News & Opinion About Huletts Landing, N.Y.
The birds have been making lots of noise this week and the sun has been out, so I went for a walk yesterday and I thought this picture captured the flavor of the day. Summer is coming soon and if the birds are back, hopefully you’ll be coming back soon also.
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.
If you were in Huletts the past few weeks, you would have seen men on the roof of the Casino replacing the roof. Last week, the new roof was completed. You can see the new roof and some of the new windows installed in the picture above.
We’ll have more updates and pictures as we progress through April but there are some more very positive changes in store for the Casino this summer. Stop back often to see new pictures and updates here.
We know you’ll drink to that.
What Happens if the Special Congressional Election Ends in a Tie?
The Saratogian had a good article about what will happen if the special congressional election ends in a tie. No coin flip here. While we’re on the subject of flipping coins, does anyone else think that Scott Murphy looks like the character, Harvey Dent, from Batman?
Fighting the Flu Right Here in the Adirondacks
Adirondack Life Magazine has an enlightening piece about the Trudeau Institute. The Trudeau Institute is an Adirondack research facility dedicated to studying the flu and preventing the next influenza pandemic. The article has some great info on the Spanish flu of 1919 that claimed roughly 50 million lives. The article has some interesting facts about how the 1919 outbreak affected the Adirondacks.
Luke 24:1-8
Theodore Roosevelt, as the former Governor of New York, who would go onto serve as President starting in 1901 when William McKinley was assassinated while he was Vice-President, had many friends throughout the Adirondacks.
This is an excerpt from the Warrensburg News from July 19, 1903 entitled; The Presidents Guest, Mike Cronin Tells of his Visit to the White House, Exchanged Opinions with Chief Executive on Various Important Subjects
“I got to the White House all right and I tell you the President made me feel right at home. We spent two solid hours talking and some of the biggest in the land had to sit outside and twirl their hats.”
“It may (seem) conceited in me to say it, but the President and I are interested in many of the same subjects. We talked about good roads – our ride when President McKinley lay dying led up to it – the protection of the Adirondack forests and the necessity of the state purchasing lands that are for sale and dedicating them to the public comfort as a play ground and health resort.”
“The President said that people should be careful about fires and that every citizen should extend his utmost power to prevent them, each man constituting himself a fire warden, an especial protector of this great means of earning a livelihood.”
“Well to change the subject, the President asked, “How’s Mrs. Cronin? And Rosey? And Katherine? And Arthur? And Add?” He remembered them all.
“Well Mr. Roosevelt,” I said, “you see I believe in your idea of an American’s duty in welcoming all the little ones that come along.”
“That’s all right,” he said, “I admire you for it.”
“You have got me beaten by one though sir.”
“Don’t worry about that,” said he, “you’ll be catching up to me the first thing you know.”
“After our little chat he sent me to the House of Representatives with his private secretary.”
“Don’t think for a minute I am stuck on myself,” apologized Mike, “or that I think I’m a better man than I was before I was entertained by the President. But I’m so tickled over the way he treated me, just as if I was his own brother, that I can’t help letting the gladness stick out.”
“But I wouldn’t change places with the President. I have less responsibility and a pleasanter place to live. His life is a hard one.”
Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!
Susan Coolridge
Jeff Klauder reports that his webcam, which he is sharing with us on our left sidebar, is back online. It seems like the camera and the router are both sensitive to power surges, so we can’t make any guarantees that it will not go out again. For the time being however, if you want to check the real time conditions of the lake, it’s running again. Thanks Jeff for sharing your view with us.
Christ Carrying the Cross, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – 1737
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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.
Last Supper, Peter Paul Rubens – 1632
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Here on the Huletts Current for the first time are the contracts that the Whitehall School District has signed with their:
A few points:
1.) We are not providing any analysis or opinion at this time, but will be in the near future.
2.) The Superintendent’s contract is 10 pages. (It is 1.44 MB’s)
3.) The Teacher’s contract is 41 pages. (It is 5.33 MB’s)
4.) Everyone needs to look at these and see how our tax dollars are being spent.
Verizon has introduced one sweet device in it’s new Verizon hub. It will work with a Verizon wireless cell phone to eliminate the need for a landline. It can also send and receive text messages, and willl have limited browser capabilities (to read the Huletts Current) and to do things like sending driving directions to your phone. The idea here is that the hub can sync to your calendar, contacts, maps, traffic and weather reports via broadband. Subscribers have to live in an E911-capable area, and will be able to bring any phone number with them if they want to sign up for new service. You can get these for around $95 after rebate with a subscription fee of $35 per month — which comes with unlimited minutes and texts to and from the device.
If you’ve already gotten one, we’d be interested to learn your thoughts? It’s designed to compete with the iPhone so it may shake out one way or the other but I was in a Verizon store recently and they were selling like crazy.
Absentee Ballot Count to Start Wednesday
Budget Passed, Forest Preserve Tax Cap Eliminated
Price Chopper Expands Supermarket in Granville
Editor’s Note: Because Granville is in Washington County, sales tax collected here will go into Washington County’s total.