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More athletes, sponsors should drive Empire State Winter Games bookings: tourism officials

Early sign-up numbers promising for next installment of annual event

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Organizers hope mid-week room rentals on the Wednesdays and Thursdays bookending the event will buoy final visitation numbers.

By Pete DeMola “That’s where we really see the economic impact,” said Repete@suncommunitynews.com gional Economic of Sustainable Tourism CEO James McKenna.

LAKE PLACID — While the Empire State Winter Games McKenna hopes increased athlete participation and bigisn’t set to lift off until Feb. 2, tourism officials already have a name sponsorships will push visitation into the following rosy outlook on the economic impact of the annual athletic week in the Olympic Village.

The tourism guru offered some initial estimates for the first Wednesday and Thursday.

Officials expect 325 rooms to be booked on Wednesday, and 1,750 the following day for a total of 2,075 room nights.

The average unit rents for $175. Traditionally, rooms account for one-third of trip expenditures, McKenna said.

“It’s about a million dollars in new money,” McKenna told the Essex County Board of Supervisors on Monday.

For the county, those midweek rentals will result in $43,000

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ELIZABETHTOWN — A number of critical infrastructure projects will be funded as part of a $61.4 million funding package the region received last week, including projects to provide clean drinking water, filter sludge and replace sewer lines.

Pete While not as glamorous as new stadiums DeMola or manufacturing facilities, nine infraEditor structure projects in Essex County totaling some $3.2 million will be bankrolled through the most recent round of regional economic development council awards.

Here’s a brief rundown:

Our editorial board met with the two main stakeholder groups involved in the Boreas Ponds debate: Access the Adirondacks and BeWildNY

Essex County scores $3.2 million in state infrastructure grants

NORTH ELBA North Elba received $420,000 for a water quality protection project to replace culverts feeding into the north end of Mirror Lake, and to restore the stream near Mount Whitney Road.

The outlet that feeds into Mirror Lake goes under the road, leading to a build-up problem — especially in the spring, said North Elba Supervisor Roby Politi, when waters can reach up to a foot deep.

The water then feeds back into the lake, leading to quality issues, as well as those that threaten fish populations.

Nine infrastructure projects in Essex County totaling some $3.2 million have been funded through the regional economic development council awards, held last week in Albany. Pictured above: Members of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council post with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul in Albany on Dec. 8, 2016.

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“We obviously are very pleased because it’s an important aspect of the community, this Mirror Lake, which is right in the center of the village,” Politi said. “It’s a small project, but a very necessary project to protect the integrity of the water quality of Mirror Lake.”

Politi said construction likely won’t break ground for another year.

“We hope it will be accomplished between now and the Spring of 2018.”

The town, he said, is also exploring solutions to reduce the use of salt on state-owned roads, which also affects the lake’s water quality. >> See REDC AWARDS | pg. 17

>> See WINTER GAMES | pg. 15

The state purchased the Boreas Ponds and MacIntyre Tracts from the Nature Conservancy in May. Widely considered to be the final in a series of large-scale land acquisitions, the former timberlands in Newcomb and North Hudson are awaiting classification Bill Farber by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), which is accepting public comment until Dec. 30.

The APA has offered four official proposals on how the Boreas Ponds Tract, which has generated the most discussion, can be classified.

That classification will determine how Willie Janeway >> See BOREAS | pg. 8

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Keene appoints Joe Pete Wilson Jr. as supervisor

By Kim Dedam

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KEENE — The Town Council announced they will appoint Joe Pete Wilson, Jr. as interim town supervisor.

The selection was announced via letters to residents and on the Town of Keene website. The announcement was also on Next Door Keene, a

web service for local residents.

Reached Monday, Wilson Jr., who is an English professor at North Country Community College, said he is thrilled to be taking this new step in his career.

“It’s a total career change for me, but I’m really excited to do it, take some new challenges and see what I can do to keep Keene a wonderful place to live.”

Wilson Jr., 52, is the son of Joe Pete Wilson Sr., a celebrated local Olympian and longtime proprietor of the Barkeater Inn. The newly selected Keene supervisor and his wife Sarah have two young children.

He is currently on the Keene Central School Board where his biography explains that he returned to the Adirondacks with his family in 2008.

“I am leaving the school board,” he told the Sun. In addition to the college teaching post, Wilson Jr. is also director of the Learning Assistance Center at NCCC, a place where students go for

tutoring.

Via social media, Wilson Jr. said this appointment reflects a big change in his life.

“I’m excited to serve Keene,” he posted via Facebook.

“The official first day will be January 3rd,” he said, offering gratitude for the encouragement received from community here.

“I want to thank people for all the good will they’ve shown me. It’s a sudden transition for everyone and the amount of support has been fantastic. Now I’ve really got to do the job to keep that good will.”

According to Keene Town Council meeting minutes, the last of six interviews for supervisor was completed on Dec. 2, much in keeping with the timeframe outlined by the Town Council when former Keene Supervisor Bill Ferebee was offered a position with the state Environmental Facilities Corporation in October.

The Town Council went into an executive session on Dec. 2, but had no announcement that night.

The web announcement on the town website went up on Dec. and said briefly: “The Keene Town Board is pleased to announce that Joe Pete Wilson, Jr. has been selected to be appointed Keene Supervisor for the calendar year 2017. This appointment will fill the last year of Bill Ferebee’s unexpired term of Supervisor.”

Wilson Jr. is to be formally introduced at the Dec. 13 Town Council meeting.

Councilman Paul Martin stepped in as acting supervisor and Robert Biesemeyer was appointed as deputy supervisor on Nov. 29.

In addition to Wilson Jr., five other Keene residents were interviewed for the supervisor’s seat: Devon Holbrook, John Hudson, Dennis Gallagher, Paul Vincent and Angela Murphy, according to minutes from recent Town Council meetings.

The Town of Keene has allocated an annual salary of $28,000 for the supervisor, a figure up from $26,745 this year.

The 2017 Organizational Town Board Meeting is set for 6 p.m. at the Keene Town Hall on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

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North Country nets $61m in state economic funds

By Pete DeMola

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ALBANY — The North Country landed $61.4 million in state economic development funds on Thursday.

The Regional Economic Development Council funds, announced at the annual awards ceremony in Albany, will be used to bankroll 77 projects across the region.

Key Clinton County projects include building improvements to the North Country Veterans Association, production line expansions at SSF Production, renovation work at the proposed Keeseville Waterfront Park and funds to modernize elevators at the Plattsburgh Housing Authority.

The windfall is part of $750 million made available from the state-sponsored initiative designed to offer a community-driven approach to stimulate economic growth.

Since 2011, the North Country REDC has netted a total of $484 million.

‘SERIES OF FIRECRACKERS’ While the North Country REDC, one of 10 councils in the state, didn’t land the “top performer” designation that would have netted an additional $25 million, the pot will allow them to chip away at what the council flagged as a “community-minded” approach toward economic development.

“We once again were right up there with several of the metro regions, earning valuable support for dozens of mostly small but important projects,” said Garry Douglas, CoChair of the North Country REDC. The North Country is huge, dispersed and economically diverse, with no metropolitan center, he said.

“Instead of big bangs, we promised a continuing series of firecrackers,” said Douglas.

“It’s not about the size of projects, but about projects that are further building blocks.”

The North Country REDC specifically sought $25 million for 27 priority projects.

According to a report submitted to the state in October, the plan will leverage $77.6 million in private and other funding for total project expenses of more than $102.6 million.

Collectively, the 2016 plan will support the creation of 213 new jobs, 439 indirect jobs and the retention of 393 existing jobs, according to the report.

WHAT GOT FUNDED A number of tourism-related projects also received funding.

In the central Adirondacks, the proposed

Tupper Lake Crossroads Hotel received $2 million.

A proposed expansion of the Woods Inn in Inlet received $174,000, and the Adirondack Museum’s Art and Design Center landed $1 million as part of a $2.5 million proposed project.

Smaller projects include funds for Ausable Brewing Company’s planned expansion in Keeseville.

The Cascade Ski Center in Lake Placid received $42,000 for tourism infrastructure improvements, and the Forever Wild Beverage Company received $18,000 for their plan to lease space and construct a new downtown facility.

Municipalities also received millions for clean water infrastructure projects, including projects in Crown Point, Saranac Lake, Elizabethtown, St. Armand, Moriah, North Elba, Westport and Wilmington — making the announcement an early Christmas present for local officials.

“As a whole, Essex County got a lot of projects funded, and we’re very grateful for that,” said Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Preston.

Nearly $1.5 million was also allocated in additional downtown resiliency projects in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties.

2015 UPDATE The region landed $84.1 million last year, and the funds were heavy on infrastructure development.

Big winners in Clinton County included the Plattsburgh Airport and Belcam, the Rouses Point bath and body products manufacturer who landed $130,000 capital improvements to expand their product line.

The North Country Food Co-op scored big, securing $217,000 for renovations.

And the City of Plattsburgh received $10 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative funds, the program designed to transform upstate city centers.

Of the 14 priority projects, 11 are on schedule, the North Country REDC reported.

Zooming out to the five-year period, 37 percent of the projects have been completed, and 51 percent are on track to be completed on deadline.

Just 5 percent were dropped due to declined funding.

On job creation, 2,185 jobs have been created over five years, with an additional 4,259 retained.

Douglas noted the past year has seen a $125

million state appropriation for the Norsk Titanium project, plus several new manufacturing operations drawn from Quebec with assistance from other state programs.

The report also held up three projects as successful examples.

Those include direct investment in Plattsburgh’s transportation and aerospace cluster, hotel investment in Clayton and the Wild Walk exhibit in Tupper Lake, which has led to increases in hospitality and “nearly a dozen” new initiatives.

DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION The Downtown Revitalization Initiative, which gave Plattsburgh a $10 million check last December, is on track, city officials reported.

Planning officials met last week at City Hall, and a community input meeting was held Saturday at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Officials are also circulating a survey designed to glean public opinion as the city begins to prioritize projects to invest and leverage the DRI resources.

City leaders will also take into account past suggestions.

Plattsburgh Community Development Director Paul DeDominicas said the city is at the midway point in the process.

“There’s been a lot of good work done on assets and things we need to have in place in order to be successful,” DeDominicas said. “I think we’re on track.”

CRITICISMS Cuomo has lauded the program as an engine to place control back in the hands of local stakeholders, particularly those upstate, who he said have been traditionally ignored by the legislature.

The “ground-up” approach replaces a “onesize fits all” approach, he said.

“So it was hard for upstate members to get the kind of attention upstate needed, and we changed that,” Cuomo said on Thursday.

“As long as I am governor of the state of New York, I will not sign a budget that does not help upstate New York.”

But the program has been criticized by fiscally conservative groups, including the Empire Center, the government watchdog who has shrugged the awards off as government subsidies.

The group also questioned the program as the state heads toward fiscal uncertainty next

The North Country Regional Economic Development Council received $61.4 million in state economic development funding on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 at the Egg Center for Performing Arts in Albany. Pictured above: Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents a bouquet to Fox Business News’ Maria Bartiromo, who hosted the awards.

