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Pendragon, Getting Ready for Wonderland

May 16, 2008



“I’m a local,” said Marcy Gotzmer while pouring me a taste of Don Olagario’s Albarino, a white wine from Rias Biaxas, Spain distributed by Empire Merchants North.

We were standing at one of six tables featuring over 40 wines to be tasted along with several more tables featuring gourmet food as servers walked through offering additional delights to those gathered. Tom Delahant’s fingers danced over the piano keys.

Gina DuMond and Kathy Steinbrueck bustled about welcoming people and making adjustments. It was the annual spring benefit for Pendragon Theatre hosted at the Interlaken Inn by Mary Neary and Suzanne and Richard Brosseau.

“I am here because Pendragon Theatre is a great cause,” she continued. “I love Richard (the Inn’s gifted chef). Any time I can help him out, I will — especially for an important community resource like Pendragon. I try to bring wine that people haven’t had before, like this one. It’s the number-one white

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Can you feel it?

May 16, 2008

It’s starting—you can already feel it. Toward Memorial Day! The season will soon be upon us, and there is a kind of hum in the air as we gear up for the onrush of summer traffic. The influx of summer tourists and summer residents still sustains the

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The new bogeyman

May 16, 2008

Hugo Chavez, the president of oil-rich Venezuela, has replaced Fidel Castro of Cuba as Latin America’s new bogeyman.

But according to Judith Ewell, Newton Professor Emeritus at the College of William & Mary, who specializes in Latin Ame

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Talkin’ turkey in Denver

May 16, 2008

I have just jetted my way across the country, my destination Denver, Colo. where I lived for almost 20 years during the 1970s and 80s. While living in Denver, my musician son, Joe Kelly, and I wrote a song together called “Denver Dude.” The first lin

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We have what people want

May 16, 2008

As many of you have heard by now, last week the Lake Placid Visitor’s Bureau held a series of meetings to reveal the results of the image study conducted by Longwoods International. The presentation, given by Longwoods President and CEO Scott Hanson,

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A day of opportunities; CYC Youth Fair

May 9, 2008

“I’ve worked at Santa’s Workshop since 2005,” said McKenzie Riley. “It’s fantastic working with the kids. I will probably work there again this summer. I want to go to college, somewhere in western New York State. I want to be a kindergarten teacher

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