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July 25, 2015

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The Pinnacle, once to be developed, now a public preserve

This Week WARRENSBURG

By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com BOLTON — A local mountain peak known as the Pinnacle — a prominent landmark that provides a dramatic backdrop to downtown Bolton Landing — is now owned by the public and is protected from development through a conservation easement. Owned until recently by a family that planned to develop three home sites on the mountain, the Pinnacle is now owned by the town of Bolton — with the intent of keeping it wild while developing some hiking trails over portions of the mountain. The effort was engineered by the Lake George Land Conservancy and accomplished by contributions totaling about $500,000 from about 300 donors — individuals, couples, family foundations and trusts. Negotiations between the Lake George Land Conservancy and the peak’s former owners, the Ernest Oberer family, concluded with the Conservancy purchasing the Oberers’ 73 acres on the mountain July 16 for $525,000. The Conser CONTINUED ON PAGE 17

Jamboree this weekend PAGE 2 WARRENSBURG

Deadwood Mtn. Traders opens PAGE 2 LAKE GEORGE

The Chadwick family was reunited after U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Donald Chadwick teamed up with his wife Alisha to arrange a surprise homecoming for their daughters at the Great Escape on Wednesday, July 15. Photo by Ryan Edwards

Fire guts Lake George A&W PAGE 5

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By Ryan Edwards ryan@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE — Alisha Chadwick and her two daughters have visited Six Flags Great Escape 19 times already this summer, but, thanks to a little benevolent deception on the part of their parents, they will remember the twentieth for the rest of their lives.

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Six-year-old Zoe and three-year-old Aubrie entered the park, July 15, thinking they and their mother had been chosen as the “family of the day” — a park tradition which invites a different family to declare the park officially open each morning. They were chosen, they believed, as a kick off to the park’s “heroes week,” honoring their father, Staff Sergeant Donald Chadwick of the United States Air

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Force, who shipped out to Portugal in January for his first overseas deployment in his six-year military career. What the girls didn’t know, however, is that Donald arrived at their Queensbury home early that morning, and Alisha had arranged a surprise reunion CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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