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year.

“The $750 million being handed out for #SubsidyDay is more than the $689 million budget gap NYS faces next year,” the Empire Center wrote Thursday on Twitter.

Total state tax receipts for the year ending next March 31, said the Empire Center, are now projected to hit $74.46 billion, which is $739 million below the estimate in the first quarter update released in July, according to the the mid-year financial report released last month by the state comptroller’s office.

That report revealed state tax collections dropped $764.1 million over last year, or 1.8 percent, largely due to lagging personal income tax receipts.

The group also argues the return on the REDC program is questionable when it comes to job creation.

“Whether they involve financing an enormous, complex $750 million manufacturing plant — or, on the other hand, distributing five- and six-figure grants to countless craft breweries, farm distilleries and ice cream shops and other trendy micro-enterprises across the state — government economic development programs are no substitute for a better business climate,” testified E.J. McMahon at the state Assembly Economic Development Oversight Hearing in August.

“Unfortunately, more often than not, economic development programs actually serve to distract attention from the state’s failure to improve that climate,” McMahon said.

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Election, holidays bring women’s health into spotlight Reproductive issues are focus of discussion across North Country

“Those promoting the culture of life are welcome to join us,” Belzile said.

By Pete DeMola

‘STEADFAST’ Planned Parenthood said they’re taking a wait-and-see approach to Trump’s presidency.

Following last month’s election, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York (PPANY) said they remain “steadfast in their commitment to ensuring New Yorkers have access to the reproductive health care and rights we have relied on for decades.”

“It’s really unknown,” said Tess Barker, who serves as CEO Women’s health issues are back in the spotlight following the election of Donald J. Trump last month. Profor Planned Parenthood of the life groups feel empowered by the prospects of a Republican-led government, while pro-life advocates have North Country. “We know it’s expressed alarm. Pictured above are members of the Pro-Life Action League caroling by an empty manger. not going to be an incredibly According to Gallup, 29 percent of Americans say abortion friendly administration, but we don’t want to jump the gun. We will keep doing what we’re do- should be legal in all circumstances; 50 percent believe it should be legal only under certain circumstances, and 19 percent believe ing.” it should be illegal.

Trump has said he believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned, “Regardless of Mr. Pence’s stance on this, we know the Ameriand federal funding curbed. can public is behind us in what we do,” Barker said. “This mission But the bulk of the organization’s funding for their Plattsburgh will move on.” and Watertown clinics come from the state of New York, Barker said.

TRI-LAKES EFFORTS The organization serves 10,000 patients in the North Country, The election has also spurred other movements across the reBarker said, including providing services for men and the uningion, including a series of meetings coordinated by the Saranac sured.

Lake-based community action group Now What?

“That’s what the concern is for us.”

Emily Martz, co-founder, said women’s health issues are Joan Malin, PPANY board chair, said the group expects a proamong the concerns raised by community members since the ductive 2017 legislative session. election.

“Our leaders need to come together to advance and protect The group acts as a conduit between residents and existing access to reproductive and sexual health in the face of uncertainty that the elections have brought,” Malin said in a statement. groups seeking change across a variety of fronts, including cli“New York must continue to be a beacon on issues that affect our mate change and veterans issues.

Planned Parenthood serves a valuable role in the region, Martz health, our families, and our future.”

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is a strong pro-life advocate, said, not only when it comes to promoting public health, but also and as governor of Indiana, shepherded in some of the most re- educational efforts.

A public meeting between residents, Now What? and Planned strictive abortion laws in the country.

Parenthood is scheduled for Wednesday in Saranac Lake, after Like other clinics, North Country Planned Parenthood said they have seen an uptick in donations in Pence’s name since the this edition went to print.

“We’re committed to being that educating and coordinating election on Nov. 8 — including a man who wanted a notification group in the region,” Martz said. to be directly sent to the vice president-elect.

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PLATTSBURGH — Women’s health care issues are on the forefront as the holiday season and presidential election converge.

A local pro-life initiative, 40 Days for Life, has commenced its annual holiday event in downtown Plattsburgh, designed to raise awareness of pro-life issues.

The group, which falls under the broader Pro-Life Action League, held an event outside of Planned Parenthood of the North Country on Brinkerhoff Street last weekend, and another is slated for Saturday.

Several pro-lifers gathered around an empty manger to sing carols.

The “Empty Manger Caroling” is designed to “bring the joy and hope of Christmas to these places of misery and despair,” said Nancy Belzile, the organization’s regional coordinator.

Children have been saved from abortion, Belzile said, when their mothers heard the carols and reconsidered their decision in light of the Christmas story.

The empty manger used at the events, she said, is a dual symbol.

“Like the empty manger lovingly placed in every Christmas crèche in anticipation of celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ, it represents the joy that ought to accompany the birth of every child,” Belzile said.

All participants are welcome at this Saturday’s event.

While the Pro-Life Action League is nonpartisan, Belzile said she was heartened by the election of Donald J. Trump last month, whose presidency may portend a rollback of funding for Planned Parenthood.

“I think with a Trump presidency, it’s a positive movement in reestablishing the rights of American citizens,” Belzile said.

“These babies are American citizens in the womb.”

Belzile said women often feel as if abortion is their only choice, and she agrees with Trump that the organization should be defunded.

“Their sole means of support financially is through abortion,” she said. “That’s where they’re making their money.”

Trump, a Republican, also promised to repeal sections of the Affordable Care Act, which provides coverage for birth control.

“Time will tell what happens in the future,” Belzile said.

The next event is slated for Dec. 17 in Plattsburgh.

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rom New York to California, Iowa to Louisiana, and Georgia earlier this week highprofile shootings this year have robbed Americans of men and women that have sworn to protect their communities.

What seems like daily news reports of officers being shot and ambushed must never become just another daily occurrence and something that we hear so often we become immune to the shock of it.

Those who choose to commit acts have no respect for themselves, our laws and certainly no respect for life itself.

We must get to the root of the issues that cause these frequent events and seek solutions for the good of all.

Fear, as we all know, is a powerful motivator, and for those who feel oppressed perhaps this seems like a way of getting attention or even a noble act, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

Fear works on both sides of these issues to create doubt, anxiety and only serves to make matters far worse.

The world is dangerous enough but these senseless attacks here in this country seem to be more than random or isolated displays of brutality now affecting not only law enforcement officers, but EMTs, firefighters and other public servants, who fearlessly answer the call to duty each day.

Nations understand strategic, conventional warfare when a nation is in fact at war.

This is not a war and can not be waged with physical weapons but with ideological ones.

Think about the simple fact that law enforcement personnel and for that matter anyone associated with public service answering a routine call, going about their normal daily activity or just sitting in a parked car could become a target anywhere in the nation, for no other reason than what the perpetrator believes they represent.

More deaths will certainly not bring this to an end, so until we come together out of respect and understanding, these events will continue to occur and the more that do occur will only serve to encourage others to do the same while placing even our best trained public servants in a position of over reacting. The cycle needs to be broken.

The taking of life is never the answer to anything. Violence only brings about more violence and those who encourage, condone or support it in any way must be made to realize the error of their ways.

As we enter the holiday season and bring this year to an end, we can only hope and pray that understanding, respect and a new appreciation for common decency and moral acceptance begins to infect the hearts and minds of us all as we seek peace and brotherly love for all God’s people.

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he government of the United States heard the concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, seeking help to protect their source of clean water and sacred burial sites. The Army Corps of Engineers delayed a permit to construct the oil pipeline under the Missouri River, granting a reprieve.

Standing Rock is what environmental justice Environmental justice looks like.

First, this action begins to help to ameliorate Katharine M. centuries of injustice to Indian peoples.

Preston Over the past 500 years, indigenous people Columnist who lived close to the lands we call America, had many of their deep connections to the earth severed by colonization and broken promises. Again and again they lost land and control, but they did not forget. Deep in their spiritual bones, the connections remained.

We may never know why this particular witness evoked a rallying cry, just as we did not know exactly why it did when Rosa Parks took a seat at the front of the bus. But Standing Rock was an event that was waiting to happen. Blessedly, it was Indian youth who provided much of the catalyst and organization, always listening to the deep wisdom of their elders. This will give new pride to their discouraged and embattled lives.

Secondly, support for the actions of the Standing Rock Sioux remains stunningly widespread.

We see fleeting glimpses on TV, Facebook, or online news websites: encampments of tepees, trailers and tents, now covered with snow. People are bundled and swathed against the cold, yet hands sometimes stay exposed as they beat the drums. There are thousands of local water protectors, joined by representatives of over 200 other tribes in the United States, indigenous people from other places across the globe and many non-native peoples. The tipping point may have been the recent arrival of the hundreds of veterans who vowed to protect the protectors – an unarmed cavalry of non-violent resisters, arriving

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To the Editor: Many writers have noted that the electoral college has recently functioned as a formality. But the founding fathers did not intend it as a formality, and treating it as such now puts our country at grave risk.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote, the electoral college is meant to preserve “the sense of the people” while also ensuring that a president is chosen by the individuals “most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.” Electors from each state were charged with protecting us by ensuring “that the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

The original electoral process worked — and then the political parties intervened. In the present electoral college, electors either cannot or will not make independent judgments of the candidates’ qualifications.

Instead, they will “rubber stamp” their party’s candidate. As a result, in the current election we have a person who stands ready to receive the electoral majority, despite having none of the “requisite qualifications” for the presidency. Indeed, based on his rhetoric and behavior, he appears unqualified for any leadership position. The other candidate has decades of relevant experience and an enormous advantage in the popular vote — yet she is declared the loser. This is a violation of basic democratic precepts, to say nothing of common sense.

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on the scene on the side of the Indians. Food, wood, housing supplies, fuel, prayers, and money from all over the world flow into the camps in support. Everyone is housed. There is free health care and food, schools for the kids.

Thirdly, the protectors rely on prayer and non-violence.

No guns are allowed in the camps. Around the sacred fire in the middle of the largest camp, drums beat and songs call up spiritual strength from deep in the genetic make-up of the Sioux and other tribes. This time, the prayers are for strength to NOT take up arms and fight, but to simply stand firm and protect. People from many faiths stand alongside.

Transfer Energy Partners, a big, powerful corporation, backed by many banks worldwide, were “defended” at first by a private security firm that produced scenes reminiscent of Birmingham in 1963 for us, and then by a team of heavily militarized law enforcement, using rubber bullets, tear gas and water hoses in freezing temperatures. They were met with determined songs, drums, and chants. There were some skirmishes. Some of the protectors were arrested. But the non-violent direct resistance held.

No one knows for sure what legal strategies the pipeline proponents may take to reverse the decision by the Army Corps of Engineers, nor what the new administration in Washington will do. Lawyers for the tribe are already working hard to make the case for continued protection of the water source.

The water protectors at Standing Rock reflect millions of people across the globe who are beginning to say “no!” – the earth is more important than profit. We will not let corporations and politicians in their pay have the last say over something we need and cherish.

