A staff report notes that the Adirondack Park is divided between three different regional economic development councils — and yesterday in Albany all three of those groups received extra grant funding from state officials. 

Reporter Shaun Kittle reports that It will be another month before the Adirondack Club and Resort lawsuit can move forward.

Reporter Brian Mann reports the Adirondack Park Agency has begun final deliberations into the future of the Finch Pruyn timberlands. Roughly 40,000 acres in the central Adirondacks are slated to be classified tomorrow. 

A staff report notes that the big news across this region today is about money, and local hopes for what state support will do for the North Country communities.

Editor Phil Brown writes that the Adirondack Park Agency began deliberations Wednesday on the classification of the former Finch, Pruyn lands, with staff members explaining why the agency’s staff settled on a Primitive classification for the Essex Chain Lakes.  However, some questions were left unanswered.

Reporter Chris Knight reports that the new owners of the Hotel Saranac are wasting no time moving forward with their plan to bring the historic and iconic building back to its former grandeur.