Daily Archives: March 13, 2014

Open Letter to Inlet Property Owners

To Inlet Property Owners:

This is to notify all property owners that the Town of Inlet will be starting the 16-week  Black Fly Control Program for the 2014 season which runs approximately from March 15 through July 31, 2014.

A non-chemical product (Vectobac-12AS) will be administered to all fast-flowing streams in an 18 square mile radius of the Town of Inlet during this time period.

If you have any questions regarding this, please call Supervisor John Frey at (315) 357-2204 or 357-5771.

Patty Wittmeyer, Inlet Town Clerk

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Birthday thanks

I need to send a huge ‘thank you’ to all the facebook well-wishers on my BIRTHDAY. I would like to respond to each of them but don’t know how to SEND! So consider this a broad Thank You, Folks. You made my day.

Mirnie Kashiwa, Thendara

 
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Polar Bear Youth Nordic Team races in Paintball Marathon at Dewey Mtn.

Members of the Polar Bear Youth Nordic Ski Team participated in a Paintball Biathlon Race at Dewey Mountain in Saranac Lake on Saturday, March 1st. The results of the race are as follows:

U8 Girls 

4th – Lydia Bartel

U10 Girls 

8th – Jenny Rundell

10th – Kerissa Dunn

U10 Boys 

3rd – Dawson Dunn

U12 Girls

4th – Renee Smith

U12 Boys 

3rd – Jens Bartel

U14  Girls

1st – Rachel Smith

2nd – Trinity Liddle

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U14 Alpine Polar Bears race at NY State Championships

The U14 Alpine Polar Bears competed in the NY State Championships held at Windham Mountain Resort on Saturday and Sunday, March 8 and 9th. Giant Slalom races were held on Saturday and Super G races were held on Sunday.

Alexis Hollister

Alexis Hollister

The results of the Giant Slalom races are as follows:

U14 Men

31st – Charlie Uzdavinis

Blake Greene had an awesome first run and DNF on the second run. Continue reading →

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Maddie Phaneuf: Top American woman at World Youth Championships

 

Biathlete Maddie Phaneuf Photo by Capture 27 Photography

Biathlete Maddie Phaneuf
Photo by Capture 27 Photography

Biathlete Maddie Phaneuf of Old Forge, a member of the U.S. Youth Biathlon Team, competed in the 2014 World Youth/Junior Biathlon Champion-ships held in Presque Isle, ME during the week of February 27 through March 8th.

Competing in the Youth Woman category (17 and 18 year olds), Phaneuf took a fourth place finish in the Sprint competition, 24th place in the Pursuit competition, and eighth place in the Individual competition, a feat that not only garnered her the honor of being the top American woman at this year’s race, but the top-performing American woman in her age category in the last 10 years.   Continue reading →

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Local service planned for Sharon ‘Sherry’ Grimm, 72

Sharon (Sherry) L. Grimm, 72, of Inlet peacefully passed away at Strong Memorial Hospital in the early hours of Wednesday, February 26, 2014 with her family by her side.

Sherry Grimm

Sherry Grimm

She was predeceased by her parents Frank and Florence Esse. She is survived by her children Steve (Michele) Grimm, Erik (Susan) Grimm, and Heidi (Doug) Powell Grimm; sisters Debra Selvek and Virginia Reinholtz; and her grandchildren Joel, Kyle, and triplets Alexander, Bradley and Colten; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

Sherry, born on December 17, 1942, moved to her home in Inlet in 1997 after retiring from the Greece Central School District where she was a middle school teacher.  Continue reading →

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Abilities of Sea Monkeys do not live up to advertising hype

It was early March of 1977, and my sister was waiting patiently for her Sea Monkeys to hatch.

She had ordered them through an ad ripped from the back page of one of my comic books.

Every morning she hoped that the tiny creatures would finally make their appearance.

I periodically peeked into the container myself, but all I saw were air bubbles on the top and some strange milky stuff on the bottom… Continue reading →

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