Government, Law and Legal Services
Zoom in Kingsbury may just be a bridge too far, after the town board there suspended public hearings until everyone can meet, once again, in person. This stems from the Dean Road apartment project that is coming under fierce scrutiny, the Post-Star writes this morning. Sixty people attended a zoom meeting to discuss the project last month, and the online meeting system did not handle the crowd too well, the story says. The town board’s decision to table the plans until people can meet in person applies only to public hearings, not all of the town business, but it stops the apartment project from moving forward for now. [This story ties into the broadband troubles in the area. For more on that, read here.]
Arts and Culture
Warren County may turn a house on Gurney Lane into an interpretive museum to the county’s namesake, Joseph Warren, the colonial who fomented rebellion and died in 1775 in the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Post-Star is reporting. The idea was presented to the Warren County Board of Supervisors, and they seem generally interested in it, the story says.
Travel, Tourism and Recreation
If you build it...they should not come. That’s the word out of Saranac Lake this morning. The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Committee in that High Peaks hamlet thinks the threat of the coronavirus is too great. The committee has already decided to keep visitors from entering the palace of ice created for the event, and now they are asking that only locals attend. This, according to a story in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. The irony, the story says, is that Dr. Edward Trudeau first brought his tuberculosis patients to Saranac Lake for the healing powers of the fresh Adirondack air and water. The festival has celebrated that in the past, the story says. The festival planners' request: please come next year.