Paddlers from all over the country will come to the Adirondacks from September 6 through 8 to participate in the three-day Adirondack Canoe Classic also known as “The 90-Miler.”

Now in its 31st year, the race celebrates the historical means of transportation through the original “highways of the Adirondacks.”

The 90-mile course offers a mix of lake and river flat water paddling and includes 5.25 miles of carries. The number of boats is limited to 275 with the number of paddlers reaching upwards of 600.

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Just Makes Scents, the all-natural bath and body shop in Old Forge, is wrapping up its first summer in Old Forge.

The store, located on Main Street across from the Town of Webb School, specializes in items that are made for sensitive skin.

Owner Donna Waterman sells a number of organic products and makes her own homemade sugar and facial scrubs. She said these homemade scrubs, which are 100% natural, are her biggest sellers.

“I’m very proud of that,” she said.

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Megan Plumey

Elementary and junior high school students at the Town of Webb School will be greeted by new English teacher Megan Plumley when school resumes on Wednesday, September 4th.

Plumley will teach sixth and seventh grade English, seventh grade reading, and kindergarten through eighth grade computer classes.

She says she has always had a love for teaching and is excited about starting the school year and meeting the students.

Plumley went to Mohawk Valley Community College and completed her undergraduate degree at SUNY Oneonta where she earned two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in English and the other in Adolescent Education.

She has one more semester until she completes her Master’s Degree in Education Technology and Emerging Media from Canisius College in Buffalo. She is completing that degree fully online.

Last year she taught sixth grade writing as a long term substitute teacher and did a semester of student teaching in English at the middle and high school at Adirondack Central School in Boonville.

She is very interested in technology and how to integrate it into the classroom.

“Now everything is digital and you need to be well trained in it to be college- and career-ready,” she said.

Plumley grew up and continues to live in Taberg. She is engaged to be married next year.

Having historical family roots in Long Lake, she said Old Forge is a great fit for her. She has done quite a bit of camping in the Adirondacks and enjoys fishing and waterfowl hunting.

Plumley’s official appointment is subject to school board approval at its Tuesday, September 4 meeting.

Paul Littman, owner of Old Forge Lake Cruises, said surveyors are working to determine what caused the sinking of the mailboat President Harrison, on Friday, August 23rd.

Littman discovered the submerged vessel at its Old Forge Pond location at approximately 8:30 a.m. Though he said it appears there was a leak in the exhaust, he is awaiting official word as to the cause.

A crane lifts the President Harrison maiboat from the bottom of the Old Forge Pond, where it had sunk

A crane was used to lift the boat from the bottom of the pond.

Mail delivery along the Fulton Chain is currently being conducted by pontoon boat as the mailboat is out of commission for the remainder of the season.

A meeting was held at the Raquette Lake School on Wednesday, July 3 to discuss opportunities for mountain bike trail development in the Moose River Plains Wild Forest.

The New York State Depart-ment of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) organized the meeting and involved representatives of the mountain bike community from Inlet, Old Forge and Raquette Lake.

The meeting, that was open to the public, included Ted Christodaro of Pedals and Petals in Inlet, Chad Hiatt of Mountainman Outdoor Supply Co. in Old Forge, Adam Coppola, Northeast Regional Director for the IMBA, as well as representatives from the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and DEC. Continue reading →