Lots of fox big and small seen bouncing around town! Local County and Town Highway Departments joined forces and PAVED WANAKENA! If anyone asks how big Wanakena is, just tell them that you can pave the whole village in less than a week. Just kidding (mostly). The Town of Fine Crew has done lots of prep work to prepare for the County to pave and the Town will continue to finish the job and tiddy up moving forward OUTSTANDING WORK BY ALL! WATCH OUT: We can plan on everyone who ALREADY drives too fast though town to go EVEN FASTER!!!!!!! Oy vey. Either way: Strap on yer roller skates and come shred some gnar on this beautiful black ribbon! Did you see a CF Hospital story on da newz: Hospital finds way to ensure its own survival Charolotte Green (Otto's Artist Resident from 2017) came back to visit after 8 years; STILL HARD AT WORK ARTIN' IT UP!! (photo below) It got below 40 in town the other morning and leaves are changing NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! Come and get yer ground apples! Couple Concerts left! Open Mic and MORE after that! THIS WEEKEND IS THE ANNUAL CRANBERRY LAKE BOAT CLUB CRANBERRY LAKE CANOE RACE! Colleges traveling from all around - from Colgate to Kalamazoo - have begun arriving at our GATEWAY TO WILDERNESS in droves to do their Fall Semester LEARN FROM NATURE OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL TEAM BUILDING experiences! YOU know there's nothing better for the brain and soul than a walk in the woods! SPREAD THE LOVE! The Hamilton College TOUR BUS arrived early to ONCE AGAIN claim the annual LEAST HARMONIOUS College Group award! LOL JK! HAPPY TRAILS! Quilt Fest is coming up LABOR DAY WEEKEND! QUILT HEADS GATHER! Lots AND LOTS of beautiful fall weather on the way... stay tuned! Ranger School Class of 2026 has arrived! Check-in to make sure they do their homework on the Ranger School Webcam HERE. All for now! Talk soon! Buh bye! Here's a submission: I hope you would consider printing this in the Wanakena Weekly. We have treated properties in Wanakena years ago, and. Patti Pastella reports there are many property owners in Wanakena as well as knotweed on town roads. Since you need sign up on-line to give permission and Patti reports there is no cell service and many without internet perhaps you could suggest where people could come to get internet access so they can sign up. Douglas Johnson Founder of RIIPP 31 Mattoon Street Springfield MA 01105 summer resident of Seventh Lake, Inlet NY 13360 dougjohnsonmd@gmail.com 413-304-0045
C'MON DOWN AND POKE AROUND BEAUTIFUL & HISTORIC WANAKENA SURROUNDED BY WILDERNESS AT THE MOUTH OF CRANBERRY LAKE! OTTO'S ABODE IS OPEN 9AM-7PM ALL WEEK AND 9AM-5PM ON SUNDAYS! TRAIL INFO, MAPS, BOOKS, GEAR, GIFTS AND GOODIES! ART SHOW ON VIEW! MUSIC! LOCAL HISTORY! CROQUET! HOT COFFEE, COLD DRINKS, ICE CREAM, SNACKS, BEER CAVE AND GROCERIES GALORE! THANKS FOR SHOPPIN' AND HANGIN' LOCAL AT YOUR FAVORITE YEAR-ROUND INCONVENIENCE STORE AND MORE! P.S. THE WANAKENA HISTORY CENTER IS OPEN 11AM-4PM EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ALL SUMMER LONG! P.P.S. DONT FORGET TO UNWIND YOUR MIND AT THE LABYRINTH! INCONVENIENCE STORE AND MORE! QUALITY YEAR-ROUND SERVICE DOWNTOWN WANAKENA NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE AT THE GATEWAY TO WILDERNESS OVERLOOKING THE OSWEGATCHIE AT THE MOUTH OF CRANBERRY LAKE! COME FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND PERHAPS WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED! THANKS FOR SHOPPIN' LOCAL!
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 5:30AM & TUES 9:30AM
ALL SUMMER - WANAKENA HISTORY CENTER OPEN SAT & SUN 11-4PM
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 24TH - CLBC LOVE MY LAKE DAY NOON
AUGUST 30TH - 7PM SUMMER SERIES CONCERT 5/5 - SOULSHOT
AUGUST 31ST - FRIENDS OF CRANBERRY LIBRARY LIVE MUSIC NELSON BROS
SEPT 5TH - ANNEMARRIE ROWLAND FOLK MUSIC Z PARK 7PM
SEPTEMBER 6TH - STAR LAKE FIELD DAY
SEPTEMBER 20TH - PSYCHIC READING AT CF COMMUNITY CENTER STAR LAKE!
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 Baptist Church 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!
There is no plateau on which Nature rests at mid-summer, but she instantly commences the descent to winter. -Henry David Thoreau, journal (Aug. 23rd, 1853)