Here is a short video with some interesting facts and some history about the electric boat.
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Made in the Adirondacks: Coming Soon
Denton Publications has a story about an idea to create a logo that can be applied to things made in the Adirondacks.
Rachel Ray Returns to Lake George
She remembers where she came from. Here is a story from the Post Star about Rachel Ray returning home to Lake George for a fundraiser.
Washington County Puts Parcels Up For Sale
Washington County is really making an effort to cut back and raise revenue apart from hitting up the taxpayers. Read the Post Star article here.
Hudson River Dedging to Start this Week
The spot that they’re digging up is very close to the Washington County Building. Channel 13 reports here.
Now For Some History – 1902
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This is a picture of people waiting for the steamer to arrive in Bolton Landing in 1902. It’s always fascinating to see pictures of people getting off and on the steamships because they traveled in such different clothes than people travel in today.
This picture caught my attention for a couple of reasons. The men are all wearing hats and the women are all in dresses. It’s interesting that you can even see the horses with a carriage for luggage waiting in the back. It’s easy to forget but this was before the age of the automobile.
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Champlain’s Astrolabe Now on a Keychain
The Times of Ti had an interesting story about a new keychain made in celebration of Samuel de Champlain’s Quadricentennial year. The keychain is made like an astrolabe which Champlain used in discovering the lake which bears his name. It was a astronomical instrument which was used in locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars; determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa; surveying; and triangulation. With no GPS, what’s an explorer to do?
No East Lake George for You
The Post Star reports that there will be no new village of East Lake George this year.
Ticonderoga Ferry Gets New Owners
The Press Republican reports that the Ti Ferry has been sold. This is a great trip over to Vermont from Ticonderoga if you’ve never taken it.
Is the Huletts Current the Best Blog Out There?
There’s a new invention coming soon that will revolutionize the Internet. You know the answer to this question already but if you want to learn how the Internet is about to change, click here.
A New Executive Order
Gov. David Paterson signed an executive order this week, that requires the state to conduct a public accounting on the fiscal effects of any new measure or rule affecting property taxes in New York.
Here is the press release from the Governor’s office and here is the actual executive order.
I contacted the Lake George Park Commission to see how this potentially impacts the new stream corridor rules but have yet to receive a reply. It appears from this language that it probably applies to the LGPC’s stream corridor rule making process.
No state agency shall recommend, propose, publish or submit any legislation or regulation containing a mandate without an accounting of the impact of such mandate on local governments, which shall include the fiscal impacts of such mandate, a cost-benefit analysis, documentation of input sought and received from affected local governments, and proposed sources of revenue to fund such mandate. Prior to the formalization of any such proposal, such accounting shall be provided in writing to the Secretary to the Governor, the Counsel to the Governor, the Director of State Operations and the Director of the Division of Budget; provided, however, that if such proposal is necessary to protect against an urgent threat to public health or safety, such proposal may be formalized and advanced without such accounting only upon the approval of the Director of State Operations and the Counsel to the Governor, provided that such accounting shall be completely promptly thereafter.
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Park Commission Postpones Stream Rules One Month
The Lake George Park Commission announced that it will postpone action until its May meeting on a Final Environmental Impact Statement for new proposed stream corridor rules.
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Wild Unsettled Lake George
The Adirondack Museum will open a new exhibit called, “A Wild, Unsettled Country: Early Reflections of the Adirondacks,” on May 22nd which will highlight the earliest artifacts from the Adirondacks. Many of these come from the Lake George area. The Adirondack Almanac has a nice piece about the exhibit here.
Those Comic Books Are Valuable After All
The Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum will open for the season Wednesday, April 15. This is a great trip for kids and adults alike. The Times of Ti has a story about it on their website. If you haven’t been in Ticonderoga in a while, this museum opened a few years ago and it’s a great local addition.
No More “Ice, Ice, Baby”
Just to let everyone know, the ice is out of the lake. It’s pretty much disappeared as of Thursday, April 2nd. From what we can see there’s no apparent damage. This means that summer is getting a lot closer.
If for some reason you miss the ice,
here are 12 videos where you can see the original Vanilla Ice doing everything from boxing Todd Bridges, going crazy and destroying his best selling album, to even apologizing for his music.
Then again, maybe you’re glad the ice is gone.
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Who Got One / Who Returned One
The Times Union had a nice graphic showing who got an absentee ballot by county and party affiliation in the vote for the congressional seat in the 20th district. Hopefully, if you were away, you returned yours.
Gaslight Village Project Gets $2.5 Million
The Post Star reports that the Gaslight Village project in Lake George Village got a big grant from the federal government.
We Love You – John Paul II
AOL has a heartwarming story about a man left for dead a few weeks ago, who attributes his recovery to miraculous intervention by Pope John Paul II. Watch the video attached to this story.
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Your Property Just Got More Valuable
According to CBS 6 of Albany, the Lake George Land Conservancy has just finalized a deal for 350 acres and a half mile of shoreline on Lake George in the town of Putnam. This deal has been in the works for some time.
The Train Will Keep Running
The Albany Times Union reports that the recent budget deal restored funding for Amtrak’s Adirondack service from Albany to Montreal. Now if it could only run on time.
All Sides Agree: It’s Good Proposed Tax Cap is Gone
WNBZ has a story about how all sides are happy that the Governor’s proposal to cap taxes on state land has been eliminated.
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Clean Water in a Septic Tank
How would you like to get clear water without odor in your septic tank? Read about an amazing new product by Aero-Stream.
Excerpted from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Posted: Nov. 21, 2008
Thoughts of gurgling toilets, sewage backup and foul-smelling liquid saturating the lawn flashed across Karl Holt’s mind when he realized his septic tank was nearly full.
It was potentially a very dirty problem, but Holt said he didn’t like the available remedies.
Pumping the tank is a short-term solution, and additives can hurt more than they help, he reasoned. Replacing the system would cost a minimum of $15,000 – not including re-seeding the lawn and replacing the deck.
“I was looking to save that $15,000,” said Holt, 45, president of Aero-Stream LLC in Hartland.
So he began tinkering.
The result is a patented product that sells for less than $1,000 that Holt says homeowners can use to revive failed septic systems and avoid more expensive alternatives. …
Aero-Stream®’s product, called a Remediator, transforms a septic system into one that is filled with oxygen-loving bacteria instead of less efficient, oxygen-hating bacteria, Holt said.
Call it aerobic exercise for a septic system; the Remediator pumps oxygen into the tank through a hole customers drill in its cover.
Holt says that destroys within 48 hours the oxygen-hating bacteria in the tank that have been eating the waste and encourages the growth of oxygen-loving bacteria.
Oxygen-rich liquid begins to flow out of the tank into the leach field. The oxygen-loving bacteria are so much more efficient at gobbling up waste they cut off the oxygen-hating bacteria’s food source by 70% to 80%, Holt said. They also eat the black slimy mix of oxygen-hating bacteria and their secretions that have been clogging the soil, and treated water starts flowing again down into the water table.
“Many people, even in the industry, do not understand the mechanics of the process and therefore find it difficult to comprehend the simple solution,” Holt said.
Read the whole piece here. Read about the company here. If only the LGPC and the environmental organizations would concentrate on products like these, we could improve the environment without taking people’s property rights away.