AuSable Valley's Brooke Pray (2) reaches second base as Northeastern Clinton's Danielle Tierney tries to reach for the ball in Section VII Class B softball playoffs Thursday in Champlain. AuSable Valley knocked off host NCCS, 8-2. Bonus photos of this game will be available at pressrepublican.com by midday.(Staff Photo/Rob Fountain)

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Essex County Emergency Services Director Raymond Thatcher (left) confers with Fire Investigator Joseph Norton at a house fire Thursday afternoon in Ticonderoga. A two-story house on Route 9N/22 was moderately damaged by a fire that began on the second floor.(Staff Photo/Lohr McKinstry)

Area nurses, including some from Adirondack Medical Center, join in a rally Thursday for better wages and safer working conditions at Sunmount in Tupper Lake. See story, Page A6. For more photos from this event, visit the galleries at www.pressrepublican.com.(Staff Photo/Kim Smith Dedam)

AuSable Valley's Brooke Pray (2) reaches second base as Northeastern Clinton's Danielle Tierney tries to reach for the ball in Section VII Class B softball playoffs Thursday in Champlain. AuSable Valley knocked off host NCCS, 8-2. Bonus photos of this game will be available at pressrepublican.com by midday.(Staff Photo/Rob Fountain)

A crowd of nearly 200 union workers and supporters march around the front lawn at Sunmount Thursday to protest working conditions at the Tupper Lake facility.(Staff Photo/Kim Smith Dedam)

The Champlain Valley Athletic Conference all-stars for hockey are: back row (left to right): Shamus Foster, Nate Lamberton, Justin Houle, Jordan Conroy, Aaron Tennenbaum, Jordan Stephney, Nate Webb, Jack Nardiello, Dylan Duffy and Frank Buksa. Front row: Bradley Paul, Josh Bechard, Jeremy Jennett, Bobby Peper, Branden Patraw and Dana Tarantelli.

(Staff Photo/Michael Betts)

Scotty Morris of Elizabethtown-Lewis slides safely into third base as throw eludes Westport's Colin MacIver in Section VII Class D baseball playoff Thursday in Westport. Westport won 18-14.(Staff Photos/Alvin Reiner)

Gold Star Mom finalist Kate Donis is shown with her children, Lucas and Sylvia. Donis became a single parent when her husband died in a kayaking accident, and she has worked hard to be sure their kids still appreciate the outdoors.(Staff Photo/Alvin Reiner)

More than 400 fifth- and sixth-grade students from local schools attended the 24th-annual Essex County Field Day. They traveled through 12 stations, learning about energy, plants, trapping, horse training, weather, bats and more. Here, Sami Roy of Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School learns from Department of Environmental Conservation Forester Tate Connor how tree calipers are employed in taking the diameter of trees. The event was sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County 4-H Program and the Essex County Soil and Water District.(Staff Photo/Alvin Reiner)

Logan Phinney, 10, helps stock Deep Hollow Pond south of Elizabethtown for a recent fishing contest. The pond was stocked with 800 rainbow trout, ranging from 12 to 18 inches, which were supplied by the Essex County Fish Hatchery at Crown Point. Logan is the son of Brian and Ginger Phinney of Elizabethtown.(Staff Photo/Alvin Reiner)

AuSable Valley's Brooke Pray (2) reaches second base as Northeastern Clinton's Danielle Tierney tries to reach for the ball in Section VII Class B softball playoffs Thursday in Champlain. AuSable Valley knocked off host NCCS, 8-2. Bonus photos of this game will be available at pressrepublican.com by midday.

(Staff Photo/Rob Fountain)