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July 6, 2013

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Thurman to have enclosed RR station

IN LAKE LUZERNE

By Thom Randall

Cowhands invited to history day

thom@denpubs.com THURMAN „ After a dozen years of stymied plans, dashed hopes and unfulfilled expectations, the town of Thurman is likely to have an enclosed train station like it had up through the first several decades of the 20th century. Plans were launched in the early 2000s for the towns of Hadley and Thurman to have full train stations „ but by 2008, only platforms and parking lots were built for a total cost of $1.3 million, with a local share of more than $500, a sum that distressed taxpayers of Warren County. The countyowned railroad extends from North Creek well into Saratoga County. Iowa Pacific Corp., under contract with the county, now operates the SaratogaNorth Creek Railway over the rails. In 2008, county public works officials assured angry citizens that the two platforms featured drilled wells, septic tanks and leach fields, utility installations, and many other improvements that could be put to use if full stations were ever built on the sites. That plan „ which once was CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

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Two young women enjoyed burying a young man recently at the Shepard Park Beach in Lake George during one of the few sunny days we’ve had this summer season. Photo by Thom Randall

Scientists to examine health of lake By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com BOLTON LANDING — A scientific study of unparalleled scope „ utilizing world-class technology „ is about to be undertaken to assess environmental threats to Lake George. The three-year, multi-million-dollar research project was announced June 27 at the Sagamore Hotel in Bolton Landing by

representatives of the three entities collaborating on the effort: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM and the Fund for Lake George. The project involves placing sensors —both fixed and robotic — around the lake that will measure water currents, pollutant levels, deposition of sediments, presence of micro-organisms, weather changes, and water chemistry. The data will then be transmitted around the clock to supercomputers that will analyze the

data in real time to track and analyze the lakeÍ s health „ and predict its future, RPI President Shirley Ann Jackson said. ñ This project will give scientists the capability to understand the future of the lake under different scenarios,î she said. While scientists from RPIÍ s Darrin Freshwater Institute have been collecting data on water quality and encroaching pollutants for 30 years, the data collected CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

Community band gets new leader PAGE 9 IN CHESTERTOWN

Golf benefit a success PAGE 10

Ski Bowl Lodge to be dedicated to Minder By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com NORTH CREEK „ The late Joseph G. Minder, who endured horrendous conditions as a prisoner of war in World War II „ then found solace in later years in skiing at Gore Mountain „ is to be memorialized

with a local landmark dedicated in his name. The North Creek Ski Bowl Lodge is to be renamed the Joe Minder Lodge in a ceremony set for 3 p.m. Saturday, July 6 at the community facility off Rte. 28 in the town of JohnsburgÍ s hamlet of North Creek. Minder started skiing in 1924 at the age of 7 and he didnÍ t stop skiing „ except for his years as an Army Field Engineer „ until he was well into his 80s.

Minder spent more than three years in brutal conditions in Japanese prison camps in the Pacific. Minder and thousands of other American Soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines were captured in May 1942 after being outnumbered and overpowered by Japanese troops at Fort Corregidor. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

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