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Willie Playmore performs at Wayne Stock V Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Ski Bowl Park in North Creek. See the story on page 10. Photo by McKenna Kelly
RR freight to move soon on Tahawus line By Andy Flynn andy@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — Officials from the Saratoga & North Creek Railway (SNCRR) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, Aug. 8 at the North Creek train station to celebrate the opening of the Tahawus freight line to North River. After the ribbon-cutting, VIPs took a
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ceremonial inspection train on the first 6 miles of the 30-mile line that have been refurbished. They stopped behind the Barton Mine plant before returning to North Creek. It was the first time a train had run on the tracks since the Tahawus mine closed in 1989. Dignitaries involved in the ceremony included: Ed Ellis, president, Iowa Pacific Holdings, Inc.; Steve Torrico, general manager, Saratoga & North Creek Railway; Steve Gregory, executive vice president marketing, SNC
Railway; Mike McConville, executive vice president operations, SNC Railway; officials from the town of Johnsburg; officials from the Federal Railroad Administration; and officials from Canadian Pacific Railway. The SNCRR offers daily passenger service from Saratoga Springs to North Creek, but officials are counting on the freight coming out of the Barton garnet mine and the old Tahawus mine in the town of Newcomb to be profitable. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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andy@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK — The 9th Annual Upper Hudson Bluegrass Festival returns to North Creek Aug. 17-19 with more than a dozen acts providing more than 30 hours of music, including several national stars and regional favorites. National headline acts will in-
clude Audie Blaylock & Redline, Goldwing Express, Vern Young and James King. Regional favorites will include Smokey Greene of Queensbury, Dave Nichols and Spare Change of Malone and the Atkinson Family of Harrisville. Audie Blaylock & Redline is noted for hit songs such as “I’m Going Back to Old Kentucky,” “Cry, Cry Darlin’” and “Out in the Cold.” Their new album is called “Hard Country” and includes the single “A
Natural Thing.” Goldwing Express performs more than 200 shows a year on stage in Branson, Mo. Vern Young has been performing for more than 60 years and has won the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music Association mid-west vocalist of the year award six times, most recently in 2003. “If James King’s rendition of ‘Bed by the Window,’ the song that launched his stellar bluegrass career, doesn’t bring you to tears, I’m
not sure what will,” said Upper Hudson Bluegrass Festival co-organizer Lloyd Burch. Remington Ryde, of McClure, Pa., returns this year along with HoneyGrass, of Ontario. New to the North Creek stage will be the No One You Know Band, of West Virginia. The rest of the acts not already mentioned will be Rivergrass of the Thousand Islands Region, Cedar CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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LONG LAKE — The artists of the Adirondacks will gather for a night of musical jam sessions and book signing Tuesday, Aug. 14 at the Adirondack Authors’ Night behind Hoss’s Country Corner. “We have been holding this event for almost 28 years,” said Hoss’s owner Lorrie Hosley. “People plan their vacations around the event, and we can’t disappoint them.” The evening will include more than 57 authors, songwriters, and storytellers who have been published and featured at Hoss’s and have been hand selected by Hosley. “It’s a lot of fun for people who have enjoyed a book to meet the author, and it gives the authors a spark and says thank you to them for creating their works,” Hosley said. “It’s a very vibrant evening.” All selected authors have been chosen because their
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