Happy Friday!
ICE ON THE RIVER! FULL MOON! Thanks for reading WANAKENA WEEKLY! We're inching towards FIVE YEARS of Wanakena Weekly and NINE years of Otto's Abode! Thanks for coming along for the ride. You're here on the website because you WANT TO! You won't find us in your inbox, junk mail, or on the feed! REMOVE YOUR FACE FROM THE FEED BAG! You know you've got come on out here on the outskirts of the world wide web! And you've got the archive to browse through! YOU KNOW! Related: We kindly ask that if you need to use one of the original photographs from this website, you'll check-in with us first! Thanks! THERE IS A NYS BURN BAN IN EFFECT! BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE! AND WEAR ORANGE IN THE WOODS! In other news: Hunters stopping-in before and after the hunt! Tall tales, white tails, otters, weasels and more! CL50 Hiker stopped in the other day! Cold nights warm days! Ducks OUT AND ABOUT, TOO! Crossbill, STILL! White breasted nut hatch, blue jays, chickadees keep company in the yard. YES, the trail to High Rock STILL goes through a beaver pond, STILL! Cranberry Larry reports like THIRTY red squirrels terrorizing his place! Seriously, that's nuts. We've got a FANTASTIC looking weekend ahead of us! C'mon out and check the scene! WHAT ELSE? ----> From the Town of Fine:
We are happy to announce that we have a new dog control officer. Please welcome Sandy Griffin to the Town of Fine. Her number for dog control is 315-530-3818 and her email address is finetowndogcontrol@gmail.com. If you have a dog with a delinquent license, you may want to come in and license it with the Town Clerk, or you will be receiving a visit from Sandy. SORRY KIM AND TOM... LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE OUT OF THE JOB! Related news: Thanks, folks, for picking up your dog's poo. It SUCKS having the poo on the shoe. A reader once asked us what music we are listening to in the shop. Here's a new one! Otto's Alumni MICHAEL HUDSON (of Keen Dream fame (the Wanakena tape)) has JUST released a NEW ALBUM
Touch the Dark Stuff | Michael Hudson | Z Plan Great job, Spike! NorthCountry ROUST CREW has a show at the POTSDAM LIBRARY this Saturday Night! RURAL NOISE BOISE!
Roust Records - YouTube In other news: Lots of recent local excitement about Big Tupper Ski Resort being purchased and set to re-open... That's cool and all... BUT SERIOUSLY... HAVE YOU PLAYED SNOW CROQUET IN WANAKENA?!?!?! Good luck keeping-up, Tupp! Our "food desert" is WAY cooler than yours! CROQUET ANYONE?! Also check this
ORCHARD out. AROUND TOWN ----> Packbasket Adventures Bed & Breakfast and Event Space held their OPEN HOUSE this past Veterans Day! Great Job Everybody! Clifton-Fine Hospital Memory Tree happening now so sign up! Clifton-Fine Senior Citizens Club FIGHT CLUB NIGHT! Just kidding, it's not fight club, it's a meeting at the community center November 19th at 1PM! Clifton Community Library in Harewood would love to help you connect to the DROP BOX out front of Otto's! You cant hide that EAGLE PRIDE: November 22 and 23 at the Russell Theatre Clifton-Fine School Play DEARLY DEPARTED! Also, November 22nd is HOMEBREWED COMEDY at the American Legion Star Lake! Sunday Nov 24th LIVE MUSIC AT THE LEGION! STAR LAKE XMAS PARADE DECEMBER 14TH! Ranger School Forestry Club was in town last weekend! DOWN AT THE ABODE ----> YES, we have the NEW 3rd Edition of the Cranberry Lake 50 maps! GIFT CERTIFICATES! Its a great gift! We got em! We're stocked-up so stop in! Really! DO IT! Thanks for shopping at your local award winning year round Inconvenience Store and MORE! Really, it's a great mix of folks coming out here and getting their shopping and chilling done! Cheers to you all who are able to and choose to do dat! WANAKENA IS MORE THAN A SUBURB OF PLACID AND POTSDAM! Sometimes we're closed though... WE'RE CLOSED AROUND THANKSGIVING INFO BELOW! Clifton Fine Shop Local Saturday is Dec 7th! More info SOON! It's gonna be GREAT! Thanks! Want to visit and need a place to stay? CHECK THIS OUT:
Places to Stay and see what it looks like live
HERE! See you at bEARY'S Friday night for the fight! JUST ANNOUNCED: Green Bough Browsers Book Club Dec 10th discussing
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Cristie 6pm hosted by Ziembaland and January Read is
Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck! Here are our hours for THANKSGIVING... CLOSED TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDA AND HALF DAY SATURDAY! So, we'll see you that Saturday evening and Sunday, right folks!!?!?!? All for now... buh-bye!
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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!
"It's not bad thing to celebrate a simple life." J.R.R. Tolken
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