Thendara Golf Club held its Fall Scramble on Sun-day, September 2 with 19 four-member teams participating.
Following the 18 holes of golf, participants gathered in the Club House for a light dinner while Golf Pro Rich Chapman and Assistant Pro Mike Bike announced the scramble winners, along with the names of raffle winners. Continue reading
Laverne Phillips, Sherri Grimm, Linda Frank, Barbara Getty, and Patty Foley
As the sun broke through the early morning fog on Friday, September 7, 275 canoes and kayaks launched from the Old Forge lakefront for the three-day 90-Miler Canoe Classic.
Participants in the iconic race, now in its 30th year, experienced stellar paddling conditions on Days 1 and 3.
However, wind gusts of 40 to 50 miles per hour and rain on Day 2 added more challenge to the already challenging race, causing a reported 25 vessels to capsize on Long Lake.
Among those effected were local entrants Barbara Getty, Sherri Grimm, Patty Foley, and Linda Frank, who were manning a four-person canoe.
Brian Morgan
“The wind was pretty bad. For the most part it was behind us and it was actually pushing us, but all of a sudden a big gust came up and turned us sideways, and once you go sideways, you’re done. It picked up our 22 foot canoe and rolled us over,” Getty said.
Race Director Brian McDonnell said the entire race course is closely monitored by safety boats and radio communication, and safety boaters were quick to respond to those experiencing trouble on Long Lake, corraling them to the right side of the lake.
“We started 269 boats on Saturday at Long Lake. About three miles in, eight boats came out when the boaters knew their boats would not handle the wind gusts,” McDonnell said. Continue reading
Last week’s Talking Code article was about what is a lot, a parcel of land, how to define it and how to determine its size or shape.
Different types of lots were discussed.
Things like shoreline, road side, front yard, rear yard, side yard, width, area, streetfront and lot lines all have definitions in the Town of Webb Zoning Ordinance.
Those definitions were shown, word for word, straight from the Town’s Zoning Ordinance.
During this past week, after the publication of The Weekly Adirondack, this office received several calls regarding the article on lots.
Each and every question was relative to the definition of lot width along the shoreline.
The callers all said that their property assessment showed much more shoreline than what would be considered shoreline based on the Town’s own definition of a shoreline.
“Based on the Town’s definition of shoreline I only have 100 feet. But the Assessor’s office says I have almost 200 feet and I’m taxed on that. How could this be?”
Back in July of this year, a Talking Code article was all about how Codes and Assessments impact each other.
And they do, in some ways… they almost have to. Continue reading
To The Editor:
I am very pleased to see Charles Herr’s history articles in your paper. He does his research and only shares what is truth.
Here… Here… Herr… Herr!
Peg Carroll, Old Forge
The First Place winning Old Mill team was Tim LaPorte, Liz Zerilli, Jesse Allen, and Andrea Ross, shown here with Katie Noonan, center.
It was another great turnout for the Annual Charity Go-Kart Races at Calypso’s Cove that were held on Tuesday, September 11, according to Katie Noonan of Enchanted Forest/Water Safari, which sponsors the event.
Noonan reported that 2012 was a record-breaking year with $12,400 raised in support of this year’s charity recipients, the Kommunity Youth Activity Center (KYAC) and the Home Aide Service of the Central Adirondacks (HASCA).
Proceeds will be divided evenly between both organizations.
Emcee Mike Cunningham
Volunteers representing KYAC and HASCA served up food.
Noonan said that 265 spectators came out to watch the 34 teams and 170 racers, representing the communities of Old Forge, Eagle Bay, Inlet, Blue Mountain Lake, and Indian Lake, compete in 51 heats during the course of the event.
The first place winning team was from The Old Mill Restaurant, with the Pied Piper Hot Dawgs placing second.
There was a tie for third place between the Heroux Construction Rock Busters and the team, Hookers and Hoes.
“This was our 19th year of the event, and year after year, it continues to grow. There was great support from the area—it’s always exciting when we have a successful event,” Noonan said.
Ben Cohen
Registered voters in the Town of Forestport will have the opportunity to vote yes or no on the Twin Bridges Referendum in a special election on Tuesday, September 18.
Voting polls will be open at the Forestport Town Hall and the Woodgate Fire Department between noon and 8 p.m.
The Twin Bridges Referendum to expend up to $650,000 on a bond resolution to repair the Forestport Bridges was adopted by the Forestport Town Board on June 20, 2012.
Such passage will allow the sale of serial bonds of said town pursuant to local finance law to finance the reconstruction of the twin bridges on River Road in the Town of Forestport. Continue reading
Football Returns: Nothing like watching men get their bells rung
Oh yeah. Here it is again, good old football season. There’s nothing like the combination of bored males and alcohol to make a good time here in America, and I was curious to know how other cultures handle the sports issue.
Turns out that American football, in comparison to the rest of the stuff around the globe, is for weenies.
A “good” sport apparently needs to meet two requirements: inexcusably dangerous and totally pointless.
American sports feature way too much protective gear, i.e., helmets, pads, and well, rules, whereas these silly inhibitions are not harbored by other countries. For example:
In Ireland they’ve got a thing (sport) called Hurling. This appears to be a combination of soccer, field hockey and football, in addition to pants wetting terror.
They wield these axelike sticks called hurleys, coupled with a small, incredibly hard ball.
This ball is whacked as hard as humanly possible, at head height, reaching terrifying speeds of up to 100 miles per hour and get this—no protective gear is worn.
Now doesn’t that sound like an absolute blast? Well maybe, if one doesn’t mind sporting a scab for a head for the rest of your days.