Happy Friday!
We were pretty close to taking this week off, too.... but here we go!!!!!! BROADCASTING FROM WANAKENA NY ROCK AND ROLL!!!!! Thanks for reading Wanakena Weekly! Wanakena Weekly is our way of keeping YOU in-touch with what's going on around town from OUR point of view! Our information and opinions do NOT reflect that of all the other FINE folks of WANAKENA! Thanks for reading our independent media. THANKS for spending your PRECIOUS time way out here far away from social medias where you have to CHOOSE to be here! Just like shipping small and local. For those that are able to... IT'S A CHOICE! Thanks for choosing to divert a portion of your TIME and MONEY to OUR ENDEVORS! Your delight is OUR delight! Most of you are just here for the photos anyway! WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE! WHO WORKS HERE?!?!?! IS THIS THING ON? DOES ANYBODY EVEN READ THIS ANY MORE? Town Of Fine: Minutes: November 06, 2024: Preliminary Budget Hearing [Digital Towpath]
And now for some IMPORTANT NEWS! Otto's Abode will be CLOSED around Thanksgiving! (CLOSED ON TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY & FRIDAY and OPENING LATE SATURDAY!) Shop early! Stock-up! We'll be back before you know it! See ya! THIS UPCOMING MONDAY IS VETERANS DAY so that means the Post Office is CLOSED! That also means it's PACKBASKET ADVENTURES OPEN HOUSE to celebrate NEW OWNERSHIP! Monday ALL DAY c'mon out and check the scene! Join us on Veterans Day for our Open House. Come meet the new owner and say thanks to Rick & Angie for 20 years of awesomeness. Meet the turtles. Take photos in the BASKET of a partially inflated Hot Air Balloon. Enjoy free food and live music from Rick Kovacs & Jamie Savage. Come meet our artists and wellness practioners that will be offering classes, retreats or other events at Packbasket. Your adventure awaits. Come join us. You are welcome and wanted. We'll be open in the morning and afternoon but will probably close early so we can go check out Packbasket Adventures OPEN HOUSE for ourselves! And it's a holiday of course so we can close a little early. C'MON! This is WANAKENA not MANHATTAN! Don't say we didn't WARN YOU! Cheers from your AWARD-WINNING YEAR-ROUND INCONVENIENCE STORE AND MORE!
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! THE PUBLIC RESTROOM IS CLOSED! THE WANAKENA DOCK IS STORED FOR THE WINTER! OTTO'S ABODE IS OPEN! HAPPY NOVEMBER! Halloween is behind us! Did you guys check out that BLACK LIGHT ART SHOW in Harewood last weekend? IT WAS NUTS! Onward we march through the Holidaze Seazon. Before long the Christmas music will be on the radio, and we will whip into a whirlwind of traditions, travel and spending extra time and money! ELECTION DAY CAME FIRST! GOD BLESS AMERICA! Up and down weather continues. It's not the way it used to be, they say. In their lifetimes at least. Some folks complain about winter, other folks complain about other folks complaining, some folks complain about other folks lack of imagination, folks folks folks folky folk folk folk! We're not immune to it! WE DO IT TOO OKAY! GOD BLESS THIS MESS! Anyway, it was NICE AND COLD AND FROSTY WITH A SPRINKING OF SNOW and then before you know it its back up into the 70s! Wasps and flies make their brief returns! There's not much (if any) natural flowery sweet stuff for them suck-up so BEE CAREFUL when slurping on your own beverages outside... a stinging pest may have flown into your vessel. OUCH! Otter sightings! Last week we indicated that just about all the leaves have fallen off the trees (save locus and tamarack) but we noticed the Tulip Tree out back REALLY hanging on to them! COOL! The CROSSBILLS are STILL around, chirpin' away! This change of season: "A time to do those other things." Plain and simple. Very nice! Cheers! TRAIL CONDITIONS... Yes, folks are still reporting having to TRUDGE through a beaver pond to get up to High Rock. Even Bo - who surprisingly hadn't been though there all summer - had a hard time getting his motorcycle through there! Don't forget to WEAR ORANGE IN THE WOODS for HUNTING SEASON! AROUND TOWN: American Legion Veterans Dinner Monday Night!!!! Lions Club Wreaths... ORDER BY NOVEMNER 12TH! Road Runner Redemption will PICK UP YOU BOTTLES AND CANS CLAP YOUR HANDS! Fine Town Hall Woodland Cemetary annual meeting NOV 11th! Also... Fine Residents: 4-wheeler kids need to stop trespassing on the Fire Dept Property! And don't forget The Legion has CHICKEN WINGS MONDAY NIGHTS (but not Nov 11th!) Spend some time in CLIFTON FINE! From the Eagle's Nest: While our auditorium is still under construction, the senior play will be held at the Russell Theatre this year. Only a little over 2 weeks until we see the seniors up there on the stage! The play is Nov 22nd and 23rd at 7pm!
FROM THE STAR LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: October 31, Halloween day, day number 304 of 2024. We ran 4 rescue calls and set up for Trunk or Treat. The more astounding number is that the last call yesterday was number 300 for the year. This year by far has been our busiest year in a long time. Our dedicated members answered all but 17! Cranberry Lake Rescue covered 13 for us while Gouverneur Rescue covered 4. The community support we have here does not go unrecognized. That support helps to keep us going. Thank again both members and community!
FROM THE CRANBERRY LAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT: We are sponsoring a NY Snowmobile Safety Course on Saturday, 11/9/24 at Cranberry Lake FD from 8:45-4:15 pm. Register online—lunch provided by St. Lawrence Health, an affiliate of Rochester Regional Health. The instructor is Club President Heather Wilson who has 30+ years experience teaching middle & high school students. Dress for 30 minutes of outside class.
