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Stocked for the weekend

SARANAC LAKE – Sploosh, sploosh, sploosh. Salmon, brookies and splake splashed into a hole in the frozen surface of Lake Colby and swam away. “See you this weekend!” Peggy Ivimey said. Fish culturists from the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Adirondack Fish ...

Costume craziness at BrewSki

TUPPER LAKE — People dressed as traffic cones, charcuterie boards, dalmatians and video game characters skied, snowshoed and slid around the 11th annual Tupper Lake BrewSki on Saturday. The event brought more than 1,500 people from all around North America out onto the trails of the ...

Forest ranger recalls saving hiker lost for two days in Dix Range

NORTH HUDSON — When Forest Ranger Matthew Adams got the 5:30 a.m. call to join the search for a missing hiker in the Dix Range, it didn’t take him long to realize that the straits were dire. A 58-year-old male from Mechanicville had been in the wilderness for two nights in a row. It ...

Back-to-back champions

PLATTSBURGH – By now, you’d think the Saranac Lake boys basketball team would get used to making program history. But yet, the Red Storm seems to keep outdoing itself. Competing in the Section VII, Class B title game, the state-ranked Saranac Lake squad used a “championship-level ...

Saranac Lake halts controversial police cam installation

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake is hitting pause on the controversial installation of Flock license plate reader cameras and surveillance cameras for the police department, after more than 20 locals turned out to a village board meeting on Monday to protest the surprise addition. On ...

LPHS to host concussion seminar Wednesday

LAKE PLACID — The public is invited to attend a concussion prevention seminar at the Lake Placid Middle-High School this upcoming week. It’s slated to begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in the school’s auditorium, 50 Cummings Road, and will feature three presenters: Eugene ...