News & Opinion About Huletts Landing, N.Y.
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We had our first significant snowfall in Huletts yesterday. All total, we got about 6 – 7 inches. If you’re planning on heading up for the weekend, we would advise you to be very careful. |
Alot of people are without power in southern Washinton County but everything is good here. We will try to take some pictures for those who are in more southern parts of the country right now. It should be a white Christmas though!
This just in from Washington County. The Washington County Budget for 2009 was adopted with a 3.9% increase from last year AND the two county run parks, including the Washington County Beach, received some funding. We will know more in the hours ahead.
With news in Huletts being kind of slow with winter hanging around, we thought we’d share some original artwork. This sketch done by Elyse Kapusinski is entitled; “Frogging in Huletts”. She did it a few years ago when she witnessed some children running around the fountain exhibiting great glee trying to catch some frogs. Now being a child in Huletts is probably one of the best things on earth, so she imagined what it would be like from the frog’s perspective. In this case, being a frog in Huletts is also a great thing because of the happiness some child gets when you’re caught! Now you understand the frogs expression.
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Just a brief update on our technical progress. We believe we have improved our page loading times significantly. However, we still are looking into a small DNS issue which sometimes prevents the name www.hulettscurrent.com from resolving properly. If www.hulettscurrent.com, does not resolve properly, please use: http://www.hulettscurrent.com. |
We will now move onto establishing policies and implementing the code that will allow the posting of comments. Interested in this stuff? Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode – same bat channel – a few weeks in the future.
The sketch below is entitled “Doe at Huletts” done by guest Laura Rushin about 1990. It was resting on the side of the mountain, when she spoted it with her sketch pad.
The regularly scheduled meeting of the Dresden Town Board was relatively quiet on Monday night (12/8/08). Supervisor Banks did reiterate that even if funding for the Washington County Beach was cut from the Washington County Budget, the Town would find a way to keep the beach open.
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We received the following flyer from Sue Foster Ives, whose father was instrumental in creating the Washington County Park. |
She raises some very good points and has gathered some great info about the Supervisors who voted against the Washington County Beach funding.
We thought you would find the following information useful. On the recent vote to approve some funding for the Washington County Beach (which was defeated), out of the 17 Supervisors, 11 voted for the Beaches, 5 voted against the Beaches, with 1 member absent. Fort Edward, Kingsbury and Granville (Towns with the most weighted votes) all voted “NO”.
We will continue to update you on this issue in the days ahead.
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
Today is the anniversary of the day Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, or in more simple terms, discovered the “New World”. This event was probably one of the most significant days of the last millennium, directly initiating the process of colonization which foreshadowed the general European colonization of the “New World.” He is widely considered to be the man who brought Christianity across the Atlantic. So today we salute Christopher Columbus; navigator, explorer and champion of “Western” Civilization.
My Fellow Dresden Landowners:
I am sharing this below information so that you will be aware of the happenings at the Washington County Government level.
Some of you will ignore this email; some of you will read it and return to your every day pastimes; however, I am seriously counting on the fact that some of you will let the County Hierarchy know exactly how you feel about the use of your tax dollars and make great use of the phone numbers and e-mail addresses listed below, as well as passing this email on to others who you believe are as equally concerned about this cut to the Washington County Budget.
Of course, the present Supervisors are probably unaware that part of the reason the public park was put in Huletts Landing, years ago, was to curtail the public from going across private property to access the lake, so they have not added the extra expense to the line item of the Sheriff’s Department Budget yet.
Thank you for your time and efforts,
Very truly yours,
Sue Foster Ives
Phone#’ & Email Addresses:
Washington County Board of Supervisors: 518/746-2210
Chairperson Joanne Trinkle: 518/677-3324
Vice Chairperson Donald Wilbur: 518/692-7137
Budget Officer Gayle Hall: 518/761-4040; bricare@capital.net
Give Bob Banks credit for trying, but another attempt to fund the Washington County beach failed today. Washington County uses weighted voting based on population so the beaches were closed because larger towns voted against it. This does not mean that the beach will be closed this summer though. Many supervisors are still open to ways in which it can be kept open. We will keep you updated in the days ahead.