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Adirondack Journal / News Enterprise
January 25, 2020
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Public officials: Bail reform laws may pose a threat to public safety
LG Winter Carnival 2020 features a bonus ‘Mardi Gras’ weekend
By Thom Randall CORRESPONDENT
Outhouse races offer $2,000 in prize money By Thom Randall CORRESPONDENT
LAKE GEORGE | Astronomical and perhaps meteorological factors, rare in the last quarter-century or so, are prompting the introduction of new aspects of Lake George Winter Carnival this year. As planet earth makes one revolution around the sun in about 6 hours longer than one calendar year — and leap years were instituted hundreds of years ago to keep calendars in sync with our solar system — one more day has been added to February this year. Combined with the fact that this year Feb. 1 is falling on a Saturday, there’s one additional weekend for Lake George’s annual February festivities. While the winter carnival is expected to host its traditionally extensive array of activities, carnival promoters have also been planning a Mardi Gras festival for the last day of February and likely the following day. While details were being drafted early this week, tentative plans call for more than a dozen restaurants to hold themed parties as well as provide a serving of gumbo, jambalaya or other New Orleans-style food to people who purchase a beer during the Mardi Gras fest. The pending meteorological factor is one that has recurred several times over the last quarter-century — the surface of Lake George
Participants in one of the many Polar Plunge events at during 2019 Lake George Carnival dash into the frigid lakewaters off Shepard Park Beach. This year’s carnival is to hold the traditional activities — including the polar plunge sessions — and plans are now being developed for a bonus leap-year weekend of Feb. 29 and March 1. This latter weekend will likely host Mardi Gras related parties, promotions and New Orleans-style food at restaurants and taverns throughout Lake George Village. not freezing deep enough to support people or vehicles. As thick ice is a requirement for the traditional car and motorcycle and outhouse races to be held, carnival officials are now closely monitoring the formation of ice on the lake. In 2012 and 2016, various races and contests of Lake George Winter Carnival were held in village parking lots or on park plots because the lake didn’t freeze over, or the ice wasn’t thick enough. Well into the first week of January this year, an extended period of warm weather has kept the lake surface liquid. This week’s frigid weather, however, may form the ice necessary for the traditional lake-top activities to be held — or at least that’s the opinion of everoptimistic Carnival official Nancy Nichols. “With this week’s cold spell, ice has begun to set up,” she said. “I think were going to be fine.” But if the lake ice doesn’t develop, carnival officials have contingency plans in place, she said. See LG WINTER CARNIVAL » pg. 5
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Warren County Criminal Justice Committee Chair Rachel Seeber (right) expresses her concerns to county Sheriff Jim LaFarr (center) and county Public Safety Committee Chairman Craig Leggett (left) about the consequences of the new bail reform laws, and how they compromise public safety, as well as posing a threat to the personal security of crime victims. Photo provided
Tickets still on sale for Friday’s Winter Carnival ‘Snowball Gala’
ELIZABETHTOWN | In his State of the State and Executive Budget address last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined several measures to small business cut taxes. “The state now enjoys its lowest corporate income tax rate since 1967 at 6.5 percent,” his budget plan says. “The state also has its lowest manufacturers’ tax rate since 1917, helping to ensure that New York businesses remain competitive, fueling the private sector innovation and investment that lead to job growth.” To sustain economic growth, Cuomo wants to cut tax rates for small corporate taxpayers. Specifically, the Executive Budget wants to: -- Reduce tax rates for companies with less than 100 employees and less than $390,000 in income from 6.5 percent to 4 percent, a measure that would affect an estimated 36,000 taxpayers. -- Triple the current Income Exclusion for farmers and sole proprietors: Current tax law allows sole proprietors and farmers who file under the Personal Income Tax and have less than $250,000 in net business income or net farm income to reduce their Adjusted Gross Income by five percent of such income. The Governor proposes to triple this benefit. -- Make the Investment Tax Credit Refundable for Farmers: Current law allows Investment Tax Credit (ITC) refunds only for new businesses. Cuomo’s new plan would make the ITC refundable for taxpayers whose primary source of income is from farming operations.
Photo Darren McGee-Office of the Governor
See BAIL REFORM » pg. 2
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CUOMO’S 2020 BUDGET ADDS TAX CUTS FOR SMALL BUSINESS, SMALL FARMS Sen. Little honored; longestserving GOP member of legislature
QUEENSBURY | The controversial state Bail and Discovery Reform laws which went into effect Jan. 1 has forced the release of suspects who are linked to serious crimes, Warren County officials were informed last week. Warren County Administrator Ryan Moore and county Sheriff Jim LaFarr detailed about how suspects charged with severe crimes — some of them implicating violence — have been released under the new laws.
By Thom Randall CORRESPONDENT
LAKE GEORGE | The area’s preeminent winter social event is scheduled for this weekend, and tickets are still available. The 59th annual Lake George Winter Carnival kickoff party, now called the “Snowball Gala” is to be held Friday Jan. 24 at the Lake George Beach Club on Lower Montcalm St. near Shepard Park Beach. The evening will feature cocktails, live music, dinner and dancing. The party starts at 6 p.m. with cocktails and a buffet dinner featuring prime rib and roast turkey. The meal is to be accompanied by the music of Brandon Larocca and James Hood while auctions of goods and services are conducted. Dancing to the live music of the group Cryin’ Out Loud is to begin at 7 p.m. and extend to 10 p.m.. Tickets are $40 per person and can be purchased for $40 per person at Mario’s Restaurant, 425 Canada St., or through the Lake George Winter Carnival Facebook Page, or by calling 518-668-2665. Proceeds go towards expenses of holding the Winter Carnival activities through February. Selections of beer and wine are included in the ticket price. For further details, call the Lake George Beach Club at 518-685-5418.
See STATE OF THE STATE » pg. 3
See SNOWBALL GALA » pg. 5
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