Happy Thurday!
What's going on? What's new? Anything? THE BIG TENT IS UP IN ZPARK! Last weekend's Historical Association 60's Folk Fest was a SMASHING SUCCESS! Great job everybody! IT GOT PRETTY DANG HOT AND HUMMID THIS PAST WEEK, TOO! Folks are finally able to take a dip around here! Good thing the water is nice and clean up here below the rapids, right? The bugs continue to BITE and THRIVE. "DEFENDERS OF THE WILDERNESS!" Hiker's getting chased right out of the gosh-darn woods! Ranger School Summer Sesh has one week left. Bio Sation Students coming and going! No bear sightings since the last one last week. There was a human rescue operation on Cranberry Lake this past weekend. EVERYONE IS OKAY! Would love to drop-kick the rodent who ate all the wild strawberries on our lawn, though! Labyrinth is FRESHLY mowed! LIVE MUSIC SUMMER SOLSTICE SOIREE SPECTACULER FRIDAY JUNE 20TH ZPARK WANAKENA! COME ONE COME ALL AND CATCH THE FINE TUNES BROUGHT TO YOU BY WINDIER AND LADY BRAIN - SOME FINE FOLKS FROM PORTLAND MAINE! YOU DONT WANNA MISS IT! MUSIC STARTS AT SEVEN! This Saturday Missoula Children's Theater arrives for a week and will dazzle and impress upon the Clifton-Fine Students! NEXT SUNDAY JUNE 29TH AT 3PM WILD WEIRD SONIC FUN IN ZPARK! Roust Records Presents... SOME FREAKIN RAW SIGHTS AND SOUNDS! YOU DONT WANNA MISS THIS ONE EITHER! NEW at the PASKBASKET ADVENTURES in WANAKENA Trivia Night RETURNS! Tuesday July 1st! THE WEEKEND FOLLOWING THAT IS FOURTH OF JULY! HOLY MOLY! There is a Fourth of July Parade in Wanakena at Noon. The Wanakena Historical Association will be SLINGIN' DAWGS AND STUFF! Otto's will be open. Saturday July 5TH at 7PM The TWENTY FIFTH SEASON of the Clifton-Fine Summer Series KICKS OFF with Foolish Pride southern-fried rock 7PM! AND AWAY WE GO INTO SUMMERTIME. There's a whole lot going on in the Clifton-Fine area! A whole lot of quiet solitude also! Live Local! Play Local! Shop Local! Slow down! Soak it up! Thanks for reading (or at least lookin' at the pictures) WANAKENA WEEKLY and thanks for supporting your favorite local year-round inconvenience store and more! See ya 'round town!
HERE'S A LIST OF SOME UPCOMING EVENTS HAPPENING AROUND THE AREA!
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ALL YEAR - FREE COMMUNITY MEAL AT ST HUBERTS CHURCH 5PM
ALL SUMMER - YOGA AT THE CF COMMUNITY CENTER MON 5:30PM & TUES 9:30AM
JUNE 14TH - 3-5PM WANAKENA HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 60's FOLK FEST ZPARK
JUNE 20TH - ZPARK WANAKENA SUMMER SOLSTICE WITH WINDIER AND LADYBRAIN
JUNE 21ST - WANAKENA HISTORY CENTER SEASONAL OPENING
JUNE 25TH - CRANBERRY LAKE HUB BOAT RIDE TO BIO STATION
JUNE 23RD - BOAT RIDE FROM CRANBERRY LAKE HUB FOR SUNY ESF BIO STATION TOUR
JUNE 29TH - 7PM - ROUST - ZPARK WANAKENA
JULY 1ST - TRIVIA NIGHT AT PACKBASKET ADVENTURES WANAKENA
JULY 4TH - CRANBERRY LAKE BOAT CLUB FIRECRACKER 5K
JULY 4TH - WANAKENA 4TH OF JULY PARADE
JULY 5TH - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 1/5 FOOLISH PRIDE
JUY 8TH - 1:30PM SUNY ESF LED LOST POND NATURE WALK
JULY 10TH - BETH DAUT'S FORESTER PRESENTATION AT CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
JULY 12TH - CRANBERRY LAKE BOAT CLUB'S POKER PADDLE WANAKENA
JULY 13TH - FRIENDS OF CRANBERRY LIBRARY LIVE MUSIC 10TH MT DIVISION BAND
JULY 15TH - MICROBURST THIRTY YEARS SUNRISE GATHERING ZPARK
JULY 18TH - CLFD AUXILIARY BACKWOODS CRAFT FAIR 9 - 4PM
JULY 19TH - CLFD AUXILIARY BACKWOODS CRAFT FAIR 9 - 4PM
