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Essex County to take over Lake Placid Xprss

By Pete DeMola

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LAKE PLACID — Discussions are underway for Essex County to fully take over the operation of the Lake Placid Xprss, a public trolley and bus service, by the end of the year.

“Lake Placid Village has requested that the county begin operating the Lake Placid Xprss beginning January 1, 2017,” wrote Nancy Dougal, the county’s transportation coordinator, in a memo to lawmakers earlier this month.

A county takeover will streamline operations, said Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall.

For the past decade, Essex County has gradually been as-

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suming more responsibility for the service, which was started by the village nearly two decades ago.

While the village hires the drivers, Essex County administers the service and maps out the routes, which sees six county-owned trolleys and buses shuttling passengers around the Olympic Village. The system also links to other services, including a shuttle to Whiteface.

“There is a significant duplication among services involved,” Randall said. “The village operates [the service], yet administration of the grant fund program runs into the county, and we’re sort of subordinate to that.”

Funding comes from a hodgepodge of local, federal and state funding streams, including State Operating Assistance,

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New pro access group joins land use fray

Adirondack Harvest Fest brought hundreds back to the fairgrounds last weekend, as farmers looked to the future and “sustainability” in a local food market

WESTPORT — Farmers gathered at the Adirondack Harvest Festival last week in the first of what organizers hope will be an annual event.

An old-fashioned afternoon mixer, the kind once held in weekend Grange Halls Pete all over Essex County, drew a large group DeMola for a showing of two films made by local Editor producers.

Aaron Woolf ’s documentary “King Corn” and Ben Stechschulte’s “Small Farm Rising” looked at both the large-scale and locally scaled food production.

The juxtaposition was daunting, Woolf noted, with billions of federal agricultural dollars allocated for distribution and support of huge farms and vast processing systems.

Even a small percentage of that, if redirected, would benefit the Champlain Valley, said Woolf, who ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2014 and now co-owns the Deer’s Head Inn in Elizabethtown.

In a discussion after the films, farmers featured in Stechschulte’s work reflected on the five years since “Small Farm” was made in 2011.

or STOA, which is allocated based on passenger levels.

Lake Placid and the town of North Elba have historically subsidized the remaining portion of the costs, Randall said.

Officials say service will not be affected, and county taxpayers will not shoulder an additional cost.

State law forbids authorities from shifting the burden to county taxpayers, Dougal said.

“It can’t cost the county taxpayers anything,” Dougal said.

Lake Placid has agreed to compensate the county for any potential shortfalls in revenue and funding.

Randall said the village has allocated $70,000 for operations

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Country Dreams Farm brought their team of work horses and demonstrated how to hitch and drive. The farmers, Melissa Monty-Provost and George Weidle also gave wagon rides during Adirondack Harvest festivities.

FIVE YEARS ON Stechschulte said he had been back this summer with film crews and cameras, gathering footage of each part of the season, anticipating an update.

But the farmers summarized growth since their “rising” in a freewheeling discussion that was equal parts troubleshooting and therapy session as they discussed their lives and some of their most vexing frustrations.

At Fledging Crow, farmer Lucas Christenson said their first five acres planted have grown to 35 acres.

“The gravity of the situation is just bigger and bigger,” he

NORTH HUDSON — A new coalition has entered the land classification fray.

As the Adirondack Park Agency sketches out dates for public hearings on the Boreas Ponds and Macintyre Tracts on the southern end of the High Peaks, a group has been formed to lobby for expanded access.

Access Adirondacks, whose formation was announced last week, aims to give a voice to those who founders say have the most riding on the upcoming classification process: local community and business.

The loosely-organized group includes local government officials, landowners, recreational and sportsmen’s organizations, conservation groups, chambers of commerce, citizens and just regular folks.

North Hudson Supervisor Ron Moore said the organization aims to serve as a counterpoint to environmental groups calling for more restricted uses of the 20,758-acre tract, which

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Antique and Classic Car Rally at Marcy Field American Legion Marcy Post 1312 welcomes all for lunch and a look: important fundraiser benefits veterans, childrens’ programs in Keene

By Kim Dedam

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KEENE — The flat, hayed meadow at Marcy Field will see dozens of antique cars parked among the rows this Saturday.

It’s an eye-catching sight off of State Route 73, a bit like history pulled-over under the Great Range.

This year’s 10th Annual Flaming Leaves Antique & Classic Car Rally gets underway September 24 at 10 a.m.

Organized by the American Legion Marcy Post 1312, post leader Tom Both said the event draws unique and rebuilt classic and antique cars, sometimes a tractor or two, and antique firefighting equipment.

The hoods go up, the conversation starts, and everyone gets to visit a makeshift outdoor car museum for a few hours.

It is a popular early autumn event and an important fundraiser, Both said.

“Last year, we raised over $8,000 for community projects.”

Those projects include ceremonies at the Keene Veteran’s Memorial Park on both Memorial and Veteran’s Day. They also supported Keene youth trips to Girl’s State and Boy’s State, along with the Kenneth Lawrence Book Award; Keene’s children’s Christmas Program; the Fuel Bank Program; town beautification efforts; gift boxes sent to active duty military personnel; North Country Honor Flight trips; the Flag Day celebration and for Christmas wreaths at the Veteran’s Memorial.

“We have a variety of cars, usually somebody comes with a car from the 1920s,” Both said.

“There are old cars and old trucks, sometimes farm tractors. They lift the hoods open and exchange stories. We also tie it in with the Dr. Goff exhibit at the Holt

House.”

A cookout lunch serves up food, free to all veteran’s from the Towns of Keene and Jay. “Everybody has a good time,” Both said of the Marcy Post classic.

Near the end of the day’s events, about 2 p.m., the veteran’s group draws for their Grand Prize raffle of $1,000 worth of gas good at any Mobile Station in the U.S., Both said.

Additional prizes include a second prize $500 gas card and third prize one for $250.

The tickets are sold around town and at the event on Saturday.

Marcy Field opens for the Car Rally at 10 a.m.

The event is free, and donation boxes are set up for people who want to help fund Marcy Post’s numerous community events.

See artists at work with ‘Saranac Lake Art Works’ studio tour

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake Art Works will host their 8th annual ‘Artists at Work Open Studio Tour’ this fall.

In addition to the participating local art galleries, a number of artists in the tri-lakes area will be opening their personal studios to the public on the weekends of Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 and Nov. 11-13.

A wide variety of art and crafts including photography, painting, printmaking, collage, ceramics and fiber art will be on display and for sale.

For more information, visit the Art Works website.

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APA, DEC look to possible Nov. hearings on Boreas land-use

By Kim Dedam

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NORTH HUDSON — Boreas Ponds land-use classification scraped the edge of the Adirondack Park Agency meeting last week.

A draft of possible dates for public hearings on the as-yet-undetermined classification of the state’s new 20,758-acre tract are not set in stone.

And they wouldn’t begin, according to APA staff, until Nov. 9.

With those dates pending, APA may visit the first draft Boreas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the Department of Environmental Conservation next month, says Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway.

“The public hearing dates were placed on the (projector) screen and in a handout,” Janeway told the Sun. “It is tentative, a draft, and that could change. APA may or may not approve the EIS for public release. It is not yet done and out,” Janeway said.

“It appears their aim is to have that (land-use plan) come out at the APA meeting, Oct. 13 and 14. Once that comes out, it’s a draft EIS with proposed classifications.”

Land-use classification in the proposed Boreas Unit Management Plan would then go to statewide public hearings for review.

Boreas, like its sister tracts at Essex Chain Lakes, is former Finch, Pruyn & Co. timberland, conserved for about eight years

by The Nature Conservancy. New York purchased the property from TNC earlier this year for $14.5 million.

Numerous hunting clubs still hold lease to parcels in Boreas, agreements in force through the end of next year. Clubs will be required to remove camps by the end of 2019, as planned in the sale to the state.

WILDERNESS Adirondack Park environmental preservation groups hope most of the land is classified Wilderness, keeping all but foot and paddle impact away from the ponds in the heart of the parcel.

“The biggest area of contention is how close motorized access should get to the pond,” Janeway said.

“The Council and several Adirondack conservation groups have recommended ‘Wilderness’ for Boreas Ponds and for a mile south, to locate parking at LaBier Flow.”

Wilderness classification would also mean no mountain bike use on the existing logging roads above LaBier Flow.

A coalition of green groups puts the critical access point in

Gov. Andrew Cuomo shakes hands with Adirondack Mountain Club Executive Director Neil Woodworth on May 10, 2016 in North Hudson as state Department of Conservation Director Basil Seggos (left) and Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Ferebee (right) look on.

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North Hudson’s Hamlet.

“We have a vision of a recreation hub at Exit 29, in North Hudson, where visitors could access businesses and services, and a shuttle could work from there to Boreas Ponds, Dix Mountain trails, the Tawhaus Trailhead, and to Cloudsplitter guide service in Newcomb,” Janeway said.

“As a hub, it would provide a southern portal to the High Peaks, and we know how popular the High Peaks trails are right now.”

The summer traffic this year overran the High Peaks and Cascade and Porter trails.

DEC recently ticketed leaders of hiking group with 67 climbers on Algonquin Peak. The park limit is 15 hikers in a group with eight allowed together for overnight camping.

