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Mealsite poised to leave the downtown WA R R E N S B U R G — Spared the budget axe just months ago, the Warrensburg Senior Mealsite is now set to move, for the first time ever, to a location outside the hamlet. Within several weeks, the mealsite — operated by the Warren County Office for the Aging — is scheduled to move to Countryside Adult Home, 1.7 miles north of downtown on Schroon River Road. The move will occur as soon as the state Department of Health officially approves hosting the meals at Countryside, according to Office for the Aging Director Christie Sabo. She added that health department staffers have said that there seems to be no problem with the changeover. For many years, the senior meal program has been conducted in the basement of the First United Methodist Church on upper Main St. Sabo said the planned move is due primarily to difficulties accessing the basement site. Seniors now have to walk down a steep, narrow stairwell to get into the church basement, and easy
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Celebrating the summer-like weather, Sara-Michele Bates, 3, plays with a clock March 19 at the Warrensburg town playground off Library Ave.
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Rickshaw rides may come to Lake George By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — Ten to 20 pedalpowered rickshaws may be whisking tourists around town as soon as this
summer, according to plans now being concocted by two area entrepreneurs. Steve Tomb and Mike Smith of Adirondack Pedal Cab Co. presented their plans Monday March 19 to the Lake George Village Board, seeking a contract to operate in the village. The
contract, similar to the agreement the village now has in effect with the horse carriage services, would provide several sites, most likely along Canada St., for the rickshaws to park. Several locations suggested along Canada St. include one adjacent to Fun World
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Thurman supervisor confirms her Assembly run
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By Thom Randall ATHOL — Citing her deep local heritage and personal experience with Adirondack issues, Thurman Supervisor Evelyn Wood confirmed her intentions this week to run for
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the state Assembly seat to be vacated in December by Teresa Sayward. Wood made her announcement Wednesday March 14 at a press conference in the Thurman Town Hall. She mused that for years she had raised crops and livestock on her family farm and had carried pails of water with a wooden yoke over her shoulders — experience that gave
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