Fossil fuels have given us much, but at great expense to the land, waters and air. Reconsideration is due – there are now alternatives.

Indigenous peoples have provided an inspirational moment, leading us back to a more sane and compassionate relationship with the earth, and have done so exhibiting a loving and respectful manner of protest. Standing Rock can become a crucial turning point, the beginning of collective action where we say “yes” to citizens of flesh and blood, fresh water, clean air, healthy land, renewable energy, and communities that take care of one another. There is more to do, but for now, environmental justice has been served.

I hope that the drums beat in celebration for a deeply shared spiritual awakening for all of us.

Lost the popular election by more than 2.5 million votes; Condemned many US citizens as rapists, murderers, and thieves; Consistently lied to the American public during the election; Called his political opponents liars and other derogatory names; Claimed that millions of voters voted illegally without any verifiable documentation; Claiming, during the election, that the process was “fixed,” despite denials from bipartisan electoral officials; Hinted that there would be a “revolution” if he lost the election; Bragged about sexually violating the personal rights of women; Stated that he witnessed thousands of Muslims cheering in NJ when the World Trade Center Towers collapsed – even though police have insisted that it did not happen; Demonstrated a lack of knowledge of foreign and domestic US policy; Denigrated individual military heroes and their families; Claimed, with no evidence, that our military — the very best in the world — is a “mess;” Established a phony university to make money while purposely defrauding its students; Repeatedly refused to pay the owners of small businesses what he owns them; Bragged about making money while going bankrupt, even as many shareholders lost money as a result; Threatened his political opponent with prosecution if he were elected; Refused to provide his income tax information, after saying he would do so after the election;

18. Stated that the Russian dictator who has supported the killing of thousands of innocents in Syria is a leader superior to our president; 19. Stated that he favors physical torture of our suspected enemies.

Like many others, I was dismayed to see President Obama accept the Republican nominee as president, stating that “the people have spoken.” In fact, when the final popular voting results were reported, it became obvious that the people had spoken — but no one was listening.

If all of the states had taken the route of Maine and Nebraska, which allocate electoral votes by the actual voting data, we would have a truly democratic process; the people’s voice would be fairly represented. In contrast, the states that allocate electoral votes under the “winner take all” principle expressly ignore the votes of significant parts of their electorate. The equal power of the vote is meant to be ingrained in all of us. This principle is borne out in elections for local representatives, state officials, school budgets, boards of education, organizational officers — in almost every part of our social fabric, it seems, except for the election of the president of the United States.

During the drafting of the 12th amendment, Madison warned against giving power to “a group of citizens who have a common interest in some proposal that would either violate the rights of other citizens or would harm the nation as a whole.” If the electoral college accepts a person with demonstrably inadequate qualifications, those fears will have materialized. On Dec. 19, the electors will cast their votes to determine who leads our nation. If they do not accept their constitutional responsibility, to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications,” then they have made a mockery of the founders’ intent.

Edward Welch Johnsburg

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

ConsiderÊ increasedÊ donationsÊ toÊ UnitedÊ Way To the Editor: The 2017 United Way of the Adirondack Region campaign has launched with an ambitious goal of $725,000.

Are you noticing that more people in our area are in need of the assistance offered by the 43 partner agencies; assistance such as the mental health services offered by BHSN or end of life services supplied by Hospice?

I, too, have noticed these changes in our society and I have come to know that I am able to help so many through my contribution.

Today, I am writing to ask current or past givers to consider an increase in the amount donated to our local United Way of the Adirondack Region. I know this can be difficult but any amount that you are able to increase will be used to help the lives of the nearly 80,000 neighbors, friends, and family who have been helped by a United Way agency this past year.

For this reason, I have increased my donation this year.

Won’t you please join me? A dollar or more added to your current gift each week will make a huge impact. It will also bring you closer to becoming a leadership giver. The leadership program starts at $500, just $10 per week.

The video this year is just great!

If you have not had a chance to view it, here’s a link: unitedwayadk.org/campaign2012vid.html.

Words cannot adequately express the gratitude. Thank you for considering this increase.

Gayle Alexander Elizabethtown

ReasonsÊ toÊ voteÊ Democratic To the Editor: 1. Democrats fought for Social Security (F.D.R.) 2. Democrats fought for Medicare (L.B.J.) 3. Democrats fought for Medicaid (L.B.J.) 4. Democrats fought for welfare benefits (F.D.R.) 5. Democrats fought for civil rights (L.B.J.) 6. Democrats fought for unemployment insurance (F.D.R.) 7. Democrats fought for National Labor Relations Board (F.D.R.) 8. Democrats fought for eight hour work day, five day work week, workplace breaks and overtime pay (F.D.R.) 9. Democrats fought for workers compensation (Woodrow Wilson) 10. Democrats fought for Americans with Disability Act (101st Democratic Congress - over G.H.W. Bush veto) 11. Democrats fought for holiday pay (F.D.R.) 12. Democrats fought for Medical Leave Act (Bill Clinton) 13. Democrats fought for Prevention of Child Labor (F.D.R.) 14. Democrats fought for Minimum Wage Act (F.D.R.) 15. Democrats fought for Work Place Safety (OSHA) (Nixon) 16. Democrats fought for affirmative action as it relates to racial discrimination (J.F.K) 17. Democrats fought for women’s rights (L.B.J) 18. Democrats fought for tax fairness (platform issue) 19. Democrats fought for veterans pay and benefits (F.D.R.) 20. Democrats fought for consumer protection and consumer bill of rights (J.F.K.) 21. Democrats fought for gun laws and background checks to prevent felons from getting weapons (L.B.J) (Clinton) 22. Democrats fought for credit card holders bill of rights (Barack Obama) 23. Democrats fought for Funding Our Schools (L.B.J.) 24. Democrats fought for grants for low income people to attend college (L.B.J.) 25. Democrats fought for environmental regulations — Clean Water Act / Clean Air Act (Dems override Nixon veto) 26. Democrats fought for financial regulations keeping Wall Street wizards accountable (Dodd/Frank - Obama) 27. Democrats fought for affordable health care for everyone (Obama Care) 28. Democrats fought for hate crime legislation (Matthew Shepard) (Barack Obama) 29. Democrats fought for children’s health legislation for 11 million children without health care (Barack Obama).

Joe DeMarco Jay

Non-profits ‘important’ to stateÊ economy,Ê reportÊ says To the Editor: The nonprofit sector is vital to the economic health of our communities. A 2013 report, conducted by Adirondack Foundation and the Adirondack Nonprofit Network, showed that just 36 local non-profits generated a $422 million annual economic impact to the region.

On Dec. 7, 2016, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released his “Profile of Nonprofit Organizations,” which reinforces the research we conducted three years ago.

His findings show: • New York non-profits account for nearly 1.3 million jobs • Those same non-profits total more than 18 percent of private employment • Wages paid by non-profits total nearly $62 billion DiNapoli noted that “non-profits in New York state provide vital support to people who need a helping hand, a voice or services,” and “are making a difference in driving jobs and economic growth in our state.”

While some non-profits rely on state and federal funding to carry out their missions, many of these organizations rely on private contributions. As you consider giving during the holiday season, remember that your gifts aren’t just helping people in need, the environment, or local arts and culture — they’re also making a direct impact on your local economy, driving job growth and in turn supporting local businesses.

We hope the comptroller’s report, and others like it, will ensure that the nonprofit sector continues to have a seat at the table during discussions about regional economic development and other pressing community issues.

To learn more about the comptroller’s report and the economic impact of non-profits, visit adirondackfoundation.org.

Cali Brooks President & CEO, Adirondack Foundation Lake Placid

Ô StupidityÊ aboundsÕ Ê inÊ presidentialÊ electionÊ discussion To the Editor: This is my first letter to a news publication since I retired from teaching, over 35 years ago.

Mr. Guido’s letter so delighted this elderly lady (96 in March), that I had to let him, and your paper, know it.

I have made copies to send to all my family thoughout the country, so they can also appreciate it.

Stupidity abounds, but more intelligence, hopefully, will now come forth.

Ed: This is in response to “Trump supporters ‘getting exactly what they wanted’” by Gary Philip Guido in the Dec. 3 edition of the Sun.) Stevie Capozio Wilmington

The reason for the merger, “a shared outcome looks first to sustain and then improve options for students in this small, rural setting,” and reference to “the full ELCS/Westport pre-merger feasibility study.”

Quite frankly, I did not know, or at least I was unaware, that students that graduate from WCS, at least receive less than an adequate education that would avail any student the opportunity to move on, either to immediate employment or to further education of their choice.

Having attended WCS graduations, there is firsthand evidence that students have not denied pursuing their dreams through a lack of academic preparedness.

On the second point, a feasibility study indicates to me the cost savings concerns by a merge (or not).

According to one article, “Actual numbers crunched in the story show the current combined (ELCS plus Westport) levy of $7,088,201 would dip to $6,869,141 with incentive aid.”

Now that caught my attention, in that the total savings for both schools, with incentives, is $219,060 or $109,530, for each school.

Keep in mind “incentives” and just how long they would last. There were no figures as to the impact on the budget, in dollar terms without incentives.

Then think about the proposal to use both schools for kindergarten through fifth grade local populations; sixth through eighth grade middle school in Westport and high school in ELCS. With all current activities, parents have to deal with shuffling around schedules so that theirs can participate in say, seasonal sports. I would not like to be in the position of further juggling schedules between two locations (with a child in middle school, another in high school).

If this merger is purely a result on pressure from the State of New York, quite frankly, the numbers do not add up to any significant cost savings, in my opinion. In fact, when all incentives disappear, my bed is that this would be a far more costly move not only to the taxpayers, but to parents.

As for quality education, some sort of improvement that would benefit a student in the long term?

An objective measurement of the current two schools, their graduates as compared to those in larger mega-schools could go a long way to answer that question.

For my part, much more thought needs to be put into this.

Honestly, a costly study will simply could the issue when we have preliminary figures, that in my opinion failed to support the go-ahead with the study. (Not considered: for all the studies on mergers, would nobody like to see what those studies projected as compared to actual cost savings on the last five or so mergers?)

Susan Sherman Westport

WillsboroÊ criticÊ shouldÊ Ô getÊ theÊ factsÊ rightÕ Ê aboutÊ WCS WCS,Ê ELCSÊ mergerÊ willÊ onlyÊ To the Editor: prolongÊ deathÊ spiral Just a response to a letter written about Willsboro Central School.

No school is perfect, but before you slam someone or something get the facts right.

Willsboro did look into merging with Elizabethtown and Westport, but since our taxes would increase, Willsboro decided to stay as we are. Had you made a board meeting or attended the public forum you would know this.

My three children graduated from Willsboro, attended college and received degrees. One is the Clinton County director of the YAP program, one works for Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, and the third got a full scholarship to law school. So for you to indirectly say Willsboro does not produce knowledgeable people, think again!

