The Huletts Current

The supervisors are trying to cut 50% of the Cornell Cooperative Extension. What’s the Cornell Cooperative Extension?
The Post Star has a good piece about what it is here. Our opinion is very clear, if they can cut funding for the Washington County Beach, they must cut the Cornell Cooperative Extension also.

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This is a great piece on photographers in the Adirondacks. It highlights, Carl Heilman, while he shoots high quality panoramic views of Lake George.

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Benjamin Franklin

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Some things to note in Saturday’s Post Star:
A great editorial about school districts entitled: “Districts Must Cut Costs”
Ominious cuts still coming from the State?
Can more savings be found from cell phones?
A database of what Washington County pays all its employees. If you pull the drop down arrow, you can see the employees names.

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We wanted to thank the many people who have emailed and made suggestions during our initial period. We wanted to give a technical update here.

We are working on improving our front-page load time. For our techies out there, the pages being served are dynamically created and access the database every time a page loads. [...]

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This ran in Tuesday’s Albany Times Union and is quite clear. School districts across the state will be getting less state money next year.
This article in today’s Post Star notes that other school districts are already eliminating duplicate positions like dual principals. We will be examining this issue in the days ahead.

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This is another good sign of fiscal responsibility by the members of our Dresden Town Board.
The 2009 adopted budget for the Huletts Landing Sewer District # 1 shows a very slight increase in the amount to be raised by taxes of $400. Spending in 2008 was $42,000, spending for 2009 is budgeted at $42,400. For [...]

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We would like to take this moment to wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving. Thank you for all you do to make Huletts Landing the special place it is.

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When you think of the word, “frontiersman”, Robert Rogers (1731 -1795) was the living embodiment of the word. The Indian’s gave him the name Wobi Mandanondo, “The White Devil” because of his cunning in commanding the famous Rogers’ Rangers that fought for the British during the French and Indian War. Rogers’ Rangers were the only [...]

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Over the next few months one reoccurring topic the Huletts Current will examine, is how we as a community are regularly treated by both Washington County and the Whitehall School district. More importantly, we will discuss strategies were we can effectuate positive change. Today’s editorial in the Post Star is right on the mark, noting [...]

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This drawing accompanied a piece which ran in Harpers Weekly magazine in 1891. Entitled, A Day on Lake George, it clearly shows Deers Leap and the area right across the lake from Huletts, in front of Sabbath Day Point. What is interesting to note is the clothing of the passengers. (Click on the image to [...]

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The Post Star gave a bravo today to our Town Supervisor.
“Bravos to the Washington County supervisors who gave up their mileage reimbursement to help trim the county budget. Many supervisors have to travel quite far to attend county meetings in Fort Edward And on Friday, they were ready to approve a $25,650 package. But on [...]

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You may not have known that there were a few radio advertisements made for the last Huletts Hotel during the 1950’s. We have unearthed one original radio spot which is currently being converted into digital format. We will release this historical ad; here on Christmas Day, December 25th, for you to listen to. We’ll [...]

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