- OPEN GOVERNMENT TALK TODAY IN TUPPER LAKE – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Shaun Kittle reports that Robert Freeman, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government will be hosting a free information session and will answer questions on the Open Meetings and Freedom of Information laws in the Community Room at the Goff-Nelson Memorial Library in Tupper Lake at 4 p.m. today.
- MIKE CARR DISCUSSES LATEST PHASE IN FINCH, PRUYN DEAL – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Chris Knight interviews Mike Carr, the executive director of the Nature Conservancy’s Adirondack Chapter, on the $48.6 million deal with the state to add 69,000 acres of former Finch timberlands to the state Forest Preserve.
- LAKE PLACID BOARD APPROVES WATER-SEWER PROJECTS – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Matthew Turner reports that the Lake Placid village board voted on three significant infrastructure and maintenance projects at Tuesday night’s meeting, approving a new contract for sewage removal, a sewer line study on Main Street and upgrades to the water plant facility.
- LAKE CHAMPLAIN FERRY FEES GOING UP NEXT MONTH – NCPR ( Canton, NY) Website
The Associated Press reports that the Lake Champlain Transportation Company says fees for crossing between Vermont and New York are going up.
- $5 MILLION LAKE GEORGE REDEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCED – Adirondack Almanack ( ) Website
Reporter Anthony Hall reports that the Adirondack Pub and Brewery owner John Carr has announced that he is purchasing the four-acre lot on Route 9 owned by the Off-Track Betting Corporation for $1.25 million. Carr’s immediate plans for the property include expanding Adirondack’s brewing and bottling operations and building the first whiskey distillery in Lake George.
- ADIRONDACK RAIL TRAIL PLAN LEANS ON STATE AGENCIES – NCPR ( Canton, NY) Website
Reporter Brian Mann reports that state officials say they’ll decide soon what to do with the controversial rail corridor that stretches from Old Forge to Lake Placid.