As for teachers pushing medication, really — last I knew, only doctors were allowed to prescribe medication and only the school nurse is allowed to administer the medication. Not sure what world you live in.

Kitchen help: think again. I not only worked in the kitchen at Willsboro Central for many years, I also have worked at the Old Dock. I do know for a fact that two full time employees and one part time could not run the Old Docks kitchen, but they feed all the children at Willsboro breakfast and lunch.

So if you are so unhappy with the school, then take your children elsewhere, and good luck finding perfection.

Kristina Coonrod Willsboro

EarlyÊ ELCS-WCSÊ mergerÊ numbersÊ donÕ tÊ seemÊ toÊ translateÊ toÊ costÊ savings To the Editor: Thank you for your informative articles in the potential ELCS-WCS merger in the Dec. 10 edition of the Sun. As I read through both articles (“Reviewing potential ELCSWCS merger” and “ELCS, WCS proceed with merger study”

by Kim Dedam) certain questions or concerns emerged for me.

To the Editor: In regards to the merger discussions between WCS and ELCS, we are looking at a solution to treat the symptom of the disease.

The disease will not go away no matter how many mergers or bags of money from Albany you throw at the symptoms.

A WCS/ELCS merger will only prolong the death spiral, and accelerate it for the community that doesn’t host the new school.

To cure the disease, we must look at removing the restrictions we have placed on job creating development in the Adirondacks.

Number one would be to make an industry/business friendly environment so job creators want to come here.

Next would be to revamp environmental/zoning/land use laws that allow for many more small subdivisions so the influx of new families to fill jobs can build their homes.

Lastly would be for all the money the state keeps throwing around for studies, etc., to be funneled into infrastructure improvement, as in expanding sewer and water districts, cutting in new road, creating the infrastructure we need to allow this growth.

Then and only then will the disease be cured and your schools will see the enrollment growth and lowering of property taxes necessary to allow our communities to stay intact!

Tim Sherman Westport

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Boreas Ponds Classification

Access the Adirondacks sounds off A

ccess the Adirondacks is a coalition of local government officials, sportsmen and business owners who are lobbying for broader access.

The background: Access the Adirondacks is a newcomer. Formed this past summer, the group is calling for Alternative 1, which they believe could allow the widest possible use of the land, which the state purchased for $14.5 million.

Sportsmen, the elderly and the disabled are key constituency groups that the state must accommodate, says Access. The first, in particular, are aging: the average age of sportsmen across the state is between 46 and 48, according to Jason Kemper, chairman of the New York State Conservation Fund Advisory Board.

Kemper said sportsmen are playing a larger role in this debate than in the past because they feel as if they have been historically shut out of the process.

Access likened the new lands as a destination for working class people, a “poor man’s opportunity” where visitors do not have to be members of the exclusive clubs that border the parcel in order to enjoy the landscape.

The group sees their plan, a 50-50 split, as a compromise solution.

“It’s not a huge intrusion into the core of the Wilderness, and I think that dialogue has been lost,” said Roger Dziengeleski, a retired vice president and senior forester at Finch Pruyn, the prior owners of the parcel.

Economic development: The sporting community pumps money into the local economy through trips and the purchase of sporting license and permits, Kemper said.

In 2011, hunters and anglers spent $4.9 billion, according to the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. Snowmobilers, in particular, are heavy spenders, providing nearly $868 million in economic activity annually, according to the New York State Snowmobile Association.

While enticing, Access says recreation is just one plank to bolstering the year-round economy, and every little bit helps.

Increased visitation will ideally lead to a growth in businesses and service providers in their communities, a growth that will attract newcomers and lead to a sustainable economy, which would also bolster the local school districts.

Earlier this year, the Adirondack Council, a member of BeWildNY, commissioned a study from a Clarkson University professor that revealed property values increase in proximity to Wilderness.

That study has become a chief economic argument in their pursuit of more protected lands. But Access disputes those findings.

“We’re not convinced of the correlation,” said Bill Farber, chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Supervisors.

All restrictive zoning makes homes more valuable regardless of a state or residential classification, he said.

Traditional indicators of economic health — including unemployment, incomes, sales tax revenues and hotel occupancy rates — also need to be taken into account while measuring the fiscal health of a community, he said.

Due to the robust market for second homes, housing affordability is perhaps a greater issue that imperils the local economy, Farber said.

“I reject the idea that home values are a good economic indicator,” Farber said. “Simply driving up home values is not the savior of the community.”

Advocates of an expanded Wilderness area have used that study to argue that a Wilderness classification will create an bustling economic zone in North Hudson and Newcomb not dissimilar to that in Keene Valley.

But Access says Keene benefits from tourists driving through it to access Lake Placid — not its proximity to Wilderness.

As such, Minerva, Newcomb and North Hudson will likely not be automatically transformed into a Lake Placid or Saranac Lake under a Wilderness designation.

“There just isn’t commonality,” Farber said.

Intact communities, said Dziengeleski, rely on a diverse spread of residents, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, and that any sustainable economy requires complexity and diversity.

Attracting as many user groups as possible to the parcel would stimulate local business more than narrowing it to a single group, he said.

“It just seems very simplistic to say we go to a single driver,” said Dziengeleski. “It has to be a more diverse picture than just Wilderness use to drive a recreational economy.”

Misconceptions: The APA has hosted eight public hearings across the state. The final was held in Albany on Dec. 7.

Each has drawn hundreds of participants, and dozens of public comments, including many from young people calling for a full Wilderness plan that is not espoused by BeWildNY (and is not among the four APA-profered alternatives).

Farber said he was “disheartened” on the misconceptions leveled by many of these speakers as to what Access wants.

Their wish list does not include float planes, ATVs, party barges and unfettered access to the parcels.

The group, however, is requesting snowmobile use to be permitted from the so-called Four Corners, around the perimeter of Boreas Ponds to White Lily Pond and along Gulf Brook Road, the main point of entry.

Roger Dziengeleski Access is also calling for electric motor use on Boreas Ponds.

The impact of those devices on other users and especially the environment, they say, is overexaggerated.

Farber said it is “hard to logically reconcile” how motors will affect hikers: If folks cannot hear log trucks and skidders through the dense forest canopy, then how would mountain biking in the summer or snowmobiling in the winter impact that experience? Or the electric motors that emit neither emissions nor noise.

Access said they categorically denied the use of the DEC’s CP-3 policy as a gateway to broader ATV usage.

“That is absolutely not the case,” Farber said. “Nobody is looking at this as a means to open this up further than CP-3. Nobody is using this as a way to get ATV use in there — that’s not going to serve anybody well.”

The goal of that policy is simply to try to put disabled guests close enough to the access points at possible.

“I understand what revs the base, and gets people energized, but it’s a distraction from the issues,” Farber said. “It’s a fool’s errand.”

Kemper added: “I personally find it really egregious we’re leading people, those wearing the green shirts, to those conclusions.”

The misinformation, he said, had to have come from somewhere. If it was the education system, then that system has failed.

The conversation has been twisted, says the group, to insinuate Access wants to degrade the parcel, and they are not also environmentalists. But these misconceptions are damaging, and unfair to the next generation of Adirondack stakeholders.

“Lines drawn in the sand are not good for any group trying to do work in the Adirondacks,” Kemper said.

“I think a lot of testimony is that idealism,” Farber said. “The question is: How do you apply that kind of idealism to communities in the Adirondack Park?”

Access also said they were bothered at what they referred to as the “villainization” of local governments.

As elected officials, and as members of broader regional municipal organizations like the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages, they are bringing to the public sessions the will of their constituencies, not misconstruing facts to appeal to donors, they said.

On the classification process: Access is displeased with several aspects of the broader classification process.

A Wilderness designation would take most of the consideration for recreational options out of hands of the DEC, who create the Unit Management Plan (UMP), or where the state really drills down to determine appropriate use, like mountain biking and snowmobiling.

Access would prefer a UMP process that will allow the agency to consider more uses than those currently allowed in Wilderness.

When it comes to metrics like water quality and wetlands, the difference between the two ecosystems (Wild Forest and Wilderness) is virtually no different, and thus the land is not endangered any differently, Access said.

The coalition also believes a Wilderness designation by itself doesn’t necessarily mean ample resource protection, land stewardship and proper management, citing overuse by hikers in the High Peaks, including herd paths, trampled ecosystems and other damaging practices.

The parcels, they added, will not retain the same habitat as before regardless of how they are classified.

In addition, Wilderness classification tends to eliminate further discussion of many of these management issues.

The weakness in the State Land Master Plan (SLMP), Farber concluded, it that it contains two categories in which to shoehorn everything. The constitutional language, he said, wasn’t developed with some of these ideas in mind, but rather watershed and clearcutting.

The SLMP is clear about land and capacity to sustain use. If it is trammeled, it has capacity, Farber said, which underpins another argument — the current state of the land.

Kemper said he was disappointed that APA-provided maps did not reveal the pre-existing infrastructure on the parcel, including a network of roads — nor did officials mention them in their introductory comments until the sixth public hearing.

As such, Kemper feels as if the process was inherently biased from the beginning.

Pro-access advocates, he said, had to spend their allotted three minutes at the public hearings just to present a base-level understanding of the facts, which included presentations of the maps Ac-

Bill Farber & Jason Kemper cess created themselves this past fall.

“Put the facts out there,” Kemper said, “and see where it ends up.”

Dziengeleski said the Boreas and MacIntyre tracts should have peeled away from discussion of the other parcels under discussion.

“With 99 parcels, it’s tough when Boreas is sucking the air out of the room,” he said.

On the divisiveness: It’s been said much of the sharp discussion that has characterized discourse in the Adirondack Park has mellowed in recent years. But Access says the misleading rhetoric acts as somewhat of a reversal to that, and is harming future discourse.

The group said one of the reasons elbows have been sharpened isn’t necessarily due to a broader existential debate on environmental politics, but rather that green advocacy groups have historically relied on large-scale land use acquisitions for their fundraising and membership recruitment drives.

But now that the final jewel has been acquired, said Dziengeleski, more issues need to be created to support their agenda.

“It makes good fundraising flyers,” Dziengeleski said.

While the rhetoric can be effective, you don’t need to put out an extreme perspective to be true to your base, he said.

“It’s turned political,” Kemper said. “We’re not talking about classification facts.”

As sportsmen and local government officials, they have no base beyond their members and constituents, which is largely baked in — nor do they have an advocacy organization to maintain.

But, Kemper said, Access has nowhere near the financial resources as environmental groups, who have said they will spend “whatever it takes,” and have enlisted celebrity spokespeople, to ensure the victory in their final quest for more Wilderness.

Access has spent $5,000, which they have scraped together from town boards.

That influx of outside funds pressures lobbying groups to produce results, Kemper said.

Imagine what can be done to combat trail overuse and the harmful effects on vegetation if those resources were redeployed, Kemper said.

The coalition largely hailed ADA and DEC staffs for their work.

But by their very nature, the ADA public hearing process is flawed, they said.

Asking people to comment often devolves into campaign-style arguments where you’re simply trying to win people to your side — not discussing the facts, Farber said.