WILD FOREST Many local residents and town leaders don’t agree. They say the best way to open the land is to classify its core as Wild Forest.

In North Hudson, Supervisor Ron Moore announced formation of “Access Adirondacks,” a coalition of town government organizations, various sports and hunting groups, snowmobile clubs, businesses, landowners and area Chambers of Commerce, to support an approach that the group says will “protect the natural resources, and respects the need of Adirondack residents and businesses for a healthy and sustainable economy.”

Toward that end, Access Adirondacks points out that the Boreas Ponds waterways, “while serene and beautiful, are not at all natural.”

The string of lakes is created, they note, by a manmade concrete dam.

And they are looking for Wild Forest classification of a 9,913acre core around the ponds.

“Ironically, some of the groups advocating for a Wilderness classification also believe the dam, and the road to it, should remain and be maintained in the future.

“While we agree the dam and road should remain, both are further justification of a Wild Forest classification.”

Access Adirondacks would like to see mountain biking and winter “phat” tire biking allowed on existing roads around Boreas lakes. They are lobbying for snowmobile use on those roads as well as on Gulf Brook Road.

“The hope would be to route these competitive events through each of the Five Towns, i.e. beginning at the Boreas Ponds along the proposed snowmobile trail to Minerva, Indian lake, Newcomb, and ending in Long Lake.”

They are also lobbying for permitted parking spots beside Boreas Ponds for licensed Adirondack Guides.

Some changes have been made on the property, ahead of the formal public comment period.

The former Finch, Pruyn corporate lodge has been removed, Moore said.

That demolition was part of the initial purchase plan.

But DEC retained the historic log cabin, one of the first logging camps and a landmark to the long tradition of timber industry in the Adirondacks.

HEARINGS Tentative dates for APA and DEC Boreas public hearings include: Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. APA headquarters in Ray Brook Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. Northville Central School, Northville Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. Newcomb Central School Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester Nov. 29 at 6 p.m. at St. Lawrence Co., Human Service Center, Canton Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in the New York City area, tbd Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. at DEC headquarters, Albany Written comments are due by Dec. 30.

County poised to eliminate fees for municipal fish purchases Towns will no longer be required to pay for county-raised fish released into public waters

By Pete DeMola

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ELIZABETHTOWN — Something is fishy at the Essex County Board of Supervisors.

No, lawmakers aren’t engaged in sketchy business, but rather trying to hash out policies for selling fish spawned at the county-owned fish hatchery in Crown Point.

A full year after operations were folded into the Department of Public Works, Deputy Superintendent Jim Dougan said he was still trying to hash out a coherent system for selling fish to municipalities.

“There’s little rhyme or reason,” Dougan told lawmakers on Monday.

Until now, the county hasn’t had a clear policy.

“Some towns paid, some towns didn’t,” said Essex County Manager Dan Palmer. “It really depended on which town you were.”

North Elba, for instance, hasn’t purchased fish in eight years, said Supervisor Roby Politi.

“Obviously someone has been paying for fish, it hasn’t been North Elba,” Politi said.

Lawmakers engaged in a sprawling debate before resolving that municipalities will not be required to pay for fish stocked in publicly accessible waters for town-sponsored events.

“When you stock fish in our town, it’s not just residents who catch the fish — it’s tourists,” said Gerald Morrow (DChesterfield). “I still don’t think it’s fair for our residents to pay for fish in our town.”

Others said they didn’t mind.

For the past several years, Schroon has paid $1,000 annually for the service.

“I always felt it was an advertisement for the town,” said Supervisor Mike Marnell. “I’m not against paying.”

Private organizations will still be required to purchase the fish, as will the localities who plan on stocking them in bodies of water that are not accessible to the public.

Essex County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Randy Preston (I-Wilmington) said the Whiteface Region Visitors Bureau is a regular purchaser of three-year-old brown trout to the tune of $3,500 per year.

Money raised from those events goes back to purchasing more fish.

“And I personally don’t think there’s any issue with that,” Preston said.

Lawmakers said the elimination of a $10,000 charge would go a long way as towns struggle to stay under the state-man-

dated tax cap.

“When I’m looking at the tax cap, that $1,000 is a lot of money,” said Morrow.

The county has sold $6,500 worth of fish to date this year, Dougan said, and are readying the release of 10,000 more into local waterways.

“The taxpayers are paying to raise those fish,” said Steve McNally (D-Minerva). “If we’re not going to use them, then get them out into the water so people can enjoy them.”

Lawmakers of the Department of Public Works Committee unanimously approved the measure, which heads to Ways & Means later this month.

Pictured above: The Essex County Board of Supervisors Department of Public Works Committee passed a resolution Monday, Sept. 19 waiving towns from having to pay for fish stocked by the county-owned fish hatchery in municipal waters.

Phone dialing to soon require three more digits in 518 area code

By Thom Randall

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ALBANY — Soon, dialing a phone call in the region — and even to a next-door neighbor — will be giving callers’ fingers a little more exercise.

Beginning as soon as next summer, phone calls in the 17-county 518 region will require dialing 10 digits rather than just seven, according to a decision reached Sept. 15 by the state Public Service Commission.

The change is the consequence of the addition of a new area

code — yet to be determined — to accompany new phone numbers assigned in the 518 region.

The addition of a new area code is due to the exhaustion of available numbers in the 518 area code region, primarily due to the proliferation of cell phones and tablets, according to communication industry officials.

Because the commission decided to use an “overlay” area code rather than split the current 518 area into two regions, phone customers with a 518 area code will not have to change their existing phone numbers.

Hearings conducted this summer across the region elicited

opinions that were 60-40 in favor of the overlay approach rather than splitting the 518 region geographically and assigning a new area code to phone customers in one of the two new districts, the agency reported.

James Denn, a spokesman for the agency, said in a prepared statement that the PSC determined that the overlay was the best option because it was easier technologically — and less expensive and disruptive for phone customers, particularly businesses that would have to change signs, branding and advertising materials if the geographic option was implemented.

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Discussions are underway for Essex County to fully take over the operation of the Lake Placid Xprss, a village-run public trolley and bus service,

by Dec. 31, 2016. The takeover will be budget neutral for county taxpayers, say local officials.

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But Dougal is optimistic that the true number will actually be lower.

“I don’t think it’s going to be that much when we get to the end of the year,” Dougal said. “Hopefully a lot less.”

The service cost $192,480 to run in 2015, transporting 53,000 riders.

About 76 percent of the budget was derived from state aid.

“Typically the transportation budget is well-funded by state and federal sources to the point where it barely costs [the county] $10,000 or $12,000 per year to operate,” said Essex County Manager Dan Palmer.

Once the takeover is official, drivers will be shifted from village oversight to the county’s employment banner.

“I think the community will continue to support the organization,” Randall said.

North Elba contributes about $40,000 annually to the system and will continue to do so, said Supervisor Roby Politi.

The service, said Politi, is critical to maintaining the region’s international cachet.

“A world-class resort community needs a transportation system,” Politi said.

While the lawmaker admitted some towns do not benefit from the service, namely those in the southern part of the county, consumer spending by passengers contributes to the county’s sales tax revenues.

“We’re all partners in this thing and are trying to make it more efficient,” Politi said.

Randall praised Dougal for the county’s oversight of the system.

“She’s done a great job of administering this program.”

The transition isn’t a done deal: Dougal said the department will offer a formal resolution to the Health and Human Services Committee in October.

‘INSPIRE: Called To Love’ event slated LAKE PLACID — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg’s free regional Catholic summit, INSPIRE: Called To Love, is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 25, at the Olympic Arena Complex in Lake Placid. The event will utilize all three arenas and the adjacent high school. World-renowned Catholic speakers will share dynamic presentations on the universal call of all Christians.

The keynote presenter will be the Archbishop of Los Angeles Robert Barron, creator and host of the Catholicism mini-series featured on PBS. Doors open at 9 a.m. for visiting with various vendors and exhibitors; 10:30 a.m. the prayer and presentations begin.

Registration to the public has been closed except for a limited number of seats. Full information on the event is available at inspirecalledtolove.com

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United Way kicks off 2017 campaign Charitable organization aims to hit $725,000 in donations this year

By Teah Dowling

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PLATTSBURGH — The United Way last week announced that they intend on raising $725,000 in donations by February 2017.

The charitable organization kickstarted its campaign last week and revealed they have raised $165,693.25 so far.

With United Way already at 24 percent of their overall goal, officials are optimistic.

“This is the most generous and wonderful community to live in,” said United Way Board President Vicki Marking. ‘We are going to be successful.”

At the kickoff event last week, United Way Director of Development Kathy Snow and Director of Finance Marion Daniels thanked past donors for their contributions, naming each of them during their prepared remarks.

United Way plans on using the monies raised to help serve their 42 partner agencies. Last year, those groups aided 80,000 people in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties.

“I have no doubt this goal will be made,” Assemblywoman Janet Duprey said. “Helping each other is what the North Country does best.”

A HELPING HAND This year’s campaign chair is Amy Kretser, who is responsible for spearheading the effort to raise funds.

The local resident said she has firsthand experience with poverty.

Kretser was brought up in single-parent household in Michigan. She said she lived on a diet of items donated from the local food shelf and participated in JCEO’s Head Start

Program.

Sometimes, Kretser’s mother would go without eating so that she could feed her children. At one point, they almost ended up homeless.

