Webb students enjoy spirited week before taking off on Spring Break!
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I specialize in teen advice, mainly because I know what the teens here in the ADKs go through. I should know. I’m one myself. And no one understands a teen like a teen.
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Kurt Klaiber, USAF Retired, has been named to the Dean’s List at Keuka College in Keuka Park, NY.
He is a senior studying Organizational Management.
The son of Werner, and the late Susan Klaiber, of Old Forge, Kurt currently resides in Leroy with his wife, Katie, and their daughter.
Scott Locorini
Scott Locorini, who operates Adirondack Exposure guide service and the local unit of Whitewater Challengers at Okara Lakes, was elected first vice-president of the New York State Outdoor Guides Association (NYSOGA) at its annual meetingon March 24th.
Locorini has been a director-at-large for the association for the past year and has served onnumerous committees.
He creates a digital newsletter for the organization and has designed an advertisement that will soon appear in three publications aimed at Adirondack users: Adirondack Hiking, Adirondack Paddling, and Adirondack Fishing.
Locorini, who has conducted business in the Old Forge area for the past six years, has been a member of NYSOGA for ten years.
He has previously operated guide service businesses in Forestport and northern Maine, and has also worked for a North Carolina-based outdoor recreation company.
In the winter months he conducts guided trips in Florida.
NYSOGA, formed in 1982, replaced the former Adirondack Guides Association.
According to Locorini, it is the only guide’s organization in New York state and its membership includes licensed specialists in hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, whitewater and rock/ice climbing.
To contact Locorini, call (315) 335-1681. For information about NYSOGA visit their website:www.nysoga.org.
The Woodgate Free Library will be offering a series of Computer Courses from April through September.
The first course, Introduction to Computers, will be offered in two three-hour sessions from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 12 and Saturday, April 14th.
The hands-on course with guided instruction and a self-study guide handouts is designed for people who have little or no experience with computers. Continue reading
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens has announced that all residential brush burning is prohibited in smaller communities during the state’s historically high fire-risk period from March 16 through May 15th.
Also, DEC Forest Rangers, County Emergency Management Services, and local fire departments are notifying the public that the National Weather Service has declared a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Northern New York during this time period. Several factors enable wildfires to start easily and spread quickly during this time, including the lack of green vegetation, abundance of available fuels such as dry grass and leaves, warm temperatures and wind. Continue reading
The Forestport Girl Scout Troop 20002 would like to say thank you to the many people that assisted us in coming to Old Forge to sell Girl Scout cookies. We contacted the town’s Visitor Information Center and were helped by Laurie Barkauskas who was instrumental in getting us to sell cookies at Snofest.
We would also like to thank the Central Adirondack Association (CAA) with their assistance and giving us a section at the Snofest to sell our cookies.
We also sold cookies at the local Kinney Drugs and Fastrac and we would like to say THANK YOU for all their support and assistance.
The girls would also like to say thank you so much for the pizza and soda at Fastrac…it was great.
And we saved the best for last.
We would like to say thank you to the community of Old Forge for buying our cookies. It is so great to see communities come together for the sake of the children.
We are excited to have met our goals and are happy to say that in August we will be going to Canada for four days.
So again, thank you all for all your support.
Elizabeth Abelbeck
Girl Scout Leader, Forestport
Ellen Wilcox of Old Forge recently took first place in the Best Texture Category for her entry of a pair of felted mittens in the “Critters and Mittens” knitting contest sponsored by TAUNY of Canton.
Wilcox was inspired to enter the contest after seeing an flyer at the Old Forge Hardware Store, where she works Thursdays in the knitting department.
Wilcox, who has been knitting since she was twelve, said she never entered a contest before, but decided to give it a try with her original design for felted wool mittens.
She described how she used large needles to knit the oversized pair of 100 percent wool mittens, then “felted” them by washing them in hot water in the washing machine.
“The hot water and agitation causes the wool to shrink, making the texture turn to felt. The process makes them much warmer than traditional wool mittens,” Wilcox said.
Her prize was a gift certificate from a yarn store in Lake Placid.
TAUNY, or Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to showcasing the folk culture and living traditions of New York’s North Country.