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North Country gets good grades for air quality (update)
April 27, 2012 Essex County ranks among the best in the nation when it comes to pollution particles in the air, according to a report issued by the American Lung Association. more »»
Police host prescription drug take-back events
April 27, 2012 Police departments in the Tri-Lakes will participate in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday. more »»
CSEA to bring 1,000 members to Lake Placid conference
April 26, 2012 LAKE PLACID — Nearly 1,000 members of the state’s largest public employee union will renew their commitment to on-the-job safety at the Civil Service Employees Association’s Statewide Conference on... more »»
New health insurance plan starts with Lake Placid police
April 24, 2012 LAKE PLACID — Police officers here are now covered by a new health insurance plan that village officials hope will eventually be offered to all employees. more »» 
Local boy prepares for chemotherapy
April 23, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — An energetic young local boy will begin six weeks of chemotherapy today as doctors hope to treat a baseball-sized tumor near the top of his leg. more »»
Not home yet: Veterans' respite group struggles
April 14, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — It was billed as a project that could transform the community and bring hope and healing to veterans and their families. more »»
Adirondack Health hosts session on advance directives
April 14, 2012 SARANAC LAKE – In observance of National Health Care Decisions Day, Adirondack Health will host an education session Monday about advanced health care planning. more »»
Adirondack Health seeks to refinance debt
April 13, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Health is asking the Franklin County Civic Development Corporation to help refinance debts the hospital and nursing home provider incurred from a series of building... more »» 
Essex County receives final nursing home bids
April 11, 2012 Essex County has received final offers from two of the three parties who want to purchase the Horace Nye Nursing Home in Elizabethtown. more »»
No bid award for Horace Nye sprinklers, for now
April 10, 2012 As the Essex County Board of Supervisors continues to debate whether to sell the Horace Nye Nursing Home in Elizabethtown, lawmakers are trying to figure out how to meet a requirement that the... more »» 
Lawmakers weigh in on abortion, birth control
April 6, 2012 Reproductive health is on the minds of many candidates running for office this year, and it could become a topic of conversation among lawmakers in Albany in the coming month. more »» 
Scozzafava: Nursing home a moral obligation
April 3, 2012 ELIZABETHTOWN — One of Essex County’s most outspoken lawmakers says government has a moral obligation to take care of the elderly. more »» 
NC Planned Parenthood gets new president
March 31, 2012 The new president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the North Country lives in Lake Placid, and she says she enters the job at a time when the nation’s health policies are dramatically shifting. more »»
Foundation gives Trudeau Institute $40,000
March 30, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — Charles W. McCutchen of Bethesda, Md., and Lake Placid recently contributed $40,000 in unrestricted funds to the Trudeau Institute through the McCutchen Foundation. more »» 
AMC introduces patient-controlled epidural for expecting moms
March 29, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — Expecting moms now have the choice of a patient controlled epidural while delivering their newborn at Adirondack Medical Center, a member of Adirondack Health. more »» 
St. Joe’s plans $12 million renovation
March 29, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — The construction of a new, 10,000-square-foot veterans’ residence won’t be the only building project taking place this summer for St. Joseph’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Center. more »» 
Trudeau research could help treat, prevent cancers
March 29, 2012 SARANAC LAKE — New research from the Trudeau Institute addresses how the human body controls gamma-herpesviruses, a class of viruses thought to cause a variety of cancers. more »» 
Workers protest possible nursing home sale
March 27, 2012 ELIZABETHTOWN — Employees of the Horace Nye Nursing Home took to the streets in front of the Essex County Courthouse Monday to protest the potential sale of the facility. more »» 
North Country reps differ on health care bill
March 26, 2012 U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson says a bill passed by the House last week takes a major step toward addressing concerns about President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. more »» |
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