Annual Car Wash: Kiwanis and Key Clubs raise over $3,000 for local Kids Projects

The Kiwanis Club of the Central Adirondacks, the Key Club and Jr. Key Club of the Town of Webb School washed 60 cars at their 14th Annual Free Car Wash at Calypso’s Cove parking lot on Saturday, May 24th.

The combined Kiwanis Club and Key Club effort raised over $3,000 at the event.

In foreground Diane Amos, Kiwanians Member and Key Club Advisor, and Mike Griffin, Kiwanis President, help wash Old Forge Ambulance 608 with crew Paramedic Dan Rivet and Driver Father Shane Lynch just returning from a call.

In foreground Diane Amos, Kiwanians Member and Key Club Advisor, and Mike Griffin, Kiwanis President, help wash Old Forge Ambulance 608 with crew Paramedic Dan Rivet and Driver Father Shane Lynch just returning from a call.

According to  co-chairmen Bob Teesdale and Mike Griffin the event was a great success with 60 cars, one pickup with 24-foot pontoon boat, an ambulance, and a very large camper among the vehicles washed. Continue reading →

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Old Forge: First Friday Art Walk set for June 6

The First Friday Art Walk in Old Forge on June 6 will feature nine venues for art lovers to shop, eat, listen to music, meet artists and view demonstrations from 5 to 8 p.m.

First Friday Art Walks run through October and include a raffle for a unique item each month. To enter, a participant can pick up a card at any First Friday location and have it stamped.  Continue reading →

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DEC urges New Yorkers not to disturb fawns, other young wildlife

New Yorkers should keep their distance and not disturb newborn fawns or other young wildlife, as many animals are in the peak season for giving birth, according to Stephen Litwhiler of the New York State Department of Environ-mental Conservation (DEC), who issued the caution on Thursday.100_0381***

It is not unusual to see a young bird crouched in the yard or a young rabbit in the flower garden, both apparently abandoned.

Finding a fawn deer lying by itself is also fairly common.  Continue reading →

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Goodsell Museum seeks items for annual auction

The Goodsell Museum is seeking donations for its annual auction to be held on Saturday, July 12 on the museum property located at 2993 State Route 28 in Old Forge.

Items desired are: antiques, memorabilia, collectables, furniture and new or nearly-new household goods.

No electronics, exercise equipment or upholstered items, please. Continue reading →

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Adirondack Bank names beneficiaries of 2014 Charity Golf Classic proceeds

The Charity Selection Committee of the annual Adirondack Bank Charity Golf Classic has announced the names of the organizations that will benefit from the proceeds of this year’s tournament that will be held at the Thendara Golf Club on Monday, June 23rd.

The not-for-profit organizations that will receive funds are: Camp Ronald McDonald for Special Children, Kelberman Autism Center at Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Home Aide Service of the Central Adiron-dacks (HASCA), Community Transportation Service (CTS), View, Resource Center for Independent Living (RCIL), YWCA Camp Gorham, Town of Webb School Webb Way Program, and Old Forge Fire Department.  Continue reading →

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Letter to the Editor Fed up with the horrible condition of Route 28 north? Sound off to officials!

Dear Editor: 

If you live on Route 28 or travel to and from Old Forge to Inlet, you too must be appalled by the road conditions.

Trying to avoid the holes and huge spaces where the asphalt is missing is a challenge and dangerous.

Since the snow went out, I have been driving the road at 30 MPH or lower.   Continue reading →

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Encore performance depicts l00 years of Old Forge Library, June 10th

As part of the Old Forge  Library’s year-long Centennial Celebration, the reader’s theater production of One Hundred Years and Counting: Channeling the Past Straight into the Present, which was first performed at the library on December 4 to a packed house, will have a repeat performance on Tuesday June 10 at 7 p.m.

Mike Farmer in character as local businessmen and entrepreneur Moses Cohen.

Mike Farmer in character as local businessmen and entrepreneur Moses Cohen.

The play, which chronicles the library’s beginning to the present day, was written by Paula Alida Roy.

Directed by Alan Saban, it starts out in the present with North Country Public Radio Reporter Ellen Rocco—played by Mary Ann Nelson—interviewing Library Director Isabella Worthen about the library’s history.

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