Spring Wakes Up Schroon Lake

With the arrival of spring in the Adirondacks, come the season’s blooms, returning wild life and the opening of camps and seasonal businesses.

And so it is in Schroon, with this weekend’s re-opening of the Patti Mehm’s Towne Store on Main Street.  Spring hours Fri & Sat 10am - 4pm  and Sun 11am - 4pm.

We are also hearing that Drake’s Restaurant is getting ready to re-open, -- but without Chef Lorenzo Cecunjanin and his wife Jasmina. (We will have full report soon!).

DeCesare’s recently hosted a fundraiser for the SLCS Class of 2016.

DeCesare fans rejoice: There are new hours are Wednesday 4pm – 8 pm, Thursday 4pm – 8pm, Friday 4pm – 9pm Saturday 4pm - 9pm and Sunday 11:30 am – 8pm.

And it’s just a short month away until Sticks and Stones goes 7 days a week for lunch and dinner!

Spring hours for the Schroon Lake Fish and Game Club Bar are Friday nights from 5 – 9pm and Saturday from 12pm – 7pm. The club is closed on Sundays.

And Save The Date: Witherbee's Carriage House will be hosting a Kentucky Derby Party, Saturday May 7th at 4:00pm!  There will be Mint Juleps (and other Kentucky Bourbon Specials). There’s a contest for the best "Derby Hat." 

Word Of Life Camps On Fox and Friends Thursday Morning

Word of Life Camps are teaming up with the folks at Fox & Friends to celebrate what they call the Power of Camp!

From WOL:  "And to kick things off, we’re giving away a FREE week of camp (seriously)! Enter to win between now and May 15th. Enter, here. And don’t forget to tune into Fox & Friends tomorrow morning (Thursday, April 28)  to see just how powerful camp can be in the lives of youth and teens!

Schroon’s New Lake Wine and Liquor Store Now Open

For more than a year, signs on the former Bobcat Sports Store on Route 9, promised Schroon Lakers, something sorely missed:  a wine and liquor store.

Now the space-- which used to house live bait and many a nose holding assortment of smells -- has been replaced by a gleaming showroom, full of an assortment of adult beverages.

We’ll have the full story on the amazing transformation later this week, but in the meantime check  out their awesome logo, with its unique hat tip to the place so many of us love!

Living On Top Of an Adirondack Missile Silo

Channel 10 is promoting a scary storyThursday at 6pm, about the health dangers of abandoned cold war era missile silos in the Adirondacks. In researching what they might be up to, I stumbled upon what may be the most wild story about a house in the Adirondacks I’ve ever read. It involves a New York film location scout Nick Carr, who found out about a one of a kind house,  built on top of a decommissioned 1960’s missile launch site near Plattsburgh.

The purchaser was a builder, who in 1995 put up a few houses and an airstrip on the property, and was now looking to sell it.

Nick got into the house and photographed what was left of the nine story underground silo. Check out Nick’s story and AMAZING photos here.