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Friends and Neighbors: Everyone has a story

From the Adirondacks to the Senate

In November, like many recent college graduates, Charlotte Ward returned home for Thanksgiving. Unlike most college graduates, she came back with her new boss, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in tow. Ward is a native of Jay and a correspondence assistant in Schumer’s office. On the ...

New York City theater manager got his start in Saranac Lake

Though he is now a seasoned theater veteran, Saranac Lake native Peter Dean’s first role was small but mighty: A puny pickpocket in a 1980 production of “Oliver!” at the Harrietstown Town Hall. “It’s a time-honored tradition: The role of the youngest pickpocket, that is ultimately ...

The (robot) doctor is in

SARANAC LAKE — When Tri-Lakes resident Matt Cook has dialysis patients to see in Plattsburgh, Elizabethtown and Malone, it would usually take at least a one-hour drive between each clinic. But with new technology the Plattsburgh-based kidney disease clinic he works at has adopted in recent ...

Choosing positivity in 2023

SARANAC LAKE — The sound of a fiddle filled Saranac Lake’s Main Street Friday as 17-year-old Arden Calhoun pulled a bow across her violin’s strings, bringing smiles to the faces of people passing by. The smiles, hugs and support Calhoun received that day represented what she and several ...

Filming ‘Survivor’

LAKE PLACID — Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Olympic skeleton racer living at the Olympic Training Center, is flying to Fiji today to be part of the crew filming the 43rd season of the television reality show “Survivor.” “Survivor” is one of the most popular contest reality TV ...