“I didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth; it was a challenge,” she said. “Now, I want to give back and help others in need.”

There’s plenty of people, families in need this year, said United Way Executive Director and CEO John Bernardi.

Bernardi listed a number of problems the community is facing today, such as the current heroin and opioid epidemic, lack of foster homes and a new class of people called the “working poor” — persons working two to three jobs just to get by.

“We have tremendous challenges and issues in the community right now,” he said. “But luckily we have a local insurance policy to ensure the safety of our friends and neighbors.”

To learn more about United Way or to make a contribution, visit unitedwayadk.org.

Pictured above: The United Way plans on raising $725,000 in donations

by February 2017. So far, over $160,000 has been raised and Campaign Chair Amy Kretser said she’s optimistic about reaching that goal.

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think in this election cycle, more so than ever before in my lifetime, the nation is forced to either sit out this presidential election or invest some time to make a choice they can live with.

Both candidates have significant “undesirable” qualities, according to the polls, and sadly, those negatives out weigh the positives making either a risky choice depending on your interests.

Add to that a highly fragmented national media, an extremely polarized social media and internet environment. What we are left with is undecided or uncommitted voters who are torn with respect to how they will cast their vote come November 8th.

In the past, polished political candidates representing both parties, could leave voters disappointed their candidate didn’t win, but with a feeling they could live with or at least accept the alternative to their choice.

Not so this year where it’s anything but normal and the stakes are as high or higher than ever before, depending on your views.

As much as anything this year, I think the Presidential Election of 2016 will come down to the National Media versus the American Public.

With next week’s first 90 minute Presidential Debate set to air on Monday September 26, 2016, from Hofstra University, it seems clear the American public will be tuned into what is being described as the single largest viewing audience for any live televised/streaming event history.

The voting public no longer trust the media. They have serious doubts about the political system and the mudslinging ads that lead up to election day. They will be compelled to sit, watch, listen and choose for themselves which candidate they will trust with their vote or make the choice to let others set the nation’s course for them by sitting this one out.

That’s a heck of a way to elect a president but it’s what we’ve done to ourselves by placing so much trust in partisanship political beliefs.

The first debate will be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on major topics to be selected by the moderator. The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. Candidates will then have an opportunity to respond to each other. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a deeper discussion of the topic.

This storm has been building for a long time, and like a hurricane, the weather models are no better at predicting the outcome than the political pundits have been at predicting this election.

It’s now time to see both candidates on display and you will decide to stay the course or break the mold. The candidates must validate themselves and convince you to be trusted with your vote.

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Blundering toward a cluster bomb ban

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By Frank Pagano

luster bombs are notorious for scattering unexpended ordinance over a wide area. An egregious example is the residue of a quarterbillion of them dropped during our secret war in Laos. Duds from our futile attempt to interdict North Vietnam’s supply lines still kill about 20 children annually. Laotians call them “bombies”, and despite the warning posters in grade schools, children occasionally pick them up and some detonate. Most countries ban cluster bomb use or sale because of this latent, indiscriminate danger. The US isn’t yet on board but that may be changing.

A gridlocked Congress can’t be expected to intelligently deliberate the Convention on Cluster Munitions - they can’t even pass a budget on time or conduct hearings on a Supreme Court nominee. In Washington, it’s lobbyists, not politicians, who get results. They convinced the government to buy thousands of CBU-105s manufactured by Textron in Massachusetts, at $355,000 (each). This is the new and safer cluster bomb. Each bombie (rebranded as a “puck”) can independently track and maneuver to targets - which, one hopes, out-values the pucks. Textron was the only remaining US cluster bomb manufacturer, with pharmaceutical-strength pricing power. In addition to our military, their big customers included South Korea, India and even pariah-states such as Saudi Arabia.

The US launched a cruise missile with a low-tech cluster warhead into Yemen in 2009. It obliterated an Al Qaeda base - and killed about forty civilians as “collateral damage”. But worse than collateral is the deliberate illegal targeting of civilians with these weapons by other countries. We used to give away cluster bombs to the Israelis (99% of our foreign aid to Israel is categorized as military aid). But we’ve repeatedly scolded and sanctioned Israel (as Reagan did in 1982) for their tendency to commit war crimes with them. The Israelis, fed up with this treatment from their own client, developed indigenous cluster bombs, eventually competing with us on the international weapons market.

Incredibly, the Saudis, rolling in petrodollars, also receive US foreign aid.

But it’s only a million dollars, an infinitesimal fraction of Israel’s aid. So, the Saudis had to pay Textron a half-billion dollars for their cluster bombs - plus at least a $10 million gift to the Clinton Foundation. Did that influence our Secretary of State to fast-track her approval? Oh, no, we’re supposed to believe the same kingdom that permits beheadings for apostasy benevolently funds the Clinton’s humanitarianism. The Royal Saudi Air Force amassed a huge stockpile of dumb and smart US cluster bombs. These were deployed on their made-in-St Louis F-15s and dropped on Yemeni civilians – who just happen to be members of a rival Islamic denomination. Cluster bombs might also have been used on four targeted hospitals.

During his recent trip to Laos, Obama didn’t apologize for dropping more bombs on their country than we did on Imperial Japan. Instead the Nobel Peace Prize winner ruefully stated that the world is smaller and now we can’t get away with conducting secret wars anymore. But he graciously pledged more millions to clean up a tiny fraction of our lethal mess in Laos. Earlier this year, perhaps inspired by The Gipper, he scolded the Saudis for misusing our weapons, banning them from future cluster bomb purchases. This was necessary because Congress, under the influence of $4 million in campaign contributions from Textron, wouldn’t pass a one-line amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill prohibiting future cluster bomb transfers to Saudi Arabia.

Sadly, but predictably, Elise Stefanik voted against that amendment.

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August 30 was a miraculous day in the struggle to ban cluster bombs. Citing the “current political environment”, Textron suddenly announced that they were shutting down their lucrative solesource CBU-105 production line. We’ve thus stumbled a step closer to joining the civilized world in banning the manufacture and use of cluster bombs – well, unless the political environment changes again, a distinct possibility with the leading, recklessly hawkish, presidential candidates.

In an article suitable for The Onion, a Barclay’s analyst, Carter Copeland, tried “to see the bright side” in the abandonment of a product responsible for killing or injuring 30,000 children.

Those collaterally-damaged kids were coldly zeroed out in the financial analysis. Here’s Mr. Copeland’s bright side: By closing the controversial CBU-105 production line, Textron may be a more lucrative foreign takeover target. Only Wall Streeters think its desirable for a Tier 1 US military contractor to be foreign-owned.

There’s more to this story but we’ve already overdosed on immorality. This is what happens when we outsource our civic responsibilities to plutocrats.

These people, our politicians’ owners, know there’s vast rewards and little risk in their anti-social behavior. As long as the voters are reliably distracted by trivia, such as scary clowns and athletes sitting out the national anthem, the plutocracy can get away with just about anything.

Frank Pagano is nominally retired and living deliberately amongst the High Peaks. Contact him at 321@adkabin.com.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

TaxpayersÊ areÊ pickingÊ upÊ theÊ tabÊ onÊ hikingÊ trails To the Editor: When the Essex County Board of Supervisors was considering expanding the coverage of the “bed tax,” I wrote the supervisors stating that if such an expansion were to be implemented, all costs for that program should be paid for out of that tax’s revenue.

Those costs would include all legal costs for prosecuting those who cheat, the full cost of new employees required to process and track the taxes and the properties, process servers, and so on.

I have the same recommendation for the hiker tax.

All costs in the collection of the taxes must come from the income of the program. Otherwise, when costs exceed expenses, it is just another hidden cost to the taxpayers, concealed a little bit in this department and little bit in that department, and so on.

For example, the State requires an annual fee of $100 paid per snowmobile to use state trails. I doubt that the trail work ongoing and that proposed in recent years around the Town of North Hudson, the so called inn-to-inn trails, are totally paid for from that fund, not withstanding that the law requires $95 of that fee be used for trails; maintenance and development.

All taxpayers are picking up the tab, again, a little bit here, a little bit there.

Gordon E. Howard Keeseville

Ê Welcome,Ê Mr.Ê Gondal To the Editor: In 1976, just looking for a spot to pitch a tent by a stream 100 miles north of my boyhood home, we discovered Elizabethtown.

It was only after closing on a small parcel and going to buy gas that we noticed the inscription on a concrete pole in the corner of the Sunoco lot: “KKK.” After feeling uneasy exploring properties in country settings in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia because of examples of overt racism, we had accidentally settled with our biracial son in Dixie North!

But in the 40 years since, we have gone from ‘what have we gotten ourselves into’ to an everyday thankfulness: wow, how lucky we were to have stumbled into this wonderful place, where generous, open-hearted residents greatly outnumber the bigots, much like most places in the country.

It’s a kind of fitting, too, that the site of that long-ago fear-inspiring sign on the concrete pole is now a store/filling station operated by an entrepreneur from Pakistan by way of Paris!

In a welcome irony, the store’s opening coincides with the dedication of another piece of stone — granite, this time — to the memory of a town stalwart of the same family name as that of the longtime operator of the Sunoco station.

Welcome, Mr. Gondal and family. We’re sure that you’ll find just what we’ve found — an unusual community whose scenic beauty is surpassed only by the goodness of its people.

