Bath News

Two new businesses, one offering hamburgers and the other ice cream, are opening near one another on Ocean Boulevard just in time for Memorial Day weekend.

As a busy lady bustles in to check on that package she's been waiting for, she passes an old codger porch-sitting, marking time with the regular hurl of chaw into his spittoon.

District 1 Executive Councilor Ray Burton said on Sunday: "I haven't felt this good since last July." The North Country icon was looking chipper after stopping in at the annual Presby Maple Sugar Party in Bethlehem.