As such, the rhetoric increases and attendees seldom reach common ground.

“But that’s not what sells,” Farber said. “So those conversations never happen.”

“People making a flawed argument doesn’t make a flawed argument right.”

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From page 1 visitors can use the land for recreational purposes.

Alternative 1 splits the 20,543-acre parcel in two, creating an even split between Wild Forest and Wilderness. The remaining proposals offer varying formulas, with each successively adding more Wilderness than the last.

Following classification, the state Department of Conservation will draft a Unit Management Plan to determine the exact recreational usage.

Since the details of the proposals have widely been reported on, we discussed several issues that have largely fallen by the wayside, including misconceptions, the classification process, the economic impact for local communities, the role of money in the debate and what the process means for future discussion in the Adirondack Park.

Comments from both Access the Adirondacks and BeWildNY are published inside this edition of The Sun.

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Boreas Ponds Classification

What BeWildNY had to say B

eWildNY is a coalition of environmental organizations led by the Adirondack Council and the Adirondack Mountain Club.

The background: The coalition supports none of the four Adirondack Park Agencyoffered alternatives, believing all to be flawed because they adequately fail to protect Boreas Ponds, leaving them vulnerable to motorized uses and invasive species.

Their plan, introduced this past spring, calls for Wilderness expanded south to include the ponds and the sensitive wetlands surrounding them. This will act as somewhat of a buffer zone to protect what ecologists say is an astonishing array of wildlife located on the parcel.

BeWildNY sees their plan as a compromise solution that has something for all stakeholders.

While the exact path hasn’t yet been determined, snowmobiling will be permitted at the southern end of the tract, an olive branch to an activity that sportsmen groups, businesses and local government officials believe will stimulate the local economy, which remains sluggish.

Their big tent approach is based on one main underlying premise: “How can we balance these things while being true to the State Land Master Plan (SLMP), and making sure the most sensitive areas are protected?” said Willie Janeway, executive director of the Adirondack Council. “Where can we accommodate other interests even if they don’t endorse our plan in the end?”

Aside from minor details, most of the debate is over the last mile of Gulf Brook Road, he said.

On motorized use: BeWildNY wants to prohibit electric motors on Boreas Ponds, not only because they believe they would be injurious to the waters, but also due to broader ramifications.

A Wilderness designation is critical for the area surrounding the ponds, says BeWildNY, because the classification is the only way to definitively prohibit motorized activities from ever taking place in the future.

Uses permitted by the state Department of Conservation on Wild Forest may drift over time, they argue.

“Another DEC commissioner can add motorboats to Boreas Ponds, and it would not be difficult,” said Neil Woodworth, executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club.

Nothing in the SLMP would prevent the next commissioner from changing those uses, he said, and the APA doesn’t have the tools that would be necessary to remedy those mistakes.

Furthermore, he said, classifications do not have sub-categories.

If electric motors are allowed, perhaps a small outboard motor could be next, for instance, leading to a slippery slope.

As such, classification must be wielded as a “blunt tool.”

“What’s the point of a Boreas Ponds Wilderness if the center is not motor-free?” Janeway said.

For the APA to not classify those internal tracts as Wilderness, and to not look at the ecology first, would be an “abdication” of their responsibility, he said.

BeWildNY and Access the Adirondacks, a pro-access group, have sparred over the use of the DEC’s CP-3 permitting system.

Access says they simply want to accommodate disabled guests, but BeWildNY says that opens the door to future ATV use.

In fact, that’s already trying to be done elsewhere, Woodworth said.

The DEC’s draft of the Grass River Unit Management Plan, for instance, may open up sections of the St. Lawrence County tract to ATV usage, a development BeWildNY finds worrisome.

On access for the disabled: BeWildNY agrees with Access that the tract must be made available for use by the disabled, but disagrees on the best way to accommodate the user group.

The coalition is calling for a gently sloped path around LaBier Flow accessing the ponds using a stone dust component, which makes an easy stable surface — more so than gravel roads.

A number of potential sites for portage trails are also being explored, and will be hashed out in the UMP, they argue.

The group says one of the biggest misconceptions is that they’re anti-access, which they find offensive.

“We believe there are ways to get people physical access and not open it up to 19 million people at the same time,” said John Sheehan, a BeWildNY spokesman.

On practicality: BeWildNY says they are mindful of alleviating the overuse which has jeopardized some of the High Peaks’ most popular destinations.

That mindfulness, and sense of history, factors into their proposal for Boreas Ponds, leveraging what works based on past experience and what doesn’t.

BeWildNY is also mindful of what uses their members will find enjoyable.

For instance, the coalition does not support biking around the ponds because they believe there are places to do that — like in Wilmington, for instance, or Ragged Mountain.

Their proposed parking lot is just up from LaBier Flow, about 1.2 miles from the ponds, which would offer a balance between access and protective safeguards, they said.

Parking spaces would be limited to 15 to 20 cars, with perhaps more allocated by a permitting process.

“We call that the Lake Lila factor,” said Woodworth. “That 1-mile buffer is enough to protect the resources.”

The ponds themselves are never going to be a camping destination because the shores are too wet, said Woodworth. But the prop-

erty is great for canoeing, which would allow for new access points around the High Peaks.

A number of campsites on Casey Brook could make it a perfect backpacking trail, he said.

Keeping the road closed for seven miles is not a reasonable proposal, agrees the coalition. But a mile is pretty doable, which is also a distance that is accommodating for guides.

BeWildNY’s preferred snowmobiling route will lock into the Newcomb and North Hudson connector trail.

Their proposal for a connector trail is one that will not get caught up in the courts, Woodworth said.

Furthermore, the DEC-approved route is problematic, said Woodworth, because it does not have the full support of key landowners.

Economic development: BeWildNY says Wilderness acts as a draw for outdoor enthusiasts, citing Keene as a successful example of an economy that caterers to outdoor adventurers.

A similar scenario is possible in North Hudson and Newcomb, they said.

While the exact recipe for economic success has historically been tricky, local merchants need to create businesses that hikers wish to frequent by providing goods and services appealing to them, said Woodworth.

Those that find that magic sweet spot tend to build up a customer base, he added, citing a boat manufacturer in Olmstedville who is clearing $1 million annually and employs six people.

BeWildNY said it is a misconception that hiking does not generate economic activity for local communities.

“It’s a shibboleth that hikers don’t spend money,” Woodworth said.

The Adirondack Mountain Club’s facilities are located either in Wilderness, or adjacent to Wilderness, and hikers are a fairly affluent group, he said.

“We make quite a bit of money catering to that business,” Woodworth said.

Data, he said, doesn’t show a Wild Forest designation helps small businesses economically.

Furthermore, Woodworth said, it’s difficult for businesses to discern how much of their visitation comes from hikers who do not always identify themselves as such.

But data does support more and more visitors are coming to the Adirondacks to hike, and less are coming to snowmobile and visit Olympic venues, he said.

BeWildNY said there needs to be better regional management of tourism assets: Perhaps more signage could generate economic activity in the region, for instance.

The coalition floated additional ideas, like a parking facility and a town-state partnership that would provide a shuttle service from Exit 29 to the parcels.

Part of the problem facing the Five Towns, Woodworth said, is that they’re not receiving the same level of support from the state’s marketing platforms, including I LOVE NY, as Lake Placid does.

The Adirondack Park also needs a long-term financing system that will give start-up businesses more readily access to capital, Woodworth said, like a revolving loan fund.

Banks, for instance, might be loath to lend a startup bed and breakfast in Newcomb funds, Woodworth said.

“It’s really access to capital.”

Post-classification, the group will continue to challenge the stereotype of hikers as “granola-eating folks who gas up fuel-efficient cars and don’t leave anything behind.”

“We really are going to challenge supervisors to get beyond the fallacy that hikers and paddlers don’t spend money,” Woodworth said.

The group also argued that snowmobiling isn’t a panacea for the economy, citing climate change.

On the classification process: This is one area in which both Access and BeWildNY agree the process is flawed.

“This was probably the worst way to do the process,” Woodworth said. “This whole process was rushed for some reason.”

Woodworth noted the parting comments by former APA commissioner Richard Booth last spring, who called the SLMP process regarding major amendments “badly broken” and that the governor “rigidly controlled” what analysis the agency staff was allowed to prepare and present to the agency.

As such, full discussion was stymied.

Woodworth also noted the comments by Chad Dawson, the newest commissioner, who said there was a poverty of appropriate proposals. The agency also failed to chose a preferred alternative.

But the APA had already voted on the public hearing schedule, resulting in what Woodworth said were a number of procedural errors from which the agency could not recover.

“I don’t think they expected thousands of people to come out to this thing,” Woodworth said.

Like Access, BeWildNY says the lack of official data, including maps, poses a vexing predicament because there is not a universallysupported baseline of facts.

“When you saw the four alternatives come out, they didn’t have scientific substantiation; no roadmaps, they didn’t have the wetlands accurately — and they didn’t explain the differences,” Woodworth said.

Woodworth added: “This process did not have the document and cost-benefits of alternatives. That just wasn’t provided, and in a way, the various advocates and viewpoints had to come up with their own.”

All sides must be aware of what they’re refuting, said Janeway, who

called the process “botched.”

The APA, he said, did not “take a more fully inclusive science-based full range of alternatives to this.”

And that has led to a sense of distrust that has pervaded the process, and has awoken Neil Woodworth young enviros calling for a more restrictive classification, Janeway said, which then created a pushback from snowmobilers.

The state, said Janeway, has the opportunity to put this back in the bottle by providing another set of alternatives — at least seven.

“I think a lot of the acrimony would have been abrogated,” Woodworth said.

On existing infrastructure: BeWildNY disagrees with Access on the status of existing infrastructure.

Some roads are no longer there, or have deteriorated, making them unfeasible for the bicycle use on the tracts Access is proposing.

Others haven’t been used for 20 years, especially those further back on the parcel.

The group says at least half of these are “phantom roads” and is pushing to create better, more accurate data.

“I think there’s a growing agreement that there isn’t good data on the property,” Janeway said.

But even that discussion is a red herring, says the coalition.

Just 5 percent of the Adirondack Park is old growth forest, or 300,000 acres of a total of 6 million.

“If existing roads prevented Wilderness classification, we would not have had half of the Wilderness we have today,” Woodworth said.

Wanakena, for instance, used to be a railroad lumber town, and the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area in Long Lake was once heavily logged and contained a vast network of roads.

“It’s amazing how quickly nature has taken those roads,” Woodworth said.

On the divisiveness: Janeway said the eight public hearings, which concluded last week in Albany, demonstrated that many people love the Adirondacks.

“And I think those are things worth celebrating,” he said. “I don’t see that degenerating if we should have an Adirondack Park in 100 years.”

But, he admitted, signs have arisen that the new culture of cooperation has been slipping: The divisions are still there; they’re just sharpened, and over a smaller area, he said.

The discussion over motorized use, said Janeway, is appearing to wake up an element of the environmental community to BeWildNY’s left.

