Happy Thursday!
YEP! SUMMER IS OFFICIALLY HERE! FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND WAS A SMASH! GREAT JOB EVERYBODY! THE VOLUME OF WANAKENA IS CRANKED ALL THE WAY UP TO ELEVEN FOR THE NEXT TWO MONTHS! BUCKLE UP YA'LL AND HOLD ON TIGHT!
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
ALL SUMMER - WANAKENA HISTORY CENTER OPEN SAT & SUN 11-4PM
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 13TH - FINE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT CAR WASH
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 - SOS NEEDLE POINT PARTY
JULY 19TH - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 2/5 THE LIVING ROOM
JULY 19TH & 20TH - HOLY GRAIL LOONEY DAYS!
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 2ND - SOS GARAGE SALE 9-3
AUHST 3RD - SOS GEORGE PERSSON MEMORIAL 5K
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!