Saranac Lake - The village board plans to review the decision to use two wells as a future source of drinking water for the village, citing concerns about rising costs and complications associated with the project of several million dollars.

"This is our biggest expense in the history of the village, and it is out of control right now," said Mayor Clyde Rabideau at the meeting Monday night the village board.

Rabideau asked Village Manager, John Sweeney, to provide a detailed accounting of the project of "sunk costs" so far, which Sweeney estimated at about $ 2 million in infrastructure and engineering.Rabideau also asked Sweeney to describe the alternative cost of building a facility for water treatment that would allow the village to continue using its existing water source, McKenzie Pond, an option that was rejected by the village council above.

Well, the two-week Downstream/Upstream Learning unit was a whirlwind! Here’s an outline of what happened. More detailed descriptions will follow in the weeks to come, with some of the documentation using photographs taken by the students themselves. Now that the focused learning unit is done, the project continues at a slower pace with the student's water journey story books, a site installation marking the entry and exit of water systems to the school, and an exploration of plantings and rain gardens to address natural site water flows....

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September is a month like any other and unlike any other. it seems in september everything awaited will arrive: in the calm air, in a particular scent, in the stillness of the quay. when september comes, i know i’m going to lose myself. the ants climbing my legs and a certain change of light tell me so. the air comes and goes beneath my dress, pressing the warm cloth against me, pressing me with the desire to find myself in the sea, that sea beaten deep gray and magnetized by neutrinos, thanks to which i can perform my observations and telekinetic communications. the salty, sticky wall of the Malecón is covered with fish and forgotten hooks. i like to lick its sheen of salt and make my tongue salty and sticky. in that moment the rest...

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