higher recreation. But most of all we love our public lands.”

LOUISVILLE — St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday charged Ryan J. LaBaff, 21, 22 Shoreline Drive, Massena with reckless endangerment and Kylie E. McDonald, 20, of 25 Haskell St., Massena, was charged with third-degree robbery.

It is charged that on Feb. 12 on Coles Creek Road in the town Ms. McDonald stole property from another person and during the incident, Mr. LaBaff tried to push that person from a moving vehicle while he was being dragged. Deputies did not release the name of the alleged victim or what was allegedly stolen.

Ms. McDonald was arraigned in Canton Town Court and was released under probation supervision. Mr. LaBaff was issued a ticket returnable to Louisville Town Court.

CARTHAGE — Jeremy A. Wilcoxson, 26, was arrested by state police at 11:17 p.m. Tuesday on West Street on charges including impaired driving.

Mr. Wilcoxson was charged with first-degree operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, unlawful possession of marijuana and multiple traffic infractions, including operating a motor vehicle without a license, failure to use designated lane and making an unsafe turn.

Mr. Wilcoxson was released with a court appearance ticket.

WATERTOWN — Two Watertown men were charged with drug offenses following a raid of their Cedar Street home on Feb. 10.

David J. Wallace, 55, and David L. Wallace, 37, of 212 Cedar St., were each charged with single counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a felony.

The Metro-Jeff Drug Task Force said in a news release that they executed a search warrant of their home and found 39.5 grams of crack cocaine, worth a street value of $4,000, and $7,900 in cash.

The pair were arraigned in Watertown City Court and each remanded to the Metro-Jefferson Public Safety Building on $10,000 bail. They have since posted bail.

The task force’s news release said additional charges are pending against the two further investigation,

CHAUMONT — Fire crews responded to an all-terrain vehicle that fell through the ice at Chaumont Bay.

Personnel were dispatched at 3:45 p.m. Friday to the launch at Bayview Drive.

The driver of the ATV was able to get off of the vehicle before it went in the ice and was not injured, according to Chaumont Fire Chief Fred E. Jackson.

The call is the fifth at the bay within the last week, Chief Jackson said. Typically, the department gets two or three per year.

“That’s a little scary,” he said.

Chief Jackson said the Bayview Drive launch was going to be closed after the 700-pound ATV was pulled from the water.

The Jefferson County Special Tactics and Rescue Team, Three Mile Bay Fire Department and the state Department of Environmental Conservation also aided at the scene.

On Thursday, crews from Chaumont, Three Mile Bay and the United States Coast Guard saved an angler who fell through the ice at Duck Bay.

The Coast Guard on Thursday urged anglers to use common sense on the ice and reminded them that anglers venturing onto thin ice put themselves and first responders in danger.

BRANTINGHAM — A Pennsylvania man was killed in a snowmobile crash Thursday night in the Herkimer County town of Webb near the Lewis County line.

Town of Webb police said George J. Hollenden, 56, Warrington, Pa., was riding south on Trail C7B, also know as the Brantingham 10 Mile Crossing, at 10:22 p.m. when he lost control, hit a tree and was thrown roughly 22 feet off his snowmobile. His riding party found him a short time later and a Brantingham Snowmobile Club groomer operator came upon the scene and reported the accident, police said.

Mr. Hollenden was pronounced dead at the scene by the Herkimer County coroner.

Inlet police, Big Moose and Inlet fire and ambulance squads, state forest rangers, Lewis County Sheriff’s Department, Lewis County fire coordinator and Lewis County Search and Rescue all assisted at the scene.

MALONE — Joyce Mitchell, the former Clinton Correctional Facility tailor shop supervisor who was convicted of helping two murderers escape from the prison in 2015, was denied early release in her first bid for parole.

“Your release would be incompatible with the welfare of society and ... there is a reasonable probability that you would not live and remain at liberty without again violating the law,” a three-member panel of the state Board of Parole wrote in a decision released Monday afternoon.

Mitchell, of Dickinson Center, was sentenced in September 2015 to 2⅓to seven years in prison after pleading guilty the preceding July to first-degree promotion of prison contraband, a felony, and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, a misdemeanor, for helping convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escape. The break-out touched off a 23-day manhunt that ended when Sweat was shot and captured in the town of Constable as he fled toward the Canadian border.

Matt had been shot and killed two days earlier during an armed confrontation with a U.S. Border Patrol tactical team in the town of Malone, about 30 miles west of the prison.

Mitchell was convicted of providing the two with some of the tools they used to break out of their cells, and she was supposed to have been their getaway driver, but she suffered an apparent panic attack on the day of escape and ended up in the hospital.

In multiple statements after her arrest, Mitchell said she had taken part in the escape because Matt had threatened her family, including her husband, who worked at the prison. She had said in an earlier interview that she was coerced by Matt, who had taken advantage of her depression.

Mitchell was engaged in a sexual relationship with Matt, who had worked in the tailor shop where she was a supervisor, prior to the escape.

The Parole Board panel cited Mitchell’s earlier statements and noted that she repeated some of her claims during a Feb. 7 interview with the board.

“You present yourself more as a victim than a responsible participant and appear to be emotionally unstable and easily manipulated,” the parole panel decision states. “In spite of your cooperation after the escape, your presentence investigation report reflects that your statements included lies and half-truths given in a piecemeal fashion. This apparently willful failure to volunteer comprehensive and truthful disclosure of information began during the investigation and continued during your interview with the board.”

“You allowed your common sense and supervisory duties to be compromised by developing unprofessional relationships with Matt and Sweat. You did not tell anyone of escape-related requests or plans as events were occurring and offered reasons for not doing so that neither (Clinton County) Judge (Kevin) Ryan nor the board found credible.”

“As noted by Judge Ryan at your sentencing, ‘the economic and non-economic costs suffered by so many people is incalculable,’” the decision states. “Yet, it is fair to say that your crimes cost New York state millions in response to the escape of inmates Matt and Sweat that your actions facilitated.

The panel noted that both Mitchell’s husband, Lyle, and her son were among those who wrote to the Parole Board in support of her release. The board also cited a “privately prepared parole report” and noted that merit consideration, earned eligibility — so-called good time — and Mitchell’s participation in prison programs were also considered, but “while guided by risk and needs principles, the presumption created in your favor is rebutted by our review of the record and interview,” the panel decision states.

The panel’s decision to deny Mitchell’s early release was unanimous, the decision notes.

Mitchell will be eligible for another parole hearing in June, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision website.

At the time of the escape, Sweat was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy near Binghamton on July 4, 2002, while Matt was doing 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnapping, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss.

The two had cut their way out of their cells using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison by Mitchell.

Mitchell has repeatedly apologized for her actions, including during a tearful statement at her sentencing. A state investigation into the break-out cited numerous systemic failures in the prison system that made it possible for Mitchell to assist the escapees.

LOUISVILLE — St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday charged Ryan J. LaBaff, 21, 22 Shoreline Drive, Massena with reckless endangerment and Kylie E. McDonald, 20, of 25 Haskell St., Massena, with third-degree robbery.

It is charged that on Feb. 12 on Coles Creek Road in the town Ms. McDonald stole property from another person and during the incident, Mr. LaBaff tried to push the victim from a moving vehicle while the victim was being dragged. Deputies did not release the name of the alleged victim or what was allegedly stolen.

Ms. McDonald was arraigned in Canton Town Court and was released under probation supervision. Mr. LaBaff was issued a ticket returnable to Louisville Town Court.

OGDENSBURG — State police on Sunday charged Daniel M. Weidner, 38, of 13 Old State Road, with misdemeanor aggravated driving while intoxicated. He was also cited with driving across hazard markings and unreasonable speed.

Troopers charge that about 8:20 p.m. on Route 68, Mr. Weidner was involved in a crash and was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.26 percent. Under state law, a level of at least 0.08 percent defines intoxication and 0.18 percent is the minimum for a charge of aggravated DWI.

Mr. Weidner was issued tickets returnable to Oswegatchie Town Court.

LISBON — State police are investigating a two-vehicle accident in the town of Lisbon Thursday morning.

The accident occurred when a red Chevrolet Cobalt ran into the back of a Frontenac Crystal Springs truck. A woman and small child who were not identified received non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, according to police.

The accident occurred when the water truck was apparently preparing to make a turn into a nearby driveway, according to Lisbon Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Cory J. Kroeger.

Mr. Kroeger said Lisbon fire and the Ogdensburg Volunteer Rescue squad responded to the scene.

An investigation is continuing and tickets are pending.

LOWVILLE — Village officials are eyeing additional grants and a change in sewer billing protocol to avoid drowning residents in capital project debt.

“We don’t want our residents to pay more,” Mayor Donna M. Smith said.

Village officials continue to work on a $16.2 million upgrade of five main streets and a $20 million sewage plant upgrade project to increase capacity in response to Kraft Heinz’s ongoing expansion and planned increase in production. A $3.8 million first phase of the sewer project has already been completed as an emergency measure to ensure the current system could handle the expected increase, while the intent of the second phase would be to offer added capacity for future growth.

The village has been awarded $5 million worth of grants from the state Environmental Facilities Corp., along with no-interest loans to cover the cost of a large chunk of the two projects.

And village financial consultant Jeffrey R. Smith, president of Municipal Solutions, LeRoy, told trustees Wednesday that he would like to see the village apply for further grant funding through the regional economic development process. The grants, awarded through Empire State Development Corp., could cover up to 20 percent of eligible project costs, he said.

