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thom@denpubs.com ADIRONDACK, NY — Members of the Town of Horicon Historical Society have embarked on a project to restore the Union Church and convert it into a satellite museum affiliated with their organization, and they are now recruiting donors or volunteers to assist. The Society members seek to have the church restored and reopened as a historical museum in time for Warren County’s bicentennial celebrations in 2013, group spokeswoman Edna Trumble said this week. The church was built in 1881 in the hamlet of Adirondack NY, which is in the Town of Horicon. While the church itself is sound, the foundation needs replacing and the interior will need some restoration, she said. The Society plans to add gardens in the back yard surrounding the church’s historic outhouse, she added. The church’s original pulpit, organ, associated furniture, chandelier, a huge copper lantern, and the church’s

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A team of competitors in the Lake George Winter Carnival outhouse race Feb. 4 lurch off the starting line.

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Carnival goes on despite lack of ice By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — The Lake George Winter Carnival drew a crowd of thousands this weekend, despite a

lack of thick ice on the lake, event organizers said Monday. Saturday was the big draw for the frosty festival, with the zany annual outhouse races cheered on by about 500 people, race official Linda Duffy said. “With temperatures in the 30s, it was

a beautiful day, and a lot of people turned out,” she said. The lack of thick lake-ice meant the handmade outhouse contraptions were pulled across man-made snow packed onto a parking lot off Beach Road, rather than over the ice atop Lake

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RR operator seeks to invest $1M in tracks

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The proposal calls for the county to temporarily forego its contractual 6 percent slice of the railway revenue beyond a minimum of $81,958 — in return for Iowa Pacific investing about $1 million up front in upgrades to the county track that stretches between Corinth and North Creek.

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