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April 24, 2010
Taking Aim
Fish and game club back on target New facilities, programs bring growing membership By Matt Bosley matt@denpubs.com
Youth and adult participants in Tuesday Night Open Archery take aim in the indoor shooting range at the Chesterfield Fish and Game Club. Club members recently renovated the facility and brought back regular programs, which has led to a sharp rise in membership. Photo by Matt Bosley
CLINTONVILLE — More and more outdoor enthusiasts in and around the Au Sable River Valley are enjoying the results of a recent effort to revitalize one of the area’s most long-standing sites for the practice of shooting sports. According to Bill Mitchell, president of the Chesterfield Fish and Game Club, activities at their 150-acre property on Green Street in Clintonville had been few and far between for the better part of a decade; that is, until he and a handful of other members decided to bring the club and its facilities back to life last fall. “We’ve really put a lot of work into it since last October,” said Mitchell, who was one of several local businessmen to donate materials for the renovations. “It’s really something for a few dedicated people to get the place back up and running. Club members renovated the 50-foot indoor shooting range, which is now heated, and added a new shooting shed for the outdoor range. Trap- and skeet-shooting ranges were given a much-needed make-over. The Chesterfield Fish and Game Club was established in 1969. Mitchell, a 25-year member of the club, was one of several new club officers elected in December at the first meeting the club had held in more than six years. Monthly meetings have been held ever since. Meanwhile, work has continued on grooming and renovating the club’s facilities, and weekly activities have been scheduled at the indoor shooting range with a special focus placed on youth. A Youth BB-Gun League has been instituted where children age 10-12 receive lessons through a national instruction program aimed at gun safety. 15 youth have enrolled
See FISH & GAME, page 11
APA commissioners New sign regs will cost want towers to stay taxpayers $1.9 million By Matt Bosley
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denpubs@denpubs.com RAY BROOK — Adirondack Park Agency commissioners directed agency staff Thursday to find a way to let the fire towers remain atop St. Regis and Hurricane mountains – provided that a non-taxpayer-based funding source for their upkeep can be found. Located in state-owned Primitive and Canoe areas, both towers are considered non-conforming structures under the current draft of the State Land Master Plan. But considering the public’s affinity for the federally recognized historic structures, commissioners like Dick Booth were torn between the
See TOWERS, page 8
The St. Regis Mountain Fire Tower is one of two towers being discussed by the Adirondack Park Agency Board.
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ELIZABETHTOWN — New federal regulations regarding road signage will equate to an expense of nearly $1.9 million for taxpayers in Essex County, according to the county’s top highway official. Essex County Department of Public Works Superintendent Tony Lavigne met with the county’s DPW committee at its April 19 meeting, and expressed his concern regarding regulations enacted in December by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). “We are currently in the process of changing all the county signs to meet the new federal standard,” said Lavigne. The regulations require the
Essex County Department of Public Works superintendent Tony Lavigne displays one of the large directional arrow signs that will need to be installed along many road curves throughout Essex County.
See SIGNS, page 11
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