Last Updated: Monday, May 20, 2013 10:43:48 PM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
SPECULATOR - The Village of Speculator has learned it will receive $170,000 in state Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program funds this year, enough to pay the entire cost of the new snowplow that is on order with about $11,000 left over.
Superintendent of Highways Roger Blanchard had expected the village would have to put about $8,000 toward the new Mack truck, but the State of New York has since bumped CHIPs allotments up for this year after they re ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:10:42 AM
Wednesday, May 22: 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347.
Thursday, May 23: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC).
Friday, May 24: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Tuesday, May 28: 6:30pm, Piseco Ambulance Corps meets, headquarters; 7pm, LP Fire Dept. Drill Night, fire hall; 7pm, Speculator Planning Board meets, Village Hall; 7pm, Speculator Board of Trustees meets, Village Hall; 7:15pm, Speculator Fire Dept. Drill Night, fir ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:34:00 PM
BY SHIRLEY SMITH, president
Friends of the Lake Pleasant Library
Our May shipment of books, CDs and DVDs is in, so stop in and check them out.
Adult Non-Fiction: "All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings" by George H.W. Bush, "Simply Knitting" by Erika Knight and "The Grand Tour" by Agatha Christie.
Adult Fiction: "Breaking Point" by C.J. Box, "Daddy's Gone A Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark; "Don't Go" by Lisa Scottoline, "Drop Dead Chocolate" by Jessica Beck, "English Tri ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:25:35 PM
By CAITLIN STEWART
Special to the News
PISECO - Piseco's After School students recently became beetle detectives.
During a hands-on presentation hosted by the Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation District, third-, fourth- and fifth-graders learned about the life cycle, invasion clues and adverse impacts of the invasive emerald ash borer.
The program kicked off with nitty-gritty definitions. Students knew native organisms are ones that have been in the Adirondacks for a long time, and inva ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:15:42 PM
LAKE PLEASANT--The Ladies Tuesday Morning Golf League at Lake Pleasant Golf Course on Rt. 8 here is seeking new members. Tee time is 9 a.m. Tuesdays during July and August.
Members of all abilities are welcome, and one does not need to be a member of Lake Pleasant Golf. Golf league members pay when they play. There are reduced green fees for league players.
A league meeting will be held Tuesday, June 25, at 8:30 a.m. at the golf course. Those who wish to play after the meeting should be ready to ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013 9:13:11 PM
SPECULATOR - SmartWatt Energy will host a Memorial Day Weekend event Saturday, May 25, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Charlie Johns Store here.
The event will feature a barbecue, beer tasting, bouncy house, music, giveaways, store sales and more to showcase the improved store.
Charlie Johns, a Big M grocery store established in 1939, is expected to save more than $39,810 a year in energy costs after a multi-measure, energy-efficiency upgrade completed by SmartWatt Energy, Albany.
SmartWatt addresses ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:00:51 AM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
PISECO - The Arietta Town Board has decided not to appoint anyone to fill the vacant councilman position created by the sudden death of James Farber April 11. The remaining four board members unanimously decided Monday, May 6, to leave the seat empty until someone is elected in November.
With Assessor William Parslow planning to retire from that position effective Oct. 1, the board has decided it will appoint William Hotaling as assessor when the time comes. Terms are ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:09:46 AM
Wednesday, May 15: 8am, Senior Shopping Bus leaves Senior Center--reservations 548-4653; 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347; 6pm, Covered Dish Supper, PCH.
Thursday, May 16: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC); 11:30am-12pm, Ask The Nurse, LP Meal Site.
Friday, May 17: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Monday, May 20: 9am, Osteobusters, GMC; 6pm, Morehouse Fire Dept. Drill Night, firehouse; 7pm, SpARC meets, LP Fire Hall; ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 7:56:17 AM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
SPECULATOR - The Lake Pleasant Central School District will propose a 2013-14 budget next week that would raise the tax levy by 3.43 percent, $66 less than its cap for this year.