“We’ve done these types of projects in other parts of the state,” Mr. Smith said.

The Lewis County Industrial Development Agency has offered to assist with the grant application, particularly gathering letters of support and other data to make the case that the village project supports economic development, he said.

Lewis County Director of Planning Frank J. Pace, who attended Wednesday’s meeting, also agreed to provide supporting information and documentation so long as a formal request is made to his office.

The village unsuccessfully applied for economic development funding on an earlier version of the five streets project a few years ago, but Mr. Smith said officials should be able to make a good case that the village projects are promoting economic development. That has an impact not only on Kraft Heinz, but also the local dairy industry and economy in general, he said.

The U.S. Economic Development Association could be another potential source of grant funding, Mr. Smith said.

Trustees also set a public hearing for 5 p.m. March 15 to establish a proposed sewer rate formula change as recommended by the village municipal water and sewer board.

The primary shift would be in eliminating a 1972 agreement with Kraft requiring the Utica Boulevard plant to pay 60 percent of debt service and operations costs at the village sewage treatment facility and instead billing for its monthly usage like other village industrial users.

“It will fluctuate with their usage,” village attorney Mark G. Gebo said.

The Kraft Heinz plant now accounts for around 67 percent of the village’s sewage, but that would increase to roughly 80 percent with the projected increase in production, according to Ryan G. Churchill, an engineer with GYMO Architecture, Engineering and Land Surveying, Watertown.

Based on his firm’s financial projections, a sewer rate hike would be likely needed to cover project costs without any formula change but likely would not be if Kraft Heinz were to be billed on usage, he said.

Mrs. Smith said she intends to discuss the matter with Kraft Heinz officials well before the public hearing.

WEST CARTHAGE — According to David Pustizzi, officer in charge of the village Police Department, there have been problems with dogs since the village animal control officer resigned last summer.

Officer Pustizzi reported to the Board of Trustees at the February meeting that the Jefferson County Dog Control officers “come only if there’s an emergency after business hours.”

He said there have been cases where the police officer on duty has had to transport a stray dog to the shelter in Watertown.

“We need a place to put dogs,” he said, suggesting the village Department of Public Works barn.

Deputy Mayor Scott J. Sullivan said town of Champion officials have discussed the dog control situation.

The town contracts with Jefferson County, however, since the village has had a dog control officer they have not extended services to the village, said Officer Pustizzi. Across the bridge, the town of Wilna has severed ties with Jefferson County Dog Control, hiring their own Dog Control Officer who serves the town, including the villages.

Until the situation is resolved, the West Carthage board gave approval to have a pen set up at the DPW barn as a stop-gap to house dogs awaiting pick up by county dog control. Mr. Sullivan said he would provide dog food. Village clerk Deborah J. Pierce suggested the police officers contact her when there are strays so she can post it on the village’s Facebook page.

LOWVILLE — Lewis County legislators on Friday chose to hold off on picking a design firm for the Jefferson Community College extension campus building until JCC has a better handle on projected state aid.

Lawmakers voted 9-0 to rescind a prior request for design proposals with the intent of issuing a new one when JCC is prepared to formally commit to the project; legislator Philip C. Hathway, R-Harrisville, was absent.

Following an executive session discussion on the proposals, county attorney Joan E. McNichol announced that officials at the two-year college in Watertown have expressed some uncertainties about the upcoming state budget and don’t wish to sign off on a final operations agreement with the county until the situation becomes more clear. JCC officials remain “fully committed” to the project but have asked for more time before giving the official sign-off, she said.

“It’s understandable that JCC has concerns about the state budget,” Legislature Chairman Michael A. Tabolt, R-Croghan, said after the meeting.

While the latest turn of events may delay the project and keep it from being completed in time for classes this fall, Mr. Tabolt said he was glad to hear JCC officials were still on board with it and remains optimistic that it will eventually get done.

“We’re ready when they are,” he said.

County officials said they intend to thank all four firms for submitting proposals and advise them of the plan to seek proposals at a later date.

County officials plan to build the center — slated to offer noncredit courses in manufacturing and agribusiness that would complement but not duplicate those at JCC’s main campus in Watertown — at Maple Ridge Center off East Road. Lawmakers have approved spending up to $4 million on the project.

Legislators on Friday also approved several other items, including refilling of an investigator post at the Sheriff’s Department due to a planned retirement and entering a maintenance contract with United Radio Inc., Syracuse, on the county’s emergency radio system.

CARTHAGE — The village board of trustees set a public hearing for 6:10 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the adoption of a local law to prohibit illicit discharges, activities and connections to separate storm sewer system and, immediately following, discuss a local law regarding storm water management and erosion and sediment control.

