ALBANY — Kate Qualters will be joining the American Red Cross in Eastern New York as chief development officer. The Red Cross in Eastern New York serves 27 counties and more than 3.6 million people. The region is comprised of the Central and Northern New York, Hudson Valley and ...

SARANAC LAKE — This year’s Saranac Lake High School valedictorian is Simon Thill. The salutatorian is Lily Ervin. The school has expanded its traditional Top 10% honor to a Top 15% this year to recognize students with the best grades in the graduating class. SLHS announced the names ...

PAUL SMITHS — Ardent skiing supporter Caroline Draper Lussi, matriarch of the Lussi family of Lake Placid and 1960 graduate of Paul Smith’s College, will have the Red Loop Trail named after her at the college’s Visitor Interpretive Center. It will be known as the Draper Lussi ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Adirondack Council announced it has hired three new staff members for an expanded fund development and communications team. The Adirondack Council is a privately funded nonprofit organization, the largest environmental group focused solely on the ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — Elizabethtown Community Hospital, part of the University of Vermont Health Network, has welcomed two new emergency medicine physicians to its care team. Dr. Mark Bisanzo joined the medical staff last fall and will work part-time between the hospital’s Elizabethtown and ...

LAKE PLACID — Merrill L. Thomas Inc. recently hired Stuart Ruttan II to its real estate sales division. Ruttan grew up in a small farming community outside of Watertown. After attending SUNY Potsdam for drama and acting, he joined Pendragon Theatre in Saranac Lake for its summer repertory ...