Of Interest: May 4, 2008

May 04, 2008 04:00 am

— Westport School Board meeting planned
WESTPORT -- The Westport Central School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the library.
Agenda items include tenure appointments, CSP recommendations and, at 7 p.m., the public budget hearing.
The meeting is open to the public.
NCCC offering several scholarships
SARANAC LAKE -- North Country Community College has full scholarship funds available for the fall 2008 and spring 2009 academic school year.
NCCC, in cooperation with the Bruce L. Crary Foundation Inc., the Deo B. Colburn Education Foundation and the Lake Placid Education Foundation, will make money available for full-time adult students (of 21 years or older) who are beginning or continuing undergraduate education with no prior bachelor's degree.
Residents of the school districts of AuSable Valley, Crown Point, Elizabethtown-Lewis, Indian Lake, Keene, Lake Placid, Long Lake, Minerva, Moriah, Newcomb, Saranac, Saranac Lake, Schroon Lake, St. Regis Falls, Ticonderoga, Tupper Lake, Westport, Willsboro or the "northeastern portion of the Adirondack Park" are eligible.
The deadline to apply for the Crary, Colburn and the LP Education Foundation scholarships is Tuesday, May 15.
Applications and further information are available by calling North Country Community College at 891-2915, Ext. 201, or the foundations at 873-6496.
Show with Paul Smith's woodsmen to air
PAUL SMITHS -- The "Modern Marvels" show on The History Channel will air a new episode called "Axes" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, featuring the Paul Smith's College woodsmen's team.
The segment was taped during a day-long shoot on campus in early March.
Since that icy-cold day, the woodsmen's team has gone on to place second at the annual spring collegiate woodsmen's meet at the University of New Hampshire, where Paul Smith's College senior Matt Bolton was named the Stihl Northeast Collegiate Timbersports Champion.
Bolton will compete for a national title in Georgia this July.
Other segments featured in the hour-long show include footage from one of the nation's largest ax factories; how the Native American tomahawk is being refashioned as a modern weapon; and the evolution of the classic firefighter's ax into high-tech rescue tools.