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January 8, 2011
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Facade upgrades in store for the Warrensburg McDonald’s restaurant. See Page 6
All the stats and scores from all your favorite teams.
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Major supermarket, strip mall coming to Exit 23? By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — For decades, business people have talked about how welcome a large supermarket chain would be if it established a new store in town. This week that dream seemed closer to reality, as talk circulated through northern Warren County of the prospects of Price Chopper developing a major new grocery store at the southern entrance to Warrensburg’s downtown.
During the Lake George town board meeting, council members discussed how a real estate developer is looking into building a strip mall containing a major grocery store — reputed to be a Price Chopper supermarket — with as much as 40,000 square feet of floor space. The strip mall would host an unnamed bank and several other stores, they said. They said the developer, who is Barry Feinman of Vanguard Fine Real Estate, has lined up four plots of land off Route 9 across from Warrensburg McDonald’s. The plots sit
on Prosser Road between Super 8 Motel and the Lincoln Logs’ model home, they said. All are within the town of Lake George, although the area is commonly associated with Warrensburg. Feinman said he has signed contracts to purchase the parcels, pending analysis of the plots. “We are conducting our due diligence,” he said. “There are a lot of issues with the land including a huge drop-off.” Feinman said wetlands, grade, and availability of sewer
See PRICE CHOPPER, page 5
Stec assumes helm of Warren County By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com QUEENSBURY — Brand-new Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairman Dan Stec stood up from a seat in the board room he’d occupied for only 20 minutes, and he took a deep breath and smiled. Minutes earlier, he’d stood in front of county officials, his beefy hand planted atop his family Bible, reciting an oath of office. He’d just heard praises for his character aired by both his peers and state Sen. Betty Little, who took time off Warren County supervisors and area offrom her Albany du- ficials watch Tuesday as Queensbury Suties to witness his pervisor Dan Stec — with his hand on his installation as coun- family Bible and his wife Hilary at his side — takes the Oath of Office administered ty chief. Stec had just by county Clerk Pam Vogel. Photo by Thom Randall voiced his first-ever speech as a county official. This State of the County speech was full of warnings, calling for local vigilance in the face of the state’s double-barreled threat of slashed reimbursements and increased costly mandates. Stec exhaled and offered his thoughts about the county supervisors’ upcoming mission. “We need to rely on ourselves, control what we can
See STEC, page 3
A second wave of swimmers charge into Lake George during the annual New Year’s Day Polar Plunge event in Lake George, which attracted a record crowd this year. Photo by Thom Randall
Polar Plunge attracts record crowd By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE — “Let’s go swimming,” the crowd jamming Shepard Park Beach chanted on New Year ’s Day afternoon, as the announcer barked there were just a few minutes left for the first wave of swimmers to rush into the waters of Lake George for the annual New Year ’s Day Polar Plunge event.
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