Columnist Will Doolittle criticizes the APA, stating that "the agency's staff and its leaders have shown a narrowness of vision and meanness of spirit in their interpretation and enforcement of the law, putting Adirondackers in a straitjacket of regulations". 

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Reporter Blake Jones reports that the Intercounty Legislative Committee of the Adirondacks on Thursday endorsed efforts to sue the APA for increasing shoreline development rules within the Adirondack Park. Fred Monroe of the APLGRB said that the changes will make it more difficult and  costly for owners of older properties to make improvements. 

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 Associated Press reporter Jessica Pasko reports that Judge Meyer agreed with the Lewis family that farmworker housing is an exempt agricultural use under the law that created the APA agency, so the agency has no jurisdiction over the Lewis buildings. 

 In a letter to the Editor, Ralph Berry of Queensbury criticizes the APA, stating that the agency is "extending itself into areas it has no authority. What would the impact of major surgery on the APA be both in terms of cutting the state budget and trimming the agency back to the basic actual needs of protection of the park."

 Reporter Danny Hakim reports that the Lewis family won a battle against the APA when a judge said that the APA had no authority to restrict housing he built for his farmworkers. 

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 Reporter Kim Smith Dedam reports that in a 15-page decision, Supreme Court Judge Meyer ruled the APA Act regulation of single-family dwellings doesn't pertain to the Lewis Family Farm's farmworker houses built as agricultural-use structures.

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 Reporter Nathan Brown reports that using an ATV vehicle on any public road in Tupper Lake is illegal under state law. 

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Reporter George Earl reports that the Adirondack Park Agency has approved a recreational "zipline" at the Olympic Jumping Complex on the outskirts of Lake Placid. 

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Reporter Mike Lynch reports that the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy's executive director, Mike Carr, talked to about 30 people at the Harrietstown Town Hall about the Follensby Pond property's future.

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Reporter Jeremy Paters reports that a move by Gov. David Paterson to narrow a $1.5 billion hole in the state budget abruptly fell apart after he failed to persuade the Legislature to embrace his plan.

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