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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Taking the plunge
Subzero Heroes fight Alzheimer’s Disease
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week, after a six month search,
the Highland School Board approved
Thomas Bongiovi as the new district
Superintendent. He has been serving as
the Interim Superintendent since the fall
of 2017.
School Board President Alan Barone
began by thanking Ulster BOCES
Superintendent Dr. Charles V. Khoury for
his help in the search.
“His input, his guidance and
everything that
went into it, I
think he guided
the entire board
through
this
whole process,”
Barone said. “He
had a timeline
set up back
in September
and the final
outcome of that
timeline
had
us
appointing
a
Thomas Bongiovi
Superintendent
sometime in February and here we are.”
Barone said Dr. Khoury spent hours
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Mark Reynolds
Members of the Lloyd Police Department took the plunge in their custom-made patriotic colored outfits.
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
For years the Hudson Valley
chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association
has hosted a popular polar plunge at
Highland’s Berean Park. At their
Subzero Heroes event on Saturday they
raised money that will be used to find
a cure for the disease and to help those
who are presently affected and to assist
family members.
This year there were nearly 90
“jumpers” who braved the pond’s cold
water, all in an effort to bring resources
and attention to a disease that has no
known cure and is often called the “long
goodbye,” as the progression of the
disease can be agonizingly slow.
The illness is named after Alois
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Alzheimer [1864-1915] a German
Psychiatrist and Neuropathologist
who, along with his colleague Emil
Kraepelin, identified the first known
case of ‘pre-senile dementia’ in 1901. It is
defined as “a common form of dementia
of unknown cause, usually beginning
in late middle age, characterized by
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