{"id":1708,"date":"2010-03-05T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/05\/another-adirondack-black-eye-for-state-environment-officials\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:39:00","slug":"another-adirondack-black-eye-for-state-environment-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/05\/another-adirondack-black-eye-for-state-environment-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Adirondack black eye for state environment officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Park Agency will likely be on the hook for at least $200,000 for the legal fees of Salim &#8220;Sandy&#8221; Lewis, the town of Essex farmer who prevailed after a lengthy lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Department of Environmental Conservation has agreed to pay Lake Placid&#8217;s Jim McCulley $58,000 to settle a legal battle involving the Old Mountain Road, also known as a leg of the Jackrabbit ski trail.<\/p>\n<p>McCulley&#8217;s attorney Matt Norfolk issued this statement today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The settlement brings Jim some vindication and, of course, credibility.  <br \/>Jim was right on the law and facts concerning the history and status of Old Mountain Road and he was right on the law and facts concerning DEC&#8217;s unlawful closure of Old Mountain Road and I believe he was right on DEC&#8217;s preferential treatment of recreational organizations allowing them unfettered, exclusive use of Old Mountain Road by motorized vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with the Plattsburgh Press-Republican, state officials confirmed the settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Park Agency will likely be on the hook for at least $200,000 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}