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Boat launch survives
CROWN POINT PLAN TO BE UPDATED
State says popular Eagle Lake ramp will remain open for now
State seeks public input for historic site, campground » CP plan Cont. on pg. 8
By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
RAY BROOK | After a public outcry at its proposed closure, the Department of Environmental Conservation will allow the boat launch on Eagle Lake to remain open pending more study, a state forester told the Adirondack Park Agency Thursday. DEC forester Corrie Magee said the launch had become “a topic of much controversy” after Eagle Lake residents discovered that the Hammond Pond Wild Forest Unit Management Plan called for its closure. Residents were also upset the state had not made more of an effort to contact them in light of the change. Magee said the DEC did get the message and reopened the comment period to allow Eagle residents a chance to have their say. The UMP called for the gravel ramp to be blocked with a bar that, to guard against invasive species, would have prevented trailers from being backed into the water. The launch still could have been accessed by canoers and kayakers along with anglers strong enough to slide a small motorboat over the bar. » Boat launch Cont. on pg. 2
Ruins of the French fort at the Crown Point State Historic Site.
Photo by Tim Rowland
Community church gets new home Schroon Lake Community Church has place to call its own By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
SCHROON LAKE | Ten weeks ago, the Rev. Lynnette Cole was on the floor of the Schroon Lake Post Office being attended to by medics, out of breath with her heart racing at 160 beats a minute. Across the street her church was an inferno, belching smoke and flame. As she tried to convince worried first-responders that she wasn’t suffering from smoke inhalation, townspeople kept dropping in to offer support, even as she understood that very shortly her congregation would need her own support and comfort as they never had before. Even as firefighters were still battling flare-ups at the Schroon Lake Community Church, Cole gathered herself and began to think about the future. “I knew we could need a gathering space for that night so we could be as one,” she said. Father Kevin D. McEwan, then pastor at St. Mary’s in Ticonderoga and Our Lady of
Lourdes in Schroon Lake, quickly offered his church as sanctuary for the Community Church’s distraught parishioners. “He was so amazingly kind and hospitable,” Cole said. “He said, ‘This space is open to you for as long as you need it.’” The congregation gratefully accepted the offer, although Cole said, “We knew it was important for us to have our own space.” This month, that realization was fulfilled.
‘INCREDIBLY GRACIOUS’
On March 3, the Schroon Lake Community Church, which burned on the second day of the New Year, held their first worship service in their new home, a former restaurant and tavern originally known as the Schroon Lake Inn just north of town. Cole said the church signed a two-year lease, and the spacious building will remain home until a new church can be built where the former one stood. She said the owners, Mark and Brenda Carpenter, “have been incredibly gracious, and taken care of everything we needed.” The pulpit — one room removed from the bar — is in what was a dining room, filled with chairs and tables, allowing for flexibility that’s hospitable for both Sunday services
and weekday coffees. Ample grounds will permit outdoor assemblies and a sunroom will serve for social functions. Most of all, Cole said, it’s a place where the congregation can again be at one with God.
STORIES CAME ALIVE
Cole had graduated from college at Albany and was going through a bad period when someone mentioned the clergy. She was dubious, feeling that she hadn’t kept up with her grades enough to be accepted into a master’s program. But after agreeing to rededicate herself to her studies, she was accepted into the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Cole had gone to undergrad with the intention of being a teacher, but, almost immediately, she warmed to theology. Already interested in history, Pastor Lynnette Cole outside the new home of the stories of the Bible came alive. the Schroon Lake Community Church. Photo by Tim Rowland Washington, she said, was exciting for a while, but on graduation she was ready odist and Church of Christ, has its own to return to her upstate roots. The Methodist history, dating back to the middle of the church assigns congregations, although Cole 19th century. In something of a reversal of was able to ask for a parish in eastern New York. swords being beaten into ploughshares, the She was assigned to Schroon Lake in July 2016, original church bell was said to have been and fell in love with the area and the people. melted down for munitions in the Civil War. The church, a federation of United Meth» Church Cont. on pg. 10
The peace that wasn’t
Ti Historical Society WWI program relives the failings of Versailles By Tim Rowland STA FF W RITER
TICONDEROGA | Perhaps no peace has led to so much war. Even as it was being signed to much outward fanfare, the Treaty of Versailles that brought an official end to World War I was being bitterly savaged not just by the losers, but the winners as well. The critics, history would show, were right. On Friday, March 29, the Ticonderoga Historical Society will open its 2019 program season with a presentation commemorating the end of the First World War — “Versailles: The Peace to End all Peace.” The talk will take place at the Hancock House, 6 Moses Circle, Ticonderoga. Photo provided
» WWI program Cont. on pg. 7
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