Review Board News April 30, 2013
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- DEC REGULATION CHANGE MAY HELP SMALL DAIRY FARMERS – Daily Courier-Observer ( Massena, NY) Website
Reporter Sean Ewart reports that a change in the number of cows a farm can have before needing to comply with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation rules could help small farms expand.
- NY LEGISLATORS GET A TASTE OF ADIRONDACK CULTURE, AMENITIES & ISSUES – Adirondack Journal ( Warrensburg, NY) Website
Reporter Thom Randall reports that Adirondack Day at the Legislative Office Building featured an expo of Adirondack recreational opportunities, locally grown food, brewery beer, as well as displays detailing educational and economic resources and local history.
- N.Y. ASSEMBLY IN PUSH FOR EARLY VOTING LEGISLATION – Daily News ( New York, NY) Website
Reporter Glenn Blain reports that the state Assembly is expected to approve a measure to allow New Yorkers to begin voting nearly three weeks before a general election and two weeks before a primary at locally designated polling places.
- INDIAN LAKE WILL HOST ADIRONDACK CHALLENGE – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Mike Lynch reports that the Adirondack Challenge whitewater and flatwater rafting competitions will be held on July 21 in Indian Lake.
- SHORELINE REGS: IT?S ABOUT WATER QUALITY, NOT AESTHETICS – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
Writer Peter Bauer writes that the restrictive shoreline regulations throughout the Adirondacks are in place to protect the water quality, not about aesthetics. And it is all the more important in an era of climate change. He suggests that it would be great for the frozen-in-time APA to adopt Queensbury’s stormwater protection codes.
- INVASIVE SPECIES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM LAUNCHED – Look TV (Channel 8) ( Glens Falls, NY) Website
Reporter David Storey reports that a program has been launched by the Adirondack Landowners Association to educate boaters in the Adirondacks on ways to reduce the spread of invasive species.
- HISTORIAN PHILIP TERRIE ON FIXING THE APA – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
Writer Philip Terrie, an Adirondack and environmental historian, writes that there are longstanding problems with the Adirondack Park Agency that should have been fixed forty years ago and weren’t.
- ‘ADIRONDACK DAY’ AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE – Post-Star ( Glens Falls, NY) Website
A staff report notes that "Adirondack Day" is planned for the Capitol where organizations will showcase the features of the region.
Review Board News April 26, 2013
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- JUDGE SAYS RAFTING COMPANY VIOLATED LAW – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
Reporter Phil Brown reports that The state attorney general’s office has won the bulk of its lawsuit against Hudson River Rafting Company and its owner, Patrick Cunningham.
- NYS BUYS MORE LAND FOR ADIRONDACK PARK – Hamilton County Express ( ) Website
A staff report notes that New York state closed on 9,300 acres of the former Finch, Pruyn lands in the Adirondacks Tuesday, April 23, for $6.3 million. This acquisition complements the state’s purchase of the 18,318-acre Essex Chain of Lakes property in late 2012.
- EMERGENCY TOWER PLAN FOR ADIRONDACKS WORRIES BIRD EXPERTS – NCPR.org ( Canton, NY) Website
Reporter Brian Mann reports that the APA is getting some backlash following a decision to scrap strict rules it initially required to be followed in order to upgrade emergency communications towers on four summits in the Adirondack Park. Environmentalists are concerned that without the strict rules, Bicknell’s thrush songbirds would be adversely impacted.
- ADIRONDACK PARK AGENCY APPLICATIONS ON THE RISE – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Chris Knight reports that permit inquiries and applications to the APA are increasing, with cell tower documents leading the way.
- EX-DEC OFFICIAL DISAGREES WITH ESSEX CHAIN PLAN – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
Writer Phil Brown writes that Christopher Amato, a former DEC official, says that the DEC should designate the Essex Chain as a Canoe Area — which would prevent motorized access — rather than designate it as Wild Forest, which would permit motorized access.
- LAKE GEORGE COMMISSION APPROVES DRAFT INVASIVES PLAN – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
A staff report notes that the Lake George Park Commission voted unanimously to let the public comment on its draft plan to limit the spread the invasive species into Lake George. You can download the plan here (http://www.lgpc.state.ny.us/PDF/LG%20AIS%20Plan.pdf) and the comment period ends on June 25, 2013.
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- OGDENSBURG’S YARD WASTE WILL BECOME RENEWABLE ENERGY – Watertown Daily Times ( Watertown, NY) Website
Reporter Brian Kidwell reports that an Albany-area renewable company will be taking yard waste from the city of Ogdensburg and will chip it up to make fuel for its green energy plant at Fort Drum.
- TWO UPSTATE NY INVESTORS PURCHASE FORMER PFIZER SITE – Business Review ( Albany, NY) Website
A staff report notes that two investors are buying the former Pfizer research plang near Plattsburgh and moving a Texas manufacturing business there.
- AREA COUNTIES SEE SALES TAX INCREASE, PARTICULARLY LEWIS – Watertown Daily Times ( Watertown, NY) Website
Reporters Steve Virkler and Martha Ellen report that Lewis, St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties all saw increases in sales tax for the first quarter of the year.
- SNIRT RUN DRAWS OVER 3,000 RIDERS, SLIGHTLY DOWN BECAUSE OF WEATHER – Watertown Daily Times ( Watertown, NY) Website
A staff report notes that more than 3,000 riders attended the 10th annual Snirt run.
- APA APPROVES WILD WALK – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Jessica Collier reports that the state APA has approved an outdoor "Wild Walk" at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake.
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- DID THE EPA PUT JOBS AHEAD OF THE ENVIRONMENT? – NCPR.org ( Canton, NY) Website
Reported David Sommerstein reports that EPA took the cheaper cap-and-contain PCB cleanup plan in the Grasse River project in order to save 900 jobs at the nearby Alcoa plant.
- OWENS HOSTS FORUM ON BORDER ISSUES – Daily Courier-Observer ( Massena, NY) Website
Reporter Martha Ellen reports that a forum at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, hosted by U.S. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, focused on a number of cross-border initiatives including: easing the flow of trade; encouraging cross-border law enforcement; streamlining and promoting trusted traveler and commerce programs; supporting smaller business trade by reducing paperwork, among others.
- GOV. CUOMO CONSIDERING OUSTING ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SHELDON SILVER OVER ALBANY SCANDALS – New York Post ( New York, NY) Website
Reporter Fred Dicker reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is preparing to ask Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to resign following the most recent corruption and bribery arrests in the legislature. Cuomo reportedly is hoping to replace Silver as speaker with a Rochester-area lawmaker.
- IN INTERVIEW, CUOMO FLOATS CORRUPTION REMEDIES – Capital Tonight (YNN) ( Albany, NY) Website
Reporter Nick Reisman reports that on the Capitol Pressroom radio show, Gov. Andrew proposed a number of reform proposals and denied that there was a plan to oust Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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