More Trails For Local Sled Riders?

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While it’s going to be several months before we see the white stuff (we hope), The Adirondack Park Agency is scheduled to take action on a plan for new snowmobile trails linking communities in Essex and Hamilton counties, according to the Associated Press. The trails are a stone’s throw from the system in place in greater Schroon and Pottersville.

Governor Cuomo  has shows his enthusiasm for snowmobiling as a way to promote another area of tourism in the North Country.

From the AP:  “The community connector trails proposed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation would link Newcomb and North Hudson and Newcomb and Minerva. The plan includes a new bridge across the Boreas River.

The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks is calling on the APA to reject the snowmobile trail plan, saying it violates the Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act and would require vast construction through wild Forest Preserve lands. The group says many private landowners have also opposed the construction on their property”.

The meeting is scheduled for today, Thursday July 9, in Raybrook.

Toddler Hurt by Fireworks at Schroon Beach

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Fireworks set off at the town beach before the official Schroon display on July 4th struck a 3-three-year-old girl, and sent others running for cover, according to various reports.

CBS Channel 6 and the Post Star say the girl, from Glens Falls, suffered a shoulder injury and had her hair singed when the firework came directky at her and the group she was with.

From the Post Star:

"State Police responded to the beach at about 8 p.m. for a report of reckless use of fireworks, according to a news release. Ki K. Kim, 46, of Bardonia, in Rockland County, allegedly set off the fireworks that singed the girl’s hair and cut her shoulder. The girl’s name was not released. Kim was charged with misdemeanors of endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of fireworks. Kim was arraigned in Schroon Town Court and released on $750 cash bail. Kim is due back in court on Aug. 26". 

From eyewitness Stephanie DeZalia, via Facebook: "The four of us were sitting about 10 feet from where he put it on the ground...they came right at us too... we quickly jumped up and moved away...we were lucky...but they did go right at others walking by and at someones truck that was parked there as well. Watched as people angered and approached him...we left with the rain...glad that something was done about this".