JULY 19TH - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 2/5 THE LIVING ROOM
JULY 20TH - 1PM KNOTTY PADDY LIVE AT THE CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
JULY 23RD - NCPR/ACW HOWL STORY SLAM ZPARK WANAKENA
JULY 24TH - DAVE SCHRYVER WATERFALL RESEARCH AT CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
JULY 26TH - 7PM HIGH ON THE HOG LIVE ZPARK WANAKENA
JULY 27TH - FRIENDS OF CRANBERRY LIBRARY LIVE MUSIC JONATHAN FOSTER
JULY 31ST - EMILY DEAN CRANBERRY LAKE FISH RESEARCH AT THE CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
AUGUST 1ST - SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 3/5 - DENNIS STROUGHMATT & CREOLE STOMP
AUGUST 3RD - CHRIS COLE LIVE AT THE CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
AUGUST 9TH & 10TH - CRANBERRY LAKE ART SHOW
AUGUST 14TH - MARK HALL PRESENTATION AT CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
AUGUST 21ST - JACKIE AND KEVIN WOODCOCK PRESENTATION AT CRANBERRY LAKE HUB
AUGUST 23RD - CRANBERRY LAKE BOAT RACE
AUGUST 23RD - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 4/5 - ORQUETA LA MURALLA
SUGUST 23RD - PRESBYTERIAN PICNIC ZPARK WANAKENA
AUGUST 30TH - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 5/5 - SOULSHOT
AUGUST 31ST - FRIENDS OF CRANBERRY LIBRARY LIVE MUSIC NELSON BROS
SEPTEMBER 6TH - STAR LAKE CRAFT FAIR ARENA
SEPTEMBER 27TH - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC ZPARK WANAKENA
OCTOBER 31ST - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR ZPARK WANAKENA
RISE AND SHINE CLIFTON-FINE... Starting from the west... 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! Oswegatchie Community Garden GROWING! Around Star Lake: Star Lake's ADK Holy Grail gift shoppe OPEN 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 in the summer! Dollar General OPEN! Twin Lakes OPEN! CF Arena HAD A GREAT WINTER! Golf Course CLUB GRUB at the CLUB HOUSE has BREAKFAST LUNCH AND DINNER! CF Golf Course OPEN!! 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 and FOR SALE!!!!!! Coffee Fever SOLD? Circle Jays OPEN! What's The Scoop Scoops OPEN! American Legion OPEN and REFURBISHED with LOTS OF EVENTS! Newton Falls Giving Box & Post Office & Community Church OPEN. Newton Falls Volunteer Fire Department THANK YOU! Mountain Gate Plaza Bottle Hometown General Store, Deli and Redemption Center OPEN! Down in Wanakena Packbasket Adventures Lodge and Event Space 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 UP AND RUNNIN' FOR SEASON and the History Center OPENS JUNE 20TH and are every sat and sun though summer 11-4pm! Don't forget about the Wanakena Walking Tour and Labyrinth AND MORE! Clifton-Fine Summer Series in ZPARK SUMMERTIME check it out CLIFTON FINE ARTS. Common Thread Quilt Fest Labor Day Weekend! Out in Harewood: Wooden Fish Hathery OPEN! Billy's BLACK LIGHT ART SHOW this past Halloween! Cranberry Lake Volunteer Fire Department THANK YOU! Down in Windfall Wooden Fish Hatchery and Dragun Designs! Birch's Lakeside OPEN! Tilly's? Cranberry Lake Art Show 2025 GET READY!! 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! CHECK OUT THE Cranberry Lake DEC Campground! 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, Golden Glow, 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 (and Otto's Abode in general) consider donating something extra 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!
“To the glutted blackbird all cherries are bitter.” – German Proverb
