North Country This Week

CANTON – The Canton village board swore in two re-elected trustees and made annual appointments at its reorganizational meeting Dec. 3.

Trustees Klaus Proemm and Beth Bullock Larrabee were sworn in for a new two-year term. The pair ran unopposed in the November election.

Trustee Carol Pynchon was appointed as deputy mayor by Mayor Michael Dalton.

Gerald Ducharme was appointed as village attorney.

Linda Casserly was named the Canton historian.

Village clerk Sally Noble was appointed as budget officer, Cara Adams was again appointed as deputy clerk and Megan Mousaw was named deputy treasurer.

The board appointed Charles Rouse as planning board member and Barry Walch as planning board chairman.

Conrad Stuntz was appointed to chair the village Zoning Board of Appeals and Sally McElhearn was appointed to the ZBA.

David Stacey was appointed by the board to a five-year term on the village Housing Authority Board.

The board also approved the regular village trustee meetings to be held on the third Monday of the month for 2019.

The Plaindealer and the Watertown Daily Times were named as the village’s official newspapers of record and Community Bank NA was designated the depository of village funds.

The board took care of other annual housekeeping business including passing a resolution determining its investment policy and its employee mileage allowance.