By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- Police Chief Mark LaBrake says he will present to the village board at their late November meeting a plan to address pedestrian safety issues around School Street and Nightengale and Ransom avenues.

“We’ve met, we’re further researching it and hopefully in the next meeting or two we’ll have a comprehensive plan to make it safer,” LaBrake said Wednesday.

School Street runs between Nightengale and J.W. Leary Junior High schools. Nightengale intersects it near Nightengale Elementary and Ransom near J.W. Leary Junior High.

Mayor Tim Currier said in September that he wants the village to look at the traffic there after getting reports from concerned citizens that it could be dangerous to children leaving school.

“The fact there’s no sidewalks, we’ve had some concerns down there about the traffic, the buses, people walking on the sides of the road,” Currier said last month. “Might be a simple case of having police down there, monitoring it and making some recommendations.”