KEENE—The Adirondack Garden Club is now accepting applications for two grant programs offered this year. The Ellen Lea Paine Memorial Nature Fund, established in 2005, provides financial assistance to individuals and nonprofit organizations, including schools, whose programs support the ...
The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Monday that hunters harvested an estimated 1,759 black bears during the 2025-26 hunting seasons. According to DEC’s tracking of the annual bear harvest since 1955, the 2025 statewide bear harvest was second only to the 2003 ...
ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Monday released safety statistics for the 2025 hunting season. The numbers are good news: it was New York’s safest season since the DEC began keeping official records in 2001, according to DEC spokesman Jeff Wernick. This ...
TUPPER LAKE — Deja vu? By sheer coincidence, “Mamma Mia!” is returning to the Tri-Lakes high school theatre scene, this time in Tupper Lake. On the (dancing) heels of Saranac Lake High School’s production a couple of weeks ago, the Tupper Lake Red & Black Players are putting on ...
CATSKILL — Harmful algae blooms spotted on the Hudson River in early September are gone, and the state is launching a new method of tracking them. Widespread harmful algae blooms [HABs] in the river and its tributaries were identified in the area, mainly in Kingston, as well as sightings ...
LAKE PLACID — Maple producers across the Tri-Lakes area have opened their sugarhouses to visitors this year as part of New York State’s Maple Weekends, a statewide celebration of maple sugaring season. Adirondack Maple Weekends began last week and continue through this weekend, March ...