SARANAC LAKE — Fifty of the best and brightest North Country Community College students were welcomed Saturday, April 14 into the college’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges. As their families watched from the audience in Saranac ...

TUPPER LAKE — At the recent Museum Association of New York (MANY) annual conference in Rochester, Wild Center Group Sales Coordinator, Patrick Murphy, received the Rising Star award for his work engaging the community to bolster economic development. Murphy works tirelessly to ...

LAKE PLACID — Environmental advocate Jen Kretser, criminal justice reformer Soffiyah Elijah and poet Martin Espada will receive Spirit of John Brown Freedom Awards at the John Brown Day celebration at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5. The annual event, which is organized by North Country-based human ...

SARANAC LAKE — North Country Community College welcomed more than 70 political, business and civic leaders to the college’s Saranac Lake campus on Friday for Community Leaders Day. Part of the college’s 50th anniversary festivities, the event was an opportunity for the college to ...

Pickering: A son, Keegan Darwin, born March 2 at 6:18 a.m., weighing 8 pounds, 15 ounces, to Nicole and Kevin Pickering of Conifer Leon: A son, Finnic Kennedy, born March 4 at 12:29 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 15 ounces, to Lauren and Jason Leon of Lake Placid Joyner: A daughter, Ruth ...

ALBANY — North Country Community College students Chloe Nott and Victoria Smith have been named recipients of the 2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Nott, who hails from Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, and Smith, who is from Massena, traveled to the award ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Northern Adirondack Board of Realtors made a donation of $500 to Petrova Elementary School in Saranac Lake for the purchase of new science equipment. A field trip was taken to Adirondack Experience, the museum at Blue Mountain Lake, where kids got to see and use ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid High School’s Class of 2018 has announced its valedictorian as Graci Daby and salutatorian as Laurel Miller. - Graci Daby, daughter of Tracy and Gena Daby of Lake Placid, has been named valedictorian of the class of 2018. Graci, a member of National Honor ...

SARANAC LAKE — Utica’s American Legion Post 229 presented one of two Police Officer of the Year awards to a Saranac Laker Thursday.   Investigator Aaron Donaldson is assigned to the Utica Police Department Criminal Investigation Division. A former resident of Saranac Lake, he ...

SARANAC LAKE — BluSeed Studios and Saranac ArtWorks have received a one-year workforce grant from the Regional Economic Development Council and New York State Council of the Arts for an operations director of events and outreach coordinator to help the organizations plan and develop in their ...