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By Keith Lobdell keith@denpubs.com LAKE PLACID — There will soon be a lot more to the Adirondack Park experience for tourists and sportsmen. Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a trip to the Lake Placid Conference Center Sunday, Aug. 5, to officially sign off on the state’s acquisition of 69,000 acres of land formerly owned by Finch Pruyn for inclusion into the Adirondack Park Forest Preserve. The state will partner with the Nature Conservancy to conserve the land as well as provide access to areas previously off-limits to many. “This is a stellar accomplishment and a beautiful gift that we can leave to our children,” Cuomo said. “This is going to make the
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SARANAC LAKE — Only four months after joining the Saranac Lake Village Board, Trustee Paul Van Cott is tackling an emotional issue for residents: re-establishing a municipal beach at Lake Flower.
Since the village beach was moved from Lake Flower to Lake Colby in 1976, residents have debated whether it should be moved back to a central location, its original location at Lake Flower. The beach at Lake Flower was closed in order to build the state highway on River Street in the mid-
1970s, a stretch of road the Adirondack Daily Enterprise once called a “fourlane drag strip.” (It is no longer four lanes.) The move was by no means popular. A number of residents have unsuccessfully submitted proposals and petitions to the Village Board over the years to reopen a beach at
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Lake Flower. The inconvenient distance from downtown and complaints of “duck itch” have plagued Lake Colby’s image and hurt its attendance over the years. Accessibility has been the main issue, so much so that a bike path was built in 1976 CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
ELIZABETHTOWN — A resolution to purchase new buses and equipment as part of the Essex County Public transportation Department did not make it to the floor. Instead, Board of Supervisors Chairman Randy Douglas requested and received a motion to withdraw the resolution during the Aug. 6 meeting of the body. CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
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