“I think we’re at risk, but we’re going to get through it,” Janeway said.

But there are also more tasks ahead.

After Jan. 1, the Adirondack Council will start to work with local leaders on the second passage of a state constitutional amendment that will allow local governments to coordinate public infrastructure projects on state land while also being protective of Article 14.

“We have different positions. We try to keep those viewpoints respectful,” Janeway said, citing additional work on the Common Ground Alliance and other regional issues.

“This has tended to polarize some, but if you look at the BeWildNY proposal, it really is a compromise between the two perspectives,” Woodworth said.

The groups also plan on working with the DEC to address the overuse issue, and new waves of users are also placing a strain on Forest Rangers, who continue to be underfunded. Many of these users have little outdoor experience and are vastly unprepared — like those in sandals and shorts.

On claims of drumming up donor base: Access criticized BeWildNY for using the issue to drum up their donor base, and suggested the coalition was misrepresenting their positions.

BeWildNY brushed off the criticisms.

The campaign, said the coalition, is funded by major donors who feel as if they have a chance to influence a discussion that will ultimately see the governor approve a decision that accurately reflects public sentiment.

“They tend to be folks who helped the Nature Conservancy buy the property, and they don’t want to see this lost,” Woodworth said.

It wasn’t until the APA introduced their alternatives in October did the groundswell came out, BeWildNY said.

What really captured the attention of his donors, Woodworth said, was the opportunity to combat invasive species.

“We are mounting a campaign to fight the Hemlock Woolly Delga before it gets to the Adirondacks,” he said, noting 1 in 7 trees in Adirondacks is a Hemlock, and thus susceptible.

Donating to that cause, he said, makes people feel as if they can combat a real, tangible threat.

“Finally, we can fight back.” Woodworth said.

Furthermore, compromise solutions like their Boreas Ponds proposal are traditionally not the best for drumming up their base, he noted.

If the Adirondack Council wanted to galvanize their base, they would highlight the aforementioned draft Grass River UMP, Janeway said.

“Nothing incites a donor base more than ATVs,” Woodworth said.

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he holidays will soon be upon us.

This year has been one of the more divisive ones in the history of this country. After months of heated political debate, countless tragedies and an uncertain future as tensions climb, it’s difficult to feel merry.

With that being said: it’s important to be merry, if only for a little while.

It’s necessary to be an informed, engaged member of society — but it’s also necessary to keep the weight of the world from landing on your shoulders. A balance needs to be struck.

There’s no easy answer to how striking that perfect balance is achieved. There are a few things you can do to aid that battle, though; the first being community involvement.

What is another thing you can do, which incidentally can coincide with community involvement?

I’m glad you asked.

Here are a few suggestions: CHRISTMAS Lake George’s Sushi Yoshioshi will host an ugly sweater party on Dec. 17. DJ Primetime Crush will provide a festive atmosphere with a Christmas music lineup. The Adirondack Brewery will be on site serving drink specials.Attendees are encouraged to wear the ugliest holiday sweater they can find.

The event is slated for 6 p.m. For more information, visit facebook.com/sushiyoshilg or call 668-4135.

The Whallonsburg Grange will host their annual holiday farmers market on Dec. 17. Local farmers and artisans will fill the Grange to sell their wares -- including crafts, food and gifts -- from 1-4 p.m.

For more information, visit thegrangehall.info.

The Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) will host the Lightwire Theater and their production of “A Very Electric Christmas” on Dec. 19 at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. The performance will showcase “dazzling visuals, poignant storytelling and music designed to evoke imagery,” according to organizers. Tickets are $2 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., $10 at 6 p.m. For more information, call 523-2512 or visit lakeplacidarts.org.

Plattsburgh’s Strand Center for the Arts will screen 1946 classic “It’s A Wonderful Life” on Dec. 21, with showtimes at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The film is not rated. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for children. For more information, call 563-1604 or visit facebook.com/strandcenter.

The Ticonderoga YMCA Teen Center will host a pine cone Christmas tree workshop on Dec. 22, and a holiday sugar cookie workshop on Dec. 27. Times vary depending on students’ Grades. For more information, visit facebook.com/ymcacateencenterti.

The Champlain Community Holiday Gathering is slated for Dec. 17. Organizers are billing this event as “an opportunity to visit with friends and friends, listen to music performed by Ron Gregoire and Ron Duffy, and enjoy some delicious snacks.” Tickets are free. The gathering will last from 1:30-3 p.m. at the Champlain Meeting House.

The Charles Wood Theater in Glens Falls will host a special Christmas party on Dec. 23. At 12:30 p.m., the theater will open for a party complete with food, live entertainment and an appearance from the big guy himself. At 2 p.m., the “Muppet Christmas Carol” will be screened. Tickets are $5. For more information, visit woodtheater.org or call 480-4878.

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HANUKKAH During the week of Hanukkah, the Center for Jewish Life in Glens Falls will host a service/minyan on Dec. 25 at 8:30 a.m., a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 30 featuring a shabbat service with dinner, and a service with student rabbi Stephen Slater on Dec. 31 at 9:30 a.m. Attendees are asked to RSVP to the Hanukkah celebration by Dec. 23 by calling 792-4945. For more information, visit shaaraytefila-gfny.org.

Plattsburgh Chabad will hold a grand menorah lighting in Trinity Park on Dec. 26. The event is slated to begin at 5 p.m. For more information, visit plattsburghchabad.com.

There will be a “Chanukah Latkes and Chinese Food Party” at the Lake Placid Synagogue on Dec. 25 at 6 p.m. One of the “Latke Kings,” Steve Bellew, will be frying up latkes at the synagogue. The Chinese food will also be homemade. Everyone is invited to join the synagogue in the party and community Hanukkah lighting, complete with dreidels and gelt for all. A donation is requested. Organizers ask that attendees RSVP in advance, so they know how much food to make. For more information, contact Sue at sue@lakeplacidsynagogue.org or call 523-5611.

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Buffalo-based troupe Major Arcana will perform at Plattsburgh’s Koffee Kat on Dec. 23. Opening are local punk rock groups Comrade Nixon and Executive Disorder. There is a suggested donation of $5 at the door. The first set begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call 566-8433.

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That’s why hosting events and booking rooms during traditional non-busy times of year makes a difference in the bottom line, McKenna said.

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This year’s event is slated to be the biggest since the competition was rebranded in 2011, McKenna said, featuring 2,300 athletes competing in 26 winter sporting events, up from 1,900 participants last year.

“To increase the participation, it’s just a coup,” said North Elba Supervisor Roby Politi.

Now in its 37th year, the 2017 Empire State Winter Games will take place from Feb. 2 to 5.

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Mike and the staff have really worked hard to Minerva received $300,000 for a proposed new senior nutrition From page 1 quest to be placed on of kin, descendants, exput together packages to the people who review them. ” site and community building. the Planholders List at ecutors, administrators, www.dot.ny.gov/doingdevisees, cred“I’m very excited, ” said legatees, Supervisor Steve McNally. “It’s a long ST. ARMAND business/opportunities/c itors, trustees, commitprocess, and it took three years to come up with the money.”

WESTPORT onst-planholder. tees, lienors and asThe $662,000 received by the town should go a long way in adAmendment may have all of whom and are still being hashed out Exact details forsigns, the $500,000 project The town has two sewage treatment plants that serve Westdressing ongoing disinfection and wastewater issues. been issued prior to whose names, except as by a volunteer committee. stated, are unknown to your placement theand Wadhams.

Nearly $642,000 has been awarded for a new disinfection sys- onport plaintiff; OF of securing funding for Planholders list.

Mascarenas said he wasSECRETARY especially proud The Wadhams Wastewater Treatment Facility was cited in tem at the wastewater treatment plant, an upgrade that will allow HOUSING AND URBAN NYS Finance Law rethis project, as it results in real, tangible March by the DEC for several violations, including a failure for the full treatment of effluent.

DEVELOPMENT; NEWresults that people can see stricts communication — unlike underground infrastructure projects. to adequately monitor flows into the plant, which are over caYORK STATE DEPARTwith NYSDOT on proFor years, the town’s plant was not functioning. Users, who utiOFbuild TAXATION curements and contact SUPREME COURT OF MENT pacity, Mascarenas said, often as a result of the personal use of “I think anytime you can a project that has such an impact lized private septic systems that were also failing due thebesoilmade with AND FINANCE; UNITED can to only THE STATE OF NEW sump pumps. in a community, seniorsOFin particular, type, could not be added.

STATES AMERICA; that’s a best-case scenardesignated persons.

YORK COUNTY OF ES- for io,” Mascarenas The $100,000 award will allow the town to conduct anSEX en- INDEX JOSEPH A. PROVONwith non-desigNO. CV16- said.

As a result, the state Department of ConservationContact required this or other CHA, IN HIS CAPACITY nated persons 0155is Plaintiff designates gineering study to find out where the inflow and infiltration Mascarenas county ultimately final treatment disinfection portion prior to discharge, and previASthe ESSEX COUNTY did very well in their apinvolved Agencies will ESSEX as the place of said coming from, and try to decrease output once it is discharged. $29.7 million state grant funding for water CLERK, "JOHN DOEin#1" be considered a serious trial situsplication, of the which real joins ously un-sewered areas are now online. through "JOHN DOE matter and may resultThe in state has also required the town to draft a risk manageproperty infrastructure SUPPLEMEN- projects awarded earlier this summer.

The Village of Saranac Lake has received $2.8 million for a new Contact disqualification.

TAL SUMMONS Mort- #12," the last twelve ment plan for the Westport facility.

“Anything we can do to minimize the disinfection system at the water pollution control plant. out- (518) names being fictitious impact to taxpayers — a MariaThe Tamarkin gaged Premises: 138 of these thingsand need to happen, ” Mascarenas said. unknown to plaintiff, 457-8403.

HURLEY lot AVENUE LAKE come will be to fully treat effluent, thus reducing environmental Contracts with 0% Goals PLACID, NY 12946 Sec- the persons or parties But unfortunately, they’re not budgeted CROWN POINT contamination. are generally single option: 42.66 Block: 2 Lot: intended being the ten- items, and municipalito provide and fund 17.000 ties struggle REVERSE ants, services occupants, per- projects while under the eration contracts, where Crown Point landed $661,414 for two grants.

An additional $1.4 million has been allocated for downtown MORTGAGE SOLUsons or corporations, if sub-contracting is not SEALED BIDS will be retax cap. revitalization resiliency projects in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and Funds for a engineering and planning survey will allowTIONS, the INC., Plaintiff, any, having or claiming may ceived as set forth in in- expected, and “Anytime we can strengthen our communities, we do a lot of St. Lawrence counties. structions to bidders un- present direct bidding town to identify sources and locations of known inflow and vs.inDAVID WATSON, AS an interest in or lien good for our area, ” Mascarenas said.

“It helps stimulate jobs, and opportunities for Small HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE til 10:30 a.m. on January upon the premises, defiltration problems at their current wastewater collection plant.

