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Celebration for long-awaited trailhead and visitor amenity improvements draws community and local officials.
The Open Space Institute (OSI) has announced details of the grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting at its new Upper Works Trailhead at the Adirondac Upper Works. (Click here to see a story about the project in Adirondack Explorer) The event will celebrate recent upgrades OSI has made to the site, including the parking area expansion and relocation, stabilization of the McIntyre Blast Furnace, and improved visitor access to the southern High Peaks. The event will take place adjacent to the historic MacNaughton Cottage. Limited event parking will be available at the new, Upper Works trailhead and parking area and along the road. Following the speakers, there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony.
A look at some of the events coming up at the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb. All events are free unless otherwise noted.
The Town of Newcomb has announced the start of a winter photo contest. 
Last week we had a couple of Lake George-area stories, in case you missed them.
Newcomb’s annual Teddy Roosevelt Weekend, dubbed “TR Weekend” will be a virtual event with Joe Wiegand, aka the man himself — Theodore Roosevelt, streaming video from Medora, North Dakota, his home base.
SUNY-ESF is seeking trail crew as they expand their existing trail network at the Newcomb Campus, including plans to add more than two miles of new trails at the Adirondack Interpretive Center (AIC), as well as rehabilitating the popular 
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Sabotaging Trail Deal Was No Way to Protect the Adirondacks
By Brian Wells
This is a story that should have had a happy ending.
A story of five Adirondack towns working with state government and environmental non-profits on an agreement to expand the taxpayer-owned Forest Preserve, improve public recreation and bring new economic growth to the area.
The Community Connector Trails agreement would have helped turn the page on decades of Adirondack Region job losses brought on by industry disinvestment and Forest Preserve expansion, and established a model for the type of common-sense, compromise solutions needed for many problems confronting the Adirondack Park.
Instead, it’s a sad story of misplaced trust and lost opportunity, ending with the towns and the people who live there getting left out in the cold.
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