Adirondack Journal 09-19-09

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Residents remember heroes and horror during memorial.

Lincoln Logs is moving forward under new ownership.

Little tikes wear spikes and get on the gridiron in youth football play. Page 14

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Cell phone carriers Oscar’s Smokehouse recovery effort under way wary of APA rules By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com

Cell tower proposed for Pottersville By Jonathan Alexander denpubs@denpubs.com

Oscar’s Smokehouse employees dig through the charred wreckage Wednesday of the fire that destroyed the 63-year old gourmet meat and cheese processing operation that is an economic mainstay of Warrensburg.

Warren County leaders forgive $3,681 overpayment to former worker By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com QUEENSBURY — Warren County leaders voted Sept. 9 to forgive and forget an overpayment of $3,681 to a county worker who hasn't responed to requests from the county Treasurer for restitution of the

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RAY BROOK — Representatives from four prominent cell phone carriers told the Adirondack Park Agency Board of Commissioners Sept. 9 that locating competing companies’ cell transmitters on a single tower is problematic and that the agency’s tower policy is hindering further cell service expansion in the Park. Representatives from Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint/Nextel told APA commissioners that placing multiple carriers on a single tower isn’t feasible for technical reasons and may be violate Federal Communications Commission collusion laws. Gene Fassett, director of operations for Verizon in upstate New York, said that APA rules hindered cell expansion. “The Adirondacks are a big area with the least amount of service in the state,” Fassett said. “Wireless is a line-of-sight technology and the height restrictions here severely limit the number of potential sites and greatly increase the cost of constructing a new tower.” Faced with dozens of cell tower permit applications — including one for a tower in Pottersville — the APA is searching for methods of reducing the impact the towers have on the aesthetic character of the park by influencing companies to co-locate cellular transmitters at common sites. This month alone, the agency is considering two permits for towers in North Hudson that would be less than 2,000 feet apart. But according to Bob Holliday of AT&T, there are technical differences between the companies’ services that make this impossible. “There are three types of cellular service; GSM, PCS and idem,” Holliday said. “Putting the three together just isn’t feasible.” Fassett added that due to the APA’s height restrictions that limit cell towers from rising substantially above the surrounding treetops in the park, even if multiple carriers of the same type were added, only the one at the very top of the tower would be effective. “We are limited to being just above the tree tops,” Fassett said. “The carriers locating transmitters under it would get very little out of being there.”

WARRENSBURG — Jerry Quintal, owner of Oscar ’s Smokehouse, sat in a four-wheeler Wednesday and watched employees dig tons of spoiled meat out of the charred ruins of what had been days before a flourishing profitable nationally-known business in uptown Warrensburg. Excavators groaned as they cleared the mounds of burnt wreckage of the 9,500-square-feet building that had a half-dozen wings and additions and too many rooms to count, Quintal said. “We’re meeting with federal and state officials to see if we can rebuild making it ‘green,’” he said, noting he wanted to help the environment and keep costs down by totally re-engineering the massive meat-smoking operation. “We want to do the ‘right thing.’” Quintal, in turn, is doing the “right thing” for his employees, they noted this week. He’s keeping all 14 employees on a full-time payroll, to help rebuild the operation from scratch — a process he estimated would take about three months. Wednesday, most all of Oscar ’s employees were helping with the recovery operation stemming from the fire that occurred the previous Friday evening. Quintal had advised two female employees, of child-bearing age, to remain at home to assure their health was protected from potential risks at the fire site. The hefty payroll of Oscar ’s employees was underwritten by business interruption insurance Quintal had purchased on the advice of his agent, he said, noting with

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