Cuomo stops by Hotel Saranac for victory lap
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- A large crowd of people talk in the Hotel Saranac’s Great Hall as they wait to let into the Ballroom to hear a speech by Gov. Andrew Cuomo Saturday. (Enterprise photo – Peter Crowley)
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- Fred Roedel III, whose family business bought and restored the Hotel Saranac, speaks before Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the hotel’s Ballroom Saturday. (Enterprise photo – Peter Crowley)
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- An appreciative crowd applauds Fred Roedel III, whose family business bought and restored the Hotel Saranac, as he speaks before Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the hotel’s Ballroom Saturday. (Enterprise photo – Peter Crowley)
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- Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks in the Hotel Saranac’s Ballroom Saturday in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo – Peter Crowley)
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- From left, Saranac Lake Mayor Clyde Rabideau, Hotel Saranac co-owner Fred Roedel III, Maria Kennedy Cuomo, Clarkson University President Tony Collins, North Country Chamber of Commerce director Garry Douglas, Franklin County board Chairman Don Dabiew and others cut a ribbon for the Hotel Saranac in its Ballroom Saturday in Saranac Lake. (Enterprise photo – Peter Crowley)
SARANAC LAKE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo stopped by the Hotel Saranac Saturday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a speech about how he has helped the North Country.
Cuomo congratulated Fred Roedel III and his family business for buying and reopening the historic hotel, praised the North Country as one of the most “special places on the globe” and reiterated some proposals from his recent state budget.
The governor’s speech ended with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Hotel Saranac, reopened last month by Roedel Companies, which bought it in 2013 and spent years restoring it to its original 1927 glamor. Then Cuomo, his daughter Mariah and some of her friends from New York City went snowmobiling at Camp Gabriels in Paul Smiths with state troopers and forest rangers.
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Look for a more in-depth story on this event in Monday’s Enterprise.
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