Jeff and Charlene Kleiman Elizabethtown

SchroonÊ LakeÊ LibraryÊ progressÊ updates To the Editor: The Schroon Lake Public Library Board of Trustees wishes to announce that progress is being made as we plan for the expansion the library.

To its credit, the Town of Schroon Town Council has approved bonding $1.1 million over 30 years for the expansion of the Town Court and the Library. This would result in a tax of $9/year for a home with assessed valuation of $100,000.

Built in 1979 with federal funding secured by the library, the current municipal building houses the court, the library, the supervisor’s office, as well as the offices of the secretary to the supervisor, the town clerk, the town assessor and the codes enforcement officer. In addition, a meeting room is available to the public on a first come basis.

Now, 37 years later, two areas greatly need to be expanded. The Town Court does not have a separate entrance. There is no effective room for lawyer-client consultations. People have to stand around in the hallway while they await their appearance before the judge.

Library patrons and town employees must thread their way through the people who are waiting.

The library is essentially “bulging at the seams.”

Libraries of today are so much more than our grandparents’ library, which in today’s view would be little more than a bookmobile in a fixed position.

Today, physical books are still a large part of a library. Many of our patrons prefer to read a “real book” rather than a digital one. However, added to those physical books are digital media such as music CDs, audio CDs, and DVDs. There are computers on hand that permit patrons to search the internet; digitally search and apply for jobs and search and borrow from the CEFLS library system’s physical books as well as eBooks and media.

Children’s programs include summer reading contests; make and take; story time and many more. Programs for adults include a book discussion group; a writers’ group; drawing and painting sessions and much more.

In the Clinton, Essex, Franklin Library System, the Schroon Lake Public Library has the 4th highest (of 30 libraries) book and media circulation, after the Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake and Malone libraries (all much larger cities.)

But we are only 18th of the 30 for square footage of floor space. The average amount of circulation per square foot for the system is 3.9 per 1 sq. ft.

COMMENTARY However, Schroon Lake’s library’s circulation is 15.7 per 1 sq. ft. Clearly our library is experiencing very heavy usage.

The new addition will provide the court and the library with an additional 2,500 square feet of space each. The court can thus be brought up to today’s safety standards, and the library will have the room it needs for all the usage it covers.

Currently the Library Board of Trustees is applying for the first year of a potential three-year construction grant from New York State Library Development office. With the local 25 percent contribution, this could amount to $100,000. In addition, our state senator Betty Little secured a grant for the court and library of another $100,000. Also, the Schroon Lake Friends of the Library has for several years raised tens of thousands of dollars for the furnishing of the interior of the expanded space.

But construction costs have increased significantly, so we do invite anyone to provide additional support. Contributions can be made to The Schroon Lake Public Library. Eventually there will be naming rights for significant spaces and equipment.

Finally, I encourage all residents to attend the Town Council Board meeting on Monday evening, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. to support our court and library, and our hardworking Town Board as we all move forward on this municipal expansion project.

Marion O. Weaver, President Board of Trustees Schroon Lake Public Library

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To the Editor: [In response to “Trump supporters should brush up on their Russian,” by Gary Philip Guido in the Sept. 17 edition of the Sun.] I have no reason to believe Mr. Gary Philip Guido. Bottom line, his desires for America are much different than mine.

I believe we both want a better America for our future generations, the problem is as I see it we have totally different ideas on how to accomplish the desired results and with who.

Facts are stubborn things, so let’s see if we can figure out who is working for America with the Russians! We know Hillary, while Secretary of State, sold 25 percent of the USA uranium deposits to Russia, and the Clinton’s got personally rewarded with huge donations to their family controlled foundation.

Yes, that is a fact!

We know that Trump has been cordial with the Russian leader and hopes to work with Russia once he is inaugurated on international issues and yes that’s a fact!

I see the rants and stupidity coming from the Clinton camp, along with personal insults directed at over 50 million Americans, myself included, with Hillary’s statement that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”

I won’t bore you with terms and name calling she followed that up with in an effort to avoid any children from seeing who the Democrats are supporting.

Mr. Guido, as I see it, Trump has approached this election and its issues with common sense, yes I agree he is out of touch with political correctness as developed by the radical left wing of the Democratic Party. But that is true to his character and makes him an even more attractive choice for the working people of America, and yes he is our best shot at MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. So wake up and join me in supporting Trump for President!

ore than 700,000 Americans are released from prison each year. We expect them to re-enter society and be law-abiding, but we make it extremely difficult for anyone who has served time to ever become gainfully employed, even though they have paid their debt to society. A barrier that needs to be removed is that box on standard job applications that asks, “Have you ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor?”

If you check “yes,” you will likely never hear from the potential employer again. It won’t matter how qualified or motivated you are. And with extremely limited legitimate earning options, the formerly incarcerated often re-offend and are re-incarcerated within a few years.

This destructive cycle not only devastates individuals, families and communities, it’s a recurring, evergrowing expense for taxpayers.

The cost of keeping and guarding inmates now averages $31,286 per inmate per year. Each inmate represents tax money that could otherwise be spent on programs to grow the economy, and each inmate is one less employee whose consumer spending would spur growth for all kinds of companies. The U.S. incarcerates more individuals than any other nation, and 70 million Americans have some sort of criminal record — almost one in three Americans of working age. This revolving door system is unsustainable. One simple step can be a solution.

More than 100 cities, 20 states and the federal government have passed laws that “ban the box.” “Ban the Box” simply defers the question about a candidate’s criminal history until such time that a conditional job offer is made. And for certain jobs, such as those working with children, employers may still ask about relevant criminal history.

“Ban the Box” ensures that potential hires are evaluated based on experience, skills and future potential, not past mistakes for which they’ve already paid and that don’t relate to their current efforts to make a fresh start.

This change is small but the potential value is enormous, especially to candidates in chronically disadvantaged communities. To break the cycle of poverty caused by lack of job opportunities, individuals need and deserve a chance to start fresh. And we need farsighted companies to implement inclusive hiring models.

I recently joined 18 other business leaders at the White House to launch the Fair Chance Business Pledge. This pledge calls on all businesses to improve our communities by creating a path to a second chance for people with a criminal record. Companies signing the pledge included big names like American Airlines, Coca-Cola, Facebook, Georgia Pacific, Google, Koch Industries, and Xerox. So this isn’t something the business community is that scared of.

A job is obviously essential for supporting oneself and one’s family, but it also provides confidence, dignity and self-worth, which has an encouraging ripple effect throughout any community. Let’s ban the box nationwide so hardworking individuals, ready to work, have a real chance to be a contributing member of society.

Bert Windle Putnam

Mike Brady is President of Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY

ThurmanÊ boardÊ Ô tookÊ awayÊ rightÊ toÊ voteÕ Ê fromÊ public To the Editor: [In response to “Thurman resident should ‘walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,’” by Marilyn Hoy-Youngblood, in the Sept. 17 edition of the Sun.] I go to Town Board meetings to observe the board members working for the residents of the town. This would include some kind of discussion by the board members on a particular issue (in Thurman this just does not happen) then possibly some input from the residents. I feel the residents should be given an opportunity to be heard, and this should all happen before it is voted on.

Very often, the town supervisor and three board members go to a vote without a discussion during a public meeting. So this inquiring mind would like to know, when and where did discussion occur?

In the 10 board meetings that I have attended, one time, I listened to the board discuss an issue. I had some things to add, I raised my hand and was ignored. I should have been given the courtesy to be heard.

I was told later by another resident “that public input is not allowed here.”

I said, “How stupid.”

Isn’t it better to work together for a better outcome?

In Thurman, the town supervisor and three of the board members have taken it upon themselves to ignore the majority and take our right to vote on some important issues away from us voters. These board members are clearly working for their own interest and not the majority.

All I am asking the residents of Thurman is to remember, come election time, what these four board members have taken from us. Let’s send that very clear message: “Your actions will not be tolerated.”

Keith L. Parent Sr. Athol / Thurman

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Director Michael Moore “invades” other countries to learn how the U.S. could solve many of its most pressing problems.

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EYE ON THE ARTS

Art is relative F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was born this week in 1896, once said that writers weren’t people. He said that if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

I think this applies to everyone, in a way; we all contain multitudes, we are all multi-faceted with fairly nuanced ideas, opinions and feelings.

This means that each one of us will experience things differently — each of us carry a lifetime of experiences behind us, each event altering our perspective and opinion, however minutely.

Each person, with their varied lifetimes, will react to art differently. That’s one of the great things about art and entertainment; some is made to woo its audience, others to disgust, to shock its viewers, but it’s all relative — regardless of its creator’s intention.

The North Country has plenty of opportunities to get involved with art and entertainment this week. Here are a few suggestions: Lake George’s C.R. Wood Park will see a two day local music festival on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.

Performances scheduled for Friday are Capital Zen, Mister F and more. Saturday performances include Formula5, Joe Mansman and more. The festival will also feature food vendors and a kid zone. Tickets are $10 for a two day pass. Gates open at 4 p.m. on Friday and 12 p.m. on Saturday.

For more information, visit adkmusicfest.com.

The North Country SPCA in Elizabethtown will host their third annual Mutt Strut 5K on Sept. 25. Runners are encouraged to bring their dogs. All proceeds from this event will benefit the North Country SPCA and the Tri-Lakes Humane Society. Registration costs $20 in advance, $25 day-of. A t-shirt is included with the cost. For more information, email jhartley@ncspca.org.

The Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh will host a clay-molding class on Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. The class will teach children ages 9-12 how to create a life-sized cupcake out of clay. Organizers say that the class will feature instruction on the “slab and coil method,” and that participants will apply color using underglazes to make the cupcakes look “scrumptious enough to make your sweet tooth jealous.” Tickets are $35 for non-members, materials included. Class sizes are limited – pre-registration is encouraged. To pre-register, or for more information on the class, call 563-1604.

Back by popular demand, The Strand will re-screen the William H. Miner documentary, “Heart’s Delight: The Story of William H. Miner,” on Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. The film originally premiered on Aug. 10. For more information on the screening, visit strandcenter.org.

Saranac Lake’s Pendragon Theater will perform “The Glass Menagerie” at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts (LPCA) on Sept. 28. The story follows a Southern woman who lives in poverty with her son and daughter. Organizers say that “The Glass Menagerie” is “one of the most famous plays of the modern theater.” Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. Showtimes are 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.

The LPCA will also host folksingers Alex Smith and Dan Berggren on Oct. 1. In their new show, Smith and Berggren will embrace their forty-year age difference and work together to honor the rich history of folk music in the Adirondacks. The show, titled “Bridging the Years,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. For more information, call 523-2515 or visit lakeplacidarts.org.

Art at Vassar College, a gourmet lunch at the Culinary Institute of America, and a polished tour of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park; these are the activities the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls will offer registrants for this day trip on Sept. 29. Cost of the trip is $150 for non-

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On Sept. 24, the Paul DesLauriers Band and Anward Khurshid will join forces for a performance at Saranac Lake’s BluSeed Studios. DesLauriers and Khurshid will combine their blues and Indian classical music together for a unique, eastmeets-west concert. Doors opn at 7 p.m. Tickets are $18 for non-members, $15 for members. For more information, call 891-3799 or contact admin@bluseedstudios.org.

Fort Ticonderoga’s Heritage Harvest & Horse Festival is scheduled for Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fest will feature equestrian demonstrations, sack races, wagon rides, live music and more. From 10 - 4 p.m., a harvest market will be set up with locally grown and locally made products from vendors from all around the region. The market will have artisanal cheese, produce, maple syrup, apple products and more.

At 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. there will be guided tours of the historic King’s Garden. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be horse-drawn wagon rides around the King’s Garden grounds.

The corn maze will also be open all day. For a full schedule of events, or for more information, visit fortticonderoga.org or call 585-2821.

The North and South Dakotas will perform at the Waterhole in Saranac Lake on Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. The North and South Dakotas are an americana/rock group from upstate New York. For more information, call 354-5441 or find the Waterhole on Facebook.

George Thorogood and the Destroyers will perform at the Glens Falls Civic Center on Sept.

30. Tickets to see the “bad to the bone” singer are $40-55. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit glensfallscc.com or call 798-0366.

The Not Too Far From Home The North & South Dakotas. The group will perform stand up comedy tour will return at the Waterhole in Saranac Lake Sept. 29 Photo via Facebook to Plattsburgh for two nights, Sept. 23 and 24, at the Plattsburgh Brewing Company. The tour features comedians Aaron David Ward, Mike Speirs and Joe Pontillo. All comedians featured either live in or have ties to upstate New York. For more information, visit thenottoofarfromhomecomedytour.com.

The Whallonsburg Grange will screen the new Michael Moore documentary, “Where to Invade Next,” on Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. Moore’s new comedy will seek answers to the United States’ most pressing problems through pseudo-invasions into other countries. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for those under 18. For more information, visit cvfilms.org or contact info@cvfilms.org.

The American Music Festival will return to Lake George for its third year on Sept. 24-25. Blue Oyster Cult will headline on Sept. 24. Ryan Montbleau on Sept. 25. The festival will also have food vendors, a poker tournament and more. Advanced tickets are $25 on Saturday and $10 on Sunday. For more information, visit facebook.com/lakegeorgefestival. www.suncommunitynews.com/A&Efor the latest events

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said as their Community Supported Agriculture business has taken root and flourished.

But for both Christenson and his business partner, Ian Ater, the aim remains the same.

“It’s not about working 14 hours a day... it’s about putting plants in the earth and having a ball. Our business has changed so much, our business has changed so fast, that I can look at it and say ‘Is this our business?’”

“The scale has changed on all the farms,” Stechschulte said of his observations this summer.

The panel, moderated by David Sommerstein from North Country Public Radio, included Mark Kimball, founder and farmer at Essex Farm; David Brunner, owner of the rekindled Asgaard Farm & Dairy; Courtney Grimes-Sutton, co-owner of Mace Chasm Farm; Margot Brooks, co-owner of Sugar House Creamery and Steven Googin, founder and co-owner of North Country Creamery.

For Kimball, the definition of “sustainability” lies within the 200 to 300 things that change in any given year.

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He said he and his wife Kristin now employ about 20 people and they are looking down the road toward longer-term investments, like college tuition for their children and retirement funds.

The learning curve they expected would even out is still steep, Kimball said.

“Looking forward, I think Kristin and I have more of a question mark than we thought,” he said.

Farming has long been largely dependent on the weather, but it seems local market buyers hold as much sway as any blustering wind or hard frost.

Woolf suggested that the necessary equal-and-opposite reaction to the rising of small farms is nascent, arriving with the Hub-on-the-Hill, farm-to-market cooperation and a decided step toward distribution infrastructure.

The focus moves to the community to solve some part of the equation, the farmers agreed.

WISH LIST Farmers organically provided a collective wish list as the lively discussion faded to the rise of fiddle and mandolin music outside Floral Hall.

Many of those on the panel pulled together some of the themes — worker burnout, sustainability, transport and affordability — that orbited around the first half of the discussion.

“What I want is some predictability,” said Grimes-Sutton.

Ater, from Fledging Crow, agreed — “Good organic farming means you’ve got to have good markets,” he said — but said transport and cold storage also posed thorny logistical issues.

“What we want is to produce as much as we can and it has somewhere to go,” Grimes-Sutton said.

Brooks said while farmers appreciated the North Country’s patronage, success often comes down to sheer critical mass.

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“We just need more people,” Brooks said, calling for attendees to be emissaries for local food.

She asked the room how much of their food came from local producers.

“Engage your local food system in a really deep level,” Brooks said. “The food we make is really good.”

The room nodded.

“But it’s expensive,” Grimes-Sutton shot back. “We’re at a real weird point in history for small farms.”

Others suggested broader outreach efforts to boost the use of locally-grown products, including lobbying institutions like schools to incorporate their products into lunch and even gardening programs.

“We’re literally taking grass at our creamery to give your kids energy to live, study and grow,” Googin said.

The Adirondack Farmer’s Association, the cheesemaker said, has been pushing to get low-interest loans from the Farm Bill allocated to alleviate some of the storage issues that are hobbling these institutional efforts.

But often those schedules are “diametrically opposed” to growing seasons, noted Christenson, which makes planning difficult.

Supply chains also prove to be a pesky issue for providing food to these programs.

“We’ve always said we grow as much as we possibly can and practically give it to the school,” Ater said.

And when it comes to cracking the big leagues — which for many, is getting their food on the shelves of regional supermarkets — it comes down to a matter of having enough capital.

Ater said Fledging Crow would need between $90,000 and $100,000 in infrastructure improvements to get their product into Wegman’s, citing discussions with company personnel.

This is where grants come in, Iter said.

Kimball, of Essex Farm, offered attendees a challenge: Open your fridge and survey which percentage of the contents came from local growers: “Ten percent in the fridge? Double it.”

All indicated their participation was part of a broader calling.

“We’re all part of the same experimental matrix that is reinventing the wheel,” Kimball said.

And all of them were taking a chance, he said.

“That bravery is what I’m most excited about.”

Kim Dedam contributed to this report

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was purchased by the state earlier this year and awaits classification.

“The goal is to promote access and recreation to all people while maintaining the environment,” Moore said. “It’s basically in the initial stages, we’re just getting started.”

The idea arose from a recent Five Towns meeting — North Hudson, Newcomb, Minerva, Indian Lake and Long Lake — at which the aforementioned stakeholders were present.

Groups like the Adirondack Local Government Review Board have also pledged their support.

“It just proves a lot of people have a lot of interest in this to create access for more people,” said Minerva Supervisor Steve McNally, who noted this was the first time such a broad coalition has assembled under a single banner.

The Five Towns are pushing for a Wild Forest designation in the core areas throughout the tract, a move that would provide the base for trails connecting the towns through a pre-existing network of former logging and access roads.

Doing so would allow for recreational activities to lay the bedrock for a sustainable local economy, the group says.

Environmental preservation groups are calling for a more restrictive use that classifies most of the parcel as Wilderness.

Doing so would prohibit all but foot and paddle traffic from what scientists have called one of the Adirondack Park’s most sensitive ecological areas.

Much of the discussion revolves around access points, with green groups pushing for access further away from the waterways that make up the heart of the parcel.

The sporting community is an aging demographic.

The average age of hunters, trappers and anglers in New York is between 46 and 48, said Jason Kemper, chair of the New York State Conservation Fund Advisory Board, a membrer of the coalition.

