APA pine tree tower decision is today
RAY BROOK — The state Adirondack Park Agency will decide today whether or not to allow the construction of a 94-feet-tall communications tower, which would be disguised as a mature eastern white pine tree, on land next to state Route 9 in the town of Schroon.
According to APA planner George Outcalt, the Verizon Wireless tower will provide cell-phone service to a stretch of the Northway, Interstate Highway 87, that now does not have coverage. However, it was the tower’s visual appearance the committee was most concerned with.
“Maybe they’ve done as good a job as they can, but, substantially invisible? I don’t think it is,” APA Commissioner Cecil Wray said at a meeting of the agency’s Regulatory Programs Committee Thursday.
The term “substantially invisible” is from the APA’s Towers Policy that is meant to ensure that telecommunications facilities are designed to blend into their surroundings and not be readily apparent from all significant poten
Study finds people don’t relate Lake Placid to Adirondacks
LAKE PLACID — Travelers in the national market don’t associate Lake Placid with the Adirondacks. That was one of the bits of information discovered by an international research firm that presented the results of a Lake Placid image study to members
» Full StoryCape Air aims to help Tri-Lakes reach new heights
LAKE CLEAR — An innovative, small airline company has found a new niche in the North Country, ceremonially cutting the ribbon Thursday on what airline officials and local politicians hope will be the beginning of improved air travel for the Tri-Lake
» Full StoryCape Air makes it official
LAKE CLEAR — Cape Air just started flying in and out of the Adirondack Regional Airport in February, but as it formally celebrates its recent expansion today, it is also poised to lose all of its federal funding to serve the rural airport if the Bus
» Full StoryPlans for High Peaks Resort move forward
LAKE PLACID — The public hearing for a large-scale revamping of the former Hilton on Main Street, now the High Peaks Resort, closed with only a few questions asked by adjacent property owners and concluded with a seemingly content audience Wednesday
» Full StoryEnterprise receives awards
ALBANY — The Adirondack Daily Enterprise received three awards Wednesday in the New York Newspaper Publishers Association’s 2006-07 Awards for Excellence competition. The Enterprise competed with other small daily papers in the Under 10,000 circula
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