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Developer purchases Fort Ann Boy Scout camp for personal use

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Developer purchases Fort Ann Boy Scout camp for personal use

Pritam Singh, a 70-year-old real estate developer from Key West, Florida with homes all over the country and a reputation for building luxury resorts and condominiums, has plans to turn Washington County’s former Crossett Lake Boy Scout Reservation in the eastern Adirondacks into a private family compound. The 945-acre site includes the 122-acre Crossett Lake, views of nearby Lake George, and frontage on Inman and Thurber ponds.

Adirondack Park Agency eyes Saranac Lake building as future headquarters | NCPR News

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Adirondack Park Agency eyes Saranac Lake building as future headquarters | NCPR News

The Adirondack Park Agency is eyeing a building in downtown Saranac Lake as its possible future headquarters.

The three-story building is the former site of the Paul Smith's Power and Light company and was constructed in 1927.

The Saranac Lake Village Police are currently headquartered in the building, though the village is considering relocating the police to a large public safety building.
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One of the tallest trees in NY, an Adirondack white pine, has fallen | NCPR News

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One of the tallest trees in NY, an Adirondack white pine, has fallen | NCPR News

The white pine was known as Tree 103 and stood among 30-40 other large pines, all between 110-160 ft. tall on about 8 acres of land.

Dr. Justin Waskiewicz, a forest ecologist at Paul Smith's College, says a former professor at the college inspected the grove and dated the trees to 1665, making them more than 350 years old.

Waskiewicz says the oldest known age of a white pine is about 400 years, so the grove is nearing the end of its life. In 2013, the tree with the largest diameter in the grove fell. In 2019, Waskiewicz says "two more giants fell."