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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com CHESTERTOWN — The annual Halloween Pug Party & Parade, considered Chestertown’s premier event, returns Sunday Oct. 14 — and it’s expected to draw people from all over the northeastern U.S. Each year on a Sunday in mid-October, pug owners from all over New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Canada and elsewhere have flocked to Chestertown for canine-related activities and socializing with other pug owners. The event is held at Chestertown’s Dynamite Hill Recreation area on state Rte. 8, about two thirds of a mile west of the I-87 Northway. Many of the pugs participating are dressed up in imaginative costumes — for not only the parade, but for contests. In past years, pugs have been disguised as pigs, bumble bees, bananas, pirates, ballet dancers, surfers, and cartoon characters. The pug parade has often included elaborate floats that attest to the pug owners’ humor and creativity. The lineup of friendly
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Spooky fun at Up Yonda Farm Isabella Lewis , 8 (left) and Kasey Baker, 5 — both of Brant Lake, paint pumpkins at a craft activity held Saturday, Oct. 6 in conjunction with the Great Brant Lake Duck Race — a beloved local community tradition. Photo by Thom Randall
His duties as race “Quackmaster” would normally require him to guide the many hundreds of plastic ducks through a wooden channel towards a finish line, he said. In the last several years, the weather has posed challenges, he added. Several years ago, the wind blew the ducks out of the channel, and the firefighters sped all over the pond in a boat attempting to round up the little plastic
By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com BRANT LAKE — With a captain’s hat perched on his head, Eric Isachsen stood in the rain Saturday shortly before noon, gazing at the mill pond where the Great Brant Lake Duck Race would be held in a few minutes.
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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com Regardless of soaring pension costs, increased fuel expenses and employee pay raises, the town of Warrensburg’s tentative 2013 budget is drafted to slide underneath the
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ditures are offset by $1.3 million in revenues, leaving $1.12 million to be raised in taxes, a 2.34 percent increase over 2012. The resulting tax rate is expected to be $3.35 per thousand, a 2.2 percent increase over 2012. This hike would amount to a $7.30 cent increase in town taxes for a
$100,000 property. The increase would be only $5, however, for homes in the lighting district, according to figures supplied by town Supervisor Kevin Geraghty. This decrease is due to reduced expenses in street lighting. This tax hike easily complies with the state’s so-called two percent tax CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
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quackers. This year, the rain prompted the race officials to forgo dumping the plastic ducks off the mill pond’s upperdam bridge, and the winners would instead be selected randomly out of a heap of ducks in the Horicon Fire Co. firehall, he continued. Holding a minnow net, Adam Schultz, 10, stood nearby in the drizzle
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