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Events planned in region
Regular season wraps up
North Creek, Lake George and elsewhere
Essex County looks at wood pellet heating option
Northern Forest Center pitches supers on heating system By Keith Lobdell
keith@suncommunitynews.com
ELIZABETHTOWN Ñ With a new county kitchen and several capital projects going on throughout the county, members of the Economic Development Committee heard about an alternative heating source during its May 8 meeting. Leslie Karasin from the Northern Forest Center of the Adirondack Model Neighborhood Wood Heat Initiative spoke to members of the board, telling them about the wood pellet heating services they provide to municipalities and non-profits. Ò Our goal was to discover how can we heat our homes and buildings with the forest resources we have in the region,Ó Karasin said. Ò All sorts of entities have benefited from he installation of these boilers.Ó Karasin, based out of Concord, N.H., said her company provides heating services to an area covering parts of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. She based her presentation on two main points: Cheaper cost for heating and the ability to help the local economy. Ò The North Country spends $200 million in heating oil, 80 percent immediately leaves our region and does not benefit us,Ó Karasin said. Ò It hurts us to write those huge fuel oil checks and it hurts use more because that money does not stay here locally. This keeps the money invested locally.Ó Locally, bulk pellet mills can be found in Massena and Rutland, Vt., as well as just outside Utica. Karasin added that she had been talking with Essex Box and Pallet about the program Ò through another branch.Ó Ò They do not currently manufacture bulk pellets. We have been talking to them about producing bulk pellets in the future,Ó she said. >> See PELLETS | pg. 5
CLEAN STREETS: Members of Our Town Theatre spent May 6 collecting trash and sprucing up the neighborhood along Main Street in North Creek, a stretch of highway the theatre group has adopted. Photo by Mike Corey
GreatÊ AdirondackÊ GarageÊ SaleÊ toÊ return Seventh annual region-wide sale set for Memorial Day weekend LONG LAKE Ñ Now in its seventh year, the Great Adirondack Garage Sale will return on Memorial Day weekend. The regional garage sale, started in 2010, has grown to encompass an over 200 mile Ò trailÓ stretching from Malone to Speculator and Old Forge to Newcomb Ò Memorial Day weekend in May is traditionally the time when second-homeowners open up their camps and weÕ re hoping we get people motivated to clear out their garages, attics, and basements,Ó said Alexandra Roalsvig, Director of Parks, Recreation and Tourism for the Town of Long Lake.
Ò The more participation, the bigger impact the event will have, so we encourage our residents and second homeowners to sign up and sell, sell, sell!Ó The Town of Long Lake will have space available for outside vendors to sell their wares both in Long Lake and Raquette Lake. For more information, call 624-3077 and ask for Steph Hample. The regional garage sale includes Old Forge, Inlet, Raquette Lake, Indian Lake, Blue Mountain Lake, Long Lake, Tupper Lake, Lake Clear, Paul Smiths, Malone, Cranberry Lake, Piercefield, Childwold, Newcomb and Speculator. Each community will have a printed map to hand out during the event with mapped garage sale locations. Participants should visit greatadirondackgaragesale.com for more information and to register individual sale locations.