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Current Date | Time: Friday, September 03, 2010 | 11:07 AM

Cristine Meixner - Brenda Valentine of Indian Lake, right, hand-delivers an invitation to attend the Great Adirondack Moose Festival in Indian Lake Sept. 18-19 to Sen. Charles Schumer.

Schumer pushing a new bill to boost tourism in country

By CRISTINE MEIXNER

Editor

BLUE MT. LAKE — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is working hard to get the Travel Regional Investment Partnership Act passed.

The TRIP Act would provide $50 million over five years for public-private partnerships on tourism-related projects across the country. Grants of up to $1 million each would be issued to improve parks, build tourism infrastructure and market tourist destinations, Schumer says.

“Importantly, the legislation will benefit communities that don’t have h ...

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Police probing burglary string

By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
LAKE PLEASANT—Police are investigating a string of burglaries that took ...

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Solid waste plan to be updated

By PETE KLEIN
Staff Reporter

LAKE PLEASANT—The Hamilton County Board of Supervisors agrees with ...

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Wells Supervisor Towers escapes serious injury on Algonquin Dam

By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor

WELLS—Town of Wells Supervisor Brian Towers narrowly escaped serious ...

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Sports

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RAQUETTE LAKE — A pair of Saranac Lake men won the Raquette Lake Bass Fishing Derby for the second t ...

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Columns

New regulations allow hunting with air guns
by Ron Kolodziej

If you haven’t already done so, you’ll probably be buying your new 2010 - 2011 hunting, fishing and trapping licenses soon. When you do so, be sure to pick up a copy of the new Hunting & Trapping Regulations Guide. They may be in shorter supply this year because fewer of them have been printed and distributed to license-issuing agents, but if you keep trying I’m certain you can round up a copy to keep on hand since there’s a lot of helpful and interesting information in there.
Most notably, ...

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Viewpoints

Letters to the Editor - 09/01/2010

Summer season notable

Dear Ms. Meixner,
Sunday evening, Aug. 22, we stood with other spectators at a packed house in Indian Lake to cheer the cast and crew of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” We want to express our admiration for Stephen Svoboda and the staff at Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.
The 2010 Summer Theatre Festival was innovative, varied, well staged and fun, not least because we saw community members on stage with professionals. In Stephen Svoboda, ALCA has a ...

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Police Reports

Police Report - 09/01/2010

Thursday, Aug. 12, 11:50am: Two whitewater rafters in the Hudson Gorge Primitive Area, Town of Indian Lake, were thrown from a raft and injured.
Greg Hogan, 25, and a 15-year-old male, both of Warwick, RI were ejected from the raft when it took a large wave sideways. The youth aggravated a preexisting shoulder injury while swimming and Hogan injured his lower back when he was pinned between the raft and a rock.
Forest rangers and ambulance personnel carried Hogan to a waiting ambulance. The yo ...

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