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The Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Court and other royalty pose in front of the Ice Palace before the fireworks Saturday night. From left are (front row) Queen Nancy Heath, Kelsey Leeret, Forrest Monroe and King Joe Szwed, (back row) Chamberlain James Carpenter, Cedar Young, Peter Fogarty, Andrew Fogarty, Dellice Chase, Colter Cheney-Seymour, Rhett Darrah, Naila Cecunjanin, Gwen Mader and Archbishop Paul Giroux.
(Enterprise photo â Lou Reuter) SARANAC LAKE Public health and police officials in this village agree with Monday’s decision by the Winter Carnival Committee and village manager to cancel the closing fireworks show, scheduled for next Saturday. They said the rules of their plan at the first show last Saturday were not followed, creating a potential infraction of New York Forward COVID-19 rules they do not want to repeat.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees is returning to in-person meetings next week after a group of people brought pornography and profanity to the board’s Monday Zoom session, which was quickly shut down. “This evening, we were hacked in spades with pornography and filth,” Mayor Clyde Rabideau wrote in an email. He said six to eight callers with unfamiliar names called in and overtook the video with smut after the Pledge of Allegiance, around when the board asked for public comment. Trustee Rich Shapiro said at least two of the Zoom window screens showed dancing naked women. He was unsure of what people were saying because of the chaos, but he said someone in the text chat asked that people not use foul language.
Kelly Brunette (Photo provided) SARANAC LAKE Kelly Brunette, the Democratic nominee for the March 16 Saranac Lake village board special election, has worked for the village before and believes it is her time to serve as an elected official in the community she has made her home. She believes the current village board is “strong” but that she could add a family-first mindset. “I represent a different constituency in the village that isn’t shown on the village board right now,” Brunette said. Brunette attended Paul Smith’s College in the 1990s, moving up here from Oswego. She left to attend the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse and “bounced around” before moving into the Saranac Lake community in 2004. Since then she has started a family.
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Kelly Brunette, who was nominated at a Democratic caucus Tuesday, Jan. 26, to run for an open Saranac Lake village board seat, speaks through a megaphone to a crowd of around 40 people at Berkeley Green.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE It was 25 degrees and snowing in Berkeley Green Tuesday night when Kelly Brunette became the Democratic nominee for the March 16 village board election at an outdoor caucus. Currently, Brunette is the only candidate in the race, but the period for independent candidates has not occurred yet. Candidates can file independent nominating petitions starting on Feb. 2 and can collect signatures up until the petition deadline Feb. 9.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Kelly Brunette, who was nominated at a Democratic caucus Tuesday night to run for an open Saranac Lake village board seat, speaks through a megaphone to a crowd of around 40 people at Berkeley Green.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone)
Kelly Brunette, who was nominated at a Democratic caucus Tuesday night to run for an open Saranac Lake village board seat, speaks through a megaphone to a crowd of around 40 people at Berkeley Green.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE It was 25 degrees and snowing in Berkeley Green Tuesday night when Kelly Brunette became the Democratic nominee for the March 16 village board election at an outdoor caucus.