- FORMER PRISON MAY BECOME SUMMER CAMP – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Chris Knight reports that the soon-to-be owner of Camp Gabriels reportedly wants to turn the now-shuttered minimum security prison into a private group camp and retreat center.
- CRESCENT BAY MARINA LAWYER SAYS ANNEXATION IS IMPOSSIBLE – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Chris Knight reports that an attorney for the company that wants to redevelop Crescent Bay Marina says the properties on Lower Saranac Lake can’t be annexed into the village of Saranac Lake.
- HEARINGS TO START ON NY HIGH-SPEED RAIL PROPOSALS – NCPR ( Canton, NY) Website
The Associated Press reports that public meetings begin this week on proposals for high-speed passenger rail service in New York.
- DECISION ON RAIL TRAIL SLOW IN COMING – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
Reporter Mary Esch reports that backers of the proposed rail trail which would run through the Adirondack Mountains are frustrated at the Cuomo administration’s slow pace making a decision on whether to open a review needed to move the plan forward, while rail supporters believe the state has already decided what to do.
- PFIZER VETOES ROUSES POINT WATER TOWER REMOVAL – Press-Republican ( Plattsburgh, NY) Website
Reporter Suzanne Moore reports that a water tower in Rouses Point will remain standing for the foreseeable future as work to remove the structure would require access to property owned by Pfizer, which is being denied.
- ROME NY DRONE SITE GAINS FUNDING – NCPR ( Canton, NY) Website
Reporter Ryan Delaney reports that Upstate New York’s new drone testing site is closer to pulling enough money together to begin operating. It’s been awarded a state grant to cover some of its startup costs.
- 1755 BATTLE SITE IN LAKE GEORGE COVERED UP – Adirondack Daily Enterprise ( Saranac Lake, NY) Website
The Associated Press reports that the Lake George town planning and zoning director has sent a local businessman an order to cease fill operations on his property that are cascading into a ravine where casualties of the battle of the Bloody Morning Scout in 1755 were buried.
