Picture Perfect: Fall Is In The Air

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Picture By Sharron Tyrrell

Picture By Sharron Tyrrell


If you had any doubts that fall was in the air, this gorgeous picture, taken by Sharron Tyrrell, captures the essence of what leaf peeping season is all about. Sharron found this tree right across from Curtis Lumber on the Drake’s Restaurant and Motel property. (BTW, It's still officially summer  -- until  September 22nd!)

Got fall (or any pictures) to share?

Email them to us at  schroonlaker@me.com  

 

Slowly Winning The Invasives War

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Above Photos: Part of the 2012 Eurasian Milfoil Harvest

The fight against Schroon Lake’s invasive Eurasian milfoil continues, and while the war is far from over, huge progress was made this summer.  Divers from Aquatic Invasive Management (AIM), the company used by The East Shore Schroon Lake Association, (ESSLA)  harvested a whopping 2146.75 pounds of Eurasian Milfoil --  almost tripling past year’s haul of 875 pounds, according to ESSLA's Gretchen Marcell.

The Schroon Lake Association, (SLA), which doesn’t report the number of pounds it gets from the company it uses -- Adirondack Ecologists, LLC, (AE) --  also had “very good year” removing invasives, President Mark Grainger recently told Schroon Laker.

 From Gretchen Marcell:

A hearty thank you to AIM for all the effort expended on Schroon Lake's behalf, to all the Scouts and Super Scouts who greatly facilitated the harvest, to Bill McGhie for his willingness to collect the harvest and dispose of it, to our team of Town Supervisors for funding this very important yearly harvest, and to Jim Lieberum and Bob Bombard from WCSWCD for their support with Bob's swim-over.
AIM removed a total of 87.38 bags of EWM and CLPW plus innumerable scattered plants from the lake this year for a total of 2146.75 pounds; last year's combined effort produced 56 bags and a reported total of 875 pounds (AE did not report poundage). Please pat yourselves all on the back!!!

Click here to read ESSLA’s recent report here.

What Does Schroon Lake Mean To You?

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Whether you live here in Schroon  all year, part time, work here, or just spend some good quality day tripping time on our lake or hiking our mountains, we all have our own definition of what this part of paradise means to us. For world traveler Adrianna Lypeckyj, she compares Schroon to a time and place decades south of the year 2013, She writes in her  World Travel Blog:

Oh Norman Rockwell if you were still alive I know you'd paint a perfect picture of Schroon Lake. How sweet it is to know that there's still a place where things are done a lot simpler and where tranquility still exists.

Read more in our My Story section