The Inlet Common School District’s annual budget hearing will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7 at the Inlet Town Hall. The Board of Education is proposing appropriations of $1,153,691 for 2008-09, up 3 percent. Kathy Queen is running unopposed for the seat she currently holds on the Inlet Common School board. It is a three-year term. The election and budget vote will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20 ...
May 7 is Community Pride Day. Volunteers can pick up their shirts and any necessary clean-up supplies at the Inlet Information Office, the Eagle Bay Fire Hall, or the Town of Webb Visitor Information Center on Wednesday morning. Lunch will be served at noon at the Eagle Bay and Old Forge fire halls. To volunteer in Inlet, Eagle Bay or Big Moose, call (315) 357-5501, in Old Forge or Thendara, call (315) 369-6983.
By PETE KLEIN Special to the Express Though there were some detractors present, it was mostly supporters who turned out for the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) information hearing on Dean and Donna Pohl’s planned expansion of their tourist facilities at the Antlers Inn on Raquette Lake. The Pohls are the owners and operators of the W.W. Durant tour boat on Raquette Lake. The hearing was held in the Long Lake Town Hall on Friday, April ...
By M. Lisa Monroe Express News Staff Town of Webb voters will decide many issues on the May 20 ballot: the school budget, school board members, a capital project, and whether to increase the Old Forge Library’s funding to $110,000, which works out to just under 10 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, according to President of the Old Forge Library Board of Trustees Don Kelly. On a $200,000 home, the total library funding would ...
The annual bicycle clinic for children in Pre-K through 6th grade will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Old Forge Library on Friday, May 16. Patrolman John Russell of the Town of Webb Police Department will conduct a safety clinic to discuss road signs and hand signals. Ted Christodaro of Pedals & Petals in Inlet will inspect bicycles and supervise the mechanical station. Refreshments will be provided by the Old Forge ...
Tuesday, May 6 9 a.m.: Northern Needles Sewing Group meets at Long Lake Archives Building. 9 a.m.: North Country Crafters at Byron Park Building (Indian Lake). (518) 648-5819. 9 a.m.: Long Lake Archives Building open to the public. 11 a.m.: Lakeside II-Social Adult Day/Respite Care at St. Mary’s Catholic Church (Indian Lake). 6:30 p.m.: Sesquicentennial Meeting Adirondack Lake Center for the Arts (Indian Lake). 7 p.m.: Inlet Area Business Association meets at Inlet Town Hall. ...
Xi Gamma Iota, The Old Forge chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, hosted the Rome and Utica chapters at Van Auken’s Inne in Thendara on Friday, May 2 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of Beta Sigma Phi. The Xi Gamma Iota chapter has been active in Old Forge for 41 years. The group was started in 1967 by Izzie Worthen who was looking for a non-sectarian group for women in this area. ...
Opening weekend celebration set at the Big Moose Inn The public is invited to attend an opening celebration at the Big Moose Inn from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 10 featuring complimentary fine wine and hors d’oeuvres by Chef Brian Markovics, the new head chef who will be launching new fine and casual dinner menus. On Sunday, May 11, Mother’s Day meals will be accompanied by Adirondack celtic harpist, Martha Gallagher. An ...
By M. Lisa Monroe Express News Staff When the Flat Iron property, off North Street in Old Forge, was bought by the state of New York in April, Dan Tickner, Sr. couldn’t have been happier. The sale was the culmination of 12 years of work by Tickner and the Open Spaces Committee, a group of individuals appointed by the state to look for land that the state should purchase to enhance the Adirondack Park. Tickner’s ...
KYAC says thank you for support as anniversary nears The Kommunity Youth & Activity Center Board of Directors would like to thank everyone in our community for their generosity and support over the past year. Most recently, we want to thank the CAA for giving us the opportunity to operate the food concession at Snofest. That one event alone enabled us to raise almost $4,000 for this year’s KYAC operations. We would also like to ...
Memorial service Mabel McGuirk A memorial service will be held for Mabel L. McGuirk at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May, 10 at St. Anthony’s Church in Inlet. The Reverend Joseph Giroux will officiate. She passed away on March 13, and her obituary ran in the March 18 edition of the Express. Graveside service William E. Murdock A graveside service has been scheduled for William E. Murdock at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 17 at the ...
The Great American Bake Sale needs your help Thendara residents Abbie and Leslie Willard are organizing The Great American Bake Sale, an event co-sponsored by the Food Network and C & H Sugar, to be held during Paddlefest, on May 17 and 18. Proceeds from the bake sale will go to organizations in communities across America to help provide at-risk children with nutritious meals when they are needed the most—during the summer and after school. The ...
The fourth annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, May 10 at the Arts Center/Old Forge and will run through June 8. Entries in the exhibit came from twenty-three states and three Canadian provinces. The Juror of Selection was Duane Wakeham, a distinguished pastelist. The Juror of Awards was Doug Dawson, a noted pastel expert and the author of Capturing Light and Color in Pastel. Also on display at the Arts ...
By PETE KLEIN For the Express One or two affordable homes could be built in Long Lake this year. Over 60 people turned out for an affordable housing forum held at the Long Lake Town Hall, the latest step that the Town of Long Lake has taken to address the lack of affordable housing within its borders. Long Lake Supervisor Gregg Wallace began the Wednesday, April 23 meeting by saying that the affordable housing community ...
The Adirondack Council today released a 28-page handbook on how to protect the pure waters of New York’s 9,300-square-mile Adiron-dack Park and other rural areas from threats such as acid rain, climate change, airborne mercury, road salt contamination, invasive species, major water diversions and over-development. “The booklet, entitled ‘Adirondack Waters: Resource at Risk,’ is not a recounting of our failures, but a blueprint for future success,” said Adirondack Council Executive Director Brian Houseal. “It offers ...
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake has received a GET SET grant of $2,775. According to Director Caroline M. Welsh, the funds will be used to provide specialized computer training for staff as part of the museum’s ongoing commitment to professional development. GET SET grants, provided by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), a state agency, are administered by the Upstate History Alliance. Debra A. Eves, an adjunct professor in Computer ...
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake will introduce a new exhibit this season called Rustic Tomorrow. Imagine an Adirondack rustic furniture maker collaborating with a contemporary world-class architect. The result would be a blend of past and future, a fusion of tradition and cutting-edge. For this exhibit, six modernist and post modernist architects or designers were paired with prominent Adirondack rustic furniture makers. The results of these collaborations were one-of-a-kind pieces, distinctly futuristic in ...
The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (AFPA) will hold its 107th annual membership meeting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15 at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid. The theme for the meeting is “A Gift of Wildness: Managing the Adirondack Forest Preserve for Present and Future Generations.” The meeting is open to the public as well as to members. AFPA welcomes all to meet its conservation team, staff and trustees. The ...
Nearly 50 million Americans have high blood pressure. Of them, a little more than half are being treated for high blood pressure and less than 30 percent have it under control, says Dr. Gregory O’Keefe of the Herkimer County Public Health. One-third of people with high blood pressure do not even know they have it. That’s why this May, during High Blood Pressure Month, people should make a point to know their blood pressure numbers. ...
Eagle Bay, Inlet, and Old Forge fire companies responded to a fire call in Eagle Bay on May 1. When firefighters arrived at the scene, the camp on Eagle Point Road was already fully involved, said Assistant Fire Chief Shane Beach, who was running the call. “It was rolling pretty good by the time we got there,” said Beach. The fire was reported by a neighbor across Fourth Lake who could see flames shooting into ...
The ninth graders at the Town of Webb Union Free School District got their just rewards on Thursday, May 1. The Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) committee sent out a challenge to the high school classes at TOW UFSD to bring up their grade point averages, promising a prize to whichever class had the most students bring their average up. Every class brought up its average, but the ninth grade won with a whopping ...