{"id":3814,"date":"2011-02-24T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2011-02-25T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:40:01","slug":"breaking-ny-attorney-general-intervenes-in-paddling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/24\/breaking-ny-attorney-general-intervenes-in-paddling-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking:  NY Attorney General intervenes in paddling case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has intervened in a paddling vs. property rights case in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>The legal battle has pitted Phil Brown, editor of the Adirondack Explorer magazine and an avid paddler, against the owners of Brandreth Park, a large estate in the central Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Brown wrote about a trip he took on a posted section of Shingle Shanty Brook, arguing that state navigation law should allow paddlers to canoe the route legally.<\/p>\n<p>The AG&#8217;s office has formally endorsed that argument, citing testimony by state Environment officials that the route is, in fact, navigable.<\/p>\n<p>The state has also filed a formal complaint against the property owners, arguing that the posted signs and a cable across the river constitute a &#8220;public nuisance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attorney for the group Friends of Thayer Lake, who own the property, had urged the state to stay out of the case, arguing that because the route isn&#8217;t navigable, the state has no interest in the suit.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, we&#8217;ll hear from the attorneys involved on both sides of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has intervened in a paddling vs. property rights case in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}