The cap is above 2 percent because part of the tax levy is excluded from the calculation. Capital expenditures, payments in lieu of taxes and pension costs may be excluded when calculating the tax cap.
Exclusions total $476,154; for the current school year they are $444,182.
The proposed budge ...
Last Updated: Saturday, May 11, 2013 11:56:02 PM
ALBANY - The New York State Department of Transportation has announced that Route 10 between routes 29 and 10A will be closed for the next two months for roadwork.
Route 10 was closed to non-local traffic Tuesday, May 7. DOT maintenance forces are performing various construction operations such as shoulder reconstruction, concrete joint repair and paving.
Signed detours advise motorists of the road closure and direct traffic to the appropriate detour.
Motorists are also advised of roadwork on ro ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 12:10:47 AM
Wednesday, May 8: 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347; 1:30pm, LP Senior Citizens meet, Senior Center; 6pm, LP School Board meets, school.
Thursday, May 9: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC); 6pm, Piseco School Board meets, school; 7pm, Budget Hearing, Piseco School.
Friday, May 10: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Monday, May 13: 9am, Osteobusters, GMC; 7pm, Speculator Board of Trustees meets, Village Hall; 7pm, Morehou ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:50:09 PM
SPECULATOR - The Adirondacks Speculator Region Chamber of Commerce will officially unveil its new interactive website May 22, during its annual Chamber of Commerce Member Dinner at Oak Mountain Ski Center here.
The first thing users will notice is the new look. The chamber has taken the "less is more" approach to the home page and only included the most essential information. It wants visitors, both to the website and the area, to be struck by the region's inherent appeal.
The chamber wants to p ...
Last Updated: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:04:04 PM
JOHNSTOWN - Juniors Brianne O'Rourke and Abby Bobbette, Piseco residents attending Johnstown High School, were inducted into the William A. Wright Chapter of the National Honor Society April 11.
The National Honor Society is the nation's premier organization recognizing outstanding high school students who demonstrate excellence in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service and character. It is sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:09:14 AM
Wednesday, May 1: 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347; 7pm, Piseco Fire Dept. Auxiliary meets, PCH.
Thursday, May 2: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC); 9:30-10:30am, Ask The Nurse, HC Courthouse; 7pm, Adk. Breast Cancer Support Group meets, PCH--548-6500.
Friday, May 3: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Monday, May 6: 9am, Osteobusters, GMC; 6pm, Arietta Town Board meets, PCH; 7pm, LP Town Board meets, Town Hall.
Tuesda ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:40:06 PM
Sterling Crescimanno won Day 3 in the United States Ski Team Freestyle Selections Dec. 22, 2012 at Copper Mountain, Colo. The event is held every December as part of International Ski Federation competitions to qualify athletes for NorAm and World Cup starts. Sterling, 20, competed on the full NorAm tour in February. He is the son of Stephen Crescimanno and Mare Sturgill, who have owned a house on Oxbow Road in Lake Pleasant since 1994. (Photo/Kirk Paulson)
Last Updated: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:34:46 PM
LAKE PLEASANT - How would you feel if you woke up in a hospital with no memory of who you are or how you got there, only to find out someone had tried to kill you...and they're still out there?
Set in 2003, "Last Stop on Desolation Ridge" is the third self-published novel by Peter G. Pollak, a summer resident here. "Last Stop" takes place in Gloversville and the Adirondacks.
Pollak's first novel, "The Expendable Man" (2011), a political thriller, involves a business executive framed by a powerfu ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:25:43 AM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
SPECULATOR - It looks as if Oak Mountain LLC owes seven months worth of property taxes on Oak Mountain Ski Center here.
Barry Baker, director of Hamilton County Real Property Tax Services, says Oak Mountain LLC was supposed to start paying taxes when it signed a sale agreement with the Hamilton County Industrial Development Agency Aug. 3, 2012 and up to when a payment in lieu of taxes agreement went into effect March 1 of this year.
According to Baker, "2013 town and c ...
