WANAKENA WEEKLY #302 - 05/08/26 - 05/14/26

Happy Thursday!

THE WINTER PLASTIC IS OFF THE PORCH! C'MON DOWN AND ENJOY THE UNOBSCURED VIEW OF ZPARK, FOOTBRIDGE AND OSWEGATCHIE WHILE YOU PRACTICE THE FINE ART OF UNSOCIAL MEDIA WITH FRIENDS NEIGHBORS AND STRANGERS HERE ON THE PORCH OF THE OL' GENERAL STORE IN WANAKENA AT THE MOUTH OF CRANBERRY LAKE! RANGER SCHOOL 2026 GRADUATION THIS WEEKEND! AFTER THAT MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND OPEN MIC SAT MAY 23RD 7-10 PM! AND THEN DJ ED OPEL SPINS VINYL IN THE PARK SAT MAY 30TH 1-5PM! CHEERS!

WHAT ELSE?! ANYTHING?! YEP! It has been cold! But the Hummingbirds have arrived! BLACK FLIES ARE OUT! Though, it has been fairly wet and chilly... so they only pop-out in bouts of warmth. Hikers reported a frozen-over Cowhorn Pond this past Friday. AND IT'S LOOKING LIKE ITS GONNA BE A WARM WEEKEND! Resa Eberhart is in town and is hosting an AED information session Saturday 10am (ALL WELCOME! FREE!) at the Gazebo and a yoga session Sunday morning 9:30am at LABYRINTH (DONATIONS ACCEPTED)! Ranger School Summer Session starts in a week or so. More and more SUMMER FOLK arriving! HI NEIGHBORS! Alright everybody! Get out here and check it all out! THE BEST PART OF THE ADIRONDACKS! 

Thanks for reading the Wanakena Weekly! We see how many clicks we get! We know you're out there! 

UPCOMING EVENTS

05/23 - ZPARK - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC ($10)
05/30 - ZPARK - 1-5PM - VINYL IN THE PARK WITH DJ ED OPEL
06/13 - WANAKENA HISTORY CENTER - SEASON OPENING CELEBRATION
06/20 - ZPARK - SAT - 6PM - PHOENIX JAZZ COLLECTIVE - MODERN & STANDARD JAZZ QUINTET (NORTH COUNTRY, NY) - $10
06/27 - ZPARK - SAT - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC - $10
07/04 - WANAKENA - SAT MORNING - HAPPY 250TH BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!
07/04 - ZPARK - SAT - 1PM - JOE FERRIS - HOMEGROWN FOLK-ROCK (WILLSBORO, NY) - $10
07/11 - ZPARK - SAT - 7PM - NEWTOWN CREEK - OLD TIME & BLUEGRASS (NEW YORK CITY) - $10
07/18 - ZPARK - SAT - 7PM - BOYDEN BROOK BAND - FOLK-PUNK AMERICANA (NORTH COUNTRY, NY) - $10
07/19 - HAREWOOD HUB - SUN - 1-3PM - CHRIS COLE - COUNTRY WESTERN
07/25 - ZPARK - SAT - CRANBERRY LAKE BOAT CLUB'S POKER PADDLE
07/30 - HAREWOOD HUB - THURS - 7PM - HOWL STORY SLAM - $10
08/01 - ZPARK - SAT - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC - $10
08/07 - ZPARK - FRI - 7PM - KNOTTY PADDY - CELTIC ROCK AND SPEED FOLK (ADIRONDACKS, NY) - $10
08/08 & 08/09 - SAT & SUN - HAREWOOD FIRE HALL - CRANBERRY LAKE ART SHOW
08/12 - HAREWOOD HUB -WED - 6:30PM - BILL HILL AUTHOR TALK
08/16 - ZPARK - SUN - 3PM - ROUST EXPERIMENTAL NOISE MATTENE (NORTH COUNTRY, NY) - $10
08/22 - ZPARK - SAT - 7PM - RIB & THE BONES - ALTERNATIVE INDIE ROCK (ALBANY, NY) - $10
08/29 - ZPARK - SAT - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC - $10
08/30 - HAREWOOD HUB - SUN - 2-4PM - KNOTTY PADDY - CELTIC ROCK AND SPEED FOLK
08/04 & 08/05 - WANAKENA - FRI & SAT - BIRD HAVEN'S COMMON THREAD QUILT FEST
09/05 - ZPARK - SAT - 7PM - THE ABYSSMALS - PSYCHEDELIC GARAGE ROCK (SCHENECTADY, NY) - $10
09/26 - ZPARK - SAT - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC - $10
10/31 - ZPARK - SAT - 7-10PM - OPEN AIR OPEN MIC - $10

RISE AND SHINE CLIFTON-FINE... Starting from the west... Historic Fine Town Hall Building in Fine Village seeking input for its use and future! Hello Fine Volunteer Fire Dept and Post Office! Lodge at Dodge Pond IS FOR SALE. 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. EARTH MOVING AT THE OLD CONCESSION STAND. 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! 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 OPEN. CLUB GRUB at the CLUB HOUSE has announced they are OPENING for the season May 8TH! Hello Star Lake Volunteer Fire Department and Water Works! 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! Hello Presbyterians and St. Hubertians and Star Lake God’s Missionary Church at Town Line! What's The Scoop Star Lake Scoops ICE CREAM! Hello Foothills Redemption! American Legion OPEN and REFURBISHED with LOTS OF EVENTS! Newton Falls Giving Box & Post Office & Community Church OPEN. PAPER MILL CLOSED! BENSON MINES CLOSED! Mountain Gate Plaza Bottle Hometown General Store, Deli and Redemption Center OPEN JUST DOWN THE ROAD at CLIFTON CORNERS. Down in Wanakena Packbasket Adventures Lodge and Event Space in Wanakena OPEN... with NEW OWNERSHIP TRIVIA NIGHT EVERY FIRST TUESDSAY OF THE MONTH!! Mary holds down 13695 Wanakena Post Office (!!!!!!!NEW NUMBER 848-9022!!!!) - 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 has miles of gravel/mountain biking options on its network of trails and dirt roads! Wanakena Historical Association has closed the History Center for the winter! Don't forget about the Wanakena Walking Tour and Labyrinth trailheads campground AND MORE! ZPARK AND GAZEBO! Common Thread Quilt Fest Labor Day Weekend! Out in Harewood: Wooden Fish Hathery OPEN! Billy's BLACK LIGHT ART SHOW this past Halloween! Hello Cranberry Lake Volunteer Fire Department! Down in Windfall Wooden Fish Hatchery and Dragun Designs! Birch's Lakeside OPENING SOON!! Tilly's opening for ICE CREAM and ROOMS this summer! Cranberry Lake Art Show 2026 GET READY!! Cranberry Lake North Shore Hub (AT THE OLD CHURCH) hosts space use, dock use, summer concerts and summer lectures! Clifton Community Library OPEN! Cranberry Lake Boat Club summer events, ice-out contest, lost dock reports and obituaries! 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 has created a NEW MAP and is OPEN FOR USE! Sevey's Point at Sevey's Corner OPEN. Thirsty Moose Childwold OPEN with new owners! Childwold Presbyterian Church open in th summer! 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!! Hello to all them local churches and other business and services in the are out here in the area! CLIFTON-FINE RT. 3 CORRIDOR ROLL-CALL ROUND-UP! We're in Southern St. Lawrence County. We're in the 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!) Also... if you appreciate the work put into these newsletters (and Otto's Abode in general) consider donating something extra to the cause! "Buy us a cup of coffee". We're on VENMO as Otto's Abode. Or as Click and Clack used to say: You can write our address on a twenty-dollar bill and send it our way!

OTTO'S ABODE! YEAR-ROUND ADIRONDACK INCONVENIENCE STORE AND MORE NEXT TO THE POST OFFICE IN BEAUTIFUL & HISTORIC WANAKENA, NY! 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! WHETHER YOU'RE STOPPING IN FOR HOT COFFEE, QUICK LUNCH, LAST-MINUTE DINNER IDEAS OR DOING SOME GOOD OLD GIFT AND GEAR SHOPPING, THANKS FOR CHOOSING TO TAKE TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO SHOP AT OTTO'S ABODE! QUALITY INCONVENIENCE SINCE 2016! THERE'S SO MUCH TO EXPLORE AROUND CRANBERRY LAKE AND WANAKENA IN THE NORTHWEST ADIRONDACKS AND SOUTHERN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY FOOTHILLS! BIG PINE! BEAR MOUNTAIN! RANGER SCHOOL FIRE TOWER! PEAVINE SWAMP! LOST POND! MOORE TRAIL! CAT MOUNTAIN! HIGH FALLS! TOOLEY POND ROAD! AND MORE! WE LOVE SHARING OUR KNOWLEDGE AND PASSION FOR THE AREA! STOP IN AND SAY HI, CHECK OUT OUR ROBUST SELECTION OF LOCAL TRAIL MAPS, BOOKS AND INFO! WE'RE OPEN AND HOPING YOU'LL STOP BY AND COME FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND PERHAPS WHAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT! AND DONT FORGET ABOUT LIVE MUSIC EVENTS AND CROQUET ACROSS THE SREET IN Z PARK! OTTO'S ABODE! WANAKENA!