Since this program’s inception in 2006, John Menapace, a long-time Skaneateles resident, and his company Aquatic Invasives, Inc., have successfully run the SLA’s milfoil control program.

“Making do” was the family phrase that got us through the more difficult times. When the leather on the bottom of our shoes wore out, Dad would cut a section from a piece of leather he had squirreled ...