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Landscaping background helps artist’s work.
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Jazz Weekend features both veteran and emerging artists By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE — Annually for 27 years, the Lake George Jazz Weekend has brought innovative, top quality jazz to upstate New York. Year after year, the festival has attracted knowledgeable jazz enthusiasts who are aware the event showcases the idiom’s finest musicians and presented their artistry in an incomparable setting. This year, the festival’s concerts, Saturday, Sept. 18 and Sunday, Sept. 19, are preceded by a related event Friday, Sept. 17 — a special jazz cruise and party celebrating the 80th birthday of jazz performer, composer, arranger and conductor David Amram, who’s been hailed as “The Renaissance Man of American Music” by the Boston Globe.
John Urdi of Bow, New Hampshire climbs into his 1939 Ford Coupe Sunday during the Adirondack Nationals Car Show, headquartered at the Fort William Henry Resort in Lake George Village. Thousands attended the annual weekend gathering of classic vehicle enthusiasts, and local officials said the village was extremely busy during the event. To the right of the 1939 Ford is a twotone 1933 Ford and a 1955 Chevrolet sedan.
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APA chief: Let’s move past rhetoric By Jon Alexander denpubs@denpubs.com RAY BROOK — Adirondack Park Agency chairman Curt Stiles told the Essex County Board of Supervisors Sept. 7 that divisive rhetoric has split the park residents for too long and only a commitment to facts will move the region forward. He said the “spin” imposed on APA topics recurringly by local governments and environmental groups is slowing progress on the immediate issues facing the region’s 103 communities. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s destructive — it’s not productive dialogue,” he said. “When facts are completely distorted — look at the campaign stuff going on right now — then you get the next guy on the radio fact checking saying it’s half true or less. That’s not politics, that’s not what this government was designed to do.” Stiles said his aim was not to stifle debate.
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Cavalcade decision deadline looming By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE — The Warren County Board of Supervisors sounded yet another false alarm Friday when they postponed a decision on the fate of the former Cavalcade of Cars building. That decision was deferred until Friday Sept. 17 after several conflicting resolutions were passed and then one was rescinded at the board’s Gaslight Ad-hoc Committee meeting Friday, due to board members’ misunderstanding of what they’d passed. But the outcome was that one resolution was passed to allow the renovation of the building by the Town of Lake George as an events center, and another one was passed ordering its demolition.
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