Great Gifts
Last Updated:
Monday October 25, 2010
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On this page we will be building a timeline of events for the project to show the entire history.
Your input is welcome
| Date | Event |
| 8/24/99 | Ski Big Tupper Closes |
| 2/19/04 | First news of Philadelphia investors buying Big Tupper |
| 4/21/04 | First news of Annexing the resort property into the village. |
| Date |
UPDATE CENTER ARCHIVE Updates that are older than one year |
| 2/2/08 | During the January 25th
Adjudicatory Hearing a consensus was reached to proceed with
Mediation. The Adjudicatory Judge has ruled the mediation
meetings will not be public
and all information will remain confidential until after the
Mediation process has concluded. Therefore we will not be able
to share any of that information with you other than what is
reported in the press. Also, we have a new link added to our website. ADKAction.org is a A Non-Partisan Citizen Committee for the Adirondacks. |
| 11/6/07 | On 11/3/07 Judge Demerest issued his ruling on the Article 78 proceedings. You can read about this in our latest "News Articles" Postings. |
| 10/26/07 | The Adjudicatory Hearing did take place on Oct 24th. Most of the discussion was about a mediation process and the application changes still have not been submitted. Read more in the "News Articles" Section. |
| 9/29/07 | Adjudicatory Hearing
Rescheduled: The meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday October 24th at 10:00AM in the Geoff-Nelson Library. |
| 9/17/07 | September 21st meeting
postponed. In a letter today the ALJ postponed the Sept 21st meeting to a weekday between 10/15 and 10/26. A firm date will be set by 10/1. |
| 9/14/07 |
Letters and news reports are coming in on almost a daily basis and we are keeping the "News Articles" page as up to date as possible for you. Check back often. We have not heard if the 9/21 meeting will take place but we are planning to attend if it does. Keep checking in here for any updates about the meeting. |
| 9/10/07 | Just after we sent the newsletter to our members, the APA sent out an important update. See the 9/10/2007 APA letter in the "News Articles" section. |
| 9/8/07 |
Due to a system failure
our website was down for a few days. All is repaired now and
there will be many updates in the coming days. |
| 7/31/07 | We found another Mega Resort project that is being proposed on Moosehead Lake in Maine. This project is proposed by the Plum Creek Lumber Company in Seattle. The parallels to the Tupper project are scary. Check the "Other Resorts" page to see the links we found. |
| 7/26/07 | We found another website
that details information of other small New York towns fighting over
development. Read more at www.littletownviews.com |
| 7/16/07 | We have added a new
section to the website called "Other Resorts". In this section
we have started to list information about other resorts similar to
the one proposed for Tupper Lake. It is important to see what
has happened with these other resorts and the surrounding
communities. Also, a resent article on MSN was brought to our attention about the health concerns of using Treated Effluent for snow making. You can find this article in the news section dated 3/13/07. |
| 7/6/07 | Want to see a summary of what is going on? Take a look at our TLLOWEB Documents section and see the latest issue of our newsletter. |
| 6/23/07 | NEW LOCAL WEB LINKS: Interested in finding other local causes? See what else is happening in your backyard. We have updated the Links page with many local links including: http://www.tupperlakers.com, www.savelakeplacid.com, http://savesaranaclake.org/ and many more. |
| 6/17/07 | The Adjudicatory hearing process has been delayed for 2 to 4 months. The June 22, 2007 pre-hearing date has been moved to September 21, 2007 and an update will be given by the applicant on August 1, 2007. We will keep you updated as we find out more information. All articles and letters are being posted to the "News Articles" section. |
| 6/5/07 | We are currently looking
through all the files sent by the APA on CDs. What we have
found is that many of the files are corrupt and the layout /
descriptions are cryptic. After our analysis is done, we will send
the information to the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in support of
having the developer put these materials up on a website. We
don't think the CDs are adequate and it appears that the developer
just did a file dump to satisfy a request for the materials.
No effort appears to have been made to verify the files or arrange
them. Your comments to the ALJ will be helpful. Also, we have more changes on the "Links" page. On the links page, we added another section for other local websites. If you know of any more please email us and we will list them. |
| 5/28/07 | NEW
WEBSITE ADDRESS: Tired of typing in that long website address? Use our new address: www.tupperlakelandowner.com . For now, the old address will continue to work but this has been setup to make it easier to remember. Both ways you will still get to all the same pages and important information. |
| 4/29/07 |
"Resorting to Madness, Taking Back our Mountain Communities", will be shown in Tupper Lake on Wednesday, May 9th at 7 PM at the State Theater This film is a short documentary by ColdStream Creative. ( http://www.coldstreamcreative.com/ ) This documentary addresses the impacts of the modern ski resort industry on mountain communities and environments. Immediately following the film, Filmmaker Hunter Sykes will be present for a question and answer period, and the public is encouraged to attend. |
| 4/29/07 | We received information
from the Adjudicatory hear that there will be a
Project site visit for parties scheduled for May 18th
starting at 9 AM. Those who wish to attend should
bring a bag lunch and provide their own 4 wheel drive vehicle.
Parties must notify the APA's Skip Outcalt by telephone (518) 891-4050 or by mail at George V. Outcalt, Jr., Adirondack Park Agency, PO Box 99, Ray Brook, New York 12977 of their intention to participate in the site visit by May 7th. |
| 4/27/07 | The latest
information we have is that the Orvis Shooting school has now been
moved off the project property. We do not know where it is
going but this again shows how the project continues to change
almost on a daily basis. The most recent changes in the past
few week are the elimination of the East Ridge subdivision (36
units), elimination of the waste treatment plant on Lake Simond and
the move of the shooting school. While we are glad to see these improvements in the project plan there are still many more issues to be resolved. Based on the remaining open issues and the continued changes in the project plan we urge the APA to rescind the complete status and bring the project back for review. We feel this project should NOT be deemed complete until all changes have been finalized. |
| 4/10/07 |
Action Alert:
In order to obtain
“Party Status” in the Adjudicatory Hearings you must petition the
hearing by April 23rd. We have posted instruction on how to do this
along with template letters in the “TLLOW WEB Documents” Section. |
| 4/1/07 |
We now have
all
the APA
Documents posted to the website. This includes information from all
application submissions and any correspondence.
Please use our
MESSAGE FORUM
section to
discuss |
| 2/12/07 |
Adirondack Park Agency Board votes unanimously to provide |