Michael Carl Schaible, 46, entered into eternal life on April 26, 2011.
Son of retired Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Schaible, US Army and Joyce Schaible, Michael was born in Germany and subsequently traveled extensively with his family. He was educated at various schools throughout his formative years. Continue reading
The 2011 Mary G. Roebling award was presented to State Senator Betty Little at a Saratoga Springs ceremony on Friday, April 29, where the Capital District of New York Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) hosted the First Region 2011 spring meeting. Continue reading
Michael Barna returns to the area for the 2nd Annual Taste of Home Cooking School in Old Forge on Saturday, May 14, he will continue his mission to bring families back to the dinner table.
During his two-hour presentation he will offer instructions on how to prepare simple meals that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
As second-year sponsors of the cooking school, DiOrio’s IGA Market of Old Forge will assist Chef Barna in his quest by providing all the ingredients needed to prepare the 10 featured show recipes.
Barna’s focus on family mirrors that of the DiOrios who have owned and operated their local grocery store since 1976.
It all began when Uticans Don and Marie DiOrio moved to the area with their young son Bobby and purchased the former D & D grocery store at the Old Forge busy corner.
Today, the couple—along with Bobby and his wife Margaret—operates a much larger grocery store just down the road.
The family now includes granddaughters Alex and Mia, and it seems the family will continue its tradition of serving the community for years to come.
The week leading up to the Taste of Home show, the DiOrio’s will feature special pricing on a variety of ingredients used in the recipes.
Not only will the recipes be available for pick-up in the store, but Deli and Bake Shop Manager Melissa Houghton will have a couple of the dishes ready-made and available for sale.
Melissa has selected Mango-Basil Chicken & Rice Salad and Reuben Casserole as her featured recipes and they will be ready for pick-up from Tuesday thru Saturday, May 10 to 14.
The Taste of Home Cooking School is sponsored by the Arts Center/Old Forge.
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the Arts Center or DiOrio’s Market. They are also available on-line at: artscenteroldforge.org.
A patch of the invasive garlic mustard plant has returned to an area behind the Town of Webb Historical Association’s barn, and Gail Murray, Historical Association director, has started pulling it up by the handfuls. She tried to get rid of it last year, she said, but it has come back again.
And she is hardly the only one that will be tackling the perennial pest now that the warmer weather is here.
The innocent-looking green leafy plant is low to the ground currently, and the rain-soaked soil makes it easier to remove, said Murray, pulling a clump from the soil.
Murray said that now is the time to eradicate the non-native plant that chokes out native wildflowers.
It will be more difficult to remove once the plant grows two or three feet taller and sprouts its tiny white flowers, she said.
But don’t toss it on the ground, thinking that will be the end of it, because it will reseed and keep coming back.
Carefully bag it and bring it to the Transfer Station for disposal.
Gary Lee, Weekly Adiron-dack columnist and retired forest ranger, is very aware that the garlic mustard plant is thriving in Old Forge.
“It’s around almost every building on Main Street,” he said. “Almost everybody’s got it now.”
He first discovered it 14 years ago in Old Forge growing on the slope behind the Old Forge Library, after hay was used for a lawn project.
“That’s how it comes in—on hay or straw,” he said. “We pulled it up for several years but it just seems to come back. I spray it now with Roundup weed killer. That kills it but it kills everything else around it.”
It’s not poisonous, he said. “In fact, it’s edible. You can make a salad out of it and it’s quite tasty. It’s garlicky and it smells like garlic,” he said.
“But each plant may have four or five thousand seeds, so it doesn’t take much to take over all the wildflowers and native plants.”
“It’s definitely worth the time and trouble to pull it up,” he said.
“It keeps it from going to seed but it takes seven years to completely remove it because the seeds are viable for seven years. If you miss a year you’re seven years back again. But It’s beatable,” he added optimistically. “Get someone to eat salad and we’re all set.”
Despite last month’s announcement that the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra (SSO) had canceled the remainder of its 2011 performance schedule due to bankruptcy, the 65 musicians who comprised the former SSO will return to Inlet on July 29 for the Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council’s (FCLPAC) annual concert at Arrowhead Park.
In the last couple weeks, FCLPAC board chairman Jerry Dupuis said he has been in contact with former SSO percussionist Mike Bull who said he and his fellow musicians voted overwhelmingly in favor of continuing the scheduled SSO season’s programs, including the Inlet performance.
According to Dupuis, Bull is also general manager of the newly-formed Symphony Syracuse, which Dupuis describes as “a new institution with the same players”.
“I am ecstatic for everyone involved. Performing is these musicians’ life work. Where would they go if a symphony in Syracuse does not exist?” Dupuis said.
Dupuis was also excited to announce that he has been contacted by Grant Cooper who, as previously planned, will return as conductor for this year’s lakeside concert.
“I am ecstatic that I have this opportunity to return to Inlet so that I might make music once again for the wonderful audience there.
“Our performances under the tent had been a highlight of my musical life for many years and I am thrilled to be able to return in 2011.
“How fitting that we play on the site of a baseball diamond—the program we have planned is going to be a “home run!” Cooper said.
Dupuis admits the last couple weeks have been stressful for him and his fellow board members as they were uncertain of the future of the concert which has been so positively embraced by residents and visitors for the last 12 years.
“The reality was, if we had to take a break for a year we might not get our audience back. It was a real concern,” Dupuis said.
But in the end, Dupuis said their most reassuring factor was the number of people who called to say, “We want you back. We will miss this event.”
“And this year, we will give them a program they will never forget,” he said.
Community Pride Day, an annual Central Adirondack community beautification program, was held Wednesday, May 4, and despite an intermittent drizzle that lasted all day, and temperatures that dipped into the mid-30s, residents of all ages joined in the effort to spruce up the towns and villages in the Old Forge and Inlet region prior to the busy tourist season.
Volunteers throughout the area were rewarded for their service with lunches that were provided by local businesses and organizations at various venues.
Inlet Volunteer Hose Company responded to a reported structure fire at the Levi Lumber Company on Limekiln Rd. in the Town of Inlet at approximately 2:40 a.m. on Thursday, May 5.
Upon arrival fire personnel found the structure to be fully involved in flames.
Mutual aid was requested from Eagle Bay, Old Forge, and the Raquette Lake Fire departments.
Personnel of the Inlet and Eagle Bay fire auxiliaries also responded to the call.
According to Inlet Fire Chief Don Townsend, the fire was brought under control after a couple of hours and damage was contained to the business office and service garage.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.