Our office frequently handles tax assessment work for clients. As many people know, reductions in real property taxable assessed value season starts in March and goes through most of May in full force. Not unlike our Adirondack end of winter weather! Our office has been inundated with calls from Harrietstown town residents and property owners regarding significant increases in assessed value of the property. Please feel free to reach out to us if you think that your assessed value is artificially high or is unfair, but please keep some things in mind. Based on our review of matters, the Town of Harrietstown has been operating at an equalization rate of under 100%. For example, in 2025, the equalization rate was 70.21%. This meant that people were being assessed below what was considered fair market value by the Town of Harrietstown’s assessor’s value placed on the property. The Town of Harrietstown has sought to reassess properties at what they believe to be fair market value and use a 100% equalization rate. Thus, numerous property owners, if not all, have seen their assessed values rise significantly. However, the Town of Harrietstown included a hypothetical estimate table on its 2026 assessment notifications for folks who own property in Harrietstown. The bottom right-hand corner of this table shows property owner’s estimated increase in taxes vis a vis the increased assessed values. As it is anticipated that every property owner’s assessed values are basically increasing, some folks will see tax increases; some will see their taxes remain relatively flat, and some will actually see their estimated taxes decrease. Thus, please note that, your real property fair market value doubling in assessed value does not mean that you are going to pay twice as much in taxes next year.  You have the right to contest this proposed increase in assessed value if you choose. If you are interested in discussing your potential tax assessment challenge, please do not hesitate to contact our office at (518) 523-2441. Please provide us with a copy of your 2026 assessment notification to aid our review. Thank you.

Flink Maswick Law PLLC’s Tupper Lake office is back up and running as of Tuesday, March 17, 2026! As you may have noticed and as we have previously announced, renovation work had closed the office down for a number of weeks. Molly and Rachael are settling back into the office. The office is open Monday – Friday from 8:30am to 5pm. Stay tuned for more information about our new space! Please feel free to call the Tupper Lake Office at (518) 359-5175 to speak with Attorney Molly S. Hann or her assistant, Rachael Kmack.

Our Tupper Lake office remains temporarily closed for renovations as of Tuesday, March 10, 2026. We anticipate it will be closed for the majority of this week, if not the entirety of this week. We are getting close to reopening but still cleaning up. All Tupper Lake attorneys and staff who regularly work out of that office remain available and working out of our Lake Placid office and mail is checked every business day.  Thank you so much for your ongoing support and understanding!

The ongoing renovations of Flink Maswick Law PLLC’s Tupper Lake office (and subsequent final touches and cleaning) will cause the office to remain closed for at least another week, through Friday, March 6, 2026. We hope to have the Tupper Lake office back up and running on March 9, 2026. However, this is a fluid situation based on the progress of the renovation work and cleaning. All Tupper Lake personnel are working out of the Lake Placid office during this time. Please direct all calls to our Lake Placid office.  Thank you for your continued support and understanding. We cannot wait to show you the finished space!

Attorney Molly S. Hann joined a senior seminar class discussion at Keene Central School on February 13, 2026. The class was led by teacher Tonya Lackey and counselor Jatha Johnson. Local Attorney and colleague Amy L. Smith joined Flink Maswick Law PLLC’s Molly S. Hann to share and discuss advice the students might need to know as they turn 18 and enter the world as adults. The students read this article https://nysba.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NowThatYouveTurned18Booklet.pdf in preparation for the classroom visit. Contact Flink Maswick Law PLLC if you are interested in having one of our attorneys join your class or speak to your group.

In observance of Presidents’ Day, our Lake Placid office will be closed on Monday, February 16, 2026. We will resume normal business hours on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 8:30am. As a reminder, our Tupper Lake office remains temporarily closed for renovations.

Flink Maswick Law PLLC’s office located at 56 Lake Street in Tupper Lake is temporarily closed for renovations. We anticipate the office will be closed for the next 3 weeks. During this time, all Tupper Lake attorneys and staff will be working from our Lake Placid office. Mail received to the Tupper Lake office will continue to be checked regularly, and all phone calls will be forwarded to our Lake Placid location.  Thank you for your understanding and continued trust. We cannot wait to show the completed refinished space to the community!

Flink Maswick Law PLLC Partner Jill E. O’Sullivan Featured in New York Law Journal We are pleased to share that Attorney Jill E. O’Sullivan, a partner at Flink Maswick Law PLLC, was recently one of three members of the NY legal community featured in a New York Law Journal article entitled “ Courts, State Bar Collaborate to Recruit Attorneys to Rural New York ,” written by Brian Lee. The article, published on February 2, 2026, explores the Rural Ready program which is being developed by the New York State Bar Association and Unified Court System to address the dwindling number of attorneys in rural areas in Upstate New York. The article highlighted Third Department Appellate Division Justice Honorable Stanley Pritzker and Attorney Deborah J. Cohn, in addition to Attorney O’Sullivan, all of whom sought work in rural communities after relocating from more urban areas. Attorney O’Sullivan moved nearly 23 years ago from Westchester County to Saratoga Springs before finding her current home in Lake George. As Jill notes, quoted in the article, “I have never regretted my decision to move up here and practice in the very far northern reaches now.” Those of us at Flink Maswick are glad that Jill feels this way! Handling matrimonial, family, general civil law and commercial litigation as a partner at Flink Maswick Law PLLC, Attorney O’Sullivan practices most frequently in the furthest northeast corner of New York, including but not limited to Essex, Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence Counties. Flink Maswick Law PLLC is proud to have Attorney O’Sullivan as a partner and to see her leadership and perspective recognized by the New York Law Journal . The article also features a photo of Attorney O’Sullivan and is available here: Courts, State Bar Collaborate to Recruit Attorneys to Rural New York | Law.com (account required) The attorneys at Flink Maswick Law PLLC regularly speak to groups, clubs, organizations and classes, in addition to speaking to the press when circumstances are appropriate. If you are a member of the press or media and seek to discuss a matter with an attorney in our office, we invite you to contact Flink Maswick Law PLLC at (518) 523-2441 .

Our offices will be closed on Monday, January 19, 2026, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. All offices will reopen on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 8:30am.