acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com Jeff Murray of Saranac Lake tells the village board he rents out the bottom floor of his home as a short-term rental to make ends meet. He asked the board to not make STR permits too expensive for people like him.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) Trevor Sussey of Saranac Lake tells the village board heâd like to see a cap on the number of short-term rentals allowed in the village. He said apartment hunting is making some âdesperate.â
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) Wayne Zukin tells the Saranac Lake village board many people have relied on income from short-term rentals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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Voters line up in the Harrietstown Town Hall auditorium in September 2020 to cast their ballots for the Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees election, which had been postponed since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Enterprise photo â Amy Scattergood) SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake Village Board of Trustees will decide next month whether to mail out absentee ballot applications to all voters in a March 16 special election, as the village did last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At Monday’s board meeting, village Clerk Kareen Tyler asked board members if they want to mail the applications again this year. Tyler said last year it cost the village around $6,000 to mail out the applications.
acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com SARANAC LAKE One village board seat will be up for election in the March 16 election. Zelda Newman, who currently holds that seat after being appointed in August has not announced if she will run for it yet, according to village Mayor Clyde Rabideau and village Clerk Kareen Tyler. Newman was not able to be reached by publication of this article. When Patrick Murphy resigned from his trustee position in July to devote more time to his work as executive director of the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Rabideau appointed Newman to fill the vacant seat. The March election will only be for a one-year term, until the end of the two-year term limit. The seat will be open for election again next year, Tyler said.