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Hats off for Carnival cowboys
“Lighting of the Palace” fireworks shoot over the 2010 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Ice Palace Saturday night.
(Enterprise photo — Lou Reuter)
February 8, 2010
SARANAC LAKE — Organizers say the first weekend of the 2010 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival went brilliantly, if you don’t count the Winter Carnival king falling and injuring his ankle.
“With the exception of the unfortunate injury to our king, everything was great,” said Winter Carnival Committee Chairman Jeff Dickson.
On Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours after receiving his crown, Winter Carnival King Frank Camelo injured his ankle in a fall in Riverside Park shortly after attending the Ladies Fry Pan Toss.
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On the ice for the Northern Challenge
February 8, 2010
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Two dead in Adirondack snowmobile accidents
February 8, 2010
SCHROON (AP) - Police say two people died in separate snowmobile accidents within a week of each other in the Adirondacks.
State police say 21-year-old Benjamin G. Round of Warrensburg died in a snowmobile crash on Jan.
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Thu, December 17, 2009 @ 11:49AM
When I turned 18, I figured I'd get a tattoo. Everyone else was doing it, after all, which is a good enough reason to do anything when you're a teenager. But I couldn't decide on something I would want inked on my body for the rest of my life, so I never did it. I stopped thinking about it years ago ... until now. This sandwich shop in Lakewood, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, The Melt Bar & Grilled, has answered that question by offering 25 percent discounts for LIFE to anyone who gets a tattoo of a grilled cheese sandwich. All the people who take them up on this promotion had better hope they don't go out of business soon. The inventor of the grilled cheese sandwich is not known, but it was someone in America during the 1920s. This was when sliced bread and sliced cheese were coming into vogue, and someone had the brilliant idea of putting cheese on bread and melting it. It looks like the U.S. Navy helped popularize them by including them in World War II rations.
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Thu, January 7, 2010 @ 11:22AM
Gov. David Paterson’s State of the State speech was Wednesday. Our Albany representatives for the Tri-Lakes area seemed pleased with a lot of what they heard. Judging from the Watertown Daily Times and the North Country Democrat blog, the representatives in Albany of the western half of the North Country were pretty happy with the speech too. State Sen. Darrel Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent, is stepping aside as Energy and Telecommunications Committee chairman in favor of a Republican colleage, George D. Maziarz of Newfane. Tom Morahan, another Republican, has been made chairman of the Mental Health Committee. The majority put out a statement calling this an “unprecedented display of bipartisanship.” After President Barack Obama nominated John McHugh as Army secretary, there was a lot of talk that Aubertine might run for that congressional seat. He didn’t, of course. Bill Owens was the Democratic candidate, and he won.
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Kennedy Puts Elections Up for Highest Bidder
Mon, February 1, 2010 @ 9:40PM
Kennedy Puts Elections Up for Highest Bidder January 21 was the day the US Supreme Court decided corporations are the ones to decide what is good for us. In a 5-4 ruling, the USSC invalidated much of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform laws. The Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns, right up to the day of the election. I had thought the influence of corporations and unions had hit a peak, and Americans were finally fed up with corporations and unions calling all the shots. A single citizen’s voice had already been nearly quieted, and this ruling has the effect of completely snuffing out any semblance of anybody but the big moneyed interests making all policy decisions. How bad is it? Even many large corporations were hoping the McCain Feingold laws were upheld. From MetLife to Crate and Barrel to San Diego National Bank, they all have implored congress to stop calling them for campaign contribution.
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