Our goal: Sportsman Lake, a dot of water near 10, 969-foot Electric Peak, a fly-fishing paradise 11 miles from the nearest road.

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Fayette said he agreed to talk to the newspaper for the Irene story because of some of the critical media coverage, including an Enterprise editorial, DOT received that summer over the repaving of state Route 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid.

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More than 1, 500 historic buildings dot the downtown area, and because the city was built atop a drained lake bed, some edifices , like the gravity-defying Ex-Teresa museum, a former 17th-century convent, are teetering like there is no tomorrow.

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