Goodman Mountain | Tupper Lake

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Goodman Mountain | Tupper Lake

As it has been noted in various publications over the years that the late Bill Frenette made it his mission to have Litchfield Mountain renamed Goodman Mountain. According to Bill’s brother Jim, “Billy was the kind of guy that wanted something called what it should have been called. He felt that people who had done something for the community should be recognized.”

Mr. Frenette felt so passionately about the renaming that he petitioned the United States Board on Geographic Names and in 2002 his application was approved, which meant with any updated map produced by the United States Geological Survey, Goodman Mountain would appear. The mountain remained a trail-less peak until 2014, when a group, including local outdoorsmen such as Jim Frenette and Mr. John Quinn, along with staff members of the Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency, finished Bill’s work and made the trail to the summit of Goodman Mountain an official, state-recognized and maintained trail of the Adirondack Forest Preserve.

Cornell Study Finds Solar’s Threat to NYS Agriculture May Be Overstated – Morning Ag Clips

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Cornell Study Finds Solar’s Threat to NYS Agriculture May Be Overstated – Morning Ag Clips

ITHACA, N.Y. — New York state farmers who signed large-scale solar leases were three times more likely to say they’ll use the revenue from solar to invest in their farms than to reduce operations, according to a new study.

Nearly half of the farmers with leases said they did not plan to change their agricultural practices at all.

The study, published Feb. 21 in Rural Sociology, dispels the myth that farmers will give up farming, with its unpredictable returns, when offered lucrative solar leases for their land

“People have been talking about this for a long time, but nobody had asked quantitatively: For farmers, if you sign a lease, what do you intend to do?” said principal investigator Richard Stedman, professor and interim director of the Cornell CALS Ashley School in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “It’s a reasonable conclusion from this study: Large-scale solar does not appear to be the death of farming.”

The findings were based on the survey responses of 584 landowners in three New York state counties most likely to have large-scale solar development. Landowners owned 30 or more acres that were classified as rural, agricultural or vacant and were adjacent to transmission lines or substations. The researchers found that nearly half of the respondents had been approached by large-scale solar developers; farmers were twice as likely than non-farmers to be solicited but were less likely to sign leases.

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Someone made $553K on a Polymarket bet on Khamenei’s death : NPR

An account trading under the username "Magamyman" made more than $553,000 placing bets on the prediction market Polymarket that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be out of power just before an Israeli strike killed him on Saturday. Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once Up First from NPR Bet on Anything, Everywhere, All at Once

The trades drew scrutiny from members of Congress and critics of prediction markets, who say the platforms invite people with access to classified information to profit on lethal military operations. On Polymarket alone, half-a-billion dollars was traded over when exactly U.S. forces would drop bombs on Iran.