Projects include a riverwalk extension in Saranac Lake alongBusiness Firms, includOF THE makes ESTATE OF ascribed 2017at the NYSDOT, in thefor complaint, our place little livable the people who want to live here.” side downtown streetside12, and facade improvements. to, larger $597,414 grant will be used to replace about 2,000 JOHN WATSON; DAVID Defendants.

To the Contract Management ing, but not limited The Altogether, region named landed $61.4 WATSON, AS HEIR AND theabove Defen-million in state economic RD,andD/W/MBEs. feet of the storm main along Main Street based on the results of Monies have also been Bureau, allocated50forWOLF tourism marketing.

The Contractor the must DISTRIBUTEE OF THEfunds dants YOU ARE HERE1ST FLOOR, SUITE development last week, which will bankroll a total of 77 projengineering study.

As part of that funding stream, Wilmington alsowith been comply the RegulaESTATE OF JANET WAT- BY SUMMONED to an1CM, ALBANY, NY has ects. tion relative to non-disSON, any and all per- swer the complaint in The upgrades join the ongoing water main project designed tapped to receive $400,00012232 for Lake Dam Improvements and Everest will be pubcrimination in federallyplain- isthis Thetowindfall partaction of $750 million and to serve made available from the licly openedand andculvert read. projects. to repair the town’s aging infrastructure, long plagued sons with unknown and other natural stream restoration tiff, claiming, or who initiative a copy ofdesigned your answer, Bids may also be sub- assisted programs of the state-sponsored to offer a community-driven problems.

USDOT 49 CFR 21. may claim to have an in- or, if the complaint is mitted via the internet approach to stimulate economic growth.

Please call (518) 457terest in, or general or not served with this using Bid Express That project, said Mascarenas, is close to full design.

ELIZABETHTOWN (www.bidx.com).

3583 if a reasonable acspecific lienSince upon2011, the thesummons, to serve a has netted a total of $484 North Country REDC Crown Point received $600,000 last year from the same commodation real property described notice of appearance on Elizabethtown receivedA $500,000 their proposed waste-is needed certified orforcashier's million. tothat participate letin this action; such un- the Plaintiff's Attorney funding stream. check the water treatment plant and sewerpayable system,toa request toppedin the known persons being within 20 days after the NYS Dept. of Trans- ting. said the funds will minimize the impact to town the North Country Regional Economic Development Council’s BIDDERS SHOULD Mascarenas BE herein generally de- service of this sumportation for the sum residents because both projects can ideally be completed atscribed the and intended to mons, exclusive of the list of 27 priority projectsspecified in the seven-county ADVISED THAT AWARD in the proposalregion. be included in the fol- day of service (or within or a bid bond, FORM OF THESE CONTRACTS same time.

“I think this is really going to start a good discussion with the LAKE PLACID — Adirondack lowing designation, CONR 391, representing 30 days after the serviceYarns will partner with MAY BE CONTINGENT “It will save a ton of money, and minimize the impact to community,” said Supervisor Noel Merrihew. namely: the wife, widow, Children 25% of the bid total, UPON THE PASSAGE OF is complete this sum-Services Stop Domestic Plattsburgh’s andif Family widower, heirs must results accompany each to $3 mons isto not personally A BUDGET sev- Violence Department provide handmade items to women Last week’s announcement in close millionAPPROPRIAin community by having one construction period instead ofhusband, at law, next of kin, de- delivered to you within bid. NYSDOT reserves TION BILL BY THEeral, LEG” Mascarenas said. and children in Franklin, Essex and Clinton counties. grant funding for the long-delayed project, which would serve scendants, executors, the State of New York) the right to reject any or ISLATURE AND GOVERabout 400 homes and businesses administrators, de- to in NOR OF ElizaTHE STATE OF all bids. in the hamlet, including the event the United According organizers, hand knit or crocheted items in visees, legatees, credi- States of America is NEWfor YORK Electronic thedocuments bethtown Community Hospital, Essex Center RehaMORIAH adult and children’s sizes — hats, scarves, mittens, afghans, 02, Nicolas tors, trustees, commit- made a party defendant, Amendments are Reg. bilitation and Healthcareand and the Essex County Government baby blankets, etc — donations. the time to make answerperfect for Ditees, lienors, and as- toys, posted to www.dot.ny.- Choubah, Regional Moriah was awarded $600,000 for wastewater improvements Center. the said United States of rector, 207 Genesee signees of such degov/doing-business/opon Lamos Lane, where the clay tiles housing the system are This is a year-round program to help victims of domestic Utica, NY 13501 ceased, any and all per- America shall not expire NOTICE OF FORMATION portunities/const-noOnce tabbed at $9.5 million in 2008, costs haveStreet, since drifted eroding and tree roots are puncturing theName: line, Rooster causing blockabuse.

For more information, call serSue at 523-9230 or visit ad(60) days after D263389, PIN DRC4.15, sons deriving interest in until tices OF LLC: to $11 million, MerrihewContractor said, and the project is still short sev- Broome, age issues. irondackyarns.com. vice of the Summons; Albany, or lien upon, or title to is responsiComb Inn, LLC Articles eral million dollars.

Clinton, said by, and in case of your failble for ensuring that all Chenango, of is Organization filled The system, located in Witherbee, under a state DEC through con- realor property Delaware, Esunder them, ure to appear or answer, Amendments are probably incor- Columbia, with Secretary of State “We’re getting closer, and I think we’ll have a meetsent order to reduce the amount of sex, Franklin, Fulton, or either of them, and judgment will be taken porated into its bid. To of inflow.

New York (SSNY)on ing very shortly with the receive town andnotification their engineers about a plan Hamilton, their respective wives, against you by default of Greene, 8/12/16costs Office Improvements will eventually lower for location: users. theMr. relief demanded wid- for— Amendments e-mail Herkimer, Essex County. The SSNY widows, husbands, to move forward,” said Essex CountyviaCommunity ResourcesJefferson, LAKE PLACID Mike’s Pizza will host a free commu“You’re able OF to FORMATION accomplish a isproblem in the complaint. NOLewis, Madison, MontNOTICE youwho musthelped submitsecured a re- the designatedwithout as agent increasing of owers, heirs at law, next Director Mike Mascarenas, funding. nity dinner on Christmas day atOF 2 p.m.

Organizers ask attendof kin, descendants, exthe LLC upon whom TICE OF NATURE ACquest to be placed on gomery, Oneida, Otsego, of Limited Liability Comuser rates,” Mascarenas said on the funds. in need of a ride Merrihew was heartened the funds.List at Rensselaer, Saratoga, pany (LLC) Nellies Bak- process against it may ecutors, ees administrators, TIONto contact AND Linda RELIEFShaw Young at 523-9620 the by Planholders Schenectady, Schoharie, ery, LLC. Articles of Or- be served. SSNY shall devisees, or legatees, SOUGHT THE OBJECT www.dot.ny.gov/doingKarencredArmstrong at 524-8779.

“This is a very, very positive point in the right direction,” St. Lawrence, Sullivan, ganization filed with the mail a copy of any pro- itors, trustees, commit- of the above caption acbusiness/opportunities/c Tioga, Ulster, Warren & Secretary of State of cess to the LLC at: tees, lienors and as- tion is to foreclose a onst-planholder.

Mortgage to secure the NOTICE OF QUALIFICAAmendment may have Washington Cos., Up- New York (SSNY) on 10909 RT. 9N PO BOX signs, all of whom and LEGALS been issued prior to state East Debris Re- November 14, 2016 for 375 Keene NY 12942. whose names, except as sum of $300,240.00 and TION OF The Dock Doctors, LLC. Authority NOTICE OF FORMATION moval Contract, Regions Purpose: To engage in stated, are unknown to interest, recorded on your placement on the business conducted plaintiff; SECRETARY OF March 8, 2007, at Liber filed with Secy. of State OF Crowley's Village 1, 2, 7, 9 and Northern Planholders list. from an office located in any lawful act or activity. of NY (SSNY) on HOUSING AND URBAN 1693 Page 50, of the Emporium, LLC. Arts. of NYS Finance Law re- Counties of Region 8, Essex County, NY. The VN-12/17-01/21/2017Columbia and Ulster., SSNY is designated as 6TC-138412 DEVELOPMENT; NEW Public Records of ES- 01/24/2011. Office locaOrg. filed with Secy. of stricts communication Deposit the agent of the LLC YORK STATE DEPART- SEX County, New York, tion: Essex County.

State of NY (SSNY) on with NYSDOT on pro- Bid SSNY designated as $750,000.00., NO upon whom process 11/14/16. Office loca- curements and contact premises SUPREME COURT OF MENT OF TAXATION covering PLANS. AND FINANCE; UNITED known as 138 HURLEY agent of LLC upon tion: Essex County. can only be made with against it may be served.

THE STATE OF NEW 3 / SSNY shall mail a copy SSNY designated as designated persons. Goals: MBE/WBE YORK COUNTY OF ES- STATES OF AMERICA; AVENUE LAKE PLACID, whom process against it JOSEPH A. PROVON- NY 12946. The relief may be served. SSNY agent of LLC upon Contact with non-desig- 7% of any process to the SEX INDEX NO. CV16whom process against it nated persons or other VN-12/17-12/24/2016CHA, IN HIS CAPACITY sought in the within ac- shall mail process to: 19 LLC at 6 Lilly Lane, 0155 Plaintiff designates Little Otter Lane, Ferrismay be served. SSNY involved Agencies will 2TC-138804 Willsboro, NY 12996.

ESSEX as the place of AS ESSEX COUNTY tion is a final judgment burgh, VT 05456, also shall mail process to: be considered a serious Douglas R. Ferris, P.E. trial situs of the real CLERK, "JOHN DOE #1" directing the sale of the NOTICE OF FORMATION the registered agent 2515 Main St., Apt. 2, matter and may result in described property SUPPLEMEN- through "JOHN DOE premises OF LIMITED LIABILITY President Lake Placid, NY 12946. disqualification. Contact COMPANY (LLC) Name: VN-12/3-1/7/2017-6TCTAL SUMMONS Mort- #12," the last twelve above to satisfy the debt upon whom process may be served. PurPurpose: any lawful ac- Maria Tamarkin (518) Keene Boathouse LLC. 137145 names being fictitious secured by the Mortgage gaged Premises: 138 tivities.

457-8403.

Articles of Organization NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV- HURLEY AVENUE LAKE and unknown to plaintiff, described above. ESSEX pose: any lawful activiVN-12/10-01/14/2016Contracts with 0% Goals filed with the Secretary EN that the Town Board PLACID, NY 12946 Sec- the persons or parties County is designated as ties.

