- PLAINTIFFS ALLEGE ILLEGAL COMMUNICATION OVER ADIRONDACK CLUB AND RESORT – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Jessica Collier reports that groups suing to stop the Adirondack Club and Resort from being built are accusing APA staff and representatives of ex parte communications — something the APA denies.
- STUDY: SEASONAL RESIDENTS SPEND AT LEAST $28 MIL IN JEFFERSON COUNTY ANNUALLY – Watertown Daily Times ( Watertown, NY) Website
Reporter Jaegun Lee reports that a recent study by Jefferson Community College calculated that seasonal residents in Jefferson County spend roughly $28 million a year.
- ESSEX COUNTY WANTS TAX MANDATES BETTER EXPLAINED – Press-Republican ( Plattsburgh, NY) Website
Reporter Lohr McKinstry reports that Essex County lawmakers are revising tax bills to better explain to residents how much of their county taxes goes for state mandates.
- MOVING TOWARD COMMON GROUND – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Jessica Collier reports that the sixth meeting of the Common Ground Alliance brought much agreement on a shared vision for the Adirondacks.
- CAN THE ADIRONDACKS OFFER RESIDENTS A SUSTAINABLE LIFE? – NCPR.org ( Canton, NY) Website
Reporter Brian Mann reports that at the gathering of the Adirondack Common Ground Alliance, an agreed vision for the Adirondack Park emerged: The Sustainable Life — access to broadband, relying on locally produced food and energy, and managed development. A reshuffling of local governments and schools is needed, along with making the management of the forestlands more flexible and eliminating bureaucratic rules.
- AGENCY ACCUSED OF CLOSED-DOOR DEALING – Times Union ( Albany, NY) Website
Reporter Brian Nearing reports that two organizations suing the APA over the Adirondack Club and Resort (Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club) claim the agency had ex parte communications with the developer of the resort.
- ATV PROPOSAL SPARKS DEBATE IN NORTH CREEK – Post-Star ( Glens Falls, NY) Website
Reporter Jon Alexander reports that a proposal in Johnsburg to open town roads to ATVs as a means of getting from one property to another is headed for a vote by the full Town Board, though many residents aren’t expected to support it.
- PROTECT FILES BRIEF IN TUPPER LAKE SUIT – Adirondack Explorer Outtakes ( ) Website
Editor Phil Brown reports that Protect the Adirondacks has submitted a brief in reply to the APA regarding its lawsuit against the Adirondack Club and Resort.
- DISSOLUTION PLAN ACCEPTED – Press-Republican ( Plattsburgh, NY) Website
Reporter Denise Raymo reports that Malone Village Board members accepted a plan for dissolution of the village, but want to seek advice from Sen. Little and Assembly Member Duprey before voting on whether to enact it.
