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People of all ages and from all over gathered at the Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport in Queensbury to watch about 90 hot-air balloons take off at sunrise on Sunday, Sept 25 during the Adirondack Balloon Festival. Photo by Katherine Clark
Large crowds expected for Garage Sale event By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com WARRENSBURG — For thr ee days this weekend, the str eets of W arrensburg will be awash in humanity — and
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QUEENSBURY — Warren County Superintendent of Public Works Jef f Tennyson glanced out a window at the county Municipal Center at sunny blue skies. “If the weather stays like this through Mid-December, we’ll be in good shape,” he quipped. For several months, the county has endur ed storms more violent and damaging than has been experienced in the r egion for hundr eds of years. Warren County’s roads — which suffered considerable damage from the heavy Memorial Day weekend rains, then three months later from Tropical Storm Ir ene — will be safe and sound by this winter, Tennyson pr edicted Monday, Sept. 26. Damage to county and town government infrastructure, including r oadways and bridges, totalled about $13 million for Memorial Day weekend alone, according to county Emergency Se rvices C oordinator Amy Dr exel. Federal financial help for these damages has been rejected, but is still under discussion.
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