By PETE KLEIN

Express News Staff

LONG LAKE - The Long Lake Town Board held its annual organizational meeting Wednesday, Jan. 11, passing 50 resolutions to do the job. All 50 can be viewed online at www.mylonglake.com.

The Town Board will meet the second and last Wednesdays of each month at 7:30 p.m. Most meetings will be held at Town Hall; those of March 14, July 25, Sept. 12 and Nov. 14 will be held at the Raquette Lake school.

Cynthia Thompson is deputy supervisor. Steven Burch is deputy highway superintendent.

Michele Hoffman and Abbie Verner are deputy town clerks. Town Clerk Dixie Lee LeBlanc is registrar of vital statistics and Cynthia Thompson is deputy registrar of vital statistics.

Harry D. Buxton was reappointed as code enforcement officer. Town historians are Jeanne F. Plumley for Long Lake and James Kammer for Raquette Lake.

The town supervisor is chief fiscal officer and budget officer. Tina Burnett is the court clerk.

Cynthia Thompson is confidential secretary to the supervisor and bookkeeper and Jennifer Crim is confidential secretary. Both are bookkeepers for the Highway Department and both water districts.

Donald Hoffman is the dog control officer and Dixie Lee LeBlanc is deputy dog control officer.

Dr. Russell E. Rider is the town’s health officer and chief executive officer of the Board of Health.

Attorneys to the town are Carl T. Ferrentino, Albany, and Karen Martell of Lemery Greisler LLC, Saratoga Springs. John Deming of Adirondack Professional Services, Elizabethtown, is town surveyor.

Jane Bissell, M. John Hosley and Captain Dean Pohl are marriage officers. Bruce Jennings is the custodian of Long Lake Cemetery.

North Country Public Radio is the official radio station for state of emergency notices. The (Glens Falls) Post-Star is the town’s official daily newspaper.

PELLET PLANT

The board authorized Supervisor Clark Seaman to close on the purchase of 45.9 acres of land from The Nature Conservancy adjacent to Tarbell Hill Road.

Seaman reported representatives from an undisclosed wood pellet manufacturing company, who are looking at possible sites in the North Country to build a pellet plant, had visited TNC property earlier that day. Seaman said, “They were very professional and noncommittal. We won’t know for a while if we will be chosen.”

The Long Lake Town Board will next meet Wednesday, Jan. 25, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall.