The Huletts Current

I already put this on the calendar, but here’s a friendly reminder that the Ghost Hunters episode filmed at Fort Ticonderoga will air Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. on the Sci-Fi channel.
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org/news/ghost-hunters.htm
Fort Ticonderoga will also be offering Ghost Tours during the months of July and August on most Friday and Saturday nights. This [...]

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The Lake George Association (LGA), in conjunction with the Champlain Watershed Improvement Coalition of New York (CWICNY), is sponsoring a septic system training course on March 25, 2010 at the Fort William Henry in Lake George.
The one-day course, titled “Small Scale Wastewater System Design II – Alternative Systems” is designed for professionals in [...]

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Small Town, Big Dreams: Lake Placid’s Olympic Story! is being rebroadcast nationally on PBS tonight, Saturday Feb. 27, and is now available on DVD on Amazon and through PBS.
To read a review, check out Around the Rings.
Do you remember where you were when the U.S. Hockey team won gold in 1980? Watch tonight and [...]

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I was able to confirm today that Dr. Dean L. Cook of Ticonderoga was nominated by Governor Paterson to fill a vacancy on the Lake George Park Commission caused by the expiration of the term of Thomas J. Morhouse, for a term which will expire on March 31, 2017.
Dr. Cook’s resume was provided to the [...]

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Saranac Lake native, Billy Demong, speaks about winning the Gold Medal in Nordic Combined. Congratulations Billy!
(ESPN does not allow embedding, so you will have to double click on the picture and watch the video on YouTube.)

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While I had not seen anything about this in the news or heard about a pending nomination, the NY State Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation voted on Tuesday, February 23rd, to move the nomination of Dean Cook to the Lake George Park Commission forward. The next step is for the nomination to be acted upon [...]

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Congratulation’s to Lake Placid’s own Andrew Weibrecht for winning the Bronze medal in the Olympic Super-G.
Here is a video of his run from NBC.

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The Adirondack Museum has a display depicting the bobsled run in the 1932 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid. (Click on the picture to see in full resolution.)
With the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics almost here, I thought this new documentary entitled; “Small Town, Big Dreams: Lake Placid’s Olympic Story”, would be interesting to [...]

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APA Loses Big, Must Pay Legal Fees, Who is Responsible?
This is a big story when even the NY Times reports on it. The APA is taking such indefensible and outrageous positions (remember Foster Brook and the “waste” on the bottom of the lake?) that now taxpayers are having to bail them out. It will be [...]

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APA Considering Delegating New Boathouse Rules to Lake George Park Commission.
The Adirondack Almanack reports that the APA is speaking to the Lake George Park Commission about enforcing their new proposed boathouse rules. The bigger question is why are new rules necessary when this has no bearing on water quality?
Washington County Business
The Post Star was [...]

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I received a 1st public notice letter from the Adirondack Park Agency today which stated:
The Adirondack Park Agency received an application on December 28, 2009 from AT&T Mobility Corporation for a project proposed in the Town of Dresden, Washington County, on or near County Route 6 …. The tax map number of the property site [...]

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This picture of the recently demolished Lake Champlain Bridge comes from my brother Al’s extensive collection of Adirondack memorabilia. The Champlain monument appears at the bottom of the picture. The road to Ticonderoga would be off of the bottom of the picture.
Now that the Lake Champlain Bridge from Crown Point to Addison Vermont is gone, [...]

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Polar Plungers Get Real Cold
The Post Star reports on this years Polar Plunge in Lake George.
MSNBC Reports on Bridge Demolition (with sound)

Early Footage of an Adirondack Log Drive
The Adirondack Almanack has some great historical video of an Adirondack log drive here.
Hollywood Wants Your Kids to Smoke
This University of California, San Francisco website is devoted to [...]

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This week I had the great pleasure of interviewing Erin Hamlin, who has pre-qualified for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver by virtue of winning the 2009 World Championship in Luge.
Erin hails from Remsen, N.Y. which is located near the western edge of the Adirondack Park. She is an impressive individual who we’ll be watching [...]

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