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NEWCOMB — The Newcomb/Tahawus Day celebration will be held Sunday Aug. 2, at the Town Beach. Spend the afternoon with friends talking about the good old days. Friday, July 24 was Luau Day at the Minerva Youth Program on Minerva Lake. Fun was the word for the afternoon, as kids played hula hoop and water bucket games along with the limbo. Music, creative ideas and free ice cream were supplied by Selina LeMay-Klippel of Minerva. Grass skirts, straw hats, leis, coconut bras, and the beach were supplied by the Minerva Youth Program. Photo by Mike Corey
Music festival set in Lake George, N. Creek By Ryan Edwards ryan@denpubs.com LAKE GEORGE — The Village of Lake George will welcome the fifth installment of the annual Lake George Music Festival this Summer, with classical concerts and events throughout the Village and surrounding area from Aug. 17 to 27. According to the festival’s founder, president and CEO Alexander Lombard of Queensbury, “This will
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be a big year — a lot of exciting stuff is happening.” But Lombard is not alone in running the organization and the festival. Joining him in his endeavor to bring a “cultural renaissance” to Lake George is a small staff, a number of interns and 80 musicians from all over the country who volunteer their time, lodging with host families for the duration of the festival. Presided over by Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra David Kim, the concert series offers different combinations each night at venues includ-
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ing Shepard Park amphitheater, a number of area churches, the Lake George High School and Tannery Pond Center in North Creek. Powered by local donations, fundraisers and grants—including a multi-year $50,000 New York State Council on the Arts — the festival is designed to “enrich the cultural vibe of the Lake George community,” according to Lombard. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Raquette Lake Durant Days return RAQUETTE LAKE — The Durant Days and Boat Parade weekend will be held Friday, July 31 and Saturday, Aug. 1. This is a weekend of activities in celebration of William West Durant the inventor of the Great Camps Style Architecture, who was born in Raquette Lake. Take a boat tour aboard the WW Durant, tour Great Camps, Vespers service at St. Huberts. The doors open Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Raquette Lake School for the musical duo Joe Davoli & Harvey Nusbaum at 2 p.m. Join Midnight Mike for more music Saturday evening who will be playing the blues near the caboose from 5 to 7 p.m. Before the fireworks enjoy the Annual Raquette Lake boat parade along the shores of Raquette Lake. Call 6243077 for more information or check out mylonglake. com.
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LAKE PLACID — Two men bobbed in a boat in the southwest Adirondacks. One man spoke, the other listened. The lake had once been written off as dead, smitten by acid rain. The fisherman spoke of reeling in a four-pound heritage native strain 24 inch Brook trout. But no one believed him. A few months later, a team from Cornell University was in the same lake netting. And they caught a fish. They told the fisherman. “That’s my fish,” he cried! “That’s the one I caught!” They believed him. While William Janeway was excited for the angler, what was more thrilling was that the lakes were coming back after being scorched by acid rain. Janeway, the executive director of the Adirondack Council, has a lot to be happy about: Forty years after the formation of the Adirondack Park’s leading environmental advocacy organization, things have never looked brighter for the group. Its finances are muscular, the strongest in the group’s history, with about $6 million in the Forever Wild Fund. They’ve racked up a number of recent policy wins that have hit the sweet spot between preservation and economic development: they’ve landed funding to fight aquatic invasives and boost clean water infrastructure, for instance, while also barring off-road motorized recreation from Forest Preserve trails.
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