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Washington County Declares State of Emergency


Huletts has received about 15-16 inches of snow as of approximately noon on Thursday, December 17th.

The Huletts Current is not a weather website per se. However, I do like to focus on the extreme weather we sometimes have to endure in Huletts.

Washington County Board of Supervisors Chairman, Samuel J. Hall, has declared a local state of emergency in effect as of 9:00 AM on December 17, 2020 which will remain in effect for 5 days or until rescinded. The public is strongly encouraged to limit any and all non-essential travel.

The snow is presently letting up but southern Washington county and areas east of Huletts have received even more snow. Please be extremely careful if you have to venture out.

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Third Sunday of Advent


Looking towards Burgess island. (Click image to see larger version.)

Third Sunday of Advent – JN 1:6-8, 19-28
A man named John was sent from God.
He came for testimony, to testify to the light,
so that all might believe through him.
He was not the light,
but came to testify to the light.

And this is the testimony of John.
When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests
and Levites to him
to ask him, “Who are you?”
He admitted and did not deny it,
but admitted, “I am not the Christ.”
So they asked him,
“What are you then? Are you Elijah?”
And he said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
So they said to him,
“Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us?
What do you have to say for yourself?”
He said:
“I am the voice of one crying out in the desert,
‘make straight the way of the Lord,’”
as Isaiah the prophet said.”
Some Pharisees were also sent.
They asked him,
“Why then do you baptize
if you are not the Christ or Elijah or the Prophet?”
John answered them,
“I baptize with water;
but there is one among you whom you do not recognize,
the one who is coming after me,
whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.”
This happened in Bethany across the Jordan,
where John was baptizing.

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Second Sunday of Advent


Looking towards Vicar’s island with Brown mountain to the right. (Click image to see larger version.)

Second Sunday of Advent – MK 1:1-8
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;
he will prepare your way.
A voice of one crying out in the desert:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.”
John the Baptist appeared in the desert
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
People of the whole Judean countryside
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.
John was clothed in camel’s hair,
with a leather belt around his waist.
He fed on locusts and wild honey.
And this is what he proclaimed:
“One mightier than I is coming after me.
I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals.
I have baptized you with water;
he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

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Saturday Quote

“I was a young boy in the school house when the cry came, Injuns! I jumped to my rifle and threw down my spelling book, and thar it lies.”

Kit Carson, American frontiersman, on why he was illiterate.

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DEC Statewide Forest Ranger Highlights


Wilderness Rescue in Fort Ann

Town of Fort Ann
Washington County
Wilderness Rescue: On Nov. 28 at 1:06 p.m., Warren County 911 transferred a call to DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch requesting assistance for a 57-year-old male hiker from Clifton Park with a possible leg fracture one mile from the summit of Buck Mountain. Forest Ranger Lt. Ganswindt and three Forest Rangers responded to assist. After locating the hiker, the Rangers splinted his injured leg and proceeded to carry him to a waiting ATV to drive him out of the woods. Once back at the trailhead, the hiker declined further medical assistance and the incident concluded at 5:14 p.m.


Wilderness Rescue in Fort Ann

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First Sunday of Advent


The Huletts Golf Course the last weekend of November 2020. (Click image to see larger version.)

First Sunday of Advent -MK 13:33-37
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be watchful! Be alert!
You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad.
He leaves home and places his servants in charge,
each with his own work,
and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch.
Watch, therefore;
you do not know when the Lord of the house is coming,
whether in the evening, or at midnight,
or at cockcrow, or in the morning.
May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all: ‘Watch!’”

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New York State Thruway Moves to Cashless Tolls

If you traveled to Huletts within the past two weeks on the New York State Thruway, you may have noticed that all tolls are now cashless. Beginning at 1:00 am on Saturday November 14, 2020 – the New York State Thruway – a 570-mile highway – converted to an entirely cashless toll system.

All employee-staffed toll booths will be replaced with overhead gantries outfitted with cameras and sensors to capture license plate numbers as motorists zoom by.

As motorists come on and off the Thruway, gantries will record their locations and bill them accordingly, without requiring them to stop or slow down on the roadway, or complete a cash transaction.

Overhead cameras will snap photos of license plates so drivers can be billed by mail and EZ-pass will handle cashless payments. In the coming months, all toll booths will be removed and road configurations will be changed. All toll plazas should be removed by the end of 2021.

Tolls have been collected on the New York State Thruway since 1954.

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Happy Thanksgiving 2020

I wanted to offer you and yours my best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving, and a deeply felt thank you for all you do for Huletts Landing.

Hopefully, your day will be filled with love and lots of good food. May you enjoy a happy and blessed day of rest and gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving with some fun mixed in also!