“I think the sporting community is increasingly frustrated when we continue to shut access to lands that have very viable infrastructure in place,” Kemper said. “If the infrastructure is in place, we should be utilizing those lands.”

Access Adirondacks rolled out a Memorandum of Understanding last week, the first-ever for an access-oriented group, Moore said.

The document calls for the signatories to “work constructively” with state agencies and each other to fulfill a number of goals in decision-making affecting access, analysis of natural resources and relevant road and trail infrastructure, and the study of past uses of state lands.

Is this to say that the aforementioned was not being done before?

“Historically, back to the origins of the Adirondack Park Agency in 1971, I think the primary focus has been on protecting the environment and less of an emphasis on local governments, economic input and recreation opportunities and access,” Moore said.

That, in part, is why the Five Towns banded together in 2013 prior to Essex Chain of Lakes discussions, said the lawmaker.

“We realized we were the most affected by the recent purchase,” Moore said.

Moore was quick to hail Gov. Andrew Cuomo for guiding those negotiations between towns and land use planners, largely viewed as a compromise, and for promoting tourism in the region.

“Things have changed for the better,” Moore said. “It’s improving for us.”

Alongside the classification process, the state Department of Conservation will develop a Unit Management Plan.

While a Wilderness classification means Access Adirondacks’ proposals may be entirely torpe-

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doed — a measure that would largely carve the group out of the subsequent debate — Moore says he hopes the organization will stick around after the current debate ends.

“We thought maybe this could have a future in future land acquisitions,” Moore said. “Hopefully this group will stay together and be this group that is all inclusive.”

Kemper said sportsmen haven’t always been vocal about access issues.

“The sporting community is strongly in favor [of access], and will take a stronger role than in the past,” he said.

A website is in the works, and the group plans to meet at least once before the first public hearing, which is scheduled for Nov. 9 at the APA headquarters in Ray Brook.

Last week, Moore asked the Essex County Board of Supervisors to circulate the MOU to their town boards and potential signatories in their communities.

While county lawmakers unanimously approved the resolution, at least one supervisor indicated he needed to study the issue more closely before signing off at the local level.

“My board really needs to get more information about this,” said Westport Supervisor Michael “Ike” Tyler.

Access Adirondacks is joined by another new informal group seeking to influence the debate.

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, conceived this past May, has assembled their own proposal for the new tracts, which includes an expanded Wilderness area.

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Northeastern Clinton Saranac Lake

9 0

NCCS: HAT TRICK: Sierra Gonyo from Kya McComb (1st); Arleigh Lafountain from Cailtyn Houghton (17th); Aislyn McDonough from Sierra Gonyo (23rd); Arleigh Lafountain from Sierra Gonyo (35th); Abbie Sample from Sierra Gonyo (41st); Abbie Sample from Jazmin Lushia (51st); Jazmin Lushia from Kya McComb (68th); Sierra Gonyo from Caitlyn Houghton (68th); Aislyn McDonough unassisted (77th).

Katerina Emerick 2 saves, Gabby Dumas 3 saves SHUTOUT. SLCS: MaKayla Schmidt 12 saves.

Peru Saranac Lake

7 3

PCS: Sam Spear unassisted (10th); Sam Spear unassisted (30th); Lindsay Brown unassisted (40th); Kallista LaBombrad from Lauren Lawliss (58th); Kallista LaBombard unassisted (64th); Abby Webb from Lauren Lawliss (68th); Hannah LaDuke unassisted (80th). Dakota Mousseau 11 saves.

SLCS: Brittany Shumway from Grace Clark (46th); Hannah Latour from Lindsay Reeve (73rd); Katie Holvick unassisted (77th). Madison Grimmone 8 saves, MaKayla Schmidt 3 saves.

Stuart Baird scored Lake Placid’s lone goal against Chazy.

BoyÕ sÊ soccer Chazy Lake Placid

Photo by Jill Lobdell

2 1

CCRS: Josh McCauley unassisted (56th); Gage Ducatte unassisted (75th). Ben Norcross 3 saves

Volleyball Saranac Lake Placid

25-25-25 12-12-21

SCS: Rebecca Holzer - 7 kills; Paytyn Lehman - 4 aces, 5 digs; Samantha Parrotte - 7 digs; Elizabeth Trudeau - 7 aces, 19 assists.

LPCS: Victoria O’Leary - 8 kills, 6 Digs; Graci Daby - 7 assists; Laurel Miller - 10 assists.

LPCS: Sturat Baird from Bjorn Kroes (46th). Kamm Cassidy 4 saves.

Caleb Moore wins Section VII Invitational TEAM SCORES: Lake Placid36, Saranac Lake 63, Seton Catholic 93, AuSable Valley 107, Saranac 119, Peru 130, PHS 161, Beekmantown 181 TOP 20: Caleb Moore (Seton) 16:09; Henry McGrew (Lake Placid) 16:55); Anderson Gray (Saranac Lake) 17:04); Andrew LePage (Saranac (17:14); Scott Schulz (Lake Placid) 17:38); Trent White (Lake Placid) 17:45; Lauchlan Cheney-Seymour (Saranac Lake) 17:53; HJames Flanigan (Lake Placid) 18:00; Zachary Lawrence (AuSable Valley) 18:02; Jake Glicksman (Seton) 18:07; Dylan Trombley (AuSable Valley) 18:09; Adam Branch (Saranac Lake) 18:09; Ryan Flora (PHS) 18:10; Luke Moore (Seton) 18:24; Kai Frantz (Lake Placid) 18:32; Andrew Mazzella (Peru) 18:34; Matthew Russon (AuSable Valley) 118:36; Ian Campbell (PHS) 18:41); Tyler Martin (Saranac Lake) 18:42; Logan Clark (Saranac) 18:45

GirlÕ sÊ CrossÊ Country Lady Knights score two wins

TEAM SCORES: Seton Catholic 20 - Plattsburgh High 35; Seton Catholic 26 - Saranac Lake 31; Saranac Lake 19 - Plattsburgh High 40 TOP TEN: Brittany Shumway (Saranac Lake) 20:00; Lea DeJordy (Seton Catholic) 20:23; Sofia DeJordy (Seton Catholic) 20:40; SAvannah DeJordy (Seton Catholic) 22:01; Makenzie Baker (Plattsburgh High) 22:21; Gabby Cote (Seton Catholic) 22:41; O’Mahoney (Saranac Lake) 23:53; Peer (Saranac Lake) 24:43; Peer (Saranac Lake) 24:45; Bell (Saranac Lake) 25:09.

Lady Chiefs go 3-0 TEAM SCORES: Saranac 18 - Beekmantown 45; Saranac 21 - Lake Placid 39; Saranac 15, EKMW 50; Lake Placid 25 - Beekmantown 30; Beekmantown 15 - EKMW 50 TOP TEN: Rachael Woodruff (Saranac) 18:36; Marli Damp (Lake Placid) 19:25; Janyll Barber (Saranac) 20:45; Enya Sullivan (Beekmantown) 20:51; Elise LePage (Saranac) 21:24; Morgan (Lake Placid) 21:28.; Drolet (Saranac) 21:56; Dandrow-Pellerin (Saranac) 22:00; Cliché (Saranac) 22:06; Sarah Rose-McCandlish (Lake Placid) 22:09.

Shumway Section VII Invitational champ TEAM SCORES: Saranac 44; Seton Catholic 59; Saranac Lake 88; Peru 97; Lake Placid 118; Beekmantown 159; AuSable Valley 161; Plattsburgh High 175 TOP 20: Brittany Shumway (Saranac Lake) 19:10; Racjael Woodruff (Saranac) 19:15; Marli Damp (Lake Placid) 19:59; Lea DeJordy (Seton) 20:13; Sofia DeJordy (Seton) 20:19; Savannah DeJordy (Seton) 20:19; Heather Dutko (Saranac) 20:45); Ella Messner (Peru) 20:45); Janyll Barber (Saranac) 21:02); Elise LePage (Saranac) 21:10; Kaylee Amoriell (Peru) 21:12; Gabby Cote (Seton) 21:20; Enya Sullivan (Beekmantown) 21:36; Makenzie Baker (PHS) 21:38; Madison Grimone (Saranac Lake) 21:44; Faith Haley (Saranac) 21:45; Lily Pothast (AuSable Valley) 21:50; Sara Rose-McCandish (Lake Placid (21:57); Anya Martin (Lake Placid) 22:19; Julia Drolet (Saranac) 22:22.

Saranac Lake’s Abraham Newton scores a goal past the Salmon River goalkeeper during the preseason.

Northeastern Clinton Saranac Lake

3 0

NCCS: Rylee Hollister from Michael McLeod (38th); Nicholas Duffy unassisted (39th); Michael McLoed from Nicholas Duffy (73rd). Brady Lafountain 4 saves SHUTOUT.

Saranac Lake Plattsburgh High

Photo by Keith Lobdell

25-25-25 12-15-16

SLCS: Meadows - 10 assists; Sapone - 8 kills; Smith - 15 assists; Atkinson - 8 digs; Farmer - 9 kills, 7 digs.

PHS: Kyleigh Melhorn - 9 assists, 5 kills, 7 digs; Elizabeth Herkalo - 6 digs; Molly Channell - 14 digs; Sydney Burdo - 6 digs.

