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Cascade Welcome Center to be sold

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) is selling its 198-acre Cascade Welcome Center Property for $2.85 million. ADK announced the sale in a statement on Thursday. It marks an abrupt about-face for the organization that bought the property three years ago. Executive Director ...

Surprise Trump move will upend New York food stamps

A surprise move by the Trump administration could result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their food assistance benefits as soon as November — disrupting one of the country’s oldest safety net programs months earlier than expected. In July, President Donald Trump signed ...

State prepares for next year’s difficult budget

ALBANY Next year’s New York state budget may be a difficult one to balance, and state officials are already preparing for lower tax revenues and higher costs for social services programs in the upcoming 2026-27 state spending plan. On Thursday, the state Division of the Budget sent out a ...

Set on jets

LAKE CLEAR — The Harrietstown council, in a 3-2 vote on Thursday, decided to recommend the federal government contract with SkyWest Airlines at the town-owned Adirondack Regional Airport. The U.S. Department of Transportation will make the final decision on which of four airlines it will ...

Fire destroys home on Cedar Street in Tupper Lake

TUPPER LAKE — A structure fire Sunday morning destroyed the single-family residence at 66 Cedar St. The homeowner was able to make it out on her own without injury. There were no injuries to firefighters, although two cats who lived there died. Firefighters attempted to revive the two ...