Last Updated: Thursday, April 25, 2013 2:12:23 PM
By PETE KLEIN
Express News Staff
SPECULATOR - The Village of Speculator will repair the right-of-way at the end of Elliot Lane for the last time.
Claire Craven, who owns the former "The Hangar" property near the end of Elliot Lane, asked the Board of Trustees Monday, April 22, to repair the unpaved section of the road where her vacation home is located.
According to Craven, the Highway Department damaged the road when plowing snow and picking up garbage.
Mayor Letty Rudes, who sold the property ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013 7:47:28 PM
Wednesday, April 24: 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347.
Thursday, April 25: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC).
Friday, April 26: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Monday, April 29: 9am, Osteobusters, GMC.
Tuesday, April 30: 5pm, AA meets, LP UMC; 6:30pm, Piseco Ambulance Corps meets, headquarters; 7pm, LP Fire Dept. Drill Night, fire hall; 7:15pm, Speculator Fire Dept. Drill Night, fire hall.
Wednesday, May 1: 9:30am ...
Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:55:42 PM
By PETE KLEIN
Express News Staff
LAKE PLEASANT – Peace now reigns on the border between the towns of Lake Pleasant and Arietta.
The Lake Pleasant Town Board authorized Supervisor Neil McGovern April 15 to sign the New York State Supreme Court stipulation discontinuing action on the boundary line dispute between the two towns.
The resolution notes that “Supervisor Neil McGovern and Supervisor Rick Wilt of Arietta both agree that the parties in the matter of the judgment pursuant to Co ...
Last Updated: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:47:56 AM
Wednesday, April 17: 8am, Senior Shopping Bus leaves Senior Center--reservations 548-4653; 9:30am, Adk Lakes Quilters meets, Piseco Community Hall--548-6347; 6pm, Covered Dish Supper, PCH.
Thursday, April 18: 9am, Osteobusters, Grace Methodist Church (GMC); 11:30am-12pm, Ask The Nurse, LP Meal Site.
Friday, April 19: 3:30-5:30pm, Food Pantry Open, North Country Bible Fellowship.
Monday, April 22: 9am, Osteobusters, GMC; 7pm, Speculator Board of Trustees meets, Village Hall.
Tuesday, April 23 ...
Last Updated: Monday, April 15, 2013 9:12:09 PM
Members of the Lake Pleasant Central School Drama Club practiced their lines, singing and dancing for weeks before performing the musical romp "Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr." April 12 and 13. When small-town girl Millie Dillmount goes to New York City in 1922 she delights in the flapper lifestyle, but checks into a hotel owned by the leader of a slavery ring in China. The play is filled with dashing leading men, frisky flappers and a villainess audiences love to hate.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:40:36 AM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
SPECULATOR - The Village of Speculator 2013-14 Budget exceeds the cap on an increase to the tax levy by $30,439.
The tax levy for the current fiscal year was $793,667. It is $846,051 for the new fiscal year, a difference of $52,384 or 6.6 percent. The cap is 2.77 percent.
The Board of Trustees adopted a local law allowing it to exceed the tax cap by a vote of 60 percent or more of the board. The budget was adopted unanimously Monday, April 15.
The General Fund shows ap ...
Last Updated: Sunday, April 14, 2013 1:02:27 PM
By CRISTINE MEIXNER
Editor
SPECULATOR - The Village of Speculator will exceed the cap on any increase to its tax levy in the 2013-14 budget by $30,439 unless further cuts are made to the budget.
The tax levy for the current fiscal year was $793,667. As of April 1 it was $846,051 for the new fiscal year, a difference of $52,384 or 6.6 percent. The cap is 2.77 percent without allowed adjustments.
The board reviewed the draft 2013/14 Budget one more time, cutting appropriations by $55,300, from $1, ...
Last Updated: Saturday, April 13, 2013 4:42:26 PM
The osprey pair has returned to their nest at the bridge over State Route 8 in the Town of Lake Pleasant. It is the prefect location for the fish hawk, which dines almost exclusively on live fish and dives feet first into the water to catch them.
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