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Schumer, in Adirondack stop, vows to fight for environmental safeguards
Acid rain may return with rollback of Clean Power Plan, lawmaker warns By Pete DeMola EDITOR
LAKE CLEAR | Environmental groups are continuing to sound the alarm on what rollbacks of the Clean Power Plan may mean for the Adirondack Park. Thirty years ago, a quarter of local lakes were basically dead, said U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer, who marveled on Friday at the recovery of Bear Pond following years of acid rain damage caused by emissions blown over from midwestern power plants. Test results at the isolated pond at the eastern side of the St. Regis Canoe Area in the 1980s revealed pH levels of 5.1, which was “staggeringly unhealthy,” Schumer said, killing off creatures like numerous trout species and salamanders. But the levels have since rebounded to 6.2 following passage of the Clean Air Act in 1990 — a tenfold reduction that has led to the regeneration of native species and wildlife, as well as progress at other hundreds of waterways across the Adirondacks. » Acid rain Cont. on pg. 7
Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway and U.S. Sen. Minority Leader Charles Schumer discuss acid rain recovery on the shores of Bear Pond on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. Photo by Pete DeMola
Oldest book-return dates to American Revolution
Essex homeowner finds worn leather minute book from 1779 amid stack of antique ledger
By Kim Dedam STA FF W RITER
ESSEX | A historic record from the days of the American Revolution has turned up in a pile of time-worn books in Essex. Found was a leather-bound ledger with some 187 hand-scribed pages of general
assembly discourse. The document records about six months of new Pennsylvania laws and discourse from 1779. Long strokes of ink register the works of Pennsylvania’s founding body politic as the United States of America waged its fight against the King of England. Edie Morris was sorting and packing items at her family’s Block House Road estate and found a trove of forgotten books, 21 in all. “They were in a room, just sitting on a bookshelf,” Morris said. “I was cleaning the house.” Morris could tell instantly that the books were very old. Most account for family and business records from Essex during the 1800s. Except for one. Unsure of the best, next move, Morris brought them all to Belden Noble Library, where Monica Rumsey, a library board member, carefully cataloged the collection, one-by-one, agog. “My words just escaped me,” Rumsey said of the stack she found waiting at the library. “I was expecting a few and walked in here and saw a whole cart full.”
When she opened the general assembly minute book from 1779, Rumsey immediately called the National Archives for help and was promptly advised to contact the Pennsylvania State Archives. The call went through to Jonathan P. Stayer, state archivist in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Rumsey sent him photographs of the mottled cover, cover page, dates and script. The collection of meeting minutes begins Tuesday, March 16, 1779 and ends Sept. 27 the same year. Stayer was astonished. He knew the oldest book in the state archives, the single hand-written minute book they had, is from Pennsylvania’s founding General Assembly. The one in the state’s collection begins Sept. 28, 1779, on page 184. The minutes Morris found in Essex and Rumsey had in her hands ends on Sept. 27, 1779 on page 183. It is the preceding volume. “It was a Saturday, and I called my boss at home,” Stayer said. » Book Cont. on pg. 2
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