Happy Friday!
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Hello everybody out there! Thanks for reading! Thanks for believing in us! Hard to believe it was just ONE WEEK ago... SEVEN DAYS AGO... Wanakena was getting downright SLAMED with snow! Squall status: 100%. Deliveries couldn't make it here. Garbage did not get picked up. Mary at the Post office made it in! Albert who drives the mail truck made it in! When it was all said and done, we got about a foot and a half. Had a great weekend last weekend enjoying all the snow! Saturday was a perfect blue-sky day. Folks around town were enjoying some great cross country ski sessions. The full moon Saturday night was BIG AND CRISPY! Temps got down below zero! And then came the WARM and RAIN... just like the storm before! We got less rain than the last thaw... and it did get above 40 for a day or two. It all added up and gave our snow pack a good spanking. We lost a lot of snow. Some local snowmobile trails were open but have since closed. We got a few fresh inches on top of it a few days ago. The temperature is dropping and a few more inches of snow in the forecast. It will be a white Christmas, just not a TON of white stuff. WE WILL SAY: THE SNOW CROQUET COURSE IS IN FINE SHAPE! Playable terrain remains! We did get the umbrellas out the other night! CROQUET! CROQUET! CROQUET!Folks are asking about Lake Ice Thickness... we'll say: DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! We hear they are making ice at the STAR LAKE ARENA! Deer cross the frozen Oswegatchie and zigzag through the yards. Crossbill are still hanging around town... zipping around chirping and having a gay old time. Blue Jay, Downey Woodpecker, Chickadee, Junco and squirrels at the feeder. Ranger School is off for the next four weeks! THIS Santa in Wanakena Saturday afternoon SANTA will be cruising around with the Star Lake Fire Dept so see some local kids! THANKS SANTA! He'll be at the Fine Fire Hall 2:30 - 5 also! Saturday is the SOLSTICE and there's an OPEN HOUSE PARTY at DOSS TRAMP HOUSE 5-9pm! See you there! Check out OTTO'S ABODE's holiday hours listed below! HAPPY HOLIDAZE EVERYONE! AND DONT FORGET! NEW YEARS EVE NEXT NEXT WEEK WE'RE OPEN ALL NIGHT! MIDNIGHT BALL DROP! ZPARK! OTTO'S ABODE! WANAKENA! 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! Every Friday Night, open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at the Schoolhouse 7PM. Clifton-Fine Community Center and Food Pantry & Free "Community Meal" Wednesdays! Todd Hardware OPEN! Coffee Fever SOLD? Circle Jays OPEN! Star Lake's God's Missionary Church celebrating THREE years! 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!
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"Now comes on the long... winter evenings, when the farmer may... instruct and entertain his family by reading some useful books." - An Old Almanck (1793)