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Polynesian voyaging canoe makes stop in Westport — unexpectedly Vessel traversing Lake Champlain as part of Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage
Saturday in Lake Champlain near Westport. Repairs are expected to take at least several days, said the vessel’s captain, Kalepa Baybayan. “We’re spending a few days here while we see about repairs,” By Pete DeMola Baybayan told the Sun on Sunday. “It’s going to take some work, pete@suncommunitynews.com though.” Since May 2014, the Hawaii-based Polynesian Voyaging SoWESTPORT — A Polynesian voyaging canoe making a his- ciety (PVS) has been touring the world as part of the Mālama toric global trip dropped anchor in Westport… and will be here Honua Worldwide Voyage, an effort to raise awareness of oceanic stewardship and survey how local communities are caring longer than anticipated. The rig towing the Hokūle’a experienced engine troubles on
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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
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Honoring theÊ Harvest
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.
Pictured here: Captain Kalepa Baybayan poses in front of the Hokule’a at the Westport Marina in Westport, NY on Sunday, Sept. 18.
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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
>> See HARVEST FEST | pg. 12
>> See ACCESS ADIRONDACKS | pg. 7
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