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RISE AND SHINE CLIFTON-FINE - Starting from the west (excluding - for no reason in particular -all the local independent contractors, charities, hair stylists, artists, electricians, musicians, plumbers, painters, etc....) Historic Fine Town Hall Building in Fine Village seeking input for its use and future! Fine Volunteer Fire Dept THANK YOU! Lodge at Dodge Pond OPEN. UBs Mercantile and ADK Rustics in Oswegatchie (Home of The Bargain Hunter!) are OPEN! Around Star Lake: Star Lake's ADK Holy Grail gifte shoppe announced new hours... 10 - 5pm Thurs - Sun until Dec 31st with A GIANT LOON out front!! ADK Pharmacy OPEN. Clifton Fine Central School GO EAGLES! Fitness Center at the school is open M-F 5-8am & 5-10pm and weekends 5-10pm! Community Bank OPEN! Clifton Fine Hospital OPEN and HOPIN' you're healthy! They raised enough money to expand - check out their live construction camera! And look out for Food Truck Thursdays and Farmers Markets! Dollar General OPEN! Twin Lakes OPEN! CF Arena CLOSED FOR SEASON. Golf Course CLUB HOUSE had LUNCH AND DINNER! It's called CLUB GRUB... but it closed for the season! CF Golf Course CLOSED!! Star Lake Volunteer Fire Department THANK YOU! SOS Adirondack Exhibit Center EVENTS HAPPENING... stay tuned! Clifton-Fine Community Center and Food Pantry & Free "Community Meal" Wednesdays! Todd Hardware OPEN! Coffee Fever SOLD? Circle Jays OPEN! What's The Scoop CLOSED FOR THE SEASON. American Legion OPEN with LOTS OF EVENTS! Newton Falls Giving Box & Post Office & Community Church OPEN. Newton Falls Volunteer Fire Department THANK YOU! Mountain Gate Plaza Bottle Redemption at Clifton Corners IS OPEN and FOR SALE! Packbasket Adventures Lodge in Wanakena OPEN... with NEW OWNERSHIP! Mary holds down 13695 Wanakena Post Office - Clifton Community Library Book Drop Box and Lost and Found and MORE out-front on Otto's Porch! OTTO'S ABODE OPEN ALL YEAR DOWN HERE! Wanakena Ranger School!! Wanakena Historical Association Walking Tour CLOSED FOR SEASON and the History Center OPENS JUNE 15TH and are every sat and sun though summer 11-4pm... NOW CLOSED! Dont forget about the Wanakena Walking Tour and Labyrinth! Clifton-Fine Summer Series in ZPARK SUMMETIME! Common Thread Quilt Fest Labor Day Weekend! Out in Harewood: Wooden Fish Hathery OPEN! Coyotes Den SOLD and CLOSED but listed on AirBnB for rentals! Billy's BLACK LIGHT ART SHOW! Cranberry Lake Volunteer Fire Department THANK YOU! Birch's Lakeside CLOSED FOR SEASON! Tilly's? Cranberry Lake Art Show was a BIG SUCCESS as always stay tuned for next year! Cranberry Lake North Shore Hub hosts space use, dock use, summer concerts and summer lectures! Clifton Community Library OPEN! Cranberry Lake Boat Club summer events were a smashing success, again! These days they occasionally post sunsets and obituaries on Facebook! Cranberry Lake DEC Campground closing for the cold weather months SOON! Cranberry Lake Mountaineers Snowmobile Club, check 'em out! THEY HAVE A GREAT LISTING OF LOCAL YEAR-ROUND RENTALS ON THEIR WEBSITE! Grasse River Railway, anybody? Sevey's Point at Sevey's Corner OPEN. Thirsty Moose Childwold OPEN! Childwold Presbyterian Church though September 15th! And don't forget... Back West: 2E's, Edwards Opera House, Jim's Auto in South Edwards OPEN! Plum Brook Cafe in Russell OPEN! Jockos in Degrasse OPEN and re-painted and hosting SUNDAY FUNDAYS!! CLIFTON-FINE RT. 3 CORRIDOR ROLL-CALL ROUND-UP! We're Southern St. Lawrence County. We're Northwestern Adirondacks. We're BOTH. We're NEITHER! WE'RE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-LESS! WILD WEST! GREAT SOUTH WOODS WAY SOUTH OF THE ROCK! ALL THAT STUFF! OH YEAH! (Who's missing? What's stale? Les us know! Zoom Zoom!) Also... if you appreciate the work put into these newsletters consider donating to the cause! We're on VENMO as Otto's Abode. Or as Click and Clack used to say: Write our address on a twenty-dollar bill and mail it to us!
"My friends, today when I look out over Cicely, I see not a town, but a nation's history written in miniature. Inscribed in the cracked pavement, reverberating from every passing flatbed. Today, every runny nose I see says "America" to me. We were outcasts, scum, the wretched debris of a hostile, aging world. But we came here, we paved roads, we built industries, powerful institutions... Of course, along the way, we exterminated untold indigenous cultures and enslaved generations of Africans. We basically stained our star-spangled banner with a host of sins that can never be washed clean. But today, we're here to celebrate the glorious aspects of our past. A tribute to a nation of free people, the country that Whitman exalted. (reading) "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives and legislators, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people." I've never been so proud to be a Cicelian. I must go out now and fill my lungs with the deep clean air of democracy." - Chris Stevens (Northern Exposure S03E15 Democracy in America)