SLCS: Nick Stevens 15 saves.

GirlÕ sÊ soccer Lake Placid Ticonderoga

3 2

Plattsburgh High Lake Placid

25-25-16-25 12-16-25-13

PHS: Kyleigh Melhorn - 10 aces, 10 assists; Elizabeth Herkalo - 6 digs; Jackie McCormick - 4 aces, 4 kills; Sydney Burdo - 5 aces, 4 kills, 5 digs.

LPCS: Taylor Barney from Meaghan Byrne (8th); Taylor Barney from Faith Fell (12th); Grace McGrew from Paige Megliore (29th).

Shelby Jewtraw 9 saves.

LPCS: Victoria O’Leary - 11 kills, 5 digs; Graci Daby, 4 kills, 7 assists; Laurel Miller - 10 assists.

Ti: Haleigh Wright from Kristen Palandrani (47th); Emily Pike from Delaney Hughes (53rd). Alyssa Tucker 9 saves.

BoyÕ sÊ CrossÊ Country

Lake Placid Ticonderoga

3 2

LPCS: Taylor Barney from Meaghan Byrne (8th); Taylor Barney from Faith Fell (12th); Grace McGrew from Paige Megliore (29th).

Shelby Jewtraw 9 saves.

Ti: Haleigh Wright from Kristen Palandrani (47th); Emily Pike from Delaney Hughes (53rd). Alyssa Tucker 9 saves.

Moriah Lake Placid

2 2

MCS: McKenzie Sprague from Halee Calabrese (13th); Halee Calabrese from McKenzie Sprague (45th). Samantha Hayes 14 saves.

LPCS: Taylor Barney from Grace McGrew (10th); Meghan Byrne from Grace McGrew (80th). Shelby Jewtraw 5 saves.

Red Storm wins pair

TEAM SCORES: Saranac Lake 19 - Plattsburgh High 41; Saranac Lake 27 - Seton Catholic 30; Seton Catholic 20 - Plattsburgh High 35 TOP 10: Caleb Moore (Seton) 16:45; Anderson Gray (Saranac Lake) 17:25; Lauchlain Cheney-Seymour (Saranac Lake) 17:28; Jake Glicksman (Seton Catholic) 18:18; Branch (Saranac Lake) 18:19; Ryan Flora (Plattsburgh High) 18:32; Henry Derrick (Seton Catholic) 18:34; Luke Moore (Seton Catholic) 18:38; Ian Campbell (Plattsburgh High) 19:12; Hesseltine (Saranac Lake) 19:16.

Bombers, Chiefs each win pair TEAM SCORES: Lake Placid 15 - Beekmantown 50; Lake Placid 18 - Saranac 43; Saranac 18 - Beekmantown 37; Saranac 19 - EKMW 38; Beekmantown 22 - EKMW 33 TOP TEN: Henry McGrew (Lake Placid) 16:26; Scott Schulz (Lake Placid) 16:46; LePage (Saranac) 16:51; Trent White (Lake Placid) 17:35; James Flanigan (Lake Placid) 17:37; Logan VanBuren (EKMW) 18:03; Kai Frantz (Lake Placid) 18:16; Jesse Izzo (Lake Placid) 18:24; Clark (Saranac) 18:26; Carter (Saranac) 18:45.

Brittany Shumway had a big week for Saranac Lake on two fronts. Shumway scored a goal against Peru in soccer while placing first in the Section VII Invitational girls cross country meet.

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Game of the Week

Leaderboards Boys Soccer

Team

NSL - Div. I Overall League

Pts

NCCS

5-1-0

3-1-0

15

Peru

5-1-0

4-0-0

15

PHS

4-3-0

2-1-0

12

Saranac Lake

2-4-0

1-2-0

6

AuSable Valley

1-4-0

1-2-0

3

Beekmantown

2-4-1

1-3-0

7

Saranac

6

Team

2-3-0 0-3-0 NSL - Div. II Overall League

NAC

5-0-2

3-0-0

17

Chazy

5-0-1

2-0-1

16

Willsboro

3-3-0

1-2-0

9

EL/W Griffins

2-3-1

0-1-1

7

Lake Placid

2-2-0

1-1-0

6

Seton Catholic Team

0-3-0 0-3-0 NSL - Div. III Overall League

Pts

Keene

5-0-0

3-0-0

15

Crown Point

2-0-0

2-0-0

6

Minerva/Newcomb 3-1-0

3-1-0

9

Johnsburg

1-3-0

1-1-0

3

Schroon Lake

1-1-0

1-1-0

3

Indian Lk/Long Lk

0-3-0

0-3-0

0

Wells

0-4-0

0-4-0

0

SL,Ê TiÊ setÊ forÊ battleÊ of Ê unbeatens

Pts

0

Girls Soccer Team

NSL - Div. I Overall League

Pts

NCCS

4-2-1

3-1-1

13

Beekmantown

5-1-0

3-1-0

15

Saranac

5-1-0

2-1-0

15

Peru

4-2-0

3-2-0

12

PHS

2-3-1

1-2-1

7

AuSable Valley

1-3-0

1-3-0

3

Saranac Lake Team

0-6-0 0-5-0 NSL - Div. II Overall League

Pts

Chazy

4-3-0

4-1-0

12

NAC

5-1-2

3-0-1

17

Lake Placid

3-1-1

2-1-1

10

Moriah

2-2-1

1-2-1

7

Seton Catholic

1-1-2

1-1-2

5

Ticonderoga

1-3-0

1-3-0

3

EL/W Griffins Team

0-3-1 0-3-1 NSL - Div. III Overall League

Pts

Keene

5-0-0

5-0-0

15

Johnsburg

3-0-1

3-0-1

10

Crown Point

3-1-0

3-1-0

9

Schroon Lake

1-3-1

1-2-1

4

Minerva/Newcomb 1-2-0

1-2-0

3

Willsboro

1-5-0

1-4-0

3

Wells

0-3-0

0-3-0

0

Indian Lk/Long Lk

0-2-0

0-2-0

0

0

1

Coaches are welcome to contact the Sun News Sports department with any changes on the leaderboards and Top 5’s by emailing keith@suncommunitynews.com or calling 873-6368 ext. 212.

Sean Lincoln, David Sullivan and the rest of the Saranac Lake interior will be asked to take on a physical front in the Ticonderoga Sentinels this Saturday at Linney Field in Mineville. Both teams come into the game with a 3-0 record.

After big win over Peru, Red Storm to face Sentinels in Moriah Sept. 24

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SARANAC LAKE — For the first three weeks of the season, the Saranac Lake Red Storm and Ticonderoga Sentinels football programs have emerged as two of the best in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference.

Now, the two will square off in a battle of undefeated teams as both scored week three wins.

While Ticonderoga is hosting the biggest game of week four, the venue will not be in Ticonderoga. Because of work still being done to the football/soccer/track and field area at the school, the game will instead be played at Linney Field in Mineville Saturday, Sept. 24, with junior varsity starting at 10 a.m. and the varsity game set to kick off at 1:30 p.m.

“I think once we kick it off, where we are playing is not a big deal,” Sentinel head coach Scott Nephew said. “We know we have to prepare for a good Saranac Lake team and that is our focus.”

The Red Storm took to the air on their home turf Sept. 17, as Will Coats threw for 360 yards in a 21-7 victory over the Peru Indians.

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Victoria O’Leary • Lake Placid What makes you happy playing sports?

I love volleyball because it is a team sport. It is really something fun to do during the school year. It is good exercise and being with everyone.

Best win of your career?

Last year regional semi-finals because we went to regional finals and we won.

The one play you wish you could do over?

This last set in this last scrimmage because we were all a little dead and tired. If we had a little more energy, we would’ve played a lot better.

Go-to pregame track?

I don’t know

What would my teammates say about me?

I am an active and energetic participant. I really love the game.

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Coats’ main target was receiver Joe Viscardo, who caught 11 passes for 236 yards and all three touchdowns thrown by Coats.

“A very well coached Peru team did a great job of taking away our run game and thankfully we were able to answer through the air,” Storm head coach Eric Bennett said. “Our defense played well in another ‘bend but don’t break,’ performance, particularly in two red zone stands. I was impressed with our kids resiliency following seeing their teammate being brought off the field via ambulance.”

Isaak Herd added 73 receiving yards, while Jarrett Ashton led the rushing attack with 47 yards.

Now, the Storm will face Ticonderoga, who scored a 27-0 win over the Saranac Chiefs on Sept. 17 as Justyn Granger led the Sentinels rushing attack with 161 yards and a pair of scores.

Michael Graney added 76 passing yards and the throwing score to Michael DuShane, who hauled in 66 of the 76 total receiving yards. Griffin Hughes, who had the other 10 receiving yards, also scored on a 62-yard punt return.

“We have to get better and worry about us,” Nephew said.

“We are playing a very well coached and very good football team and we have to come out right from the start.”

“Ticonderoga is another disciplined, big, and tenacious team,” Bennett said. “They give up very little ground when on defense and we had better have answers for a ground game that is punishing. We will have our hands full.”