The hearing will be held in the village municipal building, 120 S. Mechanic St.

LOWVILLE — Lowville town officials received a good fiscal report for 2016 but may consider raising water rates.

“All in all, it was good year,” town bookkeeper Scott Lawrence from Lowville accounting firm Croniser, Lawrence & Philippe told councilmen Thursday morning.

However, he said, the primary concern is dwindling reserves in the town’s water reserve fund, as expenses have been exceeding income.

While the year-end financial statement showed roughly $250,000 left in the reserve account, Mr. Lawrence said transfers from that fund since then have likely dropped reserves down to the $120,000 to $130,000 range.

“That balance continues to drop every year,” he said.

Highway Superintendent Mark D. Tabolt said the town, which buys water from the village, has had ongoing issues with apparent leaks in its system but has been unable to find them, even with help from officials with New York Leak Detection Inc. and the New York Rural Water Association. “It’s tough to track down,” he said. “It’s really baffling.”

“The water loss isn’t because you haven’t looked,” Councilwoman Ruth I. Laribee said.

Councilmen briefly discussed the notion of raising rates, which now range from $4 to $5.50 per 749 gallons of water usage per six-month period, depending on the water district. While such a move would need to be considered in March for it to take effect for the next billing period from May through November, council members decided to wait until next month before deciding whether to take action, giving time to see if the village is planning any increases in the near future.

Thursday’s meeting also had a young attendee, as Mrs. Laribee brought along her 3-year-old great-grandson Gavin Hyde. Gavin spent the meeting sitting quietly at the board table, enjoying a lollipop and reading a book while councilmen reviewed town finances.

“I used to bring his sister once in awhile,” Mrs. Laribee said, noting she is now 7 years old and in school.

CARTHAGE — Carthage Area Hospital’s healthy cooking classes for children are back to teach kids the staples of nutrition.

The classes are taught monthly by registered dietician Carly Draper and dietary director Richard Fields. Each class will have featured foods and a topic, with a focus on fresh fruits and vegetables of the season.

Kids must be 12 or older and space is limited. Classes will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at Carthage Hospital on Feb. 21, Mar. 21, April 18, May 16 and June 20.

To register, call Ms. Draper at 315-493-1000, extension 5468.

LOWVILLE — The Lewis County Youth Bureau is offering $5,000 for programs that support positive youth activities for county youth.

Proposals may be used to support new programs or existing ones that had a decrease in funding or had to be eliminated. They must be no more than three pages and include a description of activities to be funded, budget information and expected outcomes.

The deadline for submission of proposals is April 7 and the Youth Bureau will review them at its April meeting.

Submissions may be sent to Lewis County Youth Bureau, 5274 Outer Stowe St., Lowville, N.Y. 13367.

For more information, call Penny L. Demo, Youth Bureau director, at 315-376-5411.

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LOWVILLE — Add Lowville Academy and Central School to the list of north country districts offering trap shooting to their students.

“We’re pretty excited about this,” High School Principal Brian E. Finn said. “And the kids are excited about it.”

“It will give the kids the opportunity to do something else they’re interested in,” added District Superintendent Cheryl R. Steckly.

The Board of Education on Monday, after giving tentative approval to the proposal a couple months ago, approved the creation of a club team to compete in the second-year New York State Clay Target League.

An informational session for interested students and their parents was held Feb. 1, and 37 students in grades 7 through 12 — including a mix of boys and girls — have signed up to participate, Mr. Finn said. Six people have also volunteered to be club advisors, he said.

The school’s agriculture teacher, Melvin T. Phelps, is a certified hunting and firearms safety instructor and plans to offer a requisite safety course at the Lowville fire hall prior to the start of competition April 2, Mr. Finn said.

Much of the first day of shooting will likely be dedicated to firearm safety, as well, he said.

Students from Belleville Henderson, Sackets Harbor, Copenhagen, Carthage and Beaver River Central school districts competed in the trap league’s inaugural season last spring.

Teams shoot at their home ranges every Sunday, then they post scores that are compared to determine individual and team winners. All teams then come together for a year-end state championship, with neighboring Beaver River taking home the team title last year.

Officials at Lowville Fish & Game Club have been very supportive, offering to provide range officers each Sunday and allowing students to purchase targets at their cost, Mr. Finn said. There will be no cost to the district, and students will need to pay a $35 registration fee and roughly $20 per week for ammunition and targets, he said.

Plans are to conduct four hour-long rounds each week to accommodate up to 40 students at the gun club’s 10-station facility, Mr. Finn said.

Other accommodations will need to be made if, as expected, more students sign up in upcoming years, he said.

The club schedule will allow team members to also participate in a spring sport if they so choose, and Mr. Finn said he knows of at least a few who are considering that.