Wildcats Defeat: What Went Wrong?

Writer Mike Bonner, from the Poststar, dissects exactly what went wrong for the Schroon Lake Wildcats after they were defeated by the Willsboro Warriors yesterday.

The ‘Cats lost 48 -37 in the Class D final of the Section VII Boys Basketball Tournament played in Plattsburgh. In his well written piece, Bonner singles out one Wildcats strategy that may have backfired for coach Lee Silvernail.

Knowing that Willsboro struggles from the line, Silvernail implemented a hack-a-Warrior strategy midway through the fourth quarter after a 3 made it an eight-point deficit. Initially it seemed to pay off. Dakota Sayward missed four straight. But from then on, the Warriors drilled 11 of 14.

 You can read all of Bonner’s story here.

Go Justin

For many of us this weekend, our focus will be on one single event: The Super Bowl, in Indianapolis. For a hard core group from Schroon and North Hudson, their attention will be focused on the Empire Games in Lake Placid and the fortunes of local Justin Wachowski.

This weekend the Schroon Lake Senior will compete in several events at the Empire State Games as he continues his quest to make the US Olympic Team and the chance to compete in future Winter Olympics.

We first met Justin and his mom Sally and dad Dan over the summer. The family was fund raising to help pay for Justin’s training on the Luge Junior Development Team.

“He is very dedicated and nothing will stop him as he tries to make the Olympic Team,” Sally told us. “We are so proud of everything he is putting into this,” said Dan.

Sally proudly showed us photos and a video of Justin training on a road "slider" luge. Over the summer Justin spent hundreds of hours on conditioning and strength and weight training, to ensure he would be at the top of his game for this weekend and beyond.

For the passed few months Justin has been living at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid. He continues his studies at Schroon Lake Central online.

We will be rooting for Justin this weekend and hope you will be too. And if you’d like to make a donation to help cover Justine’s training and competition travel expenses – which he now pays for – visit his Facebook page

Chris Gibson Talks Priorities at Schroon Lake Town Hall Meeting

By A Special Correspondent

On Wednesday, before a crowd of almost two dozen residents, freshman Congressman Chris Gibson out linned his top priorites: creating jobs, the deficit and small business growth. 

Town Supervisor Cathy Moses and Assemblywoman Teresa Sayward introduced the Congressman at the Schroon Lake Central School Auditorium as residents listened to the Congressman speak about the federal budget and hear their concerns.   

He discussed the need to remove barriers that people face in starting a business and the barriers they face in accessing capital to do so.  He felt more needed to be done to match potential small business owners with available funds.

Regarding the deficit, Gibson called for more fiscal responsibility and less partisanship.  He supports rolling back spending levels to what they were in 2008 and capping spending until the federal budget comes back into line.

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