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Leaderboards Football CVAC Team

Overall

League

Ticonderoga

3-0

3-0

Saranac Lake

3-0

3-0

Beekmantown

2-1

2-1

Peru

1-2

1-2

Moriah

1-2

1-2

AuSable Valley

1-2

1-2

PHS

1-2

1-2

Saranac

0-3

0-3

Team

League

Games

Beekmantown

4-0

21-4

Peru

3-1

18-7

NCCS

2-1

13-7

Saranac Lake

2-1

13-9

Saranac

2-2

15-12

PHS

2-2

10-15

AVCS

1-2

7-14

Lake Placid

0-4

5-19

NAC

0-3

0-19

Volleyball

Ryan Criss • Beekmantown 189 rec. yards, 4 TD; 68 yard punt return v. Moriah

Hanna Whitney • Keene 9 goals, 3 assists; scored career goal #100 — Keene went 3-0-0

SightsÊ of Ê theÊ week

Boy’s Cross Country Team

League

Saranac Lake

6-0

Lake Placid

5-0

AVCS

5-1

Saranac

4-1

Seton Catholic

3-2

Peru

3-2

Beekmantown

3-4

NCCS

2-3

Ticonderoga

1-5

PHS

0-4

Schroon Lake

0-4

EKMW

0-5

Girl’s Cross Country

The Saranac Lake varsity girls volleyball team takes a timeout during the Saranac Volleyball Campership Tournament Sept. 17 at Saranac High School. The Lady Red Storm went 5-5 in Pool B game play. INSET: Olivia Atkinson makes a defensive dig for the Red Storm.

Photo by Keith Lobdell

Team

League

Seton Catholic

5-0

Saranac

5-0

Saranac Lake

5-1

AVCS

4-2

Peru

4-2

Lake Placid

3-2

Beekmantown

3-4

Ticonderoga

2-4

PHS

1-3

Schroon Lake

0-4

NCCS

0-5

EKMW

0-5

Gymnastics

Lake Placid’s Graci Daby looks to set a ball during the Saranac Volleyball Campership Tournament Sept. 17. The Blue Bombers went 3-7 in Pool B. Photo by Keith Lobdell

Team

Overall

Pts

Peru

2-0

305.65

PHS

0-1

141.8

Beekmantown

0-1

139.65

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REAL ESTATE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: ESSEX COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-47CB, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200547CB, Pltf. vs. FRANK J. FIELDS, et al, Defts. Index #CV15-0351. Pursuant to Amended Judgment of Foreclosure, I will sell at public auction at the Essex County Courthouse Lobby, 7559 Elizabethtown, NY 12932 on Oct. 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. prem. k/a 37 Fields Way, Lewis, NY 12950 a/k/a Section 29, Block 2, Lot 33.000 a/k/a located in Lots 19 and 21 of the Essex Tract, Henrys Survey, Town of Lewis, Essex County, NY, being part of Parcel V and VI of a deed dated Mar. 12, 1983 to Francis J. and Elaine C. Fields from Henry A. Kurtz, Joseph J. Michel, Richard W. Michel and John R. Wargo recorded in the Essex County Clerks Office in Book 785 of Deeds at page 124 and being Lot 4 as shown on a Map of Survey prepared for Francis J. and Elaine C. Fields by Kevin A. Hall, Land Surveyor, Elizabethtown, NY and filed in the Essex County Clerks Office as Map No. 4906. Approx. amt. of judgment is $131,023.94 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. This is a First Mortgage.

JOHN W. CAFFRY, Referee. DRUCKMAN LAW GROUP, PLLC, Attys. for Pltf., 242 Drexel Ave. Westbury, NY. File No. 35052 #89387 VN-09/03-09/24/20164TC-128802

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VN-09/24-10/29/20166TC-131015 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF AMARA Enterprise LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York on June 28, 2016.

Office located in Essex County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process served against the LLC to AMARA Enterprise LLC, c/o Barbara J. Hofrichter, 6 Almweg Lane, Jay, NY 12941.

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A Certificate of Amend-

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Around the Bend Brewing Company, LLC, now known as Big Slide Brewery & Public House, LLC. The Articles of Organization of Around the Bend Brewing Company, LLC were filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/15/2015.

A Certificate of Amendment of the Articles of Organization was filed with the SSNY on 06/04/2015 changing the name of Around The Bend Brewing Company, LLC to Big Slide Brewery & Public House, LLC. Office location: Essex County. Principle business address: 813 Mirror Lake Drive, P.O. Box 948, Lake Placid, New York 12946. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail process is: The LLC, 813 Mirror Lake Drive, P.O. Box 948, Lake Placid, New York 12946. Purpose: any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the LLC. VN-09/17-10/22/20166TC-130326 BOPA ENTERPRISES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on May 3, 2016. Office location: Essex County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 6691 Main Street, Westport, NY 12993 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

VN-09/10-10/15/20166TC-129727 CAMP WOODLEA LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/25/2016. Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 644

CAMP WOODLEA LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/25/2016. Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 644 E. 86th St., Apt 3E, NY, NY 10128.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Principal business locn: 28 Kilkare Way, Lake Placid, NY 12946.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF CHI3 LLC a domestic limited liability company.

Art. of Org. filed with Sec'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/6/16. Office location: Essex County.

SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of such process served upon it to CHI3 LLC, PO Box 1365 Lake Placid NY 12946. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY [LLC] Name: MMTR, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York [SSNY] on July 27, 2016. Office location: Essex County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, c/o Flink Smith Law LLC, 2577 Main Street, Lake Placid, New York 12946. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY [LLC] Name: MMTR, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York [SSNY] on July 27, 2016. Office location: Essex County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, c/o Flink Smith Law LLC, 2577 Main Street, Lake Placid, New York 12946. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

VN-09/24-10/29/20166TC-131017 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) N0C0 Technologies, LLC has filed an Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 30th, 2016. Office Location: Essex County.

John Paul Smith is designated as registered agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at: 8 Pine Country Way, Lewis, New York 12950.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

VN-09/17-10/22/20166TC-130331 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: ESSEX COUNTY. THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-47CB, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 200547CB, Pltf. vs. FRANK J. FIELDS, et al, Defts. Index #CV15-0351. Pursuant to Amended Judgment of Foreclosure, I will sell at public auction at the Essex County Courthouse Lobby, 7559 Elizabethtown, NY 12932 on Oct. 5, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. prem. k/a 37 Fields Way, Lewis, NY 12950 a/k/a Section 29, Block 2, Lot 33.000 a/k/a located in Lots 19 and 21 of the Essex

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Patient Ahead LLC filed articles of organization with SOS of NY on 8/15/2016. Principal office is in Essex County, New York. The SOS of NY is designated as agent for service of process against the LLC, and SOS shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the LLC to

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Patient Ahead LLC filed articles of organization with SOS of NY on 8/15/2016. Principal office is in Essex County, New York. The SOS of NY is designated as agent for service of process against the LLC, and SOS shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the LLC to William M. Finucane, P.C., Box D-1, Elizabethtown, NY 12932. The LLCs purpose is to engage in any lawful activity.

VN-08/20-09/24/20166TC-127810 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (“LLC”) PL & E Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on September 13, 2016 for business conducted from an office located in Essex County, NY. The “SSNY” is designated as the agent of the “LLC” upon whom process against it may be served. “SSNY” shall mail a copy of any process to the “LLC” at 495 Green Street, Au Sable Forks, NY 12912.

VN-09/24-10/29/20166TC-131003 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY [LLC] Name: PRESTON MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York [SSNY] on July 27, 2016. Office location: Essex County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 299 Park Avenue, Saranac Lake, New York 12983. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY [LLC] Name: PRESTON MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York [SSNY] on July 27, 2016. Office location: Essex County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to The LLC, 299 Park Avenue, Saranac Lake, New York 12983. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

VN-08/27-10/01/20166TC-128224 PURE PLACID, LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION of a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC): DATE OF FORMATION: The Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on August 12, 2016.

NEW YORK OFFICE LOCATION: Essex County AGENT FOR PROCESS: The Secretary of State is designated as Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 2423 Main Street, Lake Placid, New York 12946.

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

VN-08/20-09/24/20166TC-127814 PURSUANT TO NEW YORK STATE ELECTION LAW SECTION 5-202(4) notice is hereby given that the Essex County Board of Elections will extend its office hours for voter local registration days at the Boards offices, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY, on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 from eight-thirty oclock in the morning until eight oclock in the evening and on Saturday, October 15, 2016 from eightthirty oclock in the morning until nine oclock in the evening, and which shall be attended by a single board of inspectors for taking registration. In-person registration will also be accepted all other days

PURSUANT TO NEW YORK STATE ELECTION LAW SECTION 5-202(4) notice is hereby given that the Essex County Board of Elections will extend its office hours for voter local registration days at the Boards offices, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY, on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 from eight-thirty oclock in the morning until eight oclock in the evening and on Saturday, October 15, 2016 from eightthirty oclock in the morning until nine oclock in the evening, and which shall be attended by a single board of inspectors for taking registration. In-person registration will also be accepted all other days through October 14th, Monday through Friday from eight-thirty oclock in the morning until four-thirty oclock in the afternoon at the Boards offices.

Allison M. McGahay, Mark C. Whitney Commissioners, Essex County Board of Elections, County of Essex, Elizabethtown, NY 12932 Dated: September 13, 2016 VN-09/24/2016-1TC131014 STEVEN R. MONGNO BUILDER LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/4/2016.

Office in Essex Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 85 Hulls Falls Rd., Keene, NY 12942, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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