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THE POST-STAR A joyless ending An alleged weekend joy ride with friends has one 18-year-old facing grand larceny charges. BACK PAGE WEDNESDAY January 12. 2005 Hometown Obituaries H2 5 Proposed resort's neighbors open to plans 01 I1M WITH John Collins a riL. i i i. 1 Salvatore, she said, although it won't obstruct views of the lake.

"I hope the height won't set a precedent for future developments on the lake," she sajd. Margaret Morahan, who lives directly south of the Brown's Beach, said she won't be fighting the hotel plans. "I'll lose part of my view, but that's a consequence of progress," she said, mentioning concerns of the size, height and the expanse of lakeside asphalt associated with 600 parking spaces. "If the developers are considerate of the neighbors, I'm sure it will work out fine." Monday night, the resort's Please see LAKE, Back Page Patty Salvatore, who lives just north of the site of the proposed hotel on Brown's Beach, said she and her neighbors prefer a hotel built there over any alternative condominiums, most probably. "No one's really objecting to the hotel, and it seems to be a positive thing for the area," she said, while warning that neighbors want concerns of traffic, size and water quality answered.

State Route 9P needs to be upgraded to handle additional traffic for a 250-room hotel, she said. A long-term resident, her father-in-law developed her lakeside subdivision in the 1940s. Height of the proposed hotel six stories tall plus a basement parking level concerns Stillwater Residents upbeat about lakeside six-story, $25M hotel ByTHOM RANDALL randulKtipoststar. com STILLWATER The "Not in My Back Yard" syndrome that plagues most large-scale development projects apparently hasn't infected neighbors of a proposed $25 million resort and conference hotel on Saratoga Lake. Neighbors of the site polled Tuesday say they welcome the project as long as the develop: ment is reasonable and their concerns are addressed.

COURTESY DRAWING A conceptual drawing shows the planned six-story, $25 million hotel and conference center on Saratoga Lake. In spite of Its height, most neighbors are not planning to oppose the project I 0 Since 1996, Queensbury resident John Collins has served as general manager of the Great Escape amusement park. The 45-year-old is married and has five children. He came to the area after serving for years as marketing director for the Geauga Lake amusement park outside of Cleveland, Ohio. I Public bashes plan to rezone JtK lis rvinAv7 You were one of the first people to test the Sky Coaster.

Will you be the first one down the water slide in the new hotel? I hope so. That's one of the benefits of the job, being able to do the rides and attractions before anyone else. Queensbury Owners at hearing call plan restrictive and radical By GRETTA NEMCEK STANCUFT stunclift(S''poslsttirxxm Which amusement ride either at Great Escape or elsewhere -do you refuse to go on? I don't think there is one. I prefer roller-coasters over most things, but I don't think I've found a ride I won't go on. I like them all.

tVv- i Running an amusement park is like managing a small city. MONTC CALVERT-THE POST STAR Pam Perez Lopez, center, a waitress at the Big Apple Diner, serves soup Tuesday to Joyce and Ray Therrlen of Whitehall. From speak-easles to the roots of new religion, Low Hampton has a rich history for such a tiny hamlet Raising religions and skirting laws Revert back to yourself as a 10-year-old. Which part of the Great Escape would you scamper to first? The coasters. I'd go ride the Comet first, as long as I was 48 inches, which I was at 10.

1 Hamlets Low Hampton Hamlets tracts of still farmland contrast with lively past By GRETTA NEMCEK STANCUFT stancliftpoststar. com AM '7 QUEENSBURY Peter Smith has lived on his 42-acre Bay Road property for the past 58 years and had planned to leave three 10-acre lots to his three daughters as an inheritance. But with the town of Queensbury's proposed rezoning of all 10-acre lots to 42-acre lots, Smith's plans are crushed. "You take that away from me, it's a pretty sore subject," Smith told the Queensbury Town Board during a public hearing on the rezoning Monday evening. The Town Board in November rezoned the land between Peggy Ann and Potter roads and various other locations around the town to limit the development of homes or buildings on the property to lots of at least 42 acres.

Previously, development was limited to 10-acre lots. The city of Glens Falls was able to get a public hearing on the rezoning postponed last month, when its attorneys claimed the town never properly notified adjacent municipalities of the public hearing in writing. The hearing held Monday evening drew nearly 100 people, and about 19 of them spoke against the rezoning. Carol LaGrasse, a Stony Creek resident and a member of the Property Rights Foundation of America, called the proposed rezoning "radical dead-end zoning," which will be a source of personal hardship and great injustice. She said the creation of 42-acre zoning was the most radical and extreme in the nation.

"The 42-acre zoning puts a stranglehold on land, putting it indefinitely in limbo," she said. Pete Carr, who moved from New Jersey and purchased his Bay Road property in 1979, said the rules keep getting more restrictive. "I don't want another New Jersey up here," he said, "but I don't want to see you take from my fellow neighbors." Sunnyside Road resident Betty Monahan said the town is treading close to "exclusionary zon- Please we TOWN. Back Page 11 Which attraction makes you cringe every time you walk by? I'd say the Nightmare. It has a longer line than I'd like.

I wish we could get more people through it on a normal basis. A Washington County Htiti i r- li Favorite rock band? MONTY CALVERT-THE POST-STAR The William Miller Chapel along county Route 11 Is seen in Low Hampton. Miller was the founder of Adventlsm In the United States and lived in Low Hampton from 1815 to 1849. I'd have to go back in time and say Pink Floyd. I saw The Wall tour and The Animals tour.

HAMPTON David Birkenhead uncovered a bit of forbidden history when he bought his restaurant named Finius T. Flubberbusters. Under the foundation, he discovered a slew o'f liquor bottles, which he was told may have been remnants of a time when the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol in America was illegal. "I understand there used to be a speak-easy in here," Birkenhead said. "And back in Prohibition, I guess, this was a stop to store some of the liquor." Birkenhead, who's owned the place for 12 years, said also in the past, a train used to bring New York City people into Whitehall and a trolley would take them right by the state Route 4 building to the Bomoseen Inn.

He said many celebrities used to travel to Bomoseen, in those days. Since it was built in the 1920s, the building has morphed from a speak-easy to a strip club, a dance club and now into a restau- See LOW HAMPTON, Back Page 22Ai HamletCf Low Hampt( Elvis impersonator or Windy Bill McKay? I like them both, but I'd have to say Windy Bill because of his length of service, 45 years. You gotta love that dedication. Anybody who stays with something that long is OK in my book. Please see Back Page 1 (tow! Town of i Whlletiall CJfl 4 Town of I i Hampton 1 "WASHINGTON l-COUNTY u.

-'tVT-i .11 MONTY CALVERT-THE POST STAR Much of Low Hampton is rural farm area like the land seen In this view along Route 4 across from the Big Apple Diner. zza POST STAR GRAPHIC CORRECTIONS DEATHS LOTTERY Tuesday! Winning Numbers Numbers Early: 3 9 3 Late: 7-4-5 The Fiddlers' Jamboree article on Page B2 of Tuesday's editions had incorrect dates for the event. Trie jamboree is from Sept, 9-11. On the front page of Sunday's sports section, a photo caption incorrectly ioentified the girts basketball player that Salem girls basketball coach Pete Dumgan was hugging. The girl in the photo was not his daughter Bndget, but another Salem player.

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