VN-12/17-01/21/20176TC-138247 are generally single op- of State of New York tion: 42.66 Block: 2 Lot: intended being the ten- the place of trial because of the Town of Keene ants, occupants, per- the real property affect- 6TC-138805 eration contracts, where REVERSE (SSNY) on September has set Tuesday, Jan- 17.000 MORTGAGE SOLU- sons or corporations, if ed by this action is loSEALED BIDS will be re- sub-contracting is not 30, 2016. Office Loca- uary 3rd, 2017, at 6:00 NOTICE OF FORMATION any, having or claiming cated in said county. may TIONS, INC., Plaintiff, ceived as set forth in in- expected, and tion: Essex County. The PM, at the Keene Town NOTICE YOU ARE IN OF LIMITED LIABILITY vs. DAVID WATSON, AS an interest in or lien structions to bidders un- present direct bidding SSNY is designated as Hall, as the time and upon the premises, de- DANGER OF LOSING COMPANY Name: Vavro opportunities for Small agent of the LLC upon HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE til 10:30 a.m. on January place to hold the Town scribed in the complaint, YOUR HOME If you do Holdings LLC Articles of Business Firms, includ- whom process against it of Keene 2017 Organiza- OF THE ESTATE OF 12, 2017at the NYSDOT, To the not respond to this sum- organization were filed Contract Management ing, but not limited to, may be served. SSNY tional Town Board Meet- JOHN WATSON; DAVID Defendants. with SSNY on WATSON, AS HEIR AND above named Defen- mons and complaint by Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, D/W/MBEs. shall mail a copy of any ing. dants YOU ARE HERE- serving a copy of the an- 11/21/2016 . Office locaThe Contractor must process to the LLC at: Ellen S. Estes, Town DISTRIBUTEE OF THE 1ST FLOOR, SUITE

BY SUMMONED to an- swer on the attorney for tion: 1479 Highland Rd ESTATE OF JANET WAT1CM, ALBANY, NY comply with the Regula- PO Box 839, Keene Val- Clerk Keeseville, NY 12944, swer the complaint in the mortgage company 12232 and will be pub- tion relative to non-dis- ley NY 12943. Purpose: Dated: December 9, SON, any and all perthis action and to serve who filed this foreclo- County of ESSEX. SSNY sons unknown to plainlicly opened and read. crimination in federally- To engage in any lawful 2016 designated agent of LLC a copy of your answer, sure proceeding against tiff, claiming, or who Bids may also be sub- assisted programs of the act or activity for which VN-12/17/2016-1TCupon whom process or, if the complaint is you and filing the anUSDOT 49 CFR 21. may claim to have an inmitted via the internet limited liability compa- 138898 not served with this swer with the court, a may be served. SSNY Please call (518) 457- nies may be formed interest in, or general or using Bid Express NOTICE OF FORMATION shall mail a copy of prosummons, to serve a default judgment may be 3583 if a reasonable ac- cluding with or without specific lien upon the (www.bidx.com).

OF RL Weber, LLC. Arts. cess to LLC, 1479 Highnotice of appearance on entered and you can commodation is needed real property described A certified or cashier's limitation, management of Org. filed with Secy. land Rd Keeseville, NY to participate in the let- of real estate holdings, in this action; such un- the Plaintiff's Attorney lose your home. Speak check payable to the of State of NY (SSNY) known persons being 12944. Purpose: any within 20 days after the to an attorney or go to NYS Dept. of Trans- ting. and engaging in any and on 10/28/16. Office loBIDDERS SHOULD BE all activities necessary herein generally de- service of this sum- the court where your lawful purpose. portation for the sum specified in the proposal ADVISED THAT AWARD or incidental to the fore- cation: Essex County. scribed and intended to mons, exclusive of the case is pending for fur- VN-12/03-01/07/2016SSNY designated as ther information on how 6TC-137545 OF THESE CONTRACTS or a bid bond, FORM be included in the fol- day of service (or within going. agent of LLC upon to answer the summons MAY BE CONTINGENT CONR 391, representing lowing designation, 30 days after the service VN-12/03-01/07/2016whom process against it namely: the wife, widow, is complete if this sum- and protect your proper- Vision Team Works, 25% of the bid total, UPON THE PASSAGE OF 6TC-137543 LLC Arts of Org. filed may be served. SSNY husband, widower, heirs mons is not personally ty. Sending a payment to A BUDGET APPROPRIAmust accompany each SSNY 10/7/16. Office: the mortgage company TION BILL BY THE LEG- Mountain Song Produc- shall mail process to: at law, next of kin, de- delivered to you within bid. NYSDOT reserves 1149 NYS Rte. 86, Ray scendants, executors, the State of New York) will not stop the foreclo- Essex Co. SSNY design the right to reject any or ISLATURE AND GOVER- tions LLC, Arts of Org Brook, NY 12977. Pur- administrators, filed with SSNY on sure action. YOU MUST agent of LLC upon NOR OF THE STATE OF de- in the event the United all bids.

09/09/16. Off. Loc.: Es- pose: any lawful activi- visees, legatees, credi- States of America is RESPOND BY SERVING whom process may be NEW YORK Electronic documents sex County, SSNY desig- ties.

02, Nicolas tors, trustees, commit- made a party defendant, A COPY OF THE AN- served & mail to PO Box and Amendments are Reg. tees, lienors, and as- the time to answer for SWER ON THE ATTOR- 22, Lake Placid, NY posted to www.dot.ny.- Choubah, Regional Di- nated as agent of LLC VN-11/19-12/24/20166TC-136262 upon whom process rector, 207 Genesee signees of such de- the said United States of NEY FOR THE PLAIN- 12946. General Purpose. gov/doing-business/opagainst it may be served.

TIFF (MORTGAGE COM- VN-12/03-01/07/2016Street, Utica, NY 13501 NOTICE OF FORMATION ceased, any and all per- America shall not expire portunities/const-no6TC-137544 D263389, PIN DRC4.15, SSNY shall mail a copy tices OF LLC: Name: Rooster sons deriving interest in until (60) days after ser- PANY) AND FILING THE vice of the Summons; ANSWER WITH THE Broome, of process to: 634 Hurri- Comb Inn, LLC Articles or lien upon, or title to Contractor is responsi- Albany, Clinton, cane Rd., Keene, NY of Organization filled said real property by, and in case of your fail- COURT. Dated: July 12, ble for ensuring that all Chenango, 2016 RAS BORISKIN, through or under them, ure to appear or answer, Amendments are incor- Columbia, Delaware, Es- 12942. Purpose: to en- with Secretary of State gage in any lawful act.

LLC Attorney for Plaintiff sex, Franklin, Fulton, or either of them, and judgment will be taken porated into its bid. To of New York (SSNY)on VN-12/10/2016-1TCBY: JOSEPH J. KARLYA Hamilton, their respective wives, against you by default receive notification of Greene, 8/12/16 Office location: 138031 III, ESQ. 900 Merchants Jefferson, Amendments via e-mail Herkimer, Essex County. The SSNY widows, husbands, wid- for the relief demanded in the complaint. NO- Concourse, Suite 106 you must submit a re- Lewis, Madison, Mont- NOTICE OF FORMATION is designated as agent of owers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, ex- TICE OF NATURE OF AC- Westbury, NY 11590 quest to be placed on gomery, Oneida, Otsego, of Limited Liability Com- the LLC upon whom AND RELIEF 516-280-7675 Saratoga, pany (LLC) Nellies Bak- process against it may ecutors, administrators, TION the Planholders List at Rensselaer, VN-12/10-12/31/2016Schenectady, Schoharie, ery, LLC. Articles of Or- be served. SSNY shall devisees, legatees, cred- SOUGHT THE OBJECT www.dot.ny.gov/doingSt. Lawrence, Sullivan, ganization filed with the business/opportunities/c mail a copy of any pro- itors, trustees, commit- of the above caption ac- 4TC-138035 Tioga, Ulster, Warren & Secretary of State of cess to the LLC at: tees, lienors and as- tion is to foreclose a onst-planholder.

Mortgage to secure the Washington Cos., Up- New York (SSNY) on 10909 RT. 9N PO BOX signs, all of whom and Amendment may have been issued prior to state East Debris Re- November 14, 2016 for 375 Keene NY 12942. whose names, except as sum of $300,240.00 and moval Contract, Regions Purpose: To engage in stated, are unknown to interest, recorded on your placement on the business conducted 1, 2, 7, 9 and Northern plaintiff; SECRETARY OF March 8, 2007, at Liber Planholders list. from an office located in any lawful act or activity.

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GRANTOR Deborah Healey Julian Castro Lawrence Cromie Eleanore Gladd Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Lee Drollette Lautenschuetz Heather Bouvia Patricia Winch Dannemora Federal Credit Union Jan Lavigne Richard Woodcock Keith Cringle Rudolph Miller Edwin Scollon Andrew Poupore Mark Clark Dannemora Federal Credit Union Singh Ravinderpal Lamba Herbert Recore

GRANTEE Scott Sorrell Joseph Tousignant Daniel Lavarnway Michael Gladd Jennifer Hackett Monica Buskey Keith Aubin Edgar Bousquet Brad Trombley Daniel Holdridge Sonny Giroux Nathan Bunker Wilday Inc. Phillip Scollon Thomas Laprad Alan Mussen Andrew Bordeau Liette Forrett Rand Hill Lawns Inc.

LOCATION Dannemora Chazy Saranac Plattsburgh Clinton Saranac Saranac Plattsburgh Ellenburg Plattsburgh Beekmantown Saranac Mooers Saranac Mooers Peru Dannemora Plattsburgh Schuyler Falls

PRICE $20,000 $45,000 $130,000 $93,500 $60,000 $164,175 $112,000 $90,000 $20,000 $187,000 $1,000 $165,000 $350,000 $40,000 $70,000 $290,000 $14,000 $117,500 $85,000

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ESSEX Malcolm Martin Edward Vanauken Michael Donovan Rudolph Beardsley Ian Martin Ross Dalton Wendy Ewald Veronica Fenn Francis Taitt Francis Taitt Veronica Fenn Wendy Ewald Stephen Pratt Kevin Whitehead Kevin Kinnarney John Lansing William Sullivan Schroon Lake LTD Brian Caza N/A Iftikhar Ahmed CU Factory Built Lending A Div Of Louise Trudel-Hart David Poutre Piedmont Trust Company TR Rudy Sullivan David Dubois George Leveille Paul Assaiante Kiwassa LLC Taylor Bigelow Jarrell Barton Charles Macdonald Scott Ransom Norman Coolidge Michael Daleo Harold Bailey Spencer Hathaway Rudolph Beardsley Geoffrey Day Carol Whalen Paula Monette Omer Mubsm Lisa Keicher Michael Badger Judith Bertsche Omer Mubsm James OÕ Brien Kevin Flanigan Kathleen Kubik Frank Hart Melvin Bosma Melvin Bosma

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Young Lyon Hardware and Flooring 1923 Saranac Ave. Lake Placid, NY 518-523-9855 INSURANCE Booth Insurance Agency 20 Brinkeroff St. Plattsburgh, NY 518-561-3290 Chauvin Agency Champlain 518-298-2000 Rouses Point- 518-297-6602 Plattsburgh- 518-562-9336 Northern Adjustment Bureau NY State Licensed & Bonded General Adjuster/ Public Adjuster 518-563-4701

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