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Chester-based Etain firm opens its medical marijuana dispensaries By Thom Randall
thom@suncommunitynews.com
ALBANY — A medical marijuana growing and processing operation based in the town of Chester opened two of its four dispensaries Jan. 7, the first day the substance was first available in New York State by prescription to certified patients of a dozen or so disorders. One of Etain’s retail dispensaries was opened in Kingston, the other in a nondescript building in the Albany’s industrial district on Pearl Street. At this latter site, dozens of media representatives and politicians gathered to hear Etain officials describe their plans and examine their products — but no patients showed up on the first day that medical marijuana was legally available. Despite the patient no-show, Etain Chief Operating Officer Hillary Peckham and her associates predicted a bright future for their firm’s various products — marijuana oil in
capsules, vapor form, spray and tincture — which they displayed to the public for the first time. She said Etain was prepared, as of this week, to supply its product to about 100 patients. “We are more than excited to be here today, opening our doors,” Peckham said. “We are the only women-owned company of its kind in the state — and in five months, we were able to build a cultivation facility, grow our plants, build a manufacturing facility, create a product, and open both of our dispensaries today.” She said the immediate lack of patients wasn’t unexpected. “We anticipated a slow growth,” she said. “We are prepared for small patient counts, and we’re ready to expand as we need to.” About 150 doctors have at this point registered to prescribe medical marijuana. Doctors must take a four-hour course to be certified to prescribe the drug. As of Jan. 6, only >> Story Continued | pg. 12
Unknown local Abenaki model to get grave marker 100 years later christina@suncommunitynews.com
LAKE LUZERNE — A stone for the unmarked grave of a woman who died in the town of Lake Luzerne 100 years ago this week is set to be installed this spring, thanks to the work of Pam Morin, the newly appointed town historian. The woman, Annie Denis Fuller, born about 1855 in Canada, was also known by her Abenaki Indian name, “Falling Star.”
Though her name is not a household word locally, she was a popular artist model and artisan basket weaver in her own right. Morin hopes to put her name in the minds of locals today, as well as on the stone. Morin recalled a hot August day in 2013, when she enjoyed an educational history walk through Lake Luzerne Cemetery. It was a “Heroes through History” tour, hosted by the Friends of Lake Luzerne Cemetery, bringing three reenactors to
the site. “When that happened, I wanted know about our cemetery,” she said, prompting some research on the burials. The Fuller family plot had one marker, but it did not identify the individual graves it contained. Morin credits the extensive work compiled by Robert Green, what she called, “a sophisticated Excel program,” that contained extensive information about the burials. It was through those
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names she discovered Fuller, and her life fascinated Morin. “She was sought after as a model,” said Morin. Research completed by Green, Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society and Nedoba, a non-profit based in Maine that researches Wabanaki History, offered more insight for Morin about Fuller’s life. A bust of Fuller created by sculptor Caspar Mayer resides in the Museum of Natural History, according to an obituary for Fuller that ran
at the time of her death. She died as a result of injuries she suffered in a train accident a year prior. For Morin, there’s more work to be done, but for now, she is concentrating on the marker. The funding for the marker has come from the donations of those attending the historical walk. “It will secure the engraved plaque for the monument of granite and garnet from cooperation and support of Barton Mines,” she said. The
donation of the rock, which contains garnet she said, was welcomed as garnet is the state stone as well as the >> Story Continued | pg. 11