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EAT ADK is also full of food- and beverage-related events such as “dinner and a movie” at the Palace Theatre and the Lake Placid Center for the Arts in Lake Placid; live music at area bars, studios and restaurants; wine appreciation and culinary classes; and wine and whiskey tastings. New this year is Long Lake’s participation in EAT ADK and organizers have scheduled a bus on Saturday, May 4 that will be operating throughout the evening to pick up and drop off residents to and from the participating restaurants. Those participating in EAT ADK are encouraged to bring prepared non-perishable, child-friendly food or snack to the restaurant. These programs help alleviate child hunger by discreetly providing hungry children with backpacks full of nutritious and easy-to-prepare food on Friday afternoons so they have food to eat throughout the weekend or during school breaks.

, the Inlet Youth Commission’s egg hunting tradition always coincides with the return of area school children from their two-week spring break. The children’s egg hunt starts at 1 pm and is open to all children (12 and under). Other upcoming Inlet events include the 18th Annual Community Pride Day on May 1, Fire and Spice on May 5, Otter Paddlesports on May 17-19, and the Great Adirondack Garage Sale on May 24. From her home in Saranac Lake, Diane also writes a weekly family-oriented newspaper column for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and keeps her own blog Adirondack Family Time.

6.51 ft (4/11) Raquette River at Piercefield – 10.34 ft (4/18): 7.99 ft (4/11) AuSable River at Ausable Forks – 3.52 ft (4/18): 3.52 ft (4/11) Hudson River at North Creek – 6.80 ft (4/18): 6.93 ft (4/11) Schroon River at Riverbank (Route 11) – 7.75 ft (4/18): 6.76 ft (4/11) Lake Champlain at Whitehall – 99.13 ft (4/18): 98.31 ft (4/11) WATER TEMPERATURES: SOUTHWESTERN ADIRONDACKS Including the Old Forge Area, Black River Wild Forest, Fulton Chain Wild Forest, Ha-De-Ron-Dah Wilderness, Independence River Wild Forest, Pigeon Lake Wilderness The following Forest Preserve Access Roads in the Black River Wild Forest have been closed for mud season; Wolf Lake Landing Road (access to Bear Lake and Woodhull Lake), Mill Creek Road (access to the Gull Lake Parking Area), and Loop Road (access to campsites along North Lake). Essex Chain Lakes Complex: Gates are closed and locked, and all seasonal access roads are closed to motor vehicle use until the end of mud season, including Cornell Road, Deer Pond Road, Chain Lakes Road North, Drakes Mill Road, Camp Six Road, and Chain Lake Road South.

Warrensburgh Beautification is set to host its Annual Spring Membership Meeting & Presentation on Wednesday evening, May 1 at Glen Lodge Bed & Breakfast in Warrensburg. The talk will focus on combining fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, vegetables, edible flowers, culinary and medicinal herbs and ornamental plants into aesthetically pleasing designs. A pot luck dinner and business meeting will be held at 6 pm, with the presentation at 7 pm. The Glen Lodge Bed & Breakfast is located at the Glen on Route